Digital Health

This week's top stories include the ways CEOs and CFOs are weathering the pandemic, 43 states implementing some form of state telehealth commercial payer law, and Fitbit adding blood glucose tracking to its LifeScan OneTouch Reveal app.

The elderly can use digital tools to live longer while staying at home. Technology can help providers with the effort, according Dr. Ben Maruthappu, CEO of Cera.

Telehealth visits will even out, IPOs will continue and venture eyes will remain on digital health in 2021, predicts athenahealth SVP and Chief Product Officer Paul Brient.

Best Buy Health Vice President Sarah Jones makes predictions about what to expect with telehealth, senior care and the regulatory space in 2021.

This week's top stories include fertility app maker Flo Health settling with the FTC over data sharing allegations, states moving forward with second doses of the COVID-10 vaccine and the creation of the Vaccine Credential Initiative.

Lina Shadid, health industries lead at PwC Middle East, says the investment in healthcare over the past 10 years prepared the Middle East to meet patient needs and leverage its digital transformation to help fight COVID-19.

Executive Director Jay Nakashima says from electronic case reporting to PDMP to disaster response, he's optimistic as network architecture improves and public-private data sharing efforts make progress.

Among the benefits of E Ink's Digital Paper technology are it frees up nurses, ensures patient data is accurate and up to date, and improves the patient experience, says Stanley Chiang, E Ink's director of strategic partnership.

Dr. Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the ONC, discusses how ONC and CMS rules will move healthcare from a gated interaction to digitally transparent clinical care.

Smart homes are addressing the social determinants of health, says Technology Association of Oregon President and CEO Skip Newberry.