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Continuous Clinical Surveillance: A real-time solution for comprehensive patient safety

Key advancements in real-time healthcare and advanced data analysis present a significant opportunity for health systems to push patient safety initiatives into the realm of proactive healthcare. A new Bernoulli Health white paper, Continuous Clinical Surveillance: A Real-Time Solution for Comprehensive Patient Safety leverages peer-reviewed research, literature reviews, market analysis and use-cases to demonstrate how broader […]

High-Definition Medicine

By: Ali Torkamani, Kristian G. Andersen, Steven R. Steinhubl, and Eric J. Topol, MD Abstract: The foundation for a new era of data-driven medicine has been set by recent technological advances that enable the assessment and management of human health at an unprecedented level of resolution—what we refer to as high-definition medicine. Our ability […]

Digital Medicine: Virtual Care for Improved Global Health

By: Steven R Steinhubl, Kwang-il Kim, Toluwalase Ajayi, Eric J Topol Abstract: The ability to provide health care almost anywhere in the world, inconceivable just years ago, is now possible. With time, the connectivity infrastructure will become more robust, and digital technologies will multiply in variety as they also continue to decrease in size […]

Moving From Digitalization to Digitization in Cardiovascular Care

By: Steven R. Steinhubl, MD, Eric J. Topol, MD Abstract: So far, the digitization of health care is best exemplified by electronic medical records, which have been far from favorably or uniformly accepted. However, properly implemented digitization can enable better patient outcomes, improve convenience, potentially lower healthcare costs, and possibly lead to much greater […]

Intel’s Medical Director: Hypertension is Mobile Health’s Biggest Opportunity

By Jonah Comstock Dr. John Sotos, a cardiologist and worldwide medical director at Intel, thinks mobile health is the key to defeating what he calls “the worst disease in the world”. “The worst disease in the world is hypertension,” he said at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference. “And that may seem surprising but it’s […]