

Vodafone Business y el Consorcio DTx impulsarán la adopción de terapias digitales en España
Summary: Vodafone Business y el Consorcio DTx se han unido para crear un Think Tank de Terapias Digitales, con el objetivo de promover su implementación en España y abordar los desafíos actuales y...
Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic to treat deadly superbug
Summary: Scientists from McMaster University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology used AI to discover a new antibiotic capable of combating a deadly superbug, abaucin. To identify a new...
Google Cloud launches A.I.-powered tools to accelerate drug discovery, precision medicine
Summary: Google Cloud has introduced two new AI-powered tools aimed at assisting biotech and pharmaceutical companies in accelerating drug discovery and advancing precision medicine. The Target and...
AstraZeneca & Bellvitge Hospital Pilot Heart Failure Monitoring App
Summary: AstraZeneca and the Bellvitge University Hospital have announced their plans to launch a pilot program for the Cordio Medical HearO app, which aims to provide widespread access to...
Ascires revoluciona el diagnóstico hepático con HepaTools: una biopsia virtual sin dolor ni riesgos
Summary: "Diagnosticar la patología hepática sin necesidad de biopsiar al paciente, sino a través de unos biomarcadores de imagen que equivalen a una biopsia ‘virtual’ del hígado. Este es el...
Brain implants help paralysed man to walk again
Summary: An international team of scientists has successfully enabled Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old Dutch man who was paralyzed after suffering a spinal cord injury in a bicycle accident in 2011, to...
El Hospital La Paz lidera la revolución de la salud con inteligencia artificial y robótica en el proyecto ‘HosmartAI’
Summary: El Hospital Universitario La Paz y su Instituto de Investigación, IdiPAZ, participan en el proyecto 'HosmartAI', que busca soluciones de inteligencia artificial y robótica para mejorar los...
B. Braun y DyCare colaboran para mejorar la rehabilitación postoperatoria con tecnología digital
Summary: La compañía líder en tecnología médica, B. Braun, ha decidido asociarse con la empresa DyCare y utilizar su plataforma de rehabilitación digital, llamada ReHub, para complementar su oferta...
Madrid invierte 32,5 millones de euros en teleasistencia domiciliaria
Summary: Madrid ha dado un paso hacia la renovación tecnológica en la asistencia domiciliaria al invertir 32,5 millones de euros en la incorporación de herramientas tecnológicas para el servicio de...
Almirall, primera compañía en evaluar el bienestar del paciente en un estudio clínico en dermatología
Summary: Almirall se compromete a evaluar el impacto de las enfermedades de la piel en el bienestar de los pacientes y promover una atención sanitaria centrada en las personas y la participación de...
Meet Dave, world’s first AI chatbot for cancer patients
Summary: Meet “Dave,” an AI chatbot that offers support to cancer patients in what is said to be the world’s first virtual oncology mentor. Cofounder and CTO of Belong.Life Irad Deutsch said Dave...
Finally A Good Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor: Aktiia Bracelet Review
The digital health revolution has been lagging behind in at least one major field: blood pressure monitoring. For a very long time, there were no better solutions in the market than traditional...
Wellen taps OpenAI’s GPT for a chatbot that dishes advice on bone health
Summary: Wellen, a New York–based bone health–focused fitness startup that launched earlier this year with a subscription service aimed at middle-aged women — touting science-backed “personalized”...
Meet the tiny, wireless sleep apnea diagnostic wearable headed for the US
Summary: U.K. medtech startup Acurable has gained FDA clearance for a novel wireless diagnostic device for remote detection of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Healthcare services often struggle to...
Is it Time to Double Down on Automation in Medtech?
Summary: Plaguing the tech and medtech industries, layoffs have put a harsh spotlight on the realities of running such a company during unsteady economic conditions. On the other hand, medtech...
Monitoring Blood Sugar During Pregnancy Just Got a Lot Easier
Summary: A pilot program at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is using remote patient monitoring to track blood sugar levels in pregnant people with gestational diabetes. The program utilizes...
Monash-developed AI wearable patch monitors multiple health signs
Summary: Engineering and IT researchers from Monash University have combined nanotechnology and AI to create wearable technology for remote health monitoring.They came up with an ultra-thin wearable...
South African healthtech startup, Aviro Health, offers counselling and support to people living with HIV
Summary: South Africa has the highest HIV prevalence of any country, with 7.5 million people living with HIV in 2019. By 2020, this figure had risen by 300,000, bringing the total to 7.8 million...
BetaLife to showcase its AI powered health tech solution for advancing health equity at GITEX AFRICA 2023 the largest tech event
Summary: BetaLife Health is changing the African healthcare narrative by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote health equity and improve patient outcomes. Africa has long been plagued...
Westmead team collaborates on health tech with Google
Summary: Professor Clara Chow, a renowned cardiologist and Academic Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC), achieved recognition in 2019 by winning the esteemed Google.org AI Impact...
Hear how Sensi.AI is building AI for remote patient monitoring
Summary: Sensi.AI, a startup led by CEO Romi Gubes, has developed an AI software that monitors patients receiving in-home care. The software uses audio-based technology to detect physical,...
IMVARIA Announces Data Demonstrating Company’s Non-Invasive Digital Biomarker for Predicting Mortality in Interstitial Lung Diseases
Summary: IMVARIA Inc., a health tech company pioneering AI-driven digital biomarker solutions, today announced data from a study evaluating the company’s lead non-invasive digital biomarker...
How Medical Records Can Close the Information Gap in Patient Care
Summary: At a time when every click can be tracked and medical records are fully electronic, physicians should be able to digitally reference the decisions made by other clinicians to find out: What...
How The Zozosuit Is Redefining Wearable Tech By Making Bodily Measurements More Accessible To Everyone
Summary: The Zozosuit from Zozofit is a wearable technology priced that allows users to take precise 3D scans of their body. It works with a companion app and is described as "the future of fitness"...
Deep Hearing, la startup que redefine la experiencia auditiva a través de la innovación tecnológica
Deep Hearing es una startup deep-tech del sector health tech y wellness de Inteligencia Artificial centrada en la detección de sonidos ambientales. Su objetivo principal: mantener a las personas...
Health Tech: Why Design Matters and Ease of Use is Everything
Summary: Healthcare staff are struggling to keep up with the ever-increasing amounts of patient data, leading to challenges in delivering quality care. Complex user interfaces and a lack of...
This UK startup plans to radically shake up the antiquated world of COPD measurement
Summary:Back in 1846, a London surgeon named John Hutchinson created the spirometer, which is commonly used by doctors to assess lung function in asthma patients by measuring the amount of air...
Using AI to eliminate protein allergies
Summary: Allergy sufferers currently have limited treatment options despite the increasing prevalence of allergies. The only FDA-approved treatment available today is food allergy immunotherapy,...
Improving longevity with a personalised AI-powered health data platform
Summary:Biolytica has developed a health data platform it calls NEXUS. The artificial-intelligence-driven (AI-driven) platform analyses and aggregates data from genomics, blood, microbiome, and...
BEYOND EXPO 2023 | Future of health tech: AI drug development, anti-aging, and brain science
Summary:Cutting-edge technologies are disrupting the healthcare and life science field. While recent headlines have largely focused on its content creation abilities, AI technology can also be used...
What is the future of electronic patient records?
Summary: Electronic Patient Records (EPR) are essential to delivering more joined up and integrated care. Business Intelligence (BI) is expected to play an increasingly important role during and...
National Technology Day: Health-tech boom democratising healthcare
Summary: India’s healthcare technology sector is witnessing steady expansion due to the increasing adoption of digital technologies, rising healthcare spending, government initiatives, and growing...
Moving Virtual Nursing from Concept to Practical Application
Summary: Virtual nursing is moving from concept to real-world implementation as health systems look for new solutions to address workforce challenges and better support patient care. Virtual nurses...
Outperforming doctors and dealing with hallucinations — how GenAI will transform healthtech
Summary: Since ChatGPT’s launch last year, large language models (LLMs) have mostly drawn attention for helping non-engineers write code and explaining quantum computing to five-year-olds. Less...
One-Hour Diabetes Procedure Offers Fresh Hope For Ditching Insulin
Summary: Researchers on Friday hailed a new procedure that could allow type 2 diabetics to control their blood sugar levels without having to take insulin, early findings that offer millions of...
Apple Plans AI-Powered Health Coaching Service and Mood Tracker
Summary: Apple Inc. is working on an artificial intelligence-powered health coaching service and new technology for tracking emotions, its latest attempt to lock in users with health and wellness...
Healthtech chatbot aims to improve diabetes health outcomes
Summary: One in nine South Africans are affected by diabetes, which is also the number one killer of women and the second cause of death in the country. Daily self-management is critical to control...
Cannabis HealthTech on high after share placing
Summary: Kanabo Group plc, a HealthTech company behind cannabis-based treatments, has raised more than £2.5 million in a share placing. Since its foundation in 2017 it has developed cannabis-derived...
Novel ultrasound uses microbubbles to open blood-brain barrier to treat glioblastoma in humans
Summary: A major impediment to treating the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma has been that the most potent chemotherapy can’t permeate the blood-brain barrier to reach the aggressive brain tumor....
La Fe de Valencia implanta con éxito un marcapasos sin cables a un bebé prematuro por primera vez en Europa
Summary: La Unidad de Arritmias junto con los servicios de Cardiología Pediátrica y Cirugía Cardíaca del Hospital Universitario La Fe de Valencia ha implantado con éxito, por...
This AI-Powered App Helps Parkinson’s Patients Exercise Using Social Media
Summary: Eurofarma, a Brazilian-based multinational pharmaceutical company, has launched an app called Scrolling Therapy, which uses facial recognition to help patients with Parkinson's disease...
Breast Cancer Metaverse, una puesta a punto de los últimos avances en cirugía de la mama
Summary: "Lisboa acogerá los próximos días 4 y 5 de mayo el XI Congreso anual de la Asociación Española de Cirujanos de la Mama, AECIMA, que en esta ocasión lleva por título Breast Cancer Metaverse....
HumanITcare and Gebro Phama partner up to help patients with asthma
Summary: Laboratorios Gebro Pharma and startup HumanITcare have signed a collaboration agreement to launch a connected health solution for patients with asthma. The solution allows patients to...
Cataluña da un paso al frente en el ámbito de la interoperabilidad de datos al permitir a la ciudadanía disponer de un resumen de los datos de su historia clínica
Summary: El sistema sanitario público catalán se ha convertido en el primer sistema de la Unión Europea en implementar una herramienta que permite a los usuarios utilizar sus datos clínicos para...
AstraZeneca, Vall d’Hebron and Tucuvi launch the AZerca project for the follow-up of patients with heart failure
Summary: AstraZeneca, in collaboration with Vall d'Hebron and Tucuvi, have presented AZerca, a program that enables personalized monitoring of patients with congestive heart failure through...
Ingestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone
Summary: MIT engineers have created a capsule that uses electrical signals to stimulate the stomach's endocrine cells to produce ghrelin, the hormone responsible for stimulating appetite. The...
Desarrollan una plataforma para informar en tiempo real a los participantes en ensayos clínicos sobre los avances en los mismos
Summary: Para avanzar en la investigación médica es necesario desarrollar estudios a través de los cuales poder testar los resultados obtenidos y, en este contexto, es clave e imprescindible el...
Abbott launches diabetes team-up with Ypsomed, CamDiab to bring artificial pancreas system to Europe
Summary: "Abbott is announcing plans for a three-way collaboration to put forward an automated insulin delivery system in Europe by the end of this year, connected to its FreeStyle Libre 3 wearable...
New app personalises sleep cycle for hospital shift workers
Summary: Researchers from Monash University's Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health have developed a mobile app called SleepSync, which aims to help hospital shift workers improve their sleep...
La inteligencia artificial desbloquea el ‘imposible’ de triar en Primaria
Summary: La Sociedad Española de Médicos de Atención Primaria (Semergen) está desarrollando un programa de inteligencia artificial que permitiría a los médicos de familia realizar el triaje de...
El nuevo test que simplifica y agiliza el diagnóstico de cáncer de endometrio
Summary: MiMARK Diagnostics, una spin-off del Vall d'Hebron Instituto de Investigación (VHIR) en Barcelona ha desarrollado un test de diagnóstico del cáncer de endometrio llamado WomEC, basado en la...
Diseñan un sensor de nanopartículas para el diagnóstico precoz del cáncer a partir de un análisis de orina
Summary: Investigadores del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts (MIT) han creado un sensor de nanopartículas que permite detectar proteínas cancerosas en la orina y así diagnosticar el cáncer...
EU launches research center on algorithmic transparency in Seville
Summary: The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency has opened in Seville, with the aim of supporting the application of EU digital rules by decoding algorithmic black boxes. The centre, which...
Un nuevo robot puede imprimir biomateriales en 3D dentro del cuerpo humano
Summary: Investigadores de la Universidad de Nueva Gales del Sur han desarrollado un brazo robot blando y flexible que es capaz de imprimir en 3D biomateriales directamente en órganos humanos...
Vall d’Hebrón analiza el coste-eficacia de la IA en insuficiencia cardiaca
Summary: El Hospital Vall d'Hebron en Barcelona está utilizando la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para un seguimiento personalizado de pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca. El estudio piloto, llamado...
El primer ensayo clínico del mundo de la transferencia de huso materno muestra su eficacia para tratar la infertilidad
El primer ensayo clínico del mundo para validar la eficacia de la Transferencia de Huso Materno (Maternal Spindle Transfer, MST), una innovadora técnica de reproducción asistida, ha demostrado su...
Scientists create ‘mini beating heart’ in a petri dish in major medical breakthrough
Summary: Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully developed a miniature heart organoid, created from 35,000 pluripotent stem cells. The organoid, which is...
HM Málaga incorpora una técnica innovadora para tratar el dolor cervical
El Hospital HM Internacional Santa Elena de Torremolinos ha introducido una técnica pionera en Andalucía para el tratamiento del dolor cervical causado por discopatía. Se trata de un enfoque de...
NuraLogix announces new AI model for fatty liver disease
Summary: NuraLogix has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict a person's risk of having fatty liver disease (FLD) by using facial blood patterns. The technology is part of...
Telefónica Tech and 3M optimise hospital emergencies with AI
Summary: Telefónica Tech and 3M have launched a technological solution based on artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize the management and planning of hospital emergency department (HED) resources...
GE Healthcare acquires an innovative CT Navigation System for More Accurate Needle Placement
Summary: GE Healthcare has acquired IMACTIS, a small French med-tech company that designed an innovative navigation system to guide medical needles more precisely to their target inside the body....
“Debemos ser capaces de auditar los datos de los que se nutren los algoritmos”
La catedrática de Ciencias de la Computación en la Universidad de A Coruña, Amparo Alonso Betanzos, defiende la iniciativa de la Unión Europea de impulsar una Inteligencia Artificial (IA) centrada...
New test detects Parkinson’s biomarker before movement symptoms start
Summary: Researchers from the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative have developed a test to detect alpha-synuclein, a protein that accumulates in the brains of patients with Parkinson’s...
“Nanosyringes” can inject medicine into a single cell
Summary: MIT researchers have developed a system that can inject proteins into individual human cells using a tool found in bacteria. The system, called an "extracellular contractile injection...
Toledo dirige a Europa hacia un cribado en cáncer de mama sin radiación
Summary: El Hospital Universitario de Toledo, en Castilla-La Mancha (España), lidera un proyecto internacional, denominado Mammowave, cuyo objetivo es diagnosticar el cáncer de mama en mujeres en...
El Hospital Universitario General de Villalba consolida el Diálogo Web en su Servicio de Farmacia Hospitalaria como vía de comunicación con el paciente ágil y eficaz para la resolución de dudas sobre los tratamientos
Summary: El Servicio de Farmacia Hospitalaria del Hospital Universitario General de Villalba ha puesto en marcha el Diálogo Web, una plataforma integrada en la red pública madrileña que tiene como...
New Bandages Promise Faster Healing for Stubborn Wounds
Summary: Investigadores del Instituto de Tecnología de California han desarrollado vendajes inteligentes hechos de un polímero flexible y elástico que incorpora sensores electrónicos para monitorear...
Revolutionizing Senior Care with AI-Powered Wireless Monitoring System
Summary: Developers are increasingly innovating passive monitoring technology to help the elderly stay safe and healthy, as chronic illnesses among US adults continue to rise, and a growing...
XRHealth, Amelia Virtual Care merge for world’s largest XR platform
Summary: XRHealth, a virtual treatment rooms developer based in Boston, has announced its plans to merge with Amelia Virtual Care, a Barcelona-based virtual reality platform for mental health...
Get Rewarded for Healthy Habits with Albertsons’ Apple Watch Program
Summary: Grocery chain Albertsons Companies' digital health and wellness platform, Sincerely Health, has launched a rewards program that allows customers to share data from their Apple Watches or...
Vall d’Hebron logra el primer trasplante pulmonar totalmente robotizado con una nueva vía de acceso
Summary: El Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron de Barcelona ha llevado a cabo el primer trasplante de pulmón con una técnica robótica y acceso menos invasivo. Esta técnica quirúrgica utiliza un...
Los sistemas de IA en Pontevedra «revolucionan» el diagnóstico de cáncer de colon
Summary: En marzo, el Servicio de Aparato Digestivo del Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Pontevedra (CHUP) anunció la llegada de Polydeep, un nuevo sistema de inteligencia artificial (IA) que...
Fenin propone 10 iniciativas para la sanidad y el sector de Tecnología Sanitaria de cara a las próximas elecciones
Summary: La Federación Española de Empresas de Tecnología Sanitaria (Fenin) ha presentado diez propuestas para mejorar la eficiencia del sistema sanitario español en el marco de las elecciones...
Cataluña invertirá 8,7 millones de euros en transformación digital para patologías complejas
Summary: "La Generalitat catalana invertirá 8,7 millones de euros en dieciséis iniciativas transformadoras hasta 2025, en lo que se conoce como el proyecto Daipo, acrónimo de nuevas capacidades y...
Smartphone technology takes on Anaemia detection
Summary: Researchers at the University College London and the University of Ghana have developed a smartphone-based system to detect haemoglobin concentrations. Anaemia is a common disease that...
Promising new AI can detect early signs of lung cancer
Summary: Researchers at the Mass General Cancer Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called Sybil that can detect early signs of...
Mouse “Avatars” May Help To Design Personalized Myeloma Therapies
Summary: An international team of researchers led by Dr. José Ángel Martínez-Climent at the Cima University of Navarra has created mouse avatars of patients with multiple myeloma to study and...
New drug delivery tech could ensure you never forget your meds
Summary: Researchers at Rice University have developed a new drug delivery technology called PULSED, which stands for “Particles Uniformly Liquified and Sealed to Encapsulate Drugs”. The technology...
La barrera hematoencefálica en un chip para estudiar fármacos contra el alzhéimer
Summary: "Investigadores de España y Chile han desarrollado un ‘órgano-en-un-chip’ que, sin necesidad de ensayos con animales, funciona como modelo de la inexpugnable barrera...
La empresa española que hace biopsias virtuales con inteligencia artificial
Summary: La empresa valenciana Quibim ha desarrollado algoritmos que permiten obtener y analizar datos cuantificables de imágenes médicas sin necesidad de extraer una muestra invasiva de los...
«Smart» jewelry could be the future of quitting cigarettes
Summary: Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a heat-tracking device, called SmokeMon, that can help smokers quit and avoid relapse. The smart necklace tracks the heat signature...
How ChatGPT Is Helping Doctors Take Better Patient Notes
Summary: Nuance Communications, a company that automates clinical documentation, has introduced an updated clinical note-generation tool, DAX Express, that utilizes ChatGPT-4 to produce secure...
Wearable fluid sensor lowers risk of HF rehospitalizations
Summary: "A wearable sensor called μCor, which detects fluid buildup in the lungs, can help patients with heart failure avoid readmission to hospital within 90 days, according to new data from the...
Revolutionizing Single Cell Analysis: Meet the Hybrid Micro-Robot
Summary: Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a tiny micro-robot, the size of a biological cell, which can be controlled and navigated using both electric and magnetic fields. The...
Patientory Launches Blockchain App Enabling Patients to Earn Money for Their Health Data
Summary: Patientory Inc. has launched two solutions: Patientory Consumer Decentralized Application. Patientory allows patients to monetize their medical data through its Patientory Consumer...
Fundación iSYS presenta las Top 5 Apps de Salud para 2022/2023 evaluadas con el iSYSCore en la mHealth Barcelona Conference
Summary: La Fundación iSYS ha presentado las Top 5 Apps de Salud para 2022/2023, evaluadas utilizando el iSYSCore. El iSYSCore es un método único y objetivo que evalúa y puntúa las aplicaciones de...
What Are Modern Data Platforms, and How Can They Boost Healthcare Agility?
Summary: "There’s certainly no shortage of data in today’s health systems, the problem is that up to 97 percent of that data goes unused, in large part because it remains in proprietary systems or...
¿Es el Juramento Hipocrático obsoleto en la era digital?
Summary: "La necesidad de actualizar el Juramento Hipocrático para la era digital" es un artículo que argumenta sobre la importancia de actualizar el Juramento Hipocrático para reflejar mejor la...
FDA approves Neuromod’s Lenire, the first bimodal neuromodulation device for tinnitus treatment
Summary: "Lenire, a bimodal neuromodulation device designed to treat tinnitus, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the first of its kind to receive approval. According to...
Medtronic and DaVita announce new kidney health technology company
Summary: "DaVita and medical device company Medtronic launched their new venture, Mozarc Medical, to develop new kidney care technologies with a specific focus on at-home treatments." "Kidney...
Addressing Clinical Staffing Shortages in Healthcare: The Crucial Role of IT Investmen
Summary: "In healthcare, clinical staffing shortages can significantly impact the quality of patient care and the overall efficiency of healthcare organizations. With an aging population and a...
Uber Health launches same-day prescription delivery
Summary: "Uber Health is foraying deeper into healthcare with a new feature that allows providers to order prescriptions to be dropped off at patients homes same-day." "The same-day prescription...
Barcelona acogerá una sede del Instituto Fraunhofer, el mayor centro de Europa en investigación aplicada
Summary: "Barcelona acogerá la primera sede española del Instituto Fraunhofer: una de las entidades más grandes y prestigiosas de toda Europa en investigación aplicada." "El gran objetivo que se...
ConnectHealth: la empresa española que unifica, estandariza, certifica y conecta el dato de salud
Summary: Descubre más en esta entrevista con la CEO Marisa Gil sobre la compañía ConnectHealth, una solución innovadora para la gestión de datos de salud, que utiliza tecnologías como la...
Presentan la primera computadora cuántica dedicada a la investigación del cuidado de la salud
Summary: "La computación cuántica es una tecnología emergente que aprovecha las leyes de la mecánica cuántica para resolver problemas que las supercomputadoras más poderosas de la actualidad no...
La revolución digital del SNS anuncia tres contratos por más de 12 millones
Summary: "El Gobierno español ha anunciado una inversión de 12,5 millones de euros para llevar a cabo una transformación digital en el Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS). Esta inversión se distribuirá...
DKV presenta “Cubo Voice”, el compañero virtual que integra la salud digital en el hogar
Summary: DKV ha presentado Cubo Voice, un altavoz inteligente que funciona como un orquestador doméstico para temas médicos y como dispositivo de conexión con cualquier televisión moderna....
Desarrollan un test para detectar resistencia a los antibióticos en 3 horas
Summary: Especialistas del Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, en Sevilla, han creado un test llamado RapidTZP que permite detectar rápidamente en apenas tres horas la resistencia al...
Bellvitge transforma la UCI con tecnología multisensorial a favor del bienestar físico y emocional
Summary: "El Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge (HUB) ha transformado los 64 boxes de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) con la incorporación de elementos sensoriales (luces, proyecciones,...
Un equipo del CSIC desarrolla una tecnología para mejorar la distribución de radiofármacos en el cuerpo de pacientes con cáncer
Summary: "Los actuales sistemas de imagen de fotones son en general de baja eficiencia, y tienen mayor dificultad cuando hay fotones de distintas energías, cuando estas energías son más altas que...
AstraZeneca opens a new hub in Barcelona, creating 1,000 jobs
Summary: "The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca will open a research and development hub in Barcelona to develop new therapies, creating 1,000 new jobs in the next five years. With this...
Too Many Dashboards, Not Enough Insight: How Companies Can Build Remote Patient Monitoring Tech
Summary: As healthcare providers continue to adopt remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology, many are discovering a common problem: too many dashboards and not enough insight. RPM technology...
How to Measure the ROI of Digital Healthcare Innovation
Summary: " Despite the stars aligning for the disruption of healthcare, the industry is about a decade behind retail and banking when it comes to digital transformation and customer engagement...
VR Is Revolutionizing Therapy. Why Aren’t More People Using It?
Summary: "VR therapy has been studied since the 1990s. But as of 2023, we're still talking about its potential." "Despite the pandemic shining a spotlight on stress, anxiety and burnout, it feels...
First wearable device for vocal fatigue senses when your voice needs a break
Summary: "Northwestern University researchers have developed the first smart wearable device to continuously track how much people use their voices, alerting them to overuse before vocal fatigue and...
Transforming veteran healthcare: How telehealth is changing the game
Summary: "The heroic individuals who serve in the armed forces make immeasurable sacrifices for our nation. But their fight for health does not end when they return home. Unfortunately, for many...
This VC built a lab to make building biotech startups easier
Summary: "When you think of life sciences and biotech hubs in the U.S., where do you travel to in your mind? Boston? The Bay Area? Texas? Portal Innovations, a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is...
CES 2023: Smart Patch Makes Sure You Stay Hydrated
Summary: "Epicore Biosystems, a digital health company, unveiled their Connected Hydration sweat patch and mobile app at CES 2023. The wearable patch continuously measures sweat fluid and...
If you’re diabetic, don’t wait for your smartwatch to replace your needles
Summary: "Recently, Bloomberg ran a story that set the health tech sphere abuzz. Citing insider knowledge, it claimed Apple had reached a major milestone in noninvasive blood glucose monitoring that...
As health goes digital in India, where does privacy stand?
Summary: "New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences is renowned for the quality and popularity of its medical services. Interestingly, the hospital has also served as an important testbed...
Digital tools make physical exercise programs more effective and easier to stick with, find researchers
Summary: "Physical exercise programs tend to be more effective and easier to stick with when they have been prescribed via mobile digital devices rather than in person or without technological...
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Summary: "Jay Barth became the chief medical officer of Ascidian Therapeutics, a company focused on treating diseases by rewriting RNA. He has previously held executive roles at Merck, Amicus...
Revolutionising Healthcare Access For Women In India Through Cutting-Edge Technology
Summary: "Access to healthcare in India has improved over the years, but it remains a distant dream for most – especially women. According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), as many as 60...
Healthcare App Development: How to Create a Top-Notch App?
Summary: "Digital technologies are now available in all areas of our daily lives. Unfortunately, healthcare is also just a little behind. Recent developments in healthcare application development...
How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes
Summary: "Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges, and a nurse staffing shortage poses one of the biggest threats to care delivery." "More than 100,000 nurses exited the U.S....
3 Tech Trends That Will Outlast the Downturn
Summary: "Pundits are slinging a lot of doom and gloom these days, predicting that this will be a lean year for startups, marked by limited funding and a new obsession with profitability. They're...
Gold Coast Hospital to try out HeraMED’s remote pregnancy monitoring platform
Summary: "Queensland-based Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service will be trying out a remote pregnancy monitoring platform by ASX-listed HeraMED." "The organisations recently signed a memorandum of...
First wearable health sensor for monitoring muscle atrophy
Summary: "A condition involving the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, muscle atrophy can happen for a variety of reasons, but is typically a side effect of degenerative disease, aging or...
Cosmos Health Acquires Telemedicine Platform ZipDoctor – M&A
Summary: "Cosmos Health Inc., a global healthcare group with proprietary lines of nutraceuticals and distributor of pharmaceuticals, branded generics, OTC medications and medical devices, announced...
The Role of Digital Health in Healthcare System Optimization and Efficiency
Summary: "The impact of digital health technologies on healthcare system efficiency is far-reaching. By enabling better access to data and insights, digital health technologies are helping...
The Future of Preventive Healthcare: The Role of Wearables
Summary: "The impact of wearables on healthcare is profound and has wide-ranging consequences, including a rapid transformation of preventive care, patient adherence, engagement, and...
New Study Uses Sensors to Monitor Parkinson’s Patients
Summary: "BlueRock Therapeutics recently announced collaborative partnerships with Rune Labs and Emerald Innovations in BlueRock’s noninterventional clinical study of the effects of Parkinson’s...
Digital therapeutics startup Mindset Health scores $12M in Series A funding
Summary: "Launched in 2018, the company develops a range of hypnosis-based DTx apps which address health conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, menopause, and most recently, smoking cessation....
From penicillin to digital health: the impact of social media on medicine
Summary: "In a growing social media world population, one cannot ignore the technological invasion of the medical world. From the discovery of penicillin to electronic medical records and the...
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator opens for applications
Summary: "DigitalHealth.London has opened applications to its flagship Accelerator programme, which aims to speed up the adoption of technology within London’s NHS to relieve pressure on services...
Bionic Health raises $3M for its AI health clinic using GPT-4 and other ML models to design better preventative care
Summary: "The startup has raised $3 million in seed funding to create what it describes as an “AI health clinic”: people can get bloodwork and other diagnostics carried out and monitored, and then...
Researchers Developed First Smart Wearable Device to Avoid Vocal Fatigue
Summary: "Researchers from Northwestern University have developed the first smart wearable device to continuously track how much people use their voices to prevent vocal fatigue and potential...
South Korean Health Ministry calls to make telemedicine permanent
Summary: "According to the report, over 25,000 medical institutions provided remote treatment to 13.79 million people from February 2020 to January 2023. Of the 36.61 million treatments administered...
Digital Health: Opportunities and Challenges in India
Summary: "A broad, interdisciplinary notion called “digital health” or “digital healthcare” comprises ideas from the point where technology and healthcare meet. Software, technology, and services...
Digital Health: benefit and concerns
Summary: "Digital health has the potential to transform the way healthcare is delivered by enabling remote monitoring, improving patient outcomes, increasing efficiency, and reducing costs. For...
Improve your Well-being with Healthable Hearing Tech
Summary: "There has and always will be a relentless wave of diet and fitness trends that promise the health and wellness boost most crave in this fast-paced world. But what about hearing aids and...
UnitedHealthcare Launches Rewards Program With Wearable Devices
Summary: "By simply completing a health survey or meeting step goals, some UnitedHealthcare members can now receive rewards of up to $1,000 per year. On Wednesday, the payer unveiled its new rewards...
AI Doesn’t Exist in Medtech, It’s Just Machine Learning
Summary: "Don't call it aritificial intelligence - it's just machine learning. That's what Galen Robotics, co-founder and CTO, Dave Saunders is quick to point out whenever the initials AI come up....
New double lung transplant technique is successful in two late-stage cancer patients
Summary: "A novel treatment for certain late-stage lung cancers has succeeded in the first two patients to undergo the operation." "Using knowledge learned during the Covid pandemic, surgeons at...
Digital Health ID Card: How to Apply Online, Check Registration and Benefits
Summary: "How we do business and transact in India has been completely changed by digitization. Technology and digitization have touched every industry, including healthcare. To digitize the...
The Future of Heart Health – Continuous Heart Monitoring
Summary: "Heart health issues are intermittent and often asymptomatic, leaving issues undetected with individuals unaware of any underlying problem. This presents itself in places where we least...
Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action
Summary: "Healthcare has been pegged as a prime candidate for more AI applications — both to aid in clinical work and to lighten some of the more time-consuming administrative burdens that come...
This tiny chip is being used to develop a tooth-mounted sensor that can read your spit
Summary: "Miniaturizing tech is a perpetual challenge for wearable makers. The smaller the device, the better it is for wearability. The thing is, that usually comes at the expense of battery life....
We Used Midjourney To Design Digital Health Technologies
Summary: "Text-to-image AI generators like Midjourney, DALL-E or Stable Diffusion became popular and widely used in the past year. Although these algorithms have their limitations, feeding them with...
Telehealth use for behavioral health increases 45X since pandemic onset and more digital health briefs
Summary: "Telehealth use for behavioral health services has increased 45 times since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic across all care settings and provider types, according to a report by...
El servicio vasco de salud adjudica el suministro de eyetracking a Irisbond por un millón de euros
Summary: "Licitación concedida. El servicio vasco de salud anunció la concesión de los suministros de dispositivos oculares a Irisbond por un millón de euros, compañía vasca que se encarga de...
The Role of Wearable Technology in Healthcare: Tracking Health and Wellness in Real-Time
Summary: "Wearable technology is a phrase that describes devices and apps that you wear, rather than carry. This category of products has been around for decades, but it didn’t start to gain...
How Technology Is Changing Preventative Healthcare and Self-Diagnosis
Summary: "Not too long ago, the only way to get medical advice was to schedule an appointment with a doctor. Seriously! And before that, you had to consult a dusty medical encyclopedia. Thankfully,...
Spotting innovation in digital health – and can you patent it?
Summary: "Intellectual Property (IP) can add significant value to your business, providing a competitive edge over the market, as well as demonstrating sound business planning to help secure...
Using Telehealth to Serve Disparate Populations
Summary: "Armando Ruiz is like many who walk through the doors of Exalta Health: an elderly man greeted in his native Spanish by a bilingual marquee outside the small purple clinic on Grand Rapids’...
How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association
Summary: "Most consumers are bullish on the benefits that digital health technologies can play in their health. Most health care practitioners are also positive about the potential of digital health...
The Drive to Adopt Digital Therapeutics: Where do we Stand?
Summary: "The healthcare industry is continuing to evolve with technological innovations that can provide clinicians with a more holistic view of their patient’s health and which we ultimately...
Governments Should Adopt Startups Way of Thinking When Developing Services
Summary: "Ever tried to fill in your tax form or submit files to government offices? Some countries are highly digitized and made the leapfrog of digital transformation, like Sweden, Estonia, or...
Preventing Workplace Injuries with Wearable Technology: The Future of Workers’ Compensation
Summary: "Welcome to the future of workers’ compensation! We are living in an age where wearable technology is revolutionizing workplace safety. This innovative technology has the potential to...
The Market Demand for Data-Driven Tech Solutions in Healthcare
Summary: "The market demand for data-driven technology solutions in healthcare is on the rise. Today, one-third of the world’s data is generated by the healthcare industry. This data is often...
La mujer lidera el crecimiento de empleo en salud, con 400.000 profesionales más en diez años
Summary: "El porcentaje de mujeres ocupadas en el sector de actividades sanitarias y de servicios sociales en España copa el 78,4% sobre el total, con 1,4 millones de trabajadoras. En el caso de los...
Could your Fitbit data be used to deny you health insurance?
Summary: "Wearing a fitness tracking device could earn you cash from your health insurance company. At first, this sounds lucrative for the people who participate, and good for the companies, who...
14 Types of Medical Software You Really Need
Summary: "The healthcare industry has always been faced with the far-reaching challenge to find the perfect balance between adhering to distinct patient-facing workflows and complying with...
How our Desire for ‘Screen-ready Skin’ is Driving Dermatology’s Digital Transformation
Summary: "We might not be living in the metaverse quite yet, but Brits are spending more time in online spaces than ever before. 73% of us use social media daily, we each spend over 3 hours a week...
Phone app tracks cough frequency in tuberculosis trial, opening up monitoring opportunity
Summary: "Researchers have used a smartphone app to assess cough frequency in people with tuberculosis (TB) and other respiratory diseases, suggesting the technology can enable remote monitoring."...
Varjo, machineMD partner to detect brain disorders using VR
Summary: "In an exclusive interview, Varjo and machineMD discuss their partnership to develop Neos, a VR-powered eye-tracking tool that aims to help providers detect brain disorders." "Extended...
Apple Patent reveals their work on new Health & Specialty Sensors for Apple Watch & Band, Smartglasses, AirPods, iDevices and more
Summary: "On Thursday, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to improving sensitivity, functionality, accuracy, speed of sensor operations and...
ATA2023: The ‘Job Is Not Done’ with Making Telehealth an Integral Part of Care Delivery
Summary: "As technology and medical processes advanced in the 1990s, modern telemedicine entered a new era, and with that, the American Telemedicine Association emerged as a leading voice...
Why ChatGPT In Healthcare Could Be a Huge Liability, Per One AI Expert
Summary: "ChatGPT refers to an AI model that analyzes language to answer questions and produce in-depth written content that humans can easily understand. The technology, which was developed by...
CES 2023: Wireless Sensors Use Radar to Monitor Patients
Summary: "Tellus is a virtual patient-monitoring platform designed for assisted living and managed care facilities. This platform delivers health-related information and real-time alarms, enhancing...
Digital tech trends shaping women’s health
Summary: "International Women’s Day is a great reminder to pause, reflect and focus on the development in women’s health, technologies, and future improvements. This year, for International Women’s...
La presencia de la mujer asciende al 32% en los consejos de las ‘farma’ españolas
Summary: "El porcentaje de mujeres en los máximos órganos de decisión de Grifols, Almirall, Faes Farma, Pharma Mar, Rovi, Reig Jofre se eleva del 26% registrado en 2022. Ninguno de los consejos está...
ADHD startups are exploding, and now there’s even a dedicated browser
Summary: "Was it the pandemic? Did everyone follow too many ADHD TikTokers? Have smartphones fried our brains? Whatever the case, there is a boom in ADHD tech solutions, from online drug deliveries...
9 Digital Health Leaders talking about Artificial Intelligence
Summary: "The healthcare industry is going through a lot of changes. Artificial intelligence is one of the most important ones." "Artificial intelligence can be used in many different ways, but it’s...
Guide To Developing Healthcare Software in 2023
Summary: "Consumers now expect healthcare services to be accessible at the time and manner most convenient and safe for t hem. Enterprises and startups recognize this and have accelerated their...
FDA Launches New Digital Health Center of Excellence
Summary: "FDA Launches New Digital Health Center of Excellence- Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a center of excellence dedicated to encouraging digital health...
How to Address Security Issues in IoT Devices – Cybersecurity
Summary: "The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed the healthcare industry, allowing for the collection and analysis of vast amounts of data to improve patient outcomes." "According to a report...
After 25 years of AI health tech research, computers are slowly beginning to listen to patients
Summary: "In a new paper published in The Lancet Digital Health along with an associated opinion piece, experts from the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham have looked at...
Supercapacitor Patch Could Solve Power Problem for Wearables
Summary: "One of the key challenges that researchers have faced with making user-friendly and viable wearables technology is how to eliminate the need for wires or other bulky power sources. Now...
Del hospital digital a un ‘chatbot’: el sector asegurador hace equilibrios entre lo manido y lo innovador
Summary: "El sector de los seguros ha sido considerado, junto con la banca, uno de los grandes caladeros de innovación. No en vano, se trata de un segmento muy crítico, regulado e históricamente...
LAS FARMACÉUTICAS APUESTAN POR COLABORAR PARA INNOVAR
Summary: "En el 4 Years From Now (4YFN), la innovación se respira en cualquier rincón. Con emprendedores y congresistas por todas partes, el salón de emprendimiento del Mobile World Congress (MWC)...
How Wearable Technology Impacts Healthcare
Summary: "We’re all familiar with wearable devices today, whether we use them or not. From fitness trackers to smartwatches and beyond, there are all sorts of products and brands operating in this...
How life sciences benefits from broader healthcare transformation
Summary: "Life sciences and healthcare are often considered adjacent but not adjoined worlds: Biopharma enables everyday care, while unmet needs at bedside can, in turn, inform new research." "But...
Wearable fitness trackers could interfere with cardiac devices, study finds
Summary: "Wearable fitness and wellness trackers could interfere with some implanted cardiac devices such as pacemakers, according to a study." "Devices such as smartwatches, smart rings and smart...
Stuck in translation: Stakeholder perspectives on impediments to responsible digital health
Summary: "Spurred by recent advances in machine learning and electronic hardware, digital health promises to profoundly transform medicine. At the same time, however, it raises conspicuous ethical...
Madrid invertirá 39 millones de euros en teleasistencia digital
Summary: "La adjudicación de estos equipos digitales se dará en tres fases. La primera inversión asciende a 13 millones de euros y el Gobierno autonómico tiene previsto que la implantación de los...
Survey: 80% of consumers have used telemedicine
Summary: "Eighty percent of all respondents have used telemedicine within their lifetime and it's now the preferred channel for receiving prescriptions and care for minor illnesses, according to...
mWell earns best innovation award at Mobile World Congress
Summary: "Metro Pacific Investments Corporation’s (MPIC) mWell gains its spot as among the best players in the digital world as it bags the highly- coveted 2023 Global Mobile Awards (GLOMO) Best...
Digital health tools propel chronic condition management to a new age of care
Summary: "Chronic conditions are a challenge to manage within the confines of the current episodic care model, where a patient is seen for 15 minutes in an office visit a few times a year. Effective...
Consumers Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visits While Traveling
Summary: "New KeyCare survey finds nearly 7 in 10 (68%) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their...
Imperial College Healthcare launches Digital Collaboration Space
Summary: "Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has launched a Digital Collaboration Space within its Paddington Life Sciences development to boost health data-enabled research." "Located in...
Apple Hardware Will Change The Face of Consumer Healthcare
Summary: "Undoubtedly, Apple has made its mark on the world. More than 2.2 billion iPhones have been sold to date, upending the entire smartphone market. The company not only created a world-class...
Researchers use artificial intelligence to predict cardiovascular disease
Summary: "Researchers may be able to predict cardiovascular disease -- such as arterial fibrillation and heart failure -- in patients by using artificial intelligence (AI) to examine the genes in...
El kit que abre la realidad virtual y la digitalización al tratamiento del ojo vago y otras patologías oftalmológicas
Summary: "Mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas es el fin último de la tecnología. En ocasiones, la dificultad está en encontrar ese punto de vista, esa necesidad en la que nadie ha reparado...
Treating rare diseases: How digital technologies can drive innovation
Summary: "Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) affects fewer than one in 6,000 newborn males every year.1 This rare genetic disorder is characterized by a progressive muscle breakdown, starting with...
How Can Digital Health Help In Improving Women’s Health?
Summary: "Digital health encompasses many technologies, such as mobile health apps, wearable devices, telemedicine, and electronic health records, that can improve patient care and outcomes. This...
As Tech Valuations Shrink, Healthcare Startups Can Get Even Stronger
Summary: "As the tech industry’s valuations shrink, healthcare startups can take several steps to make it through the storm. Digital health startups have a particular opportunity to open up new...
How can the metaverse improve public health?
Summary: "The metaverse is a technological revolution in the field of virtual reality, with potential benefits to public health research. A new article proposes several new ways in which the...
Study: Deidentifying wearable data may not be enough to protect privacy
Summary: "Deidentifying data from wearable devices may not be enough to protect users' privacy, according to a review of studies published in the Lancet Digital Health." "The analysis focused on...
Access and reimbursement pathways for digital health solutions and in vitro diagnostic devices: Current scenario and challenges
Summary: "Digital therapeutics (DTx) are innovative solutions that use meaningful data to provide evidence-based decisions for the prevention, treatment, and management of diseases. Particular...
AIIMS forges digital health partnership with IIIT-Delhi
Summary: "AIIMS and IIIT-Delhi had previously worked on some medical AI projects, including the development of predictive models for sepsis, gastrointestinal tuberculosis, and antimicrobial...
China Medical University Hospital ranks global third in 2022 HIMSS Digital Health Indicator
Summary: "China Medical University Hospital in Taichung, Taiwan has proven its capability in digital health by scoring well above the global average in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator."...
How New Technologies Are Transforming The Way We Do Business: A Look At Digital Health, Robotics, and More
Summary: SHARE TWEET SHARE EMAIL"In the digital age, businesses must constantly be changing to keep up with the rapid development of new technologies. This article takes a look at how digital...
UnitedHealthcare Launches Rewards Program With Wearable Devices
Summary: "By simply completing a health survey or meeting step goals, some UnitedHealthcare members can now receive rewards of up to $1,000 per year. On Wednesday, the payer unveiled its new rewards...
Hito en Apple frente a la diabetes: su reloj inteligente podrá detectar la glucosa en sangre
Summary: "Según los datos de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) una de cada 11 personas en el mundo padece diabetes, un trastorno que se ha multiplicado por cuatro en los últimos años y...
El indicador digital que brinda al médico una medida objetiva de la evolución de pacientes neuromusculares severos
Summary: "Decía el médico griego Hipócrates de Cos hace 2.400 años que "la mejor medicina para el hombre es caminar". Mucho ha evolucionado la ciencia y la investigación desde que el considerado...
Dawn Health, Novartis partner to develop chronic condition management tools
Summary: "Copenhagen-based digital health company Dawn Health announced a strategic partnership with pharma giant Novartis to develop a chronic condition management platform." "Under the...
Digital Health Interventions for Adult Patients With Cancer Evaluated in Randomized Controlled Trials: Scoping Review
Summary: "Digital care has become an essential component of health care. Interventions for patients with cancer need to be effective and safe, and digital health interventions must adhere to the...
Focus on Digital Nursing innovation at Digital Health Rewired 2023
Summary: "The Digital Nursing Summit will showcase some of the best leaders, teams, and initiatives from across the NHS." "Highlights of the programme include Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, chief...
Exploring the Possibilities and Barriers of Wearable Technology in Healthcare
Summary: "Wearable tech is becoming increasingly popular as the potential benefits of this technology are becoming more evident. However, there are also challenges and barriers that need to be...
Scientists Are Testing Virtual Reality For Pain Relief
Summary: "Earlier this month, scientists published a ground-breaking study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research discussing the efficacy of virtual reality (VR) as a means for pain relief."...
Baptist Memorial Health Care to expand inpatient monitoring with AI
Summary: "The collaboration utilizes LookDeep's Clinical Action Platform, built on modern SOC2 Type II audited software, to provide Baptist Memorial's nurses, therapists, doctors and others with a...
Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool
Summary: "University Hospitals' chatbot now helps manage capacity in EDs and urgent care centers while improving care for patients with chronic conditions." "Ultimately, the health system was...
6 Healthcare Examples Of Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality
Summary: "Lately, there has been a tendency in the tech world to adopt “new” realities in their midst. Meta has a branch dedicated to developing virtual reality (VR) hardware and software; earlier...
The Rise of Digital Native Startups in the Healthcare Industry
Summary: "In the past, startups emerged in a linear process. First, ideas were generated from within large established companies, and then later spun off into startup companies. Today, digital...
InnovationRx: Artificial Intelligence In Biopharma; Plus, Lingering Covid Symptoms
Summary: "The most common use of artificial intelligence in biopharmaceutical research and development over the past few years was drug discovery, according to a report out today from IQVIA. The...
How brain chips can change you
Summary: "Elon Musk wants to put a computer chip in your brain. Well, maybe not in your brain, but in the brain of some human somewhere." "Musk's neurotech startup, Neuralink, has been working...
Abingdon Health and Salignostics sign deal on saliva-based pregnancy test
Summary: "Salistick is a rapid saliva-based pregnancy test that offers women a new and improved user-experience, and high accuracy for early pregnancy detection. Salistick is based on Salignostics’...
Macmillan invests in Neutrocheck device for home-testing neutropenic sepsis
Summary: "Macmillan Cancer Support, the cancer charity, has invested in Neutrocheck – a portable device and accompanying app in development from 52 North Health – with the aim to help people with...
How the right infrastructure increases the resilience of your HealthTech devices
Summary: "When you deliver critical care through smart devices, they need to just work. But ensuring the performance of those devices when they’re in the hands of care providers or patients isn’t...
How Electronic Data Capture is Transforming the MedTech Industry
Summary: "Though MedTech is already among the fastest-evolving markets in the world, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t still benefit from a spark of innovation." "Electronic data capture (EDC) solutions...
COMBINING NEUROSCIENCE AND IOT IN HEALTHCARE
Summary: "The Internet of Things (IoT) and neuroscience are two rapidly advancing fields that are transforming the healthcare industry." "Combining these two fields has the potential to...
From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond
Summary: "Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no...
Testing A Wireless Wearable Glucose Sensor – FreeStyle Libre 2 Review
Summary: "I have tested over a hundred digital health devices and gadgets over the past 8 years. And by far the most problematic of all these has been the FreeStyle Libre wireless wearable glucose...
Moms’ and babies’ medical data predicts prematurity complications, Stanford Medicine-led study shows
Summary: "Stanford Medicine scientists and their colleagues have shown they can tap mothers’ and babies’ medical records to better predict newborn health risks." "By sifting through electronic...
El cuidado de mayores no intrusivo que salva la brecha digital: estos radares anticaídas funcionan ‘solos’
Summary: "Los sensores de IngeVital permiten a los cuidadores anticiparse a las caídas o problemas de salud gracias a su algoritmo predictivo del nivel de riesgo. Se instalan como parte del...
DarioHealth, Dexcom partner to use CGM data for chronic care
Summary: "DarioHealth is partnering with Dexcom to integrate the company's continuous glucose monitors into Dario's chronic condition management platform." "The collaboration will allow Dario's...
DiMe releases resources aimed at diversity in digital clinical trials
Summary: "The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and a suite of digital health and pharma players partnered to launch a toolkit aimed at improving diversity, equity and inclusion in clinical trials."...
EU cybersecurity measures on medtech – what you need to know
Summary: "Increasing digitisation and greater interconnection have seen a rising number of malicious cyber activities around the world. To respond to these increasing threats, the European...
Scientists develop five minute AI respiratory disease test
Summary: "These findings, published in peer-reviewed, scientific journal ACS Nano, demonstrate how machine learning can improve the efficiency, accuracy and time taken to identify different types of...
Robot startup Vicarious is latest medtech company to cut jobs
Summary: "Vicarious Surgical, which is preparing to make a 510(k) submission for a robotic system to rival Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci, said it plans to lay off 14% of its workforce in a bid to...
Digital Health Innovation: The True, Quantifiable Impact On The Industry and Patients
Summary: "Patients, health systems and CROs are embracing digital health, as indicated by the number of digital health apps, digital diagnostics, digital biomarkers, digital therapeutics and devices...
Medtech in the Metaverse
Summary: "What happens when technology becomes more advanced than the technologist? Christopher Lafayette, founder of Gatherverse.org, posed the question at the end of his keynote address at the...
Revolutionizing Healthcare: A Comprehensive Guide to Telemedicine and Digital Health Integration
Summary: "Telemedicine refers to the use of telecommunication and information technologies to provide healthcare services remotely. Digital health refers to the use of technology to improve health...
Latest Health Tech Trends For 2023 & Beyond
Summary: "As the epidemic enters its third year, healthcare workers throughout the world continue to endure crushing workloads and significant personnel shortages. If we do not rapidly reconsider...
Artificial intelligence in medical devices
Summary: "With all of the changes seen in the medical devices industry over the last couple of years, many have begun to wonder what 2023 holds for the industry. The Covid-19 pandemic significantly...
Why user needs should be at the heart of healthtech
Summary: "Digital solutions should never be imposed on patients or NHS staff. To be successful, learn from the people who will be using the system – and make sure their first experience of it is...
Unlocking the Future of Health—and Care—with AI
Summary: "Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first...
Digital Health Insurance Provider Angle Health Pulls in $58M
Summary: "The $58 million funding round was led by Portage and included participation from PruVen Capital, Wing Venture Capital and others. With the funding, Angle Health plans to expand into...
Researchers examine impact of gamification on the effectiveness of digital health interventions
Summary: "An adequate amount of sleep and physical activity helps alleviate several health conditions, such as obesity, depression, and cardiovascular disease. However, the recommended amount of...
Leveraging Tech to Achieve Health Goals
Summary: "Adults in the United States are focused on prioritizing their health and well-being in 2023. Around 57% of adults shared that the most important factors they are focusing on this year are...
Bayer partners with Huma to create online tool for assessing cardiovascular risk factors
Summary: "Huma is a digital health company that has developed a “hospital at home” platform to collect real-world data remotely and connect patients and clinical teams virtually. The company raised...
Blue Shield of California Adds Virta Health to Network for Diabetes Care
Summary: "Virta is available this month to all Blue Shield of California members enrolled in preferred provider organization plans for individual and family, fully insured, self funded and Medicare...
5 Key Trends in Women’s Health Technology for 2023 to Watch
Summary: "Women’s healthcare faces an uphill battle after centuries of being ignored. Yet, ironically enough, women currently share half of the consumerism market, hold power over 80% of household...
Broomx lleva su tecnología de salud mental a Japón y duplica ventas en 2022
Summary: "La compañía que desarrolla tecnología audiovisual inmersiva para tratamientos de salud mental busca expandir su plataforma al país nipón. Broomx cerró el último ejercicio con una...
Dubai: DHA to focus on healthcare startups, tech companies this year
Summary: "Dr Ibtesam Al Bastaki, Director of Investments and PPP (Public Private Partnership) at the DHA, highlighted that Dubai’s strategic location, future-outlook, diverse and growing population,...
El electrocardiograma del siglo XXI, con sello español: Corify Care comercializará este año su mapeo cardíaco sin cirugía
Summary: "Sorprende al ciudadano medio 'de a pie' -al menos a aquel que no es experto en medicina o cardiología- que, en la era de la tecnología, la ciencia y la digitalización, el...
The health benefits and business potential of digital therapeutics
Summary: "Around the world, the burden of chronic disease is increasing at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, most of these conditions are irreversible and need to be managed through lifelong medication...
Singapore General Hospital shifts to gamified VR nurse training
Summary: "The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology." "A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions...
Emm aims to upgrade periods with a smart menstrual cup
Summary: "What exactly is a smart menstrual cup? In Emm’s case, it’s a suite of products that center around a wearable device that kind of looks like a shuttlecock-shaped ketchup cup. The reusable...
The Impact Of Digital Health Technologies On The Future Of Medical Specialties In One Infographic
Summary: "Will digital assistants prescribe medication, will smart algorithms diagnose patients with malignant lesions based on CT scans while robot surgeons do the dirty work in the OR 20 years...
Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients’ and Therapists’ Perspectives on a Wearable Biocueing App (Sense-IT) as an Addition to Aggression Regulation Therapy: Qualitative Focus Group and Interview Study
Summary: "The aim of this study was to provide insight into the perspectives of both psychiatric outpatients and therapists in a forensic setting on the use and implementation of the Sense-IT...
5 Ways People Are Using Wearable Devices to Improve Their Health
Summary: "Wearable devices are big business these days. Whether you’re using an Apple Watch, a Fitbit, or another type of wearable, these little gadgets come packed full of features, apps, and other...
Metaverse Operating Room Simulates Surgery on Cleft Lip & Palate
Summary: "Smile Train and BioDigital launched the first-ever cleft surgery virtual reality (VR) platform experience at the IMSH Conference in Orlando, Florida." "The platform utilizes a “metaverse...
Which Digital Health Startups Are Most & Least Suited to Raise Capital in 2023?
Summary: "Last year’s digital health investment trends have left some startups feeling uneasy about their ability to raise capital in the new funding environment. Healthcare startups raised $3.4...
Valencell plans product launches for chronic disease
Summary: "The company’s first product candidate being showcased at CES is focused on helping people monitor and manage hypertension by combining an intuitive app with an innovative over-the-counter...
Digital health unicorn Innovaccer lays off 245 employees
Summary: "Innovaccer, a health data analytics startup that reached unicorn status in 2021, has laid off 245 workers, or about 15% of its workforce." "First reported by Inc42, the cuts mark the...
Teragnóstico: diagnóstico y terapia de precisión
Summary: "La teragnosis o teragnóstico es un concepto novedoso, que combina diagnóstico y terapia en medicina nuclear. Por ejemplo, para diagnóstico oncológico realizamos un PET-TC con un...
InnovationRx: A Mental Health Startup Unionizes; Plus, Covid Emergency To End In May
Summary: "Therapists at mental health startup Resilience Lab voted to unionize on Wednesday, one of the first successful unionization efforts at a digital health company. The move comes two months...
Technology in wound care: digital health, remote monitoring, and AI
Summary: "The pandemic catalysed the integration of modern tools like remote monitoring, telemedicine, and digital health in traditional disciplines of medicine." "Wound healing is often assessed...
What’s Trending in the World of Medtech Materials
Summary: "What are the latest trends in the medtech materials space? Robert Klein, principal materials engineer at AtriCure, is set to moderate a panel at IME West in Anaheim titled “Enabling...
AI drug developer Alto Neuroscience raises $25M and more digital health fundings
Summary: "Alto Neuroscience, which uses AI to identify biomarkers to develop targeted psychiatric medicine options, announced it had closed a $25 million equity investment with new investor Alpha...
8 Types of Wellness Tech You Can Buy Today to Improve Your Health
Summary: "A healthy mind means that you'll have a better shot at handling the stressful curveballs that life throws your way—changing jobs, dealing with relationship issues, or maybe just dealing...
What is Digital Health, and Why is it Important?
Summary: "A broad, multidisciplinary concept called “digital health” or “digital healthcare” includes ideas from the point where technology and healthcare converge. Digital health integrates...
Put a (smart) ring on it: Movano on why its health wearable will put women first
Summary: "Movano Health turned heads at CES with an ouroboros-esque smart ring designed for women." "In the crowded field of fitness wearables, where the mainstream heavy hitter of the Apple Watch...
Smart Glove May Lend a Helping Hand During Childbirth
Summary: "An inexpensive sensing glove may be able to lend a helping hand during labor and delivery in developing countries." "The glove is designed to transmit data on fetal position and force...
5 Things Every Smart Operating Room Should Prioritize – Surgery
Summary: "The healthcare industry is in the middle of deep digital transformation across every aspect of the patient journey. Technology has always been important in healthcare, but COVID-19 has...
A wearable ultrasound sensor provides real-time cardiac imaging
Summary: "In a recent article published in the journal Nature, a team of researchers described a wearable ultrasonic device that allows cardiac function to be assessed directly in real-time, with...
¿Iluminar el sistema nervioso durante una cirugía? Así funciona la última innovación en el campo de la salud
Summary: "El 25% de las cirugías en la cabeza y en la nuca acaban produciendo daños en los nervios faciales de los pacientes." "La cifra empeora cuando hablamos de operaciones de próstata: el daño...
Los implantes 3D a medida permiten la corrección del ‘pectus excavatum’ de forma poco invasiva
Summary: "El pectus excavatum es la deformidad de la caja torácica más frecuente, con una incidencia mayor entre el sexo masculino. Puede estar presente desde el nacimiento, sin embargo, en muchos...
AI application in pathology reveals novel insights in endometrial cancer diagnostics
Summary: "Research at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) Department of Pathology shows the power of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to endometrial carcinoma microscopy images. The...
Three barriers that can slow AI’s potential in pharma
Summary: "As we enter the new year, the latest developments in artificial intelligence hold the promise to transform almost every aspect of drug R&D. Our ability to access large datasets, rapid...
Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit
Summary: "Medications like dextromethorphan, used to treat coughs caused by cold and flu, could potentially be repurposed to help people quit smoking cigarettes, according to a new study....
Starling Medical’s new urine-testing device turns your toilet into a health tracker
Summary: "If you enjoy some good toilet technology, then I think “urine” for a treat. Starling Medical is poised to launch its at-home urine diagnostic patient-monitoring platform, dubbed...
Philips, Masimo expand remote patient monitoring partnership
Summary: "Medtech companies Philips and Masimo are expanding their patient monitoring partnership to include the latter's new W1 wearable." "The collaboration allows vital sign data from the W1...
Study: New VR sensory room reduces anxiety in people with intellectual disability
Summary: "A new VR programme with interactive sight, sound, and touch experiences has helped improve outcomes for adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism and intellectual...
Co-creation in a digital health living lab: A case study
Summary: "Co-creation in healthcare, especially in developing digital health solutions, has been widely identified as a fundamental principle for person-centered technologies that could accelerate...
Digital future: How is data transforming healthcare in Europe?
Summary: "The Covid-19 pandemic saw spectacular advances in vaccine technology, but it also highlighted the huge importance of digital healthcare. Exchanging and having access to clinical...
Huma CEO says UK risks falling behind on digital health
Summary: "The CEO of Huma Health, Dan Vahdat, has warned that the NHS risks falling behind countries including US, Germany and France on adoption of digital health unless it aligns funding." "Vahdat...
Effectiveness of mHealth on Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Patients Living With HIV: Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Summary: "The aim of this meta-analysis is to analyze the effectiveness of mHealth on adherence to antiretroviral therapy in patients living with HIV." "A total of 2163 participants in 8 studies...
US-Based Startup Spike Enters The UAE To Offer Healthcare Providers Better Access To Data From Wearable Tech
Summary: "The next time you strap an Apple Watch or a FitBit onto your wrist, consider this for a second: every statistic saved onto this tiny device -including your heart rate, your blood sugar...
10 Innovative Health Start-ups in Nigeria in 2023
Summary: "The Nigerian digital health startup industry has been steadily growing over the years. Whether it is mhealth or e-health, they have been numerous exciting digital health start-ups in...
Is AI-Assisted Lung Cancer Diagnosis Right For Your Hospital?
Summary: "Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with approximately 1.8 million people dying from this disease each year. Most patients are diagnosed after symptoms have...
Smart Patch Can Track Two Types of Heart Data
Summary: "Continuous heart health monitoring is infinitely more useful than the single readings typically generated during a visit to a doctor’s office. Continuous monitoring for longer durations...
Top 5 FDA considerations for medtech-enabled data platforms
Summary: "Medtech companies should have a team of FDA advisors at the ready to develop and implement pre- and post-market strategies, prevent and resolve pre- or post-market issues and guide...
Digital Health, Cancer Therapeutics Accelerators Add 29 Participants
Summary: "A recent announcement from the Texas Medical Center Innovation (TMCi) noted that various startups, researchers, and entrepreneurs will join the spring 2023 Accelerator for HealthTech...
Meet the telehealth company that’s treated 20,000 opioid addiction patients
Summary: "Josh has been an opioid addict for over a decade. The 39-year-old Floridian, who was happy to discuss his sobriety efforts on the condition that we chat online, got sober seven years ago...
22 Executive Digital Health Predictions to Watch in 2023
Summary: "From a digital health perspective, 2022 was a reset year for many and a serious reality check. We went from sky high growth to the sky is falling, and in 2023 I think this market...
Amazon launches a $5 monthly subscription for unlimited prescription medications
Summary: "Amazon is launching RxPass in the US, a new drug subscription exclusive to Prime members that charges users a $5 monthly fee to ship eligible prescription medications to their doorstep....
La telemedicina, la eterna promesa que choca con la falta de preparación y la reticencia de los propios pacientes
Summary: "La digitalización en el ámbito de la salud se ha convertido en una de las tendencias tecnológicas más relevantes de los últimos años, en parte por el impulso que ha ganado a partir de la...
THIS SEEMINGLY SIMPLE ARM PATCH LETS YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WATER TO DRINK AND WHEN
Summary: "It isn’t just our planet that’s mostly made up of water. Our bodies, too, have large quantities of water and require a regular intake of fluids to keep them functioning properly. We all...
AI-powered pop up clinic launched to detect skin cancer in South Australia
Summary: "Health charity Skin Check Champions, the University of South Australia, and The Hospital Research Foundation have teamed up to launch a pop-up clinic that uses AI to diagnose skin cancer."...
AI Mental Health Chatbot Predicts Disorders with 93% Accuracy
Summary: "London-headquartered digital health startup, Limbic, has announced that its psychological assessment tool, Limbic Access, has achieved Class IIa UKCA medical device certification – making...
AI’s Biggest Promise: The Democratization Of Precision Medicine
Summary: "While AI is making its mark across numerous industries, one of its most significant single impacts will be the democratization of precision (or personalized) medicine. AI will make it...
Big Techies: Healthcare Is Waiting With Open Arms
Summary: "Facing rising costs and widespread economic uncertainty, big tech companies continue laying off their skilled workforce in droves. From Meta to Twitter, Amazon to Stripe, and AirBnB to...
How to Improve Patient Care by Using Health Care Data
Summary: "Collecting and using health care data can help improve patient care. By understanding the use of health care data, you can develop better strategies for improving patient outcomes." "In...
Healthcare AI Transformation: 9 Executive Predictions to Watch in 2023
Summary: "Innovation areas to watch: One of the exciting areas of applied machine learning recently is so-called Generative Tech. Some say it’s the biggest change to the Internet since crypto was...
15 digital therapeutics startups to watch, according to investors
Summary: "It’s a good time to be a digital therapeutics startup. The sector is the fastest-growing healthtech segment, and the global market for startups offering digital and app-based treatment is...
The Rise of Wearable Technology in the Healthcare Sector
Summary: "As the healthcare sector seeks to use technology in order to consolidate data and improve patient care, wearable technology is flooding the market. From activity trackers to health...
Patient experience is key to harnessing the benefits of medical technology
Summary: "The Medical Technology Awareness Week reception at the House of Commons is a rare opportunity to bring together MPs and NHS leaders to discuss the ways in which medical technology can...
From digital health fandom to a Jimmy Fallon roast, these Philly startups found success at CES 2023
Summary: "The four-day networking and demo event is filled with the biggest names in tech, startups that would win big on “Shark Tank,” and some of the smartest people you’ll ever meet — such as the...
Mental Health Apps Won’t Get You Off the Couch
Summary: "The first time you open Headspace, one of the most popular mental wellness apps, you are greeted with the image of a blue sky—a metaphor for the unperturbed mind—and encouraged to take...
2023 predictions: Digital health leaders on what lies ahead
Summary: “Next year will continue to be challenging for the NHS, and in the digital space funding will remain constrained. Despite this, NHS board leaders will continue to look to digital ways of...
How technology will shape healthcare in 2023
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic kickstarted a rapid increase in adoption of healthcare technology, reshaping the bedrock of American medical operations and delivery. But as 2022 drew to a close,...
Wearable medical devices are a helpful way to track health: Dr. Nina Radcliff
Summary: "Arising trend in healthcare is wearable health technology, which includes wearable smart devices designed to be worn close to the skin, like watches, wristbands, activity trackers and...
Researchers use AI to triage patients with chest pain
Summary: "To the best of our knowledge, our deep learning AI model is the first to utilize chest X-rays to identify individuals among acute chest pain patients who need immediate medical attention,"...
Advancing digital transformation in healthcare
Summary: "Digital transformation in healthcare is well underway, driven by innovative systems and applications that give healthcare providers unparalleled access to sources of data. Patient care is...
Understanding Wearable Health Technology
Summary: "These days, technology has changed the way that we can learn from our bodies to live healthier lifestyles." “Wearable technology” — tools like smart watches, digital pedometers, and even...
Digital Maturity Is Six Steps Away. How Close Is Your Healthcare Organization?
Summary: "The healthcare industry dragged sorely behind other industries in digital maturity just three years ago, according to McKinsey. Then, the pandemic shifted priorities and accelerated the...
Peppy raises $45M for U.S. expansion and more digital health fundings
Summary: "Founded in 2018, Peppy offers gender-related health services through employers, including care for menopause, pregnancy, fertility, early parenthood and men's health concerns. The company...
CVS Invests $25M in Virtual Mental Health Clinic
Summary: "Investors understand that virtual behavioral health services are not only here to stay, but are crucial to addressing the nation’s mental health crisis. That’s why CVS Health on Monday...
Addressing modern challenges in digital health with sensors
Summary: "Digital technology is becoming increasingly important in modern healthcare. As society becomes faced with an abundance of new healthcare challenges, such as a rise in the number of chronic...
How Remote Patient Monitoring Devices can Improve Overall Health
Summary: "Health monitoring devices today can provide data about your sleep patterns, diet, and physical activity in real time. These remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices can also be used to...
Shortening Hospital Discharges: Technical and Workflow Solutions
Summary: "An earlier article, “Why Hospital Discharges Take So Long—And What We Can Do To Shorten Them,” explored the complexities of discharging and how hospitals are re-evaluating their workflows...
AI predicts lung cancer risk six years into the future using single CT scan: study
Summary: "LDCT is an effective lung-cancer screening tool and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends annual scans for people aged 50 years and older with a 20-pack-a-year history of...
Lightweight Belt Sensor Can Monitor Heart Failure in Real Time
Summary: "Researchers in Florida have developed more user-friendly way to monitor for signs of heart failure in real time that doesn't require a device to be implanted under a patient's skin....
What Does Digital Health Look Like?
Summary: "The New Year is famous for resolutions. Gym memberships spike, diet plans’ popularity rises and numerous self-improvement commitments abound. With Americans widely reported to spend more...
La empresa catalana Eodyne Systems crea un dispositivo de realidad virtual para reducir el tiempo de recuperación de pacientes en las UCI
Summary: "Una cámara con visión por computación detecta los movimientos de la persona hospitalizada ya través de una pantalla propone ejercicios lúdicos personalizados en un entorno de realidad...
After a big telehealth buy, Horizon Health Alliance now serves 70% of patients virtually
Summary: "The provider of mental health and substance use disorder care is now fully equipped, and boasts high patient satisfaction." "Horizon Health Alliance, based in Buffalo, New York, was...
What Does the Digital Patient Experience of Tomorrow Look Like?
Summary: "The digital revolution has the power to be transformative in many aspects of healthcare, not least at the patient interface. Spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, advances in technology...
6 Takeaways From the 41st J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Summary: "The 41st annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference concluded last week. After the pandemic prompted it to go virtual, it was back in person, smaller in size and more effective. Here are my...
4 Health Systems Invest in a Cybersecurity Startup as Threats Loom
Summary: "MemorialCare, Ballad Health, Cedars-Sinai and UNC REX Healthcare recently participated in Censinet’s $9 million funding round. The company’s flagship product is a cloud-based network that...
Rise of telehealth during pandemic boosted mental health treatment rates
Summary: "Prior studies have documented a rise in mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. Decreased social interactions and physical exercise, threats to...
The Potential and Application of Digital Health in Uganda.
Summary: "Digital health has revolutionized the healthcare industry in Uganda, providing a more efficient and cost-effective way of delivering healthcare services. With the growing adoption of...
90% of Americans Used Telehealth in The Past Year, Survey Finds
Summary: "Wearable electronic health and fitness devices are in strong demand with 26 percent of U.S. households owning one as of 2018, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). They...
Aseptika wins Innovate Smart Award for Smart Inhaler Tracker
Summary: "According to one study, people of all ages with asthma can halve the number of asthma attacks they suffer and become 15% better at taking their medication if they use a medical-grade App...
Walmart and Avanlee Care Launches Program to Aid Caregivers
Summary: "Avanlee Care, a digital health tool for today’s caregivers, has announced a partnership with Walmart to support the 65 million Americans currently caring for aging family members. As a...
India to focus on health emergency prevention, digital health during G20 Presidency
Summary: "New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday said that India is going to focus on health emergencies prevention, preparedness, and response through a ‘One Health’...
At-home predictive care and the shifting patient experience
Summary: "The combination of remote patient monitoring (RPM), virtual care and AI predictive care is changing the patient experience. Instead of the occasional clinic visit, people can interact with...
Digital Health Funding Reaches $15.3B in 2022 Across 572 Deals, Rock Health Reports
Summary: "In a downtrodden market climate, things don’t need to feel doom and gloom, according to Rock Health’s Annual 2022 digital health funding report. 2022 was a necessary reminder that...
Nowatch is a health-focused smartwatch without the watch part
Summary: "Your health is all you’ve got, and you can’t change what you can’t measure, so it’s little wonder that health trackers are everywhere. The problem with a lot of them, however, is that in...
Will Digital technologies propel the healthcare industry in 2023?, Health News, ET HealthWorld
Summary: "The Indian healthcare sector has seen huge adoption of digital technologies, much of which can be credited to the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of telehealth, wearable devices, health apps,...
Telehealth Brings Expert Sexual Assault Exams to Rural Patients
Summary: "Amanda Shelley was sitting in her dentist’s waiting room when she received a call from the police. A local teenage girl had been sexually assaulted and needed an exam." "Shelley, a nurse...
Madrid invierte 1,9 millones de euros en una nueva plataforma unificada de datos sanitarios
Summary: "La actividad dotará de plataforma operativa al primer nodo de la red de hospitales, de Atención Primaria y de Emergencias de la Comunidad de Madrid, que será el Hospital Universitario 12...
Docline cierra una ronda de tres millones de euros liderada por Seaf y EmergingTech Ventures
Summary: "La compañía pretende consolidarse en España, al tiempo que exportar su modelo de negocio a mercados internacionales emergentes en los que existan oportunidades de “ayudar a las empresas a...
Valencell announces fingertip blood pressure monitor at CES 2023
Summary: "Valencell, a company known for its work on health sensors found in various smartwatches and fitness trackers, has announced a new product for consumers at CES 2023. The yet to be named...
AI Can Now Help Your Smartphone Take Your Blood Pressure
Summary: "For some time now, smartphone apps have been used to measure blood pressure; this type of contactless blood pressure tracking has been something of a Holy Grail for cardiologists and the...
Could mixed reality boost blood donations?
Summary: "Mixed reality technology will aim to ease and entertain blood donors while they’re in the chair under a pilot program from Abbott and Blood Centers of America." "Blood donors will wear...
Connecticut Children’s Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support
Summary: "The network is bringing a virtual lactation consultation platform to thousands of Connecticut and Massachusetts newborns and families through a partnership with Nest Collaborative." "As...
5 Digital Health Trends To Watch In 2023
Summary: "The idea is adding new names of digital health influencers, so we are not going to repeat any name of last year list, however we do recommend to follow their work, have a look to the 25...
4 Trends to Watch in 2023, According to a Digital Substance Use Disorder Company
Summary: "There are several trends to watch out for in the substance use disorder space in 2023, according to CHESS Health's CEO Hans Morefield. These trends include rising addiction rates and...
Digital Health Innovation Continues to Press Forward at Warp Speed
Summary: "Trepidation. That one word describes the uncertain economic climate that gripped corporate and investment decision-makers. If we are to believe the headlines, wallets have tightened –...
Lanzadera apuesta por la salud y selecciona seis nuevas empresas
Summary: "Biotech&Nutrition Research ha elaborado Retiprotek, un nuevo nutracéutico que podría ayudar a retrasar la pérdida de visión en personas afectadas por retinosis pigmentaria. Por otro...
5 Digital Health Trends To Watch In 2023
Summary: "Digital health is a rapidly evolving field that encompasses the use of technology to improve and transform healthcare. In 2023, it is likely that digital health will play an increasingly...
5 tips for healthcare startups fundraising in a down market
Summary: "In fundraising, a founder’s greatest challenge is not selling any particular product or strategy. Instead, it is often unwinding and realigning the investor’s biases." "The competition is...
There Are Endless Mental Health Apps. How Do You Choose the Best Ones?
Summary: "Mental health apps skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, offering consumers support in a way that’s convenient and affordable. But there are between 10,000 and 20,000 mental health...
10 Key Medtech Themes for 2023
Summary: "We expect 2023 to be a pivotal year for the industry, as the accelerated acceptance of virtual care and demographic trends, such as an aging population, increasing chronic illnesses and...
Top 10 AI and machine learning stories of 2022
Summary: "Healthcare's comfort level with artificial intelligence and machine learning models – and skill at deploying them across myriad clinical, financial and operational use cases – continued to...
How digital transformation is enabling health equity
Summary: "We continue to live in a world where our race, geography, income, and positioning in the social strata decide our access to healthcare. Even though economic or social hurdles can be taken...
FDA Clears New Remote Patient Monitoring Wearable
Summary: "With the rise of chronic diseases, more and more health tech companies are developing vital sign monitors to improve chronic care. ChroniSense Medical Ltd, a portfolio company of Rainbow...
Digital Health’s 2022 Review: Top 10 most read news stories
Summary: "Although Covid-19 hasn’t dominated our lives and the news on anywhere near the same level as in the previous two years, a lot has still happened in the last 12 months, particularly in the...
Why is Digital Healthcare Essential?
Summary: "For us humans, our health comes before anything else. And neglecting digital technology in the healthcare sector can have drastic consequences on our physical and mental well-being....
Why the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake
Summary: "Seniors make up a growing portion of the population in the U.S., and many express a desire to stay in their homes as they get older." "Technology can help them thrive as they age, said...
THE WORLD FIRST’S HEALTH TRACKER THAT RUNS ON YOUR BODY’S ENERGY AND TRANSFORMS ANY WATCH INTO A SMARTWATCH UNVEILED AT CES 2023
Summary: "We’ve just ushered in 2023, and somehow (every single year without fail) the new year always brings along with it new fitness and health goals for us to achieve. On January 1st, we’re...
Three areas of health tech that could withstand a turbulent economy
Summary: "Market watchers say 2023 is setting up to be even tougher than 2022 for digital health executives and investors." "Health systems, which represent a major segment of digital health buyers,...
Cigna to increase venture spending on startups, digital technologies
Summary: "CIgna will direct another $450 million into its venture fund, Cigna Ventures, in a bid to increase spending on startup businesses and digital health, the company said this week." "In...
Knife that ‘smells tumours’ can detect womb cancer within seconds
Summary: "A revolutionary surgical knife that “smells tumours” can diagnose womb cancer within seconds, researchers have found in a breakthrough that could enable thousands of healthy women to get...
WHY TECHNOLOGY IS INTEGRAL TO DIABETES CARE MANAGEMENT
Summary: "The American Diabetes Association is emphasizing the value of healthcare technology in diabetes care management in its 2023 Standards of Care." "The revised standards, issued this week,...
Electronic Caregiver launches customizable, animated RPM
Summary: "Designed to provide affordable health monitoring and wellness support at home, the virtual assistant could help providers increase treatment adherence rates and improve health outcomes for...
New wearable device may enhance PTSD treatment experience: Study
Summary: "Researchers have developed a wristwatch-like wearable device to enhance the effects of prolonged exposure therapy, a common, evidence-based treatment for patients with post-traumatic...
Mercy Virtual Care Center: A deep dive into a virtual hospital
Summary: "Health system Mercy's groundbreaking facility makes robust use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring – and has the results to prove the model's success." "With nearly a decade of...
2023: The Year to Focus on Creating a Better Patient Experience
Summary: "The past three years have necessitated quick thinking and a willingness to adapt to change across every industry. But recent economic and geopolitical turmoil has sown fear and disruption,...
Healthcare AI – 2023 Health IT Predictions
Summary: "As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received...
Digital Health, Metaverse, and Web3 to Take Centre Stage at CES 2023
Summary: "Every year, tech professionals from around the world make the pilgrimage to Las Vegas to test the latest technology and to learn about the newest tech innovations impacting home,...
La startup catalana Onalabs abre una filial en Andorra para tratar salud y deporte
Summary: "Onalabs-Inno-Hub, start-up biotecnológica catalana que crea dispositivos y productos de monitorización de biomarcadores fisiológicos a través del sudor, ha creado la filial andorrana...
Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence in mental health
Summary: "The mental health and well-being of the WHO European Region has been hit hard by several large-scale public health emergencies over the past few years, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
UCHealth launches its first mobile AR experience for patients
Summary: "Patients and others can use their cell phones to interact with virtual dogs in the same UCHealth app that hosts its patient portal and other patient engagement features." "The use of...
An Apple Patent published this week describes the use of Machine Learning within a new Sleep Stage Tracking System
Summary: "Apple acquired Beddit, a Finnish technology company, back in 2017. Since that time, Apple has been filing patents to improve the Beddit system (01, 02, 03 & more). Beyond Bed...
Contributed: How digital health can improve cancer care delivery
Summary: "This is part one of a two-part series on innovation in cancer care delivery. In part one, we will discuss the complexity of end-to-end cancer care management, the unmet needs and how some...
How to show empathy through digital health apps
Summary: "Adoption of digital health tech has exploded during the pandemic, but the story is different for digital health apps." "Just 18 percent of patients used a digital health app in 2021, a...
THIS HANDSOME SMART RING KEEPS TABS ON YOUR HEALTH SO YOU CAN KEEP WEARING YOUR FAVORITE WATCH
Summary: "Keeping track of our health has become almost a necessity these days. Knowing not only the number of steps we’ve taken but also our heart’s rhythm or our blood oxygen level can mean the...
Virtual reality companies BehaVR and OxfordVR merge
Summary: "On Tuesday, VR behavioral health platform BehaVR and OxfordVR, a VR platform for severe mental health issues, announced their merger. The companies say their combination creates the...
When Innovation Isn’t Enough: Pharma’s Next Frontier
Summary: "It was at a medical conference a few years ago. Cuban felt like a great guy to approach with an idea for a healthcare startup. We were both investors in an automation software startup...
Ayo Wearable Shines a Light on Sleep Improvement
Summary: "We last wrote about light therapy in February 2022 when we covered Bright Health’s red light therapy foot health device for foot pain. The Bright Health device resembles a body weight...
Japan’s health tech Ubie wants to fuel its US expansion with $19M Series C extension
Summary: "Ubie, a Tokyo-based startup providing an AI-powered symptom checker app and hospital SaaS products, has closed a $19 million extension to its previous Series C round. This brings the...
The Potential Role of Digital Health in Obesity Care
Summary: "Obesity is a complex, multi-factorial, chronic condition which increases the risk of a wide range of diseases including type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease and certain...
Mission (Im)possible: Overcoming the Status Quo In Health Coverage to Offer More Personalization
Summary: "Remaining at or near the top of employers’ and consumers’ choices when it comes to health coverage will require insurers to make large investments in infrastructure, processes and people...
Inside One Company’s Approach to Improving Medicaid Members’ Outcomes and Patient Experience
Summary: "This summer, Adventist Health began a three-year partnership with Emcara Health, a primary care provider group that deploys community health workers into the places people live. Five...
Sonde Health Secures $19.25M for Voice-Based Health Monitoring
Summary: "Sonde Health, a Boston, MA-based health technology company committed to bringing accessible health monitoring to everyone raises $19.25 million in a Series B investment round led by...
Virtual reality helps reduce patient anxiety and need for sedatives during hand surgery
Summary: "As an anesthesiologist, Adeel Faruki, MD, MBA, works with patients to manage not just pain, but also anxiety. It can be a particular concern for patients receiving a nerve block, rather...
Digital diabetes management: apps and tools for diabetic care
Summary: "Advances in healthcare technology and IT have made chronic illness management easier and more convenient for people with conditions like diabetes. Now, your phone can give you access to...
Novant Health, Movano partner to beta test smart rings
Summary: "Winston-Salem, N.C. - based Novant Health is partnering with Movano Health to beta test its smart rings with the health system's employees." "As part of the beta, 30 Novant workers will...
Apple Invents a Smart Ring that that could sense a user’s health conditions, such as heart rate, blood oxygen, blood pressure & more
Summary: "On Thursday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a wearable self-mixing interferometry (SMI) ring that could be used to sense...
Social Determinants of Digital Health Adoption: Pilot Cross-sectional Survey
Summary: "Interest in and funding for digital health interventions have rapidly grown in recent years. Despite the increasing familiarity with mobile health from regulatory bodies, providers, and...
Komodo Health lays off 9% of its workforce
Summary: "Health data startup Komodo Health has laid off 9% of its staff as part of a larger restructuring of its business." "The COVID-19 pandemic created opportunities for the analytics company,...
Asynchronous Telemedicine Is Coming And Here Is Why It’s The Future Of Remote Care
Summary: "Asynchronous telemedicine is one of those terms we will need to get used to in the coming years. Although it may sound alien, chances are you have been using some form of it for a while."...
Companion robot ElliQ can ask users about their childhood to create a digital ‘memoir’
Summary: "The bot is designed as a companion for older adults, connecting them to family members and reminding them about health goals. A new 2.0 version is available for anyone to buy." "ElliQ...
THIS WEARABLE CAN REDUCE PAIN, BOOST BLOOD CIRCULATION, AND HEAL TISSUES JUST BY USING LED AND LASER LIGHT THERAPY
Summary: "Your smartwatch can tell when you’re tired, when you’re inactive, or even when you’re suffering a panic or heart attack, but there isn’t much it can do to help ameliorate or fix the...
OPPO OHEALTH H1 IS A PEBBLE-SHAPED DEVICE THAT KEEPS TABS ON YOUR FAMILY’S HEALTH
Summary: "Although we should always be aware of our body’s condition, it wasn’t until recently that people became more acutely aware of the need to monitor our health on a regular basis. Regular...
Wearables, smart implants show promise for clinical use
Summary: "Although wearable technology has been used for research in orthopedics for several decades, its use for tracking patient outcomes has been in constant flux." “Several years ago our...
A Silicon Valley biotech just showed a simple blood test can detect a hidden and deadly type of cancer. But the results fell short of investors’ hopes.
Summary: "A new era in cancer screening could be starting soon." "Instead of having to undergo uncomfortable procedures like colonoscopies, it might be possible to detect cancer from a simple blood...
AI for medtech commercial growth: Five missteps to avoid
Summary: "The medtech industry is at a critical juncture. Digital solutions put in place during the lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic have evolved into clear customer engagement...
Driving data driven healthcare: Data is at the centre of medtech’s future
Summary: "The global spend on IoT applications in healthcare is forecast to grow to $260.75 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 19.8%. Supporting the wellbeing of 8 billion people worldwide creates a...
How Medtronic and Avail will accelerate stroke care innovation
Summary: "Medtronic Neurovascular and Avail Medsystems have signed an agreement to use Avail’s operating room consoles during stroke procedures, the leaders of both businesses told Medical Design...
Health Tech Innovation: How to Advance Data Security To Support Healthcare Accessibility
Summary: "As with most industries, healthcare should consider adopting a zero-trust approach. This security measure can help decrease an organization's attack surface, create accurate response...
78 Healthcare Technology Startups and Companies on the Forefront of Modern Medicine
Summary: "Healthcare startups have emerged to take advantage of that growing emphasis on technology, coming up with novel ways to treat and diagnose patients, providing more affordable care options...
Digital Therapeutics Help People With PTSD and Panic Disorder
Summary: "Heart palpitations. Shortness of breath. Dizziness and overwhelming waves of intense fear. These are some of the sensations that people with panic disorder face in their everyday lives,...
AXIM® Biotechnologies Develops Novel Dual IgE/MMP-9 Rapid Ophthalmological Diagnostic Test; Files Provisional Patent
Summary: "AXIM Biotechnologies, Inc. (OTCQB: AXIM) (“AXIM Biotech,” “AXIM” or “the Company”), an international healthcare diagnostic solutions development company, announced today that it has filed...
Four ways Biogen is tackling digital innovation in neurological disease
Summary: "Digital transformation in pharma is not a singular endeavour. It can mean everything from patient-facing disease management apps and wearables to background AI dramatically altering drug...
MIT researchers develop soft, robotic ventilator implant
Summary: "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a soft, robotic and implantable ventilator that augments the diaphragm’s natural contractions." "For many people,...
Emotion AI: Why It’s The Future Of Digital Health
Summary: "Have you ever heard of emotion artificial intelligence (AI)? Emotion AI, or affective AI, is a field of computer science that helps machines gain an understanding of human emotions. The...
Health Hero: Web3 Health Platform for Employers and Payers
Summary: "Health Hero is a web3 health engagement company that delivers free healthcare and healthy food to users for staying healthy. While tapping into an emerging $1 trillion+ web3 healthcare...
The Future of Healthcare & How We Get There
Summary: "What kinds of possibilities exist in the future for healthcare? How can medical devices reach across different fields of medicine and provide a holistic patient experience in collaboration...
La startup que identifica los problemas de aprendizaje de los estudiantes para poner solución a tiempo
Summary: "Stefan Bauer estuvo a punto de dejar el instituto porque no se le daban bien los estudios: algo fallaba en él. Unos años después, lograba graduarse en la prestigiosa universidad de Yale....
The HealthTech 250 is Galen Growth’s selection of the 250 most promising early-stage Digital Health ventures across the globe in 2022
Summary: "Since 2017, Galen Growth has tracked and reported on the Digital Health innovation across the globe. HealthTech Alpha’s unmatched data, intel and insights allow us to uniquely assess,...
AI and AR make mobile phones a lifesaver for new mothers
Summary: "Artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and real-time computer vision are being used to provide new mothers in Rwanda with medical support""Doctors and researchers from MIT,...
Digital Transformation: From Theory to Application
Summary: "It seems as though everyone is talking about digital transformation as of late. Talking about the different ways and areas that it can be helpful in the world of healthcare. All of that...
Special Report: Interoperability
Summary: "The conversation on interoperability has shifted. It is no longer discussed as a technology problem, but rather as a complex change that depends upon relationships and culture. Jennifer...
GE Healthcare teams up with augmented reality company MediView XR
Summary: "GE Heathcare and MediView XR, a med-tech company that leverages augmented reality, announced their collaboration to co-develop the OmnifyXR Interventional Suite System. It will combine...
Gene Pathway Analysis In Action 3×4 DNA Test Review
Summary: "In the past couple of years, I have taken at least 10 genetic tests, including this latest DNA test from 3×4 Genetics. This may seem excessive, but I have my reasons. I graduated from...
Wearable Technology in Healthcare: What are the Benefits for Patients, Hospitals and Caregivers?
Summary: "Today I’m going to talk about wearable technology in healthcare. Wearable technology has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by making it easier for patients, hospital employees and...
The Four Drivers of Success in the Patient-Oriented Digital Health Solutions Market
Summary: "Patient-oriented digital health solution providers seem to have finally found the drivers of success for their digital offerings designed around the various needs of patients. A...
Global digital health course launched for healthcare professionals
Summary: "The Certified Digital Health Professional (CDHP) Course will be a year-long, completely online course specifically designed for healthcare and management professionals. Digital Health...
Venture Capital Firms Are Partnering With Healthcare Organizations To Improve Digital Health
Summary: "Venture capital (VC) firms are increasingly playing a role in all aspects of healthcare. This is a growing trend globally, as healthcare organizations are eager for the resources,...
Simple Tracker Data Might Have Clinical Medical Value
Summary: "The line between wearable activity trackers and clinical-grade health monitors seems to be getting blurrier by the day. A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University shows that...
Digital Health Paradox: International Policy Perspectives to Address Increased Health Inequalities for People Living With Disabilities
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the uptake of digital health worldwide and highlighted many benefits of these innovations. However, it also stressed the magnitude of inequalities...
Optum Labs funds opening of digital health research center at Cornell
Summary: "Optum Labs is providing funding in 2022-'23, which will drive research in precision behavioral health, among other areas of focus." "Optum Labs, the research and development arm of...
CardioWise wins health tech award
Summary: "Fayetteville-based digital healthcare company CardioWise was named a rising star in a health technology awards program hosted by an affiliate of the University of California." "San...
Asia’s healthcare future revolves around patient-centric ecosystems
Summary: "The increasing use of digital healthcare will soon be driven through evolving consumer-centric digital ecosystems. But what does an emerging ecosystem within and across Asia look like?"...
University of Missouri researchers design new heart health wearable
Summary: "Using a $2.6 million grant from NIH, researchers at the MU College of Engineering are designing a breathable material with antimicrobial properties for use with a wearable heart monitor"...
G20 Leaders Pledge to Require Global “Digital Health Certificate” Vaccine Passport
Summary: "Twenty leaders of countries considered to be the world’s largest economies gathered at a meeting in Bali, Indonesia on Nov. 14-15, 2022 to discuss ways to “Recover Together, Recover...
The Future of Wearable Devices and Technology in Healthcare
Summary: "Wearables are growing in popularity and enabling people to monitor their health 24/7. In 2022 alone, over 320 million wearable health devices are forecasted to ship worldwide and grow to...
The Future of AI and Digital Health
Summary: "In a sense, Artificial Intelligence and digital health were made for each other. Digital health looks for digital solutions to promote the health of the body and the mind; AI attempts to...
This Health Startup Is Mapping The Vaginal Microbiome Because No Bothered To Before
Summary: "Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek want to close the gender gap in healthcare. And they’re talking about vaginas, in particular." "With their new company, Evvy, which launched earlier this...
The Digital Future Of Pathology
Summary: "Pathology is the motor that drives healthcare to understand diseases. Digital technologies could push the field into becoming more efficient and more scalable. They could transform the job...
‘Smart’ Bandage Monitors and Accelerates Wound Healing
Summary: "The wireless device incorporates electronics and an engineered hydrogel to monitor the healing process as well as speed up tissue closure and reduce infection via electrical stimulation."...
Why MedTech Needs to Catch Up In The Race To Go Digital
Summary: "Digital health is everywhere. It’s transforming healthcare for patients and providers with everything from telemedicine to continuous real-world data and AI-enhanced imaging analysis....
Global digital health leaders propose framework to enhance research using real-world data
Summary: "Routinely-collected health care data has the potential to improve the lives and well-being of patients across the world, through better understanding of disease, and research on existing...
Órganos impresos en 3D, biopsias virtuales y predicción de infartos: la tecnología sanitaria española que ya cura
Summary: "El sector registró el año pasado una facturación de 9.500 millones de euros y 29.000 empleos directos. Una industria en crecimiento a la que han contribuido empresas como Quibim, Idoven o...
Musk Proclaims Neuralink Could Start Human Trials in Six Months
Summary: "NeuraLink, Elon Musk’s venture into medical device industry, yesterday shared updates to its brain implant technology during a “show and tell” event, claiming that the device is about six...
La inteligencia artificial que lleva a la España vaciada los últimos avances en detección y terapias contra el cáncer
Summary: "Comitas y Keyzell implantan una solución que permite a los radiólogos detectar si un paciente posee masa tumoral con una precisión del 92% y ofrece el diagnostico en menos de un minuto."...
Baywater Healthcare treats over 7,000 patients with virtual ward service
Summary: "Baywater Healthcare has treated more than 7,300 patients with respiratory infections with its virtual wards service, helping to free up hospital bed capacity." "The company runs its...
Google Health inks first licensing agreement for mammography AI tech
Summary: "More than two million people are diagnosed with breast cancer globally each year, but a shortage of available specialists can place stress on screening systems, hampering access and...
Zoe, which went viral with its Covid-reporting app, raises $30M to track nutrition and health
Summary: "Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a popular — dare we say viral? — self-reporting Covid-19 app. Embraced...
Innovations in Eye Care: How Technology Is Transforming Ophthalmology
Summary: "AI software in ophthalmology holds great potential in helping physicians automate the diagnostic process, according to Dr. T.Y. Alvin Liu, assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Johns...
Sweetwater Medical reduces patients’ blood pressure and weight with AI and RPM
Summary: "Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweetwater has been perpetually short-staffed. The team always has seemed strapped for time, finding it challenging to monitor at-risk patients with...
MedTech Innovators: Tissium co-founder Maria Pereira on taking tech from bench to bedside
Summary: Maria Pereira, co-founder and chief innovation officer of Paris-based Tissium, was a PhD student in bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when a surgeon asked her lab...
How To Develop a Women’s Health Tracking Mobile App – A Detailed Guide
Summary: "Is Femtech the next new thing in healthcare? Femtech has been around for some time in the mHealth, or healthcare, industry." "Are you familiar with the term “FemTech”? Well, we will...
The impact of lean manufacturing methods on drug delivery devices
Summary: "The number of people who live with diabetes is on the rise. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that one in eleven people are affected by the disease. This makes the...
Healthcare Organizations Are Finding Novel Uses For Virtual Health Technology
Summary: "The virtual health revolution has been prevalent over the last few years, especially fueled by generation-shifting events such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever before,...
Exited telehealth founder launches €100m healthtech VC fund
Summary: "It’s a sign the sector is maturing — even though investment in European healthtechs is down 42% this year compared with the frothy days of 2021, according to Dealroom. But that drop is...
Healthcare may be a recession-proof field, but healthtech is not
Summary: "In 2021, at the height of the Great Resignation, I left a secure director-level job in “martech” (social media marketing) to join a promising healthtech startup that had recently raised...
AI Transforms Smartwatch ECG Signals Into a Diagnostic Tool for Heart Failure
Summary: "A study published in Nature Medicine reports the ability of a smartwatch ECG to accurately detect heart failure in nonclinical environments. Researchers at Mayo Clinic applied artificial...
Exheus cierra una ronda de 900.000 euros liderada por Decelera Ventures
Summary: "La compañía española especializada en análisis de ARN también ha contado con el apoyo de WA4Steam y NextGen Venture Partners. Exheus utilizará los recursos para abrirse mercado en Europa."...
Ria Health Launches Platform To Manage Alcohol Use Disorder
Summary: "Alcohol Use Disorder, sometimes known as alcoholism, continues to be a significant drain on society. People are killed because they try to drive while under the influence of alcohol, work...