Tag: telehealth

• Achieving Digitization in Healthcare Requires Support from Federal Policy By Steve Allen, Director of Clinical Systems Segment, Health and Life Sciences, Intel Imagine a specialist performing surgery on a patient from thousands of miles away via robotics, or another surgeon doing a long-distance consult in an operating room or via a remotely controlled telecart with a laser pointer to help the local team identify sensitive tissues. Or a robot...
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• AI in Healthcare: Shedding Light on Some Misperceptions By Steve Allen, Director, Clinical Systems Segment, Health and Life Sciences at Intel As we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, applying innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare is more critical than ever. Many don’t know how AI functions in healthcare, and its use is sometimes met with fear. Some envision a world where robots replace physicians,...
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• The Nation Has Embraced Telehealth: Now Congress Must Act to Let it Prosper By Mario Romao, Global Director, Health Policy “The onset of COVID-19 has challenged our Nation and the world to rethink the future of healthcare delivery,” U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Krastios wrote recently, adding that the public and private sectors have a shared commitment to “emerging technologies that make high quality healthcare more accessible for all Americans.” Telehealth – the...
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• Telemedicine: The COVID-19 necessity is here to stay By Steve Allen, Director, Clinical Systems Segment, Health and Life Sciences, Intel The diffusion of innovation is typically a slow and laborious process, as users weigh the benefits of adopting a new technology against the costs of change. That is, until a crisis occurs. It is often these inflection points in history that accelerate change. Telemedicine has been ready for...
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• Fighting a Pandemic Through Technology By Jeff Rittener, Chief Government Affairs Officer and General Manager of Intel’s Governments, Markets and Trade group (GMT) In times of adversity, the public and private sectors have a history of pulling together. We’re seeing this now in efforts to combat COVID-19. Governments across the globe are stepping up to the challenge, and Intel is proud to join them. Today,...
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• Telehealth growth responding to policy advances, yet much more needed to better serve patients By David Ryan, General Manager of Health & Life Sciences at Intel In the past decade, Americans have seen remarkable advancements in medical technology, particularly in the field of telehealth. Innovations like video appointments, tele-consultation and remote monitoring have revolutionized both the quality of care and the opportunities to reach patients who live far from health care facilities. Despite the...
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• Intel launches the Health Application Platform to Provide Better and More Efficient Care Intel announced the launch of the Intel® Health Application Platform, software that, when coupled with an Intel-architecture-based design specification implemented by a third-party hardware vendor, can help enable healthcare solution providers to securely and reliably deliver distributed healthcare services and a new standard for remote patient care[1]. As digitization of healthcare systems progresses, more data about patients’ conditions are routinely...
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• Intel Testifies on Privacy Bills Yesterday, Intel’s global privacy officer, David Hoffman, testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on H.R. 5777, the BEST PRACTICES Act of 2010, introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush, and a discussion draft, released by Reps. Boucher and Stearns, to require notice to and consent of an individual prior to the collection and disclosure of certain personal information relating...
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• My Opinion: E-Care Is Ethical, Effective, and Economical Care I make it a general rule not to discuss Intel's products in this blog, and in so doing, have erred on the side of rarely even mentioning our Intel® Health Guide. Which also means that I haven't been able to share what our customers are learning as they adopt e-care (electronic care) or telehealth technologies and experiment with new care...
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