World “Digital” Health Day

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Technology has become inseparable from the progress of global health. With the global digital health market projected to surge from $264.1 billion in 2023 to $1.19 trillion by 2032, healthcare systems are rapidly shifting toward data‑driven, cloud‑enabled, and AI‑supported models of care. This transformation isn’t abstract; it’s visible in the 154% spike in telehealth usage in 2020 and the tens of millions of patients now relying on remote monitoring technologies to manage chronic conditions.
World Health Day also serves as a reminder of the need to strengthen health systems worldwide, and technology is becoming the backbone of that effort. As WHO tracks progress across more than 50 health‑related indicators, from care access to health‑system resilience, digital tools are increasingly central to closing gaps and scaling equitable care. The global health community is leaning on innovation to treat illness and build smarter, more responsive systems capable of overcoming the world’s most pressing health challenges.
In response to the growing interconnection between technology and healthcare, we have gathered quotes from technology companies that explain how their technology is being used in the healthcare industry. Let’s dive in.

Virtual Assistants to Manage Administrative Burdens

I built Medical Staff Relief from a problem I experienced firsthand in my own medical practice. Over time, I saw how administrative work was steadily pulling time, focus, and energy away from patient care, not just for physicians, but for the entire team. Our service supports U.S. medical and dental practices through virtual staffing, workflow support, and administrative structure. We help practices strengthen the non-clinical side of care, including scheduling, patient coordination, documentation support, billing-related tasks, and other operational responsibilities that often create daily strain. What makes this valuable in healthcare is that many of the problems affecting performance are operational, not clinical. When providers and staff are overloaded by fragmented processes and constant administrative pressure, it affects responsiveness, consistency, and the overall patient experience. My focus has always been to help practices function more smoothly so their teams can work with less friction and more stability.

Dr. Ricardo Abraham, Internal Medicine Practitioner, Founder & CEO, Medical Staff Relief

Portable Records Via Virtualized Conversational Containers

Healthcare organizations are under growing pressure to use AI and automation without losing provenance, consent integrity, or trust.

VCONify helps solve that by turning conversations across voice, chat, video, and other channels into structured, governed, portable records using the open vCon standard. In healthcare, that means organizations can preserve conversational context with verifiable chain of custody, clearer permissions, and better long-term usability for compliance, coordination, and AI-supported workflows.

Ken Herron, Co-Founder, VCONify

Real-World Evidence to Help Clinicians, Researchers, and Health Systems Make Data-Driven Decisions

The future of healthcare depends on an evidence-on-demand approach that goes beyond the limits of existing published literature and the time it takes to search for those answers. Atropos Health delivers evidence-based answers at the speed of thought, integrated into the clinical workflow, from not only existing literature but proprietary content in Alexandria, the Atropos Evidence Library. Atropos Health generates evidence from the largest federated data network in healthcare to inform clinical decision-making, drug discovery, and delivery.

Dr. Brigham Hyde, CEO, Atropos Health

Virtual Care and Telehealth

Ramsey Theory Group’s primary healthcare product is Erdos Medical, an AI-driven virtual care platform that connects patients, providers, and certified medical support staff in a single secure ecosystem. It enables telehealth plus in-home diagnostic services (like lab testing and specimen collection), allowing providers to extend care beyond video visits while improving access, efficiency, and outcomes.

The platform also focuses heavily on compliance, security, and workflow integration, helping healthcare organizations reduce fragmentation between telehealth, EHR systems, and clinical operations.

Overall, Ramsey Theory Group delivers a remote-first healthcare delivery system designed to lower costs, improve care coordination, and scale patient access through AI-enabled, connected care models.

 Dan Herbatschek,  CEO, Ramsey Theory Group

Bridging the Gap Between Laboratory Work and Medical Applications With AI-driven Tools and Specialized Devices

CLYTE develops AI-powered tools and precision devices, such as our Soφ (Sophie) AI lab assistant and high-throughput CytCut device, designed to automate and standardize preclinical biomedical research. By eliminating procedural redundancies and minimizing human error in the lab, our solutions accelerate scientific discovery and streamline the development of new, life-saving therapies.

Soφ AI in particular, is the extra lab memeber for biomedical researchers; trained on properiotory database of life-science procedure, capable of advanced data analysis, and equipped with a vision model for cell migration analysis that drewfs the traditional time consuming method of using imageJ in accuracy and efficiency.

We recently presented at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society Conference (TERMIS 2025) and the Society For Biomaterial conference (SFB 2026). We received an amazing reception, with tens of thousands of researchers from across the world now visiting our website daily to use Soφ and our educational resources.

Mojtaba Javid, founder, CLYTE Technologies

Cloud-based Platform Unifies Electronic Health Records, Revenue Cycle Management & Care Coordination

PointClickCare launched its Post-Acute Care (PAC) Management solution to address a pressing industry challenge: the lack of visibility that physicians and hospitals have into patients’ care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other post-acute care settings. These gaps contribute to avoidable readmissions, extended lengths of stay, and inefficient care management workflows. PAC Management delivers real-time clinical visibility, predictive risk insights, and shared patient context across hospitals, SNFs, and care management teams, enabling earlier and more coordinated intervention during high-risk post-discharge periods.

Dr. Hamad Husainy, Chief Medical Officer, PointClickCare.

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Taylor Graham, marketing grad with an inner nature to be a perpetual researchist, currently all things IT. Personally and professionally, Taylor is one to know with her tenacity and encouraging spirit. When not working you can find her spending time with friends and family.