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Garmin and the University of Kansas Medical Center are taking a closer look at the role wearables can play in detecting and managing medical conditions, the groups announced earlier this week.

A new digital health survey released by Castlight Health showed that while both employers and employees are enthusiastic about the future of digital health, there is a gap between what tech is being provided by employers and what the employees actually want.

Florida Blue, one of the largest health insurers in the Sunshine State, has tapped Welltok to create a digital health and wellbeing program for its 5 million members.

Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services is notoriously patchy.

The Travelers Companies announced yesterday that it would be adding new digital resources to improve healthcare and claims access for employee customers who have experienced a workplace injury.

HIMSS UK Executive Leadership Summit panel assesses the potential of the NHS to deploy AI technologies considering the current state of its infrastructure.

New York-based in-home senior care technology company Hometeam is shedding two of its top executives as it shifts from a consumer payment-focused business model to one accommodating reimbursement from payers.

The House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence urges the NHS to digitise its 'current practices and records' by 2022 and sets out a series of recommendations to support sensible adoption of new technologies.

Dr Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, will be speaking at the HIMSS Europe & Health 2.0 conference in May in Sitges, Spain, supported by the Dutch Ministry of Health.

The initiative, known as the Digital Health Ecosystem Wales network, will initially run for a period of two years.