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The Future of Digital Healthcare

How clinicians worldwide are delivering ‘virtual’ hospital services to remote patients. Plus: data-sharing devices speed recovery; and AI’s role in managing US health claims becomes a legal minefield

‘Virtual hospitals’ deliver home treatment to remote patients
Digital systems are helping to cut the need for physical attendance at medical centres
Networked devices help head off medical woes and speed recovery
Digital technologies are helping to guide early clinical interventions and assessments of treatment
US health insurers face pressure over AI role in claim decisions
Class action lawsuits in the US suggest that digitised medical services can bring downsides as well as benefits
Medical centres compete to achieve ‘smart hospital’ status
New systems can save lives and improve care — but the cost is a brake on progress
EU project launched to prepare health workers for a digital future
Medical schools, engineers and technologists are coming together to accelerate innovation in patient care
Protein project uses AI to boost disease treatment
UK initiative to harness big biological data sets and look deeper into how the human body works and malfunctions