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08/14/2023

Urgency Lies in Technology Management Solutions That Assure Patient Data Security

Article Excerpt: Because of the heightened urgency during the pandemic for streamlining remote work, adopting new technologies, enhancing telehealth and remoting monitoring for patient care, the shift to automation and increasing use of AI, has also brought a host of concerns. There is an alarming imbalance between technological advancements and the necessary resources to manage and secure such devices. This leaves healthcare organizations exposed to operational issues, cyberattacks and data breaches.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/524et25c

Article Source: Fierce Healthcare

07/14/2023

Does Artificial Intelligence Belong in Therapy?

Article Excerpt: For many, the nearest therapist these days isn’t someone sitting across from them in a room but a friendly face on the other side of a Zoom, or even a chat thread on a smartphone. In a quantum leap beyond those types of virtual encounters, increasingly, the entity offering mental health advice may not even be a human. Chat-based mental health services boomed during the pandemic, several of them using generative artificial intelligence chatbots to converse about mental health and offer virtual companionship. If that technology starts to make its way into professionally licensed mental health areas, Rep. Josh Cutler has filed legislation to make sure the usage is regulated and disclosed. And he had an unusual collaborator in that mission – his bill was co-written by the generative app ChatGPT.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/ycktatac

Article Source: CommonWealth

06/05/2023

The Impact of Wearable Technology on Mental Health and Wellness

Article Excerpt: The impact of wearable technology on mental health and wellness is a topic that has been gaining increasing attention in recent years. As the use of wearable devices such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, and even smart clothing becomes more widespread, researchers and mental health professionals are exploring the potential benefits and drawbacks of these devices on our mental well-being.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/3jj87ywt

Article Source: CityLife

10/05/2021

The ‘Patient of The Future’ Is Driving Radical Innovation in Healthcare

Article Excerpt: In recent years, we have seen thinking shift from focusing on a disease’s treatment to seriously considering the wider potential for its prevention, enabled by dramatic advances in data science and supported by a pressing need to reduce healthcare costs. Leaps forward in both digital tools and widespread collection of medical and health data have provided many opportunities for the healthcare industry to adapt and change. The advent of COVID-19 has been a great testing environment for these technologies where, for example, the adoption of telemedicine was no longer an option but an urgent need to plug the gap in face-to-face medical care.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/36e2srj2

Article Source: Pharmaphorum

03/30/2021

Kotz speaks at Science Cafe

Article Excerpt: If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about your digital privacy and online security and didn’t know who to ask, this Science Cafe NH episode is the one to watch. In a one-hour long webinar, questions run the gamut of topics, from “Is 1password a good service to use?” to “What should you do if you’re hacked?” and “What are the real risks of sharing family photos and information on Facebook?” Panelists Professor Kotz, Dr. Nora Draper, and Azeddine Jakib give you their straightforward answers to help keep yourself, your families, communities, and broader networks safer.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/2jef4ehd

Article Source: SPLICE Project

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02/12/2021

Young people’s use of digital health technologies in the global north: Narrative review

Lupton D. (2021). Young people’s use of digital health technologies in the global north: Narrative review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(1): e18286. doi: 10.2196/18286

This narrative review examines the literature from 2010 to present on use of digital health technologies among young people ages 5-30 in the global north (North America, Western Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand). Read More

02/08/2021

Electric Dreams – The Future of Mental Healthcare Is Digital

Article Excerpt: The future of mental healthcare is digital. Developments will change how clinicians diagnose, monitor and manage mental disorders, taking treatment from the clinic into each patient’s mobile device. This goes beyond developing software. There is a concurrent need to address pertinent issues relating to patient confidentiality, safeguards for data privacy, treatment models, regulatory pathways, reimbursement of costs, as well as patient and physician adoption.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/y3jwphaq

Article Source: The Straits Times

01/13/2021

2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Contemporary Computing

Article Excerpt: ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 95 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science, and virtual reality, among other areas. The accomplishments of the 2020 ACM Fellows have driven innovations that ushered in significant improvements across many areas of technology, industry, and personal life.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/y4r8aout

Article Source: Street Insider