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The status of health tech after the pandemic was a key topic of discussion last week at CES, one of the largest technology shows in the world. It usually pulls thousands of attendees to Las Vegas but went completely virtual this year due to COVID-19.
Amid new product announcements from smart home tech to autonomous robots, one major theme was sustainability of
the unprecedented acceleration in the telehealth industry. Another topic of debate was how virtual care is shifting from a one-to-one modality to a more comprehensive care model and what artificial intelligence designers can do to increase clinician trust in their diagnostic models.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country, the healthcare system turned to digital tools to predict disease spread, analyze massive amounts of data, and diagnose and treat patients remotely. Virtual medicine and telehealth have provided a way to ensure physical distance and prevent the spread of infection among healthcare workers and patients.
In a panel at the Consumer Electronics Show 2021 titled “Digital Health in 2020: Rules of Contagion,” tech industry and health system specialists gathered to assess how the healthcare industry successfully adopted new technologies and what the future may hold.
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