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How Technology is Impacting a Variety of Careers in Healthcare

Smart Data Collective

Digital technology can be incredibly disruptive— particularly in terms of how people do their jobs. The healthcare industry is certainly no exception. Healthcare just doesn’t look the same as it did twenty years ago. From electronic records to data management, there are traces of digital technology everywhere you look.

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Big Data Helps Drive the Future of Virtual Healthcare

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology is shaping the future of healthcare. Global healthcare companies are projected to spend over $105 billion on big data by 2030. One of the biggest benefits of big data in healthcare has been in the field of virtual healthcare. Demand for virtual healthcare services exploded during the pandemic.

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Tick Tock (or TikTok) for US Health Care

The Health Care Blog

Yes, I know Congress just passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a big step forward in combating climate change that also has some important healthcare provisions (Medicare negotiating drug prices, anyone?), but, come on, TikTok is buying hospitals! As a private system, it targets expats and high income locals. .

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2025 Health IT trends: Emerging technologies, AI remain prominent

Association of Health Care Journalists

Hung, chief marketing officer and editor of Healthcare IT Today , frequently travels to health technology industry conferences to stay abreast of current trends in this space. Mount Sinai in New York City, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, and BJC Health System and Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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Dangers of AI tops health tech hazards list for 2025

Association of Health Care Journalists

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) models in health care settings without proper oversight is the most significant health technology hazard for 2025, according to nonprofit patient safety organization ECRI. ECRI’s top 10 health tech hazards for 2025 Risks with AI-enabled health technologies.

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Rural America is a Fertile Field for Digital Health

The Health Care Blog

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. Eric Larsen. Tommy Ibrahim.

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Hospital care at home, for kids

NC Health News

By Michelle Crouch The Charlotte Ledger When 6-year-old Mackenzie Conlon was hospitalized with the flu at Atrium Health Levine Childrens Hospital in February, all she wanted was to go home, her mother, Stephanie Conlon, said. As a parent, watching your kid be in a hospital is just the most heartbreaking thing, Conlon said.