Data and Information

Behavioral health platform Eleos Health, virtual chronic care company Vida Health and virtual peer support company Forum also garner investment.

Integrated Real-time Active Data has helped the South Western Sydney Primary Health Network see positive outcomes around patient consent and provider experience, says Nick McGhie, the network's digital health and data manager.

Also, the mental health app Here Hear in Taiwan is set to introduce an AI chatbot.

The company's Artera Care Assist, powered by Hyro, can be embedded within a provider's website to answer patients' questions 24/7.

National Taiwan University Hospital's vice superintendent, Dr I-Rue Lai, relays the health system's ambition to be a fully value-based, data-enabled care provider, which includes interoperability, internally and with external providers.

Andromeda Robotics is currently conducting an aged care trial of its Chat GPT-4-powered companion robot.

Gina Bertollini, partner at law firm K&L Gates, discusses the ways healthcare providers can safeguard health information from threat actors and the importance of preparing for an inevitable security breach.

The funds will be used to speed up global adoption of AI algorithms on Philips Lumify Handheld Ultrasound to help rural providers identify abnormalities during pregnancy. 

Maria Hassel, Swedish eHealth Agency's international coordinator, relays how Sweden led the European Health Data Space negotiations and what needs to be done to ensure health data access throughout the EU.

Systems need to deliver what healthcare workers want, utilize digital technologies to ease workforce burden and focus on lowering the burden of disease to face the challenges in healthcare today, says Dr Ricardo Leite, CEO of I-DAIR.