This review explores the transformative impact of digital healthcare tools in Nigeria's healthcare system, with a particular emphasis on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigeria, a country grappling with healthcare disparities and limited access, has seen digital healthcare tools play a crucial role in enhancing public health and pandemi...

By Emmanuel Ugwu Chika, Dike Ujunwa Precious, BPharm, Ahuchaogu King-David, BPharm, Gabriel Ezenri, BPharm, Nneji Tobechukwu Okechukwu, BPharm, Christian Chidozie, Rosemary Madubugwu

Speakers address how XR technologies are revolutionizing healthcare, from surgical simulations to patient care. Regulatory challenges and clinical solutions associated with adopting XR in medicine are explored. Viewers can gain insights from speakers on their experiences with the transformative potential of XR in healthcare. Objectives• Provid...

By Dan Scarf, Mark Zhang, DO, MMSc, FAMIA, Claude Pirtle, CMIO

Objective We aim to characterize the telehealth care experiences of autonomic dysfunction and Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. Background Telemedicine is a popular modality for receiving healthcare. Due to its rising use, ensuring efficacy, satisfaction, and safety is important. Current literature finds high satisfaction, benefitted physica...

By Sachin Vallamkonda, BA, Leah Gorfinkel, BS, Anna Hohler, MD

The 4th Annual ConV2X 2023 Ignition Pitch Competition spotlighted advancements in frontier technologies in telehealth, artificial intelligence, platform approaches, and blockchain technology in healthcare. The pioneering minds behind these startups are poised to reshape the future of healthcare in areas such as genomics, bio NFTs, decentralized res...

By Shwen Gwee

This was the first experimental holoportation transoceanic keynote address using commonly available smartphones and custom software, relayed to  ConVerge2Xcelerate (#ConV2X) AI & Tech in Telehealth and Medicine, Sept 22, 2023, from Star City, Russia, ​t​to Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, by a collaborative team including, F...

By Josef F. Schmid, III, MD, MPH

Governments and technology companies are increasingly collecting vast amounts of personal data, prompting investigations, and calls for stricter regulation to protect individual privacy. Despite these issues, socioeconomic demands for data sharing continue to rise. Data increasingly powers innovation, and needs to be used for public good, while pro...

By Lorenzo Cristofaro, Osama El-Hassan, PhD, Paul Barach, BSC, MD, MPH

A limited number of healthcare workers and cost constraints limit primary care access in the Philippines. To test telehealth as a low-cost and effective solution, a large-scale digital health clinic was implemented in the selected urban and rural communities. In collaboration with local authorities, our pilot telemedicine clinic was implemented for...

By Annalicia Pickering, MD, Wardah Rafaqat, MD, Adi Balk, Milton Chen, Limuel Abrogena, MD, Shuhan He, Mary Showstark, Alexander Davis, Aidan Chen, Jarone Lee

Background: The implementation of telemedicine and digital health technologies in healthcare has increased, but patients still need help adopting and utilizing these technologies. To address this, a Digital Health Navigator (DHN) program was implemented to evaluate the benefits of improving patients’ adoption. Objectives: To alleviate digital...

By Salim Saiyed, MD, MBA, Wern Lynn Ng, MD, Madeline Cherry, Safi Khattab, Hafsa Pathan

It is universally acknowledged that the wellbeing of any country, its prosperity and economic prowess depends on the health of its citizens. As the most populated country in the planet and an emerging economy, a solution for India, could well be a solution for the world. In the last eight years, the country has taken more than baby steps, to not ju...

By Ganapathy Krishnan, MCh (Neurosurgery), FACS, FICS, FAMS, PhD

Op-Ed on the current stagnation in what should be great promise for digital health to improve outcomes and lower costs. ...

By J. Michael Connors, MD