It’s no secret that healthcare has a clinician burnout problem.
In fact, prior to the pandemic, 42% of physicians reported being burned out – a slight decrease from previous years, according to the American Medical Association. But, like many problems that existed pre-COVID-19, the pandemic only added to the issue, since 49% of physicians said they felt burned out during the last year, the AMA...
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August 10, 2021
The pandemic has led to a “complete transformation” in how many healthcare organizations operate due to the industry’s ongoing digital transformation, according to Thomas Kurian the CEO of Google Cloud.
Kurian joined HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf today in a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session where the two looked back on the last 18 months and offered insights into what the future of...
Before COVID-19, it would have been easy to imagine that producing and distributing an effective vaccine would have been the biggest challenge of fighting a global pandemic. But as it’s turned out, some of the biggest challenges of the COVID-19 virus have been public health challenges – getting people to behave in ways that reduce the spread of disease and getting them to take the vaccine in...
Femtech has been a hot topic in the digital health world for some time. Despite industry buzz about the tech, investment in the technology still lags behind other sectors.
According to Rock Health, femtech deals have only represented about 3% of digital health deals in the U.S. since 2011.
Reenita Das, partner and SVP for healthcare and life sciences at Frost and Sullivan, said recently femtech...
