​Imagine Pathways to Possibilities: From Insights to Impact 
21st Century Health Renaissance: 
​- Add years to our lives - Add life to our years
- Discover how right here, right now with this living learning lab
Health Tech Leadership
​Advance human health with effective leadership,innovation,and technology.
High Tech Meets Human Health
Click here to listen to an introductory podcast/ meet the author/editor for Renaissance.Health
Digital Health Journey
  • Personal Health: Learn how digital health can enhance your health and that of your loved ones.
  • Professional Applications: Discover how using technologies is helping heal healthcare delivery in organizations and communities.
  • Career Opportunities: Find insights into various roles in digital health and how to prepare for them.
  • Latest Advancements: Dive into the innovations advancing healthcare, such as care at home, wearable devices, and AI algorithms.
  • Emerging Practices: Get a glimpse of the future of this exciting field.
Microsoft AI/Copilot Commercial - 60 sec
Apple - Digital health helping?
“I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’ it will be about health,”​ Tim Cook, CEO Apple
Study Excellence? Click below
HIMSS Davies Award Winners
Empower people to live healthier
Innovation using Apple technology to support personal health, research, and care. See below. 
Amazon CEO on investing/ healthcare - 2 min 2022
Disruptive Digital Front Door
Amazon Clnic
​clinic.amazon.com/
Amazon buys into primary care
- One Medical - 3.9 billion​

Start with your Heart - 2 min
CES 2022 HealthTech Keynote -
Consumer Electronic's Show - from Las Vegas Jan 22 
Will big tech disrupt healthcare? 

Digital Health in a Post-Covid World
What is Digital Health?  an evolving/emerging definition 
Cultural transformation of disruptive health technologies   providing accessible/digitally-connected knowledge 
- empowering health professional relationships with
- more shared decision-making and
- greater access and democratization of health care 
Macomber - adapted from Mesko 2017 definition
Did you Know???   
​Career Opportunities created from Digital Disruptions in Healthcare 
  • Interested in working in healthcare or health tech? 
  • Are you thinking hospitals?
  • What about Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS??               
  • This site is filled with new career opportunities you may not have considered in health, tech, and leadership.
  • Article of the week - Amazon has launched Amazon Care -
https://amazon.care/  now launches primary care next to distribution centers. https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-makes-health-care-access-even-easier-employees-launch-new
Aiming Higher - Advance with a grad degree that connects you with 21st century opportunities through relevant faculty and curriculum.
Affordable - Realize value with one of the more affordable programs with scholarships/partnerships
Accessible - Learn fully online or on campus in San Diego with personalized adaptable schedules 
Accelerated - Start next month and complete in just over one year or at your own pace
Accomplished - Join a community of faculty, students, and alumni all contributing to the field
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 Professor Linda Travis Macomber RN BSN MBA 
​Faculty and Founding Program Director
​MS Health Informatics

Professor Macomber has pioneered and specialized in health informatics, electronic health records, telehealth, and decision support systems since 1984. Since founding the MS Health Informatics graduate program in 2010 at National University based in Ssan Diego, CA,  She has developed curriculum, coordinated faculty, and created a virtual health tech discovery lab. From  Kaiser Permanente and VA/DOD to innovative start-ups, academic medical centers, Children’s hospitals, and community health centers, her professional and consulting career has taken her to all 50 states and across 5 continents. Holding degrees from the University of Michigan and Northeastern University, Professor Macomber has published and presented widely on innovative health tech practices.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindamacomber/

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​               Reimagine health​
  • Heal healthcare
  • Advance "sick care" to "health"
  • Connect health, innovation, AI, leadership
  • Travel to ideas, inspiration, insights, impact
  • ​Experience relevant, engaging resources
  • Launch a 21st-century career
  • ​​Tap rich collective wisdom 
  • Progress from fears
  • Create a new renaissance - start with health
"Use technology to make
​human moments precious."  Mark Milliron
Slide  by Daniel Kraft:Digital.Health. (2022) 

  • People: Meet many of the greatest innovators, scientists, artists, philosophers, imagineers, technologists, professionals, and leaders of our time.
  • ​Pioneers: ​Enjoy, learn, share, and be inspired by the promises and perils of many pioneers who have made this collection possible. Then, be a pioneer.
  • Personal: Begin with person-centered care tech and connections - progress to systems to support primary care, specialty care, acute care and long-term care.
  • Platform - Find a home for innovating healthcare - view then do.. Meet speakers from across the globe. Connect with others to discover where you can contribute.
  • Proficiency: Become comfortable, confident, and competent using modern health tech systems designed to add years to your life and life to your years.
  • ​Practice: Test drive electronic health records (EHRs) and other health IT communication/decision support systems in a safe virtual learning environment.
  • Problems: Perceive problems as opportunities and challenges with technology-enabled solutions.
  • ​Perspectives: Access new and relevant digital health resources from intellectually- diverse and inter-professional perspectives.
  • Performance: View system demonstrations/immerse in multimedia experiences of people, process and new technologies working together in practice.
  • Publish/Present: Share your experiences and stories. See projects tab for past presentations/projects. 
  • Prosperity: Advance human health from possibilities to plans to prosperity through the wise use of new tech tools.
  • Partnerships/Projects - Connect with the HealthTech Discovery community of professors, students, and create new partnerships. After viewing, focus on doing. 
Digital Health Innovations - 15 min
Want to hear more from Daniel Kraft and NextMed?
NextMed conference recordings Hotel Del Coronado March 2022 - www.nextmed.health/live
​Progression - Discover a living-learning lab -Begin with personal health/progress through tabs across the top to humanity's grand challenges.
​Home: Purpose, Potential, Progression 
  • Intro: Welcome and watch
  • Personal: Person-centered health/care at home and anywhere with personal health informatics, telehealth, self-monitoring, and decision support
  • Clinic: Tutorials focused on primary and specialty care in medical offices, clinics, retail, and other ambulatory care settings
  • Hospital/resources/applications designed more for hospital and nursing care with orientation tutorials
  • Epic, Cerner PowerChart, VA,  and case studies.  Experiential learning through simulation and learning by doing - View - Intro video to the Veterans Administration Computer Patient Record (CPRS) Vista system, Experience - structured interactive patient care system tutorials in 27 sections, and Explore.
  • HIE:  Connect health together with tech, standards to create a more interoperable ecosystem of health. 
  • Apps: Emerging Health Apps and App ecosystems 
  • AI: Artificial intelligence/ intelligence augmentation in healthcare 
  • Cyber: Cybersecurity in healthcare resources keeping us safe
  • Resources: Organizations and references, professional communities, government agencies/publications
  • Project: Showcased projects (emerging area - contribute your project!)
  • Career: 21st Century careers where High Tech meets Human Health
  • Alumni: Connections with Health leadership/Informatics and other graduates, their stories and pathways
  • FDA - Digital-health-relevant FDA regulations
  • Next: News and digital disruption/health innovation tech/emerging practices - Is the future already here?
CBS News -Telehealth 2021
4 minute video 
​www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-care-health-healthcare-employer-sponsored-health/
Telehealth - McKinsey Update
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/telehealth-a-quarter-trillion-dollar-post-covid-19-reality
www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200715.454789/full/

Did you know?
  • "Before the public health emergency, approximately 13,000 beneficiaries in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare received telemedicine a week.
  • In the last week of April, nearly 1.7 million beneficiaries received telehealth services.In total, over 9 million beneficiaries have received a telehealth service during the public health emergency, mid-March through mid-June."
“Go beyond what you know ->
to who you become.” 
Linda Travis Macomber
The company behind the scenes for your health
Promising Practices
Beyond problems/analysis to ->    Innoation Mindset, Challenges, Opportunities, Solutions, and Design Thinking
  • Enjoy this virtual living learning lab filed with health innovation technologies focused on humanities grand health challenges
  • Embark on this journey thanks to all the pioneers who have publicly published their passions, perspectives, and performances for all to ponder what is possible.
  • Explore this mosaic of modern collectibles by imagining you are walking through your favorite museum exhibition. 
  • Engage in this health tech tapestry of multimedia resources/simulations and check back often for new pioneering ideas/emerging opportunities.
  • Enrich this resource with your suggestion/contributions. ​​
  • Experience an intellectually-diverse, collaborative, and evolving community of experts and inter-professional teams - all from a human perspective. In the past, this may have been a book of best practices, yet at today's pace of change, the concept of a living learning lab was born. ​
Imagine you are in a digital bookstore exploring what you find interesting. You have the power of freedom of choice within guide rails. You forge your own pathway.
  • Begin with health for you and your family, progress to resources for healthcare practitioners and organizations, and on to global health.
  • Then, expand horizons to the rapidly-evolving applications of cyber security, AI, and connectivity, and impact of regulations specific to healthcare.
  • Finally, discover career opportunities, diverse pathways, and news.
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UCSD Healthcare Innovation
​We accelerate the development, implementation and adoption of transformative digital technologies that propel human health forward.
​“Technology for technology's sake is not that interesting,”  “But technology applied in a meaningful way on some of society's largest, biggest problems and challenges to improve the lives of people out there is going to be the most impactful thing.” Satya Nadella
Digital Health Frontiers 
​Mayo Clinic Platform Blog​
www.mayoclinicplatform.org/blog/
What is Digital Health?  - take one moment to explore
Telehealth Virtual Care
 just the beginning

​Meet Epic Founder/CEO
​Judy Faulkner in interview below
The Rise of Health Tech
 McKinsey
Tech Giiants Invest in Heatlhcare
medicalfuturist.com/tech-giants-in-healthcare-2021-summary/
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Big Tech in Healthcare - Forbes​ 
www.forbes.com/sites/sachinjain/2022/02/15/what-big-tech-should-actually-do-in-healthcare/?sh=519a558551f6
A Moment for Digital Health from the World Economic Forum

www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/why-this-digital-healthcare-moment/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social_video&utm_term=1_1&utm_content=22026_pill_takes_pictures_inside_gut&utm_campaign=social_video_2021
​10 emerging trends in health IT for 2021 (Beckers)
Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021 (HITNews)
What will 2021 Look Like? 7 infectious disease experts weigh in (Today)
Healthcare digital transformation: 5 predictions for 2021 (CIO)
10 AI Predictions For 2021 (Forbes)
How tech is reinventing healthcare (WIRED UK)
(Thanks to Daniel Kraft at Exponential Med for the list!)

​Industry spotlight - oncology & more
Where high tech and human health meet 
Explore the
Epic Health Research Network
EHRN ehrn.org/
EHR Research Network including Covid research

Covid-19 and Health Tech
​Can smarter, more empowering, tech-enabled, and connected healthcare enable progression to a renaissance after the pandemic?   
www.healthitanswers.net/covid-19-update-part-ii-collaborations-insights-to-come/
-  Digital front doors for health
-  Care that comes to you versus you going to care
-  Hospital care at home/virtual wards
-  Helpful decision support
​-  Proactive alerts/action
“...There are decades where nothing happens; and then there are weeks when decades happen,”
               Steven Krein/Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health 
As the author/editor of this virtual discovery lab, I thank all who have contributed their work online and made this curated collection possible. 

Editor/Contact - Professor Linda Travis Macomber
School of Health Professions
National University
San Diego, California, USA
Editor/Creator/Author - www.HealthTech Discovery.com
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Please note that do to the nature of this lab linking to extensive content published by others, occasionally you may find a link where the primary author has removed or changed their publications. Yet, the goal here is to provide relevant content and live links is one way to achieve this. So, please do not mind occasional imperfection in pursuit of sharing progress and possibilities. ​
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