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Move over digital health, cutting-edge hospitals are prepping for digital medicine instead

The future of healthcare is not a device or a drug thus far undiscovered. No, it’s digital and that’s no surprise — but it’s not nearly as simple as today’s digital health.

Rather, forward-looking hospitals including Mount Sinai, LifeBridge Health and Thomas Jefferson, in fact, have clinical innovation teams working on digital medicine projects.

The difference? Ashish Atreja, MD, chief innovation and engagement officer at Mount Sinai said that hospitals must apply the same principles to digital medicine that they do to plain old medicine. That means doing no harm, delivering effective and patient-centered care, and doing so in a timely and efficient manner — which is not at…

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  Move over digital health, cutting-edge hospitals are prepping for digital medicine instead

The future of healthcare is not a device or a drug thus far undiscovered. No, it’s digital and that’s no surprise — but it’s not nearly as simple as today’s digital health.

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