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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
“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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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."...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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,...
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 –...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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."...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Top 10 Digital Health Stories Of 2022
Summary: "Edging towards the end of the year, it is time for a summary of how digital health progressed in 2022. It is easy to get lost in the noise – I myself shared well over a thousand articles,...
What Is Digital Health and How Does It Future Proof Your Career
Summary: "Digital health refers to a multidisciplinary concept that combines technology and healthcare to manage illnesses and health risks and to promote wellness. It aims to combine technologies...
Almirall joins project to allow study participants to use trial data
Summary: "Project involves 27 partners including patient associations, hospitals and universities" "Almirall – a company focused on skin health – is participating in Facilitate, a patient-driven...
Digital health investors: Close your funding rounds now
Summary: "Yeshwant spoke on investing in a down-market economy while presenting at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas. He was joined on a panel by Andrew Adams, co-founder and managing partner of the...
The Future of Digital Health and Healthcare IT in a Post-Covid World
Summary: "Implementing and pursuing innovation in digital health and healthcare IT should be a priority for all U.S. healthcare providers and payers — especially as the lessons and response to the...
Ana Maiques (Neuroelectrics): «Cualquier emprendedor con éxito ha pasado por muchos fracasos»
Summary: "La plaza Kennedy es el punto de origen y, a la vez, de llegada de la línea 196 del bus de Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona. En los primeros minutos de trayecto, los usuarios pueden...
Digital Health Trends 2023
Summary: "14 longitudinal trends—micro-disruptive technologies, incremental innovation, societal phenomena—carefully extracted from my interviews, observations and research conducted in recent...
6 Highlights from HLTH 2022
Summary: "Among the takeaways from HLTH 2022 were the impact of consolidation on clinicians, behavioral health tools to help consumers manage stress and anxiety more productively, and how health...
Fast-tracking digital transformation
Summary: “Pretty much every business sector is digitally enabled today,” said Anne Snowdon, RN, PhD, Chief Scientific Research Officer, HIMSS Analytics. “From travel to banking to retail, everything...
Extension of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 model for predicting mHealth acceptance using diabetes as an example: a cross-sectional validation study
Summary: "Mobile health applications are instrumental in the self-management of chronic diseases like diabetes. Technology acceptance models such as Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of...
One Wearable Camera Captures Full 3D Body Movements
Summary: "What can 3D imaging tell us about the health of the human body? Lots. The motion capture of one’s gait has the potential to serve as a digital biomarker that identifies disease progression...
7 Technologies and Products That Will Revolutionize Wellness
Summary: "Health and wellness have already reaped the benefits of tech innovation, and these products promise even more exciting developments." "As people try to live healthier, the evolution of...
Blockchain Technology: A Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Summary: "Have you heard about blockchain? Do you know what it is? Do people talk about it at parties? What if I told you it can be used to solve healthcare problems in the future. Here's the low...
E-scooters Are the Perfect Metaphor for Telehealth, Says Zocdoc’s CEO
Summary: "To Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, it’s helpful to think about telehealth like an e-scooter, because virtual care is just one tool in the toolbox. For example, you wouldn’t use an e-scooter to...
New digital platform in India uses social media to track down vector-borne diseases
Summary: "It will support the Indian government's prevention and control of dengue, malaria, and chikungunya." "SARTHI takes publicly available information across digital channels such as online...
HEE launches VR app for nurses to experience prison healthcare settings
Summary: "Health Education England (HEE) has joined forces with NHS England’s National Health and Justice team to develop a virtual reality (VR) app allowing nurses to experience what a role working...
Thinking digital health tech
Summary: "As we all know, our healthcare industry is in the midst of a digital transformation. As healthcare consumers (patients), we believe all of us are thinking “it’s about time!” It’s great to...
Digital Transformation: How AI Could Spell a New Era of ‘Smart Care’
Summary: "The term digital transformation can be interpreted in many different ways. Rather than transforming healthcare practices, I like to view it as transforming the way healthcare is...
Can health tech close the care gap in emerging markets?
Summary: "After a surge in uptake during the Covid-19 pandemic, the telehealth industry is courting new investment to further innovation and increase access to care in emerging markets." "Digital...
Top 3 Digital Innovations that Transformed Healthcare
Summary: "Patient engagement is the next frontier in healthcare and single-platform patient portals created the digital foundation for this ongoing transformation. In today’s technology-driven...
Healthcare App Development: A Complete Guide
Summary: "The Healthcare industry is continually battling inflation and resource shortages. The rising healthcare expenditures are estimated to reach $600 billion by 2027 (McKinsey)." "It’s time for...
Fifty Years Launches ‘Fast Grants’ For Female Reproductive Science To Close The Gender Research Gap
Summary: "It’s hard to build novel products without great science. When it comes to women’s health, we still don't have all the answers to very basic questions: What causes endometriosis, and what’s...
10 Best Health Monitoring Devices for 2022
Summary: "At the start of January 2020, Telehealth and remote health monitoring device companies were having a hard time making a go of it. They were on a long slog toward any sort of...
4 Digital Health Trends Coming In 2023
Summary: "Erika is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sanguina, an Atlanta-based wellness and diagnostic startup with an emphasis on anemia screening." "We've all adjusted to social distancing since the...
Amazon vuelve a intentarlo con la telemedicina y abre un servicio para patologías comunes
Summary: "El gigante del ecommerce ha lanzado este martes Amazon Clinic, que permitirá a pacientes de 32 estados de Estados Unidos obtener servicios médicos a distancia, unos meses más tarde de...
Danger Alert: AI Is Writing Content, But It’s Lying – Let Us Show You How
Summary: "There is a growing number of AI text generators around the web, offering more or less the same." "1- You give a brief of your planned content and maybe some keywords""2- Set the...
Left to our own devices: Can wearables keep us healthy?
Summary: "The medtech industry has been paying close attention to the evolution of wearable devices. My first wearable device was a wristwatch. All it did was tell the time, but it was as much a...
These 14 medical device inventions are the best, Time magazine says
Summary: "For over 20 years, Time magazine has highlighted the 100 most impactful devices and ideas around the world. The list is compiled through nominations from the publication’s editors and...
Is This the Age of the Digital Health Economy?
Summary: "The global pandemic has pushed the healthcare sector to digitally transform and adapt to a new normal. Traditional healthcare providers are now adopting the digital model to offer better...
Skin Computers Could Be the Next Big Thing in Wearables
Summary: "You might soon wear your computer on your skin instead of relegating it to a pocket, backpack, or desktop." "Cornell University researchers have developed a skin-tight computer interface...
Prevention Over Cure: How Artificial Intelligence could Help Prevent 80% of Chronic Diseases
Summary: "With 80% of chronic disease preventable and a global shortage of healthcare professionals, Faramarz and AI Nexus Healthcare are using a specialised artificial intelligence skillset to...
How AI could revolutionize drug discovery
Summary: "Artificial intelligence could help scientists develop better medicines faster—and thus improve millions of people’s lives. But for that to happen, companies will need to change the way...
Friday Q&A: FemTech Focus’s Barreto discusses women’s health innovations, funding challenges
Summary: "FemTech Focus Executive Director Brittany Barreto is on a mission to improve women’s health outcomes through her work supporting investment and innovation in the FemTech sector. She views...
Digital Transformation: How AI Could Spell a New Era of ‘Smart Care’
Summary: "The term digital transformation can be interpreted in many different ways. Rather than transforming healthcare practices, I like to view it as transforming the way healthcare is...
5 Trends Driving the Future Growth of Digital Health & MedTech
Summary: "Today Accenture published Digital Health and MedTech – New Signals for Transformation to understand the impact consumers, patients and healthcare professionals’ experiences and expanding...
3 Lessons From Israel’s World-leading Clinical Data-sharing System
Summary: "Israel has a powerful tech ecosystem combined with practical government support. The nation's leaders don’t tell entrepreneurs what to do — but they do provide clarity around the...
The Time for Healthcare Transformation Is Now
Summary: "Talking about disruptive technology and the future of healthcare requires a certain kind of energy. Maybe that energy was found in the can of Diet Mountain Dew that Mark Wehde carried to...
Report: Telehealth accounts for about 10% of outpatient visits
Summary: "New data and analysis provided by the Chartis Group and Kythera Labs show telehealth usage for outpatient visits rose from 1% pre-pandemic to 10% in June 2022." "According to millions of...
TECH IS GOOD FOR YOU: HOW WEARABLE EDGE DEVICES CHANGED HEALTHCARE
Summary: "Since Summer 2022, millions of people have woken up each morning to their wristwatches offering to tell them if they were at risk of heart failure. The Fitbit, a fitness tracker...
What Is Femtech, and How Is It Evolving in Healthcare?
Summary: "The field of women’s health has been around for millennia. The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, which addresses conception, pregnancy and contraception, dates to around1800 B.C. and is one of...
Amazon’s leaked ‘Clinic’ would connect patients to telemedicine
Summary: "As the company prepares to shut down Amazon Care at the end of the year, a video describes a new healthcare offering." "Amazon might have a new healthcare offering coming soon, according...
Apollo Hospitals, un ecosistema para transformar la salud del otro gigante asiático
Summary: "El grupo, que abrió su primer centro en 1983, se ha convertido en el mayor operador hospitalario del país, con 72 hospitales, 3.500 farmacias, 170 clínicas de atención primaria y 700...
Revealed: Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s secret healthtech startup
Summary: "Spotify founder Daniel Ek is no stranger to working in stealth. In the early days of his industry-changing music company, the team drove hype by denying beta access to media." "Now he’s...
11×1 Minutes To Catch Up With The Most Important Digital Health Concepts
Summary: "Every now and then I do a “One Minute Challenge” video, with the goal of explaining digital health-related concepts in just one minute. Here are these collected bits, a few of them just...
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...
The best mental health wearables to help with stress
Summary: "Eighty per cent of mobile health apps fail to deliver their intended impact. Second year IfM PhD student Devmalya Sarkar tells us why he wants to help firms change this by better directed...
Putting the user at the centre: the future of digital health apps
Summary: "Eighty per cent of mobile health apps fail to deliver their intended impact. Second year IfM PhD student Devmalya Sarkar tells us why he wants to help firms change this by better directed...
New Sensor Tracks Tumors in Real Time
Summary: "A first-of-its-kind wearable device could give doctors and researchers the ability to offer better insights into how tumors respond to treatments." "Medicine has made huge progress in the...
A new genome sequencing tool powered with our technology
Summary: "Genome sequencing provides a more complete description of cells and organisms, allowing scientists to uncover serious genetic conditions such as the elevated risk for breast cancer or...
Wearables Data – Beyond Customer Engagement
Summary: "The use of health-based trackers and fitness wearables has been steadily growing with an increase in consumer adoption during the pandemic as people turned to digital devices to manage...
These 8 Countries Could Put Together The World’s Most Advanced Healthcare System
Summary: "If we are looking for the one thing common in the healthcare systems in various countries, is that no one ever was truly satisfied with their own. The level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction...
Why experts think AI won’t replace physicians in mental health
Summary: "Artificial intelligence is just as good as humans in identifying red-flag language in text messages from people with mental illness, a recent study found. But with many clinicians worried...
Machine Learning in Digital Patient Billing Services
Summary: "Machine learning may sound like science fiction, but it’s simply software that can analyze data and adjust accordingly without additional input from human operators. By adding machine...
Apple Watch heart rate alerts helped a girl discover and treat cancer
Summary: "Apple Watch is often credited with helping people detect heart disease or even saving their lives with features like fall and car crash detection. But this time, a 12-year-old girl was...
Easy At-Home Healthcare Technologies Improving Life for Most
Summary: "Bluetooth is an excellent communication method between electronic devices. We use Bluetooth for entertainment across smart devices and laptops such as Apple. With medical instruments, you...
Philips Expands ClarifEye AR Surgical Navigation in Japan
Summary: "Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, recently announced the expanded rollout of its augmented reality (AR) surgical navigation solution – ClarifEye – to Japan, highlighting...
La revolución de la salud digital ansía un futuro unicornio
Summary: "En la revolución que vive el sector sanitario en todo el mundo, Barcelona tiene una posición privilegiada: la BioRegió (el ecosistema de las ciencias de la vida y la salud de Catalunya) es...
7 Must-Have Features of Healthcare App
Summary: "Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing industries, and it gained immense popularity during the pandemic and will continue to do the same. Even a study has showcased that COVID-19 has led...
Everyone walks differently — so this exoskeleton adjusts on the fly
Summary: "A new robotic, boot-like exoskeleton uses wearable sensors to adjust to each person who wears it, marking a significant step forward for robotics. The device, described in a study...
Digital Health in Pain Management
Summary: "Pain is defined by the International Pain Society (IASP) as “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such...
4Moving Biotech Announces First Patient Enrolled in Phase I Clinical Trial on Osteoarthritis
Summary: " "We are so excited to have the first patient enrolled in our first-in-human phase 1 clinical study. This initial step is critical to evaluate the safety and tolerability of our OA drug...
Here Is How Digital Health Devices Helped Me Recover From A Serious Infection
Summary: "I got a Hepatitis A infection 3 months ago. Now that I’m almost entirely over it, I wanted to share how digital health devices helped me save my sanity over the past months." "According to...
Circular economy project launched to tackle digital health waste
Summary: "The Digital Health in a Circular Economy (DiCE) project, led by Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, aims to address the issue of increasing digital health waste." "The DiCE collaboration involves 20...
The Intersection of Wearables & Sensors in MedTech
Summary: "The intersection of wearables and sensors in medtech is an exciting one. We’ve already seen the use of wearables as a way to track our physical activity, but there’s more to it than that....
Signs of dementia may be detectable nine years before diagnosis – study
Summary: "Scientists have discovered that it may be possible to spot signs of dementia as early as nine years before patients receive an official diagnosis." "Researchers at Cambridge University...
What’s next for digital healthcare
Summary: "Healthcare has been undergoing a slow revolution since the 1990s when authorities around the world began digitising records with the goal of reducing silos and enabling the sharing of...
Pharmacogenomics: The Key to Unlocking the Future of Personalized Healthcare
Summary: "Pharmacogenomics—the study of genetic influences on an individual’s response to therapeutic medications—is an area of personalized medicine that is gaining momentum. Although...
Why risk it? Meticulous software testing can save the lives of medical device users
Summary: "Software defects are one of the most common reasons for clinical or consumer medical device recalls, and serious issues stemming from software errors abound. A 2020 study by the Australian...
Google Maps and search will label health clinics that provide abortions
Summary: "Google Maps and Search will now explicitly label healthcare facilities that provide abortion services, TechCrunch reported. It’s another change made in the aftermath of the Supreme Court...
Children’s Hospitals Find Space to Grow Through the Cloud
Summary: "Children’s hospitals are using cloud-based solutions to drive pediatric research and clinical innovation." "Computer scientists are familiar with Moore’s law, which refers to the...
The future of healthcare technology is remote patient monitoring — here’s what you need to know
Summary: "The pandemic may have forced the MedTech industry’s hand in speeding up telehealth adoption, but the silver lining of where we find ourselves is a bright one — because remote patient...
How Will A.I. Penetrate Healthcare? Through Your Skin, Voice And Cough!
Summary: "There is certainly no shortage of research on artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning algorithms these days. You will come across a number of announcements every week reporting...
AWS Names 10 Startups for 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator Cohort
Summary: "AWS names the ten digital health startups selected for its AWS Healthcare Accelerator cohort, focused on health equity." "Over the course of the four-week program, these 10 startups will...
The Future of 3D Printing Drugs In Pharmacies Is Closer Than You Think
Summary: "3D printing drugs is not a fantasy anymore. Unbelievable shapes and any kind of drug can be fabricated with groundbreaking technology. The UK biotech company, FabRx believes it could even...
MedTech: Rare Disease Diagnosis and Beyond
Summary: "Healthcare services globally are under more pressure to serve growing populations in new and innovative ways. The development of medical technology (medtech) has moved beyond clinical...
The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future
Summary: "Over the past several decades, the development and accelerated advancement of digital technology has prompted change across virtually all aspects of human endeavor. The positive and...
La salud da el salto en el metaverso con un negocio de 5.060 millones de dólares
Summary: "Se espera que este subsector alcance un negocio de 71.970 millones en 2030 con una tasa de crecimiento medio anual del 34,8%, según el informe Global Metaverse in Healthcare de...
You Need Some Smarter Clothing
Summary: "Dr. Do said: “These ‘smart fluid textiles’ take the advantage of hydraulic pressure and add the fast response, lightweight, high flexibility and small size of soft artificial muscles. In...
A HOPEFUL GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTHCARE
Summary: "Wearable devices have become increasingly popular in recent years. This is due in part to the increasing availability of sensors that can accurately track a variety of data. The global...
AWARD-WINNING INFLATABLE STRETCHER DESIGN HELPS SECURE AND PROTECT PATIENTS IN TRANSIT
Summary: "I think the fact that YouTube has a selection of videos on ‘hilarious stretcher fails’ is proof enough that the current hospital stretcher is mildly problematic. The fabric ones are a...
«No habrá una década digital sin innovación en salud»: Europa se prepara para liderar el futuro del sector sanitario
Summary: ""No habrá una década digital en Europa sin innovación en salud", esa es la principal conclusión de un informe elaborado por Digital Europe que señala que la tecnología será clave...
How Healthcare Tech Innovators Can Put The Horse Before The Cart
Summary: "Innovators are unique in their ability to pivot technology from other industries to use in new models and their ability to continuously test products in the real world to keep evolving. In...
“The end of the expert as we know it:” What Gen Z wants their health care to look like
Summary: "While many think of Gen Z as the virtual generation—the ones who find dates on TikTok and go to school in the metaverse—their workplace and health expectations provide a more complex...
Carl Zeiss and Precise Bio partner to develop fabricated corneal tissue
Summary: "Precise Bio combines engineering, biomaterials, cell technology, bioengineering, and 3D printing into a 4D bio-fabrication platform for transplantable organs and tissues. The...
Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud computing, 5G, and Nanotech in healthcare: How organizations are preparing best for the future
Summary: "Automation, digitalization, and technological enablement are having a significant impact on several industries. The healthcare industry is not an exception. The healthcare delivery system...
UX Design In Healthcare And Why It Really Matters
Summary: "Healthcare has already made plenty of headway in using UX and UI and the effects have been significant and meaningful." "Why is ux/ui design important in the process? Good healthcare ux...
Recent KLAS report reveals gaps between patient expectations and the reality of today’s digital healthcare interactions
Summary: "The recent data from KLAS, the highly regarded health IT research firm, reveals that capabilities which allow patients to digitally interact with healthcare organizations aren’t always...
Top 10 Growing Trends to Watch in the MedTech Industry
Summary: "The time has come for enterprises to lay the foundation for long-term success; those that are not adaptable will either be acquired or go out of business in 2022. The...
Digital Phenotyping in Health Using Machine Learning Approaches: Scoping Review
Summary: "Digital phenotyping is the real-time collection of individual-level active and passive data from users in naturalistic and free-living settings via personal digital devices, such as mobile...
Digital Health is now the default operating system of healthcare
Summary: "Digital Health is now the default operating system of healthcare. As a country, India has currently been ranked at the top in terms of Digital Health programmes. The numbers...
Healthcare’s newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health
Summary: "Digital-transformation programs at leading healthcare institutions that I work with are increasingly focused on two things: how to increase revenues and how to improve consumer...
El Clínic consolida su apuesta en proyectos m-Health y salud digital
Summary: "El Observatorio mHealth del Hospital Clínic de Barcelona ha presentado por primera vez su memoria de actividad donde se recogen los hitos en mHealth y Salud Digital del hospital del año...
Polymer Brushes Capture and Release Proteins on Demand
Summary: "Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a “polymer brush” system that can capture and release proteins on using electrical stimulation. Protein...
One-Step Manufactured Meta-Bots with Medical Potential
Summary: "Engineers at the University of California Los Angeles have developed “meta-bots,” which are fingernail sized robots that can move, sense, and navigate their environment. Strikingly, the...
Can Smart Implants Monitor Healing Inside the Body?
Summary: "Using artificial implants in surgeries to support human tissue or bone that isn’t functioning optimally anymore is commonplace. But what if those implants also could monitor on-site what’s...
New Study Reveals Telehealth Use (Mostly) Declines
Summary: "Telehealth came to the forefront of the American consciousness with the onset of COVID-19, when virtual healthcare visits became commonplace. But that was then. How is telehealth faring...
Healthcare leaders are optimistic about metaverse disruption, report says
Summary: "The metaverse — a domain of the internet in which users immerse themselves in interactive digital environments — has significant potential to disrupt traditional healthcare delivery in the...
MEDICAL INNOVATIONS DESIGNED TO GIVE MODERN HEALTHCARE A POWERPACKED BOOST
Summary: "The medical industry has been making leaps and jumps in its innovations, to ensure such a brutal pandemic doesn’t occur again. Designers have been coming up with new and improved,...
How UCSF’s accelerator is helping health tech reach more low-income patients
Summary: "There are a bevy of reasons health technology can be inaccessible for low-income patients, according to Lyles. For example, a startup might only offer services in English or struggle with...
Health Via Drone: Zipline now delivering medicine via fixed wing drones in North Carolina
Summary: "Zipline’s drones launch like fighter jets off aircraft carriers, drop packages like paratroopers gliding down on customers’ homes, and “land” by running into an aerial arrestor hook. In...
How digital health tech is changing how we think about accessibility
Summary: "Think accessibility is only for people with disabilities? Think again. Accessibility is about inclusivity—making a product or service usable by as many people as possible. Often, the...
AI Adoption in Healthcare Requires Better Approaches to Patient Data
Summary: "Building great AI models in healthcare and life sciences requires lots of data that is diverse, well-labeled, and spans across different patient types." "However, as AI gains traction,...
Improving rural care and health equity with telemedicine
Summary: "Healthcare IT News talks with a telehealth expert on the benefits and challenges of virtual care for rural patients." "Virtual care has great potential to improve rural health and health...
More AI-based innovation means start-ups can’t afford to ignore IP
Summary: "Protect business ideas, brainstorming and headhunter concepts. Intellectual property protection law and rights, copyright, artificial intelligence and patents concept." "The number of...
What does the end of COPI mean for digital health innovation?
Summary: "COPI [control of patient information], the emergency measure that allowed much greater sharing of healthcare data, will come to an end on June 30 2022. But are healthcare organisations...
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital unveils virtual replica of radiology department
Summary: "The radiology department at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has gained a digital twin to help reassure young patients and prepare them for a visit to the department." "The fully...
Will Digital Health Widen or Close the Inequality Gap?
Summary: "Based on the ever-growing amount of quality data on the subject, two trends are present. In some cases, in some countries, in some, traditionally underrepresented groups of developed...
HIMSS22 Europe: ‘We need to develop eco-friendly digital health’
Summary: "A shocking statistic was revealed at the session on 'Climate Crisis: Healthcare’s Responsibility to Our Planet' at the HIMSS22 European Conference on Thursday (16 June)." "According to...
Why Blockchain Technology Matters In Healthcare?
Summary: "The big challenge in today’s healthcare systems is to make healthcare accessible, affordable and efficient to everyone (both current and potential). The old rules of economics don’t work...
Study: Many digital health startups lack clinical trials, regulatory filings
Summary: "Many venture-backed digital health startups aren't clinically robust, as measured by the number of regulatory filings and clinical trials, according to a study published in JMIR. " "The...
Report: Most health plans are struggling to provide a coherent online experience for members
Summary: "The health insurance industry has historically struggled with low rates of customer satisfaction and loyalty. A new report suggests health plans are doing little to improve their standing...
Putting Healthcare Data to Work: How platform-based healthcare companies are poised to transform an industry
Summary: "The accelerating migration to value-based healthcare models makes addressing inefficiencies more vital than ever. Couple that with more educated and empowered healthcare consumers who need...
Government publishes final data strategy for healthcare
Summary: "A new strategy has been launched by the government to drive transformation in health and care by reshaping the way data is used." "The strategy, titled ‘Data Saves Lives: Reshaping Health...
Study shows tech-based program improves workers’ mental health, productivity
Summary: "Employers are spending millions of dollars on programs to improve the mental well-being of their employees, though it’s not always clear how well the programs are working.""A new...
Sussex midwives pioneer app to overcome language barriers
Summary: "Midwives at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust are supporting non-English speaking expecting parents by using a web-based communications app in their specialised antenatal...
mHealth: The Idea, Benefits and Challenges of Modern Healthcare Technology
Summary: "The term mHealth (mobile health) refers to the use of mobile phones and other wireless technology in medical care. The most common use of mobile health is to educate consumers about...
Digital health has failed, but that doesn’t mean the future is hopeless
Summary: "Virtually everyone can articulate one of healthcare’s myriad issues: it’s expensive, feels impersonal and corporate, and confronts people with cascading folios of options and choices...
Why sustainability is vital in the future production of medical devices
Summary: "Sustainability is an issue that as medical device developers and manufacturers we need to embrace, but it is not straightforward. Moving forward, we need to realise that future...
Why is Nutrigenomics The Biggest Flop In Digital Health?
Summary: "The more scientific definition by Nature goes like this: “nutrigenomics is the study of the effects of food and food constituents on gene expression, and how genetic variations affect the...
Providers must choose their words carefully when pushing for telehealth expansion
Summary: "The terms telehealth, telemedicine, virtual care and digital health are often used interchangeably, but that doesn’t mean they should be." "Hari Eswaran and Leah Dawson, two researchers at...
Architecting holistic healthcare innovation
Summary: "“Often at conferences, there are siloed panels where CIOs say what healthtech companies should be doing, but there are no healthtech companies in the panel,” says Silberzahn. “Then, there...
Ethical issues surrounding research of AI in health care
Summary: "Artificial Intelligence or AI includes the ability of computers, or machines run by a computer, to perform tasks that are commonly performed by humans. This means that AI includes not only...
When it comes to digital health, access is the bare minimum—patients need high-quality healthcare experiences
Summary: "The U.S. is not known for its healthcare accessibility. But even among patients who do have access in a traditional sense—with good health insurance and an abundance of doctors in their...
How Virtual Reality will influence patients in healthcare
Summary: "Virtual Reality (VR) is the next step in medicine. A good Virtual Reality experience can be transformative for patients and clinicians." "We are about to start a new world, a world where...
The Future Of Clinical Trials: Artificial Patients, Synthetic Data And Real-Time Analysis
Summary: "The artificial patient" "What is it? As of today, there is no final, widely accepted definition of what an artificial/virtual/synthetic patient is. A very detailed explanation about some...
The Breakthrough For Telehealth In Mental Health
Summary: "Telemedicine is not a new concept. Since the late 1960s, it has supported NASA’s astronauts aboard space missions and gained pervasive usage as the internet became more universally...
Building Patient Trust with Access to Digital-First Healthcare
Summary: "Telemedicine is not a new concept. Since the late 1960s, it has supported NASA’s astronauts aboard space missions and gained pervasive usage as the internet became more universally...
What Is Precision or Personalized Medicine, and How Can Healthcare Organizations Achieve It?
Summary: "Healthcare is on a journey to make patient care more personal and holistic. With the industry slowly shifting toward value-based care rather than a fee-for-service payment model, providers...
How the Metaverse Will Reshape Mental Health Therapy
Summary: "The tech industry has seen a seismic shift in awareness around the metaverse following Facebook's rebranding to Meta and announcements about its development from other tech leaders like...
The Telehealth Era Is Just Beginning
Summary: "Contrary to what many people think, virtual health care, also known as telemedicine or telehealth, is much more than a cheap digital knockoff of in-person care. When used appropriately, it...
How Data Centre Innovations Help Drive Our Healthcare Experience
Summary: "Over the coming years, the evolution of healthcare will centre around the reengineering of clinical care and operations around digital health and pervasive, real-time use of data and...
A Space Mission For Health
Summary: "The success of space missions also relies on astronauts’ health. So how do people living in a small space craft get medical care?" "The primary tool to access healthcare in space is the...
How digital health is reshaping patient care in 2022
Summary: "Here are five ways that digital health is reshaping the health care environment:" "1 Proactive, predictive, personalized digital health management enhances care" "When patients think...
These Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria
Summary: "There's always been something seductive about a nanobot. Comic books and movies implore you to imagine these things, thousands of times thinner than a human hair and able to cruise around...
Contributed: Seniors aren’t tech averse. We’re just not designing for their needs
Summary: "Seniors are certainly less tech savvy than younger generations who grew up with it. My parents are from the World War II generation, long before there was the personal computer, let alone...
How AI Expedites Medical Research, Diagnosis And Don’t Forget Office Work
Summary: "There has been a lot of hype around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across industries—so much hype, in fact, that it can be hard to separate truth from fiction. But healthcare is...
How Do Patients Feel About AI in Health Care? It Depends
Summary: "Artificial intelligence has moved from science fiction to everyday reality in a matter of years, being used for everything from online activity to driving cars. Even, yes, to make medical...
Google hires former FDA digital health leader
Summary: "Google hired a former Food and Drug Administration leader as its new senior director of global digital health strategy. Bakul Patel spent over a decade at the FDA and most recently was the...
The role of AI and machine learning in revolutionizing clinical research
Summary: "Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) have become a cornerstone of successful modern clinical trials,...
3 ways the metaverse is already reshaping healthcare
Summary: "The metaverse hype-men would have you believe that the ultimate purpose of this technology is a fancy ‘second life’ where consumers put on a clunky headset, create a digital twin of...
Chill Pill is the new must-have mental health app that Gen Z girls are obsessed with
Summary: "NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mental health shouldn't be depressing. Or at least that's what the founder & CEO of Chill Pill, Hayley Caddes, set out to prove when she raised...
The Telehealth Era Is Just Beginning
Summary: "Contrary to what many people think, virtual health care, also known as telemedicine or telehealth, is much more than a cheap digital knockoff of in-person care. When used appropriately, it...
Study: Popular women’s health apps don’t meet basic privacy, security standards
Summary: "The study analyzed 23 of the most downloaded and highest rated femtech apps on Apple's App Store and Google Play by two independent reviewers on data privacy, data sharing and security...
How AI is helping to address staffing shortages in healthcare
Summary: "Healthcare systems are society’s bastion against Covid-19. But two years of working long shifts to cover quarantined colleagues and witnessing patient after patient die of Covid-19...
The Future Of Vision And Eye Care
Summary: "Researchers estimate that 80-85 percent of our perception, learning, cognition, and activities are mediated through vision. Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of...
Data from wearable devices are changing disease surveillance and medical research
Summary: "This report has argued that wearable health and fitness trackers can change the way people try to stay healthy and alleviate illness, the way their doctors care for them, and the way...
The integration imperative: achieving a future vision for healthcare
Summary: "With the right mindset and planning, these fast-evolving capabilities can transform the facility-based, episodic care models of today into new care-delivery paradigms that are patient...
The 20 Healthtech Leaders in Latam in 2022
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated startup ecosystem growth across Latin America (LatAm), according to a January report from The Economist." "While international investors’ eyes have...
Unelected WEF globalists push digital identity schemes in digital health inclusion report
Summary: "In a new report, the unelected globalists at the World Economic Forum (WEF) are pushing digital identity schemes under the guise of digital health inclusion that give the illusion of...
Advantages and Challenges of Digitization in Healthcare
Summary: "Digitization in healthcare will improve medical device innovation, data collection and implementation.. While digitization in healthcare offers many benefits, it also introduces various...
Researchers test the power of machine learning to unravel long Covid’s mysteries
Summary: "Long Covid, with its constellation of symptoms, is proving a challenging moving target for researchers trying to conduct large studies of the syndrome. As they take aim, they’re debating...
With digital health go-to-market strategy, consumers increasingly come first
Summary: "“Consumers finally feel agency to choose our healthcare services and where they come from,” said Julie Yoo, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm. “We used to rely...
One Rational Expectation For Each: The Next Healthcare Moves Of Tech Giants
Summary: "Walmart announced the opening of five new ‘Walmart Health’ Centres in Florida in April, promising low-cost healthcare services. Not very surprising given how the American firm has been...
Faster, more accurate diagnoses: Healthcare applications of AI research
Summary: "AI is generally defined as the capacity for a computer or machine to exhibit or simulate intelligent behaviour such as Tesla’s self-driving car and Apple’s digital assistant Siri. It is a...
6G and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Dementia Care: Literature Review and Practical Analysis
Summary: "The dementia epidemic is progressing fast. As the world’s older population keeps skyrocketing, the traditional incompetent, time-consuming, and laborious interventions are becoming...
Wearable devices are connecting health care to daily life
Summary: "Doctors in America and Europe are starting to warm up to the idea that wearables can help them take better care of their patients. Profit-oriented health-care systems, like America’s,...
What Medtech Startups Need to Know About Healthcare
Summary: "Healthcare is arguably one of the largest and most complex sectors in America. It’s big business too." "According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in 2020 alone,...
Wearables and AI will be The Game Changer in Healthcare – Digital Salutem
Summary: "The game changer in healthcare is going to be the combination of wearables and AI (Artificial Intelligence). We all know that wearables bring immense value in capture health data and they...
Apps interpreting data from wearable devices are helping people to live better
Summary: "Device manufacturers, for their part, are starting to realise that when it comes to giving people health data, less is sometimes more. Many people are happier when they are simply told...
Biological age diagnostics: Deep Longevity and digital health
Summary: "The surge in technological innovation so far in the 21st century has made people more connected than ever before. New tech is also providing innovative solutions to help improve health....
Council Post: Digital Healthcare Ecosystems Are Changing Healthcare As We Know It
Summary: "Nicholas Domnisch is the CEO & Partner of EE Solutions, an NYC-based software development agency empowering innovation in digital health." "From the world’s first email to the advent...
The Future Of Well-Tech: From Health Tracking To Bio-Streaming And Feeling Good
Summary: "Hapbee CEO. Expert in building world-class, high-growth companies in mobility, tech, e-commerce, telecom and fashion retail." "According to McKinsey & Company, wellness is a $1.5...
Smart Pills: The Next Frontier Of IoT-Enhanced Medical Care
Summary: "Smart pills will improve the quality of diagnostics and treatment for patients. At the same time, certain issues need to be sorted before such IoT-based medicines can be adopted...
IoT in Healthcare is Getting Hot: What Are The Prospects?
Summary: "The Internet of Things – IoT in healthcare provides researchers with a method to collect and analyze new volumes of data that can be used to improve patient care. Such data can help reduce...
Pocketalk removes language barriers in the clinical setting with new handheld device
Summary: "We had the pleasure of testing the Pocketalk Plus recently and found it to be a real game changer in an ever increasing multilingual world. To have a device that is small, streamlined and...
Go read this report about the virtual doctors at an NFT clinic who can’t legally give medical advice
Summary: "If combining NFTs with the medical industry doesn’t sound the most logical, this report from BuzzFeed News will likely confirm your skepticism. An NFT project called MetaDocs assigns...
Wearables are too expensive for groups underrepresented in medical research
Summary: "Most people who use smartwatches and other wearable devices that can track health are white, well-educated, and wealthy. That’s not because other groups aren’t interested in using the...
Looking Back At Today’s Healthcare In 2060
Summary: "[...]To sum it up, all the technological progress I see as The Medical Futurist makes me say we still live in a barbaric era of healthcare and we have a lot of work to do – such...
NTU Singapore opens two new AI-driven research centres for early disease prediction
Summary: "One works to shed light on dementia in Asians while the other currently focuses on predicting mental disorders in at-risk youths." "Nanyang Technological University Singapore's Lee Kong...
Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity
Summary: "Adam Mariano, vice president of Health Innovation at IQVIA, and David Voccola, senior director of global strategic planning for the integrated health practice at IQVIA, discussed the...
Is A Healthcare App Great If Nobody Uses It? Maybe It’s Time For Plan B | Healthcare IT Today
Summary: "It is hard to dispute that the most efficient way to reach and engage consumers digitally is through the smartphone. Today, 86% of US consumers carry those small, advanced, connected...
4 Approaches To Eliminate Bias In Healthcare A.I.
Summary: "Historically, healthcare data has been focused on white men, and in the age of artificial intelligence (A.I.), this represents a challenge to train the algorithms to deliver results that...
Better data for better therapies: The case for building health data platforms
Summary: "Health data platforms that participants trust could bring an end to today’s reductionist approach to drug development, revolutionizing our understanding of disease." "The past decade has...
The future of healthcare
Summary: "Traditional medical care is being revolutionized before our eyes. COVID-19 has driven an unprecedented pace of digitization, and remote care and monitoring have proven themselves as...
Xbox une a jugadores aquejados de la misma enfermedad rara en partidas con poder terapéutico
Summary: "Aunque contemplados desde fuera los videojuegos parecen el epítome de la superficialidad, lo cierto es que solapado al «gaming» hay un gran poder terapéutico. Las propiedades terapéuticas...
Eko unveils its newly redesigned app aimed at detecting heart disease early
Summary: "The Eko App uses automated disease detection software and is paired with the company's line of smart stethoscopes to analyze heart sounds with FDA-cleared AI algorithms. The redesigned app...
From Organ Designers To Telesurgery VR Planners: Healthcare Jobs in 2040
Summary: "Looking at the healthcare horizon, we are on the verge (in the middle? Maybe not yet.) of an industrial revolution. And, as with all the previous industrial revolutions, a fair amount of...
Philips Is Betting Big On Digital Health
Summary: "The company’s vision is straightforward: “As care settings extend beyond the hospital, with increasing ambulatory and home care, the health IT landscape is growing accordingly. Health...
Medicina de precisión contra el cáncer: crean con IA los tratamientos más adecuados para cada paciente
Summary: "KeyZell desarrolla fármacos oncológicos novedosos y halla la combinación de tratamientos más eficiente según cada genética e historial clínico." "La investigación en la cura del cáncer se...
Non-Healthcare Organizations Need Health Data Too. Marble Wants to Help.
Summary: "While there are many solutions designed to help healthcare organizations access health data, there are not many for non-healthcare entities. Marble, wants to change that by offering a...
Google wants to use AI to cut the maternal mortality rate by half
Summary: "Google announced on Thursday three new health projects aimed at showcasing its artificial intelligence prowess. The most bullish among them: a partnership with Northwestern Memorial...
Idoven, casilla de salida a Europa: lleva su tecnología de cardiología a Italia y Finlandia
Summary: "La compañía española especializada en cardiología ha empezado a operar en el país transalpino monitorizando a pacientes en hospitales, mientras que espera anunciar en breve una alianza en...
How Virtual Reality will influence patients in healthcare
Summary: "Virtual Reality (VR) is the next step in medicine. A good Virtual Reality experience can be transformative for patients and clinicians." "We are about to start a new world, a world where...
Here’s how an algorithm guides a medical decision
Summary: "Artificial intelligence algorithms are everywhere in healthcare. They sort through patients’ data to predict who will develop medical conditions like heart disease or diabetes, they help...
Fighting Fake Drugs With Miniscule Printed Watermarks: An Ingenious Idea
Summary: "It is extremely difficult to tell how many people lose their lives due to counterfeit drugs every year globally. Estimates vary between hundreds of thousands to over a million. No matter...
Virtual Clinical Trials: A New Era Of Clinical Trials
Summary: "Virtual clinical trials help us avoid costly interim analysis and provide us with valuable insights into how treatments work, which is exactly what we want!" "It is estimated that the...
Meet 7 Femtech Companies Innovating In The Area Of Ovarian Health, Breast And Gynecological Cancers
Summary: "Cancer ranks as the leading or second leading cause of premature death among 30-69-year-old individuals in 134 countries across the world, with the International Agency for Research on...
How Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality And Mixed Reality Are Enhancing Radiology
Summary: "Virtual reality (VR) has been talked about for at least a few decades, but you may have also heard about augmented reality (AR) and perhaps even mixed reality (MR) in recent years....
AstraZeneca crea un ‘hub’ en Barcelona para investigar fármacos de enfermedades raras
Summary: "AstraZeneca apuesta por Barcelona. A través de su filial Alexion, la farmacéutica está creando un nuevo hub de desarrollo global en la capital catalana. Este centro tiene por...
Now is our chance to design digital health for equity: Here’s how we can do it – MedCity News
Summary: "As we embrace breakthroughs in digital health, let’s not cut, paste and proliferate the health equity issues of the offline world. We can only claim success when we measure who’s engaging,...
El futuro de la tecnología aplicada al sector de la salud, protagonista en el Mobile World Congress
Summary: "Investigadores, 'startups', inversores y divulgadores han abordado la importancia de la digitalización del sector y su papel en la nueva realidad de los tratamientos, el diagnóstico, la...
Tres de cada cuatro españoles ya usan servicios digitales sanitarios: buscar la eficiencia con garantías de privacidad
Summary: "Accenture y Savia (plataforma de salud de Mapfre) reflexionan sobre los avances de la eHealth sin perder de vista la importancia de la confianza." ""Un informe que hemos elaborado desde...
Barcelona acogerá el ‘LifeHub’ de Bayer para avanzar en la innovación del sector de la salud
Summary: "Bayer apuesta por el futuro. La compañía alemana ha presentado su LifeHub Barcelona (LHB), en el marco del Mobile World Congress 2022. El proyecto se plantea como una ubicación...
Apple, Harvard research highlights relationship between PCOS, heart health and diseases
Summary: "New research from Apple and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health sheds light on the connection between polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), heart disease and menstrual cycles. PCOS...
Rare Diseases Action Plan includes focus on technology
Summary: "England’s first Rare Diseases Action Plan includes the use of digital tools and virtual consultations to help ensure people with rare diseases benefit from faster diagnosis and improved...
How The Metaverse Could (Or Could Not) Transform Healthcare
Summary: Traditional access to the metaverse has been depicted through a VR headset; and this is exactly what Meta envisions with its rebranded Meta Quest arm, which develops VR hardware and...
Genomcore recibe un millón de euros de la Unión Europea para tratar el cáncer metastásico
Summary: "Genomcore recibe un millón de euros de la Unión Europea para tratar el cáncer metastásico" "La ayuda se enmarca en el proyecto de big data e Inteligencia Artificial (IA) Dipcan. Este...
From AI-assisted imaging to AI-assisted diagnosis
Summary: "Mark Hitchman, managing director of Canon Medical Systems UK explains why it is an exciting era of innovation and practical application of AI into UK diagnostic imaging services."...
Practical steps for using technology to improve patient outcomes
Summary: "Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is a leading cause of death and disability affecting over 1.3 million people and costing £15billion to the UK economy each year. Stroke, which is just one form...
Del modelo descriptivo al predictivo: así será el sistema de salud tras la irrupción del dato
Summary: "De los 1.469 millones que el Gobierno prevé movilizar, destacan los planes para digitalizar la atención primaria y el desarrollo de una base de datos centralizada." "Dos de los cuatro...
The Amazing Possibilities Of Healthcare In The Metaverse
Summary: "The metaverse is a hot topic at the moment, and much has been written and spoken about its potential to revolutionize gaming, entertainment, socializing, work and commerce. Not so much has...
How to design an omnichannel AI ecosystem for optimum customer engagement
Summary: "Here are three tips for designing an omnichannel AI ecosystem that maximizes investments while remaining nimble in today’s dynamic and competitive market.""By taking an ecosystem approach,...
Boots and HIMSS partner to provide digital health training for pharmacist
Summary "UK pharmacy chain Boots has announced a partnership with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to offer staff training on digitalisation. Boots pharmacists will...
What Is The Technological Future Of Medication Management?
"When it comes to medication management, there are two key sides: the administrative (clinician/pharmacist) and the patient side. This means that issues can sprout from either end of the spectrum...
The Role Of Modern Digital Solutions In The Pharmaceutical Industry
"The pharmaceutical market offers a vast number of opportunities for using IT solutions. The partnership between IT businesses and pharmaceutical companies contributes to the effective organization...
The dawn of the FemTech revolution
"As opportunities in women’s health accelerate, FemTech is helping to match capital and talent to unmet needs—with promising early results." "For purposes of this research, we analyzed 763 FemTech...
The metaverse hype arrives in digital health
"Will the metaverse transform health care? Who knows! But even before we know what the metaverse is — today, it loosely describes future immersive computing experiences — its hype has arrived in...
Amazon expands telehealth program nationwide
Summary: "Amazon’s virtual healthcare program, Amazon Care, is now available nationwide, the company announced today. The hybrid service, which pairs virtual care with the option for an in-home...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is hiring a clinical trial director
Summary: "Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company Neuralink has a new job posting for a clinical trial director, a position that could help the company move towards its stated goal of testing...
Integrar al médico en la toma de decisiones de la inteligencia artificial: cómo llevar la ética a esta disrupción tecnológica
Summary: "Desde hace varios años se ha ido impulsando el uso de la inteligencia artificial en el ámbito de la salud, como ayuda al diagnóstico médico o en la toma de decisiones basadas en datos para...
The difference between Telemedicine and Virtual Care – Digital Salutem
Summary: "The healthcare industry is changing rapidly as increasing numbers of providers look to provide quality care at lower costs. Digital technology is improving the way health professionals...
‘Virtual surgeons’ to be able to join operations anywhere
Summary: "A company pioneering technology to allow surgeons to virtually ‘scrub in’ to any operating room in the world is partnering with Vodafone to speed up adoption in Europe. The Proximie...
Deploying Artificial Intelligence Technology To Improve Mental Health
Summary: "A machine-learning expert and a psychology researcher/clinician may seem an unlikely duo. But MIT’s Rosalind Picard and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Paola Pedrelli are united by the...
Advancing pharmacy and healthcare with virtual digital technologies
Summary: "Digitalisation of the healthcare sector promises to revolutionise patient healthcare globally. From the different technologies, virtual tools including artificial intelligence, blockchain,...
Laparoscopic surgery performed by a robot without human assistance
Summary: "Researchers at Johns Hopkins this week issued a report noting that their Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) system has completed laparoscopic surgery on a pig tissue without human...
Best Practices In Digital Health: 9 Keys To Build A Future-Ready Organisation
Summary: "Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, addressing real-life clinical needs; these might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are...
Where is the money in digital health? The roadmap to digital health app reimbursement in Europe
Summary: "Reimbursement opportunities for digital health applications and services will improve significantly over the next few years in Europe. An EU go-to-market plan for a digital health app must...
LG TVs now have a built-in health platform
Summary: "All 2021 and 2022 LG smart TVs will be equipped with a health education and telehealth app from the senior-focused health platform Independa, the company announced today. The platform will...
This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA
Summary: "Corsight AI, a facial recognition subsidiary of the Israeli AI company Cortica, purports to be devising a solution for that sort of situation by using DNA to create a model of a face that...
Can AI Teach Us How to Become More Emotionally Intelligent?
Summary: "Emotional intelligence matters more to one’s success as a manager than IQ or technical skill. The principal takeaway: emotional intelligence is just as important as any “hard skill” and...
The Potential Role Of Technology In Euthanasia And Assisted Death – The Medical Futurist
Summary: "In early 2021, Spanish lawmakers legalised euthanasia and assisted death for patients suffering from unbearable and/or incurable conditions, making Spain the sixth country in the world to...
Forrester: Here are 4 key frontiers for healthcare innovation over the next decade
Summary: "As the healthcare system continues to adapt to the realities of COVID-19, changes made now will have ripple effects over the next decade, according to a new report from analysts at...
Tartaglia recibe 7,5 millones de euros de Europa para aplicar inteligencia artificial en sanidad
Summary: "Este grupo de empresas, formado por 16 entidades y liderado por GMV, ha obtenido la mayor puntuación de entre los proyectos presentados a la convocatoria Misiones de I+D en IA". "Apuesta...
PolyNovo to launch NovoSorb BTM at Arab Health
Summary: "PolyNovo UK– a UK medical devices company specialising in the development of surgical solutions using the patented polymer technology NovoSorb – will be joining the ABHI UK Pavilion at...
SingHealth Duke-NUS opens latest healthcare training simulation facility
Summary: "Singapore Health Services and Duke-National University of Singapore have launched a new simulation facility for training healthcare professionals." "Located at the Academia in Singapore...
Why a data platform accelerates time-to-market for medtech solutions
Summary: "Digital technology offers the potential to transform the entire patient pathway from prevention and screening through diagnosis to treatment and the subsequent management of a condition."...
Riding the Rising Wave of Digital Innovation in Health and Wellness
Summary: "We now have FDA-approved digital apps and therapies at our disposal that enable us to remotely monitor conditions. New digital content sources and social conversations that influence our...
FDA Addresses the Role of Digital Health Technology in Clinical Trials
Summary: "The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued draft guidance regarding the use of digital health technology (DHT) for the remote acquisition of clinical trial data." "DHT...
Reshaping Healthcare: 3 Ways Data Science Will Impact It
Summary: "How data is reshaping healthcare? The use of data science in healthcare is the key to the industry transformation. This set of data is basically based on the ongoing research of the...
Digital health investment opportunities in 2022
Summary: "At the dawn of a new year, it seems like the perfect time to reflect on what has been an exciting 12 months of investment in digital health and explore what’s next in 2022. A total...
A new operating model for pharma: How the pandemic has influenced priorities
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted pharma companies to rethink their organizational strategies. A survey of executives suggests where value might lie." "In the pharmaceutical industry, as...
El 69% de las empresas de salud aumentará su presupuesto en I+D durante los próximos tres años
Summary: "El acceso a la financiación y la disponibilidad de talento son factores que impactan directamente sobre sus presupuestos, según se desprende de un Barómetro elaborado por la consultora...
New Google search features make it easier to find the right doctor
Summary: "As part of efforts to expand the health information it provides, today Google announced a new feature in search that will allow doctors to list which languages they can speak at their...
3 Senior Care Tech Trends to Watch in 2022
Summary: "A movement toward hospital at home and increased consumerization are having an impact on healthcare technologies for older adults." "The pandemic was a catalyst for digital...
Supply Chain Resiliency And A Shift To Value Based Care: Why Premier Is Investing In Data And Technology
Summary: "Supply chain shortages and slowdowns continue to dominate the news cycle, a set of issues that the healthcare system has been dealing with since the start of Covid-19. From personal...
Digital health predictions for 2022: Looking to a brighter future
Summary: "Health is in the throes of some of the most significant changes as systems reel from a variety of rapidly changing environments. Dr Charles Alessi, Chief Clinical Officer at HIMSS,...
The Mental Health Crisis Is Growing. Is Technology One Possible Solution?
Summary: "Discussions surrounding mental health have never been more prominent or vital. After a chaotic two years amidst a global pandemic, rising consumer costs, and a fluid global economic...
We Might Not Know Half of What’s in Our Cells, New AI Technique Reveals
Summary: "New artificial intelligence technology reveals previously unknown cell components. The findings may shed new light on human development and diseases" Article written by Heather...
8 tech innovations that support a healthy ageing population
Summary: "We’re living longer. But are we ageing better? When do we begin to age? When do we start preparing for retirement? When do we begin to screen for life threatening conditions? With a shift...
World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
Summary: "Formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which it takes its name, xenobots are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide. The tiny blobs were first...
Streamlining the Healthcare Space Using Machine Learning and mHealth
Summary: "With time, the use of technology has brought structural changes to the healthcare industry, for the better. Whether it’s managing endless administrative processes in hospitals, providing...
Blog: The role of Digital Health in combatting Antimicrobial Resistance – Commonwealth Pharmacists Association
Summary: "Antimicrobial resistance occurs when microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites) evolve over time and no longer respond to medicines, which makes infection harder to treat....
The Future Impact of 5G in Healthcare – Brainlab
Summary: "5G is the fifth generation of wireless cellular technology for telecommunications. The first, 1G, was launched in Japan in 1979, followed by 2G in 1991, 3G in 2001, 4G in 2009 and now 5G...
West Midlands 5G launches Connected Healthcare Programme to support digital transformation in healthcare
Summary: "West Midlands 5G has launched a Connected Healthcare Programme to help organisations and businesses linked to the healthcare sector discover the full transformational advantages of 5G....
How AI Is Creating a Much Better Patient Experience
Summary: "While the term “healthcare consumerism” has been used since the 1930s, today the term refers to the importance of creating a more patient or consumer-centered experience. Patients want a...
Telemedicine is trying to lean into the future. It’s complicated.
Summary: "Like for doctor’s appointments. The pandemic accelerated the widespread use of telemedicine platforms for both mental and physical care, in the U.S. especially. With public health states...
What’s really happening in the medical robotics market
Summary: "According to Mordor Intelligence, the U.S. medical robotics market is expected to reach $28.34 billion by 2026. These next-generation systems promise lower costs, less hardware, smaller...
Digital Health Trends 2022
Summary: "The year 2021 was the second in a row to have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. And there is no end in sight yet. Digital health is still developing dynamically: the number of...
How Safe Is That TikTok Health Trend?
Summary: "TikTok is great for plenty of things, including going down the rabbit hole of choreography, cooking and cats… but what about health advice? Every week, it seems like a new viral health...
Galicia invertirá 9,6 millones en ‘biotech’ dentro del Polo de Tecnologías Cuánticas
Summary: "Galicia volverá a invertir en su Polo de Tecnologías Cuánticas. El Ejecutivo autonómico contará con 9,6 millones de euros más para ampliar las capacidades de esta infraestructura...
Wision A.I. Achieves CE-MDR Mark Approval for AI-assisted Diagnostic Software Medical Device Supporting Colonoscopy
Summary: "Wision A.I. Ltd, a startup in the field of artificial intelligence assisted diagnostics for gastrointestinal endoscopy, today announced it received the European CE Mark approval for...
UK’s Babylon Health Sees ‘Huge Demand’ in US
Summary: "The company said the launch of value-based care contracts will add an estimated 135,000 members, including 80,000 in Georgia, California and Mississippi and 55,000 in the U.K., putting...
Fujifilm y Comitas e-health se alían para potenciar la telemedicina en España
Summary: "Fujifilm continúa dando pasos en el sector de la salud. El gigante tecnológico se aliado con la empresa española de telemedicina Comitas e-health para lanzar un nuevo servicio de...
Human in the Loop for AI in Healthcare – ET HealthWorld
Summary: "As Artificial Intelligence (AI) based products and services proliferate across industries one question emerges as the most important: should these systems include a human in the loop or...
La salud cae del podio europeo de ‘venture capital’ liderado por el ‘software’
Summary: "El sector salud europeo sigue atrayendo al inversor de riesgo. Tanto en el valor de las operaciones de capital riesgo por sector, como en el número de operaciones por sector, la salud se...
How sharing data can make us healthier
Summary: "The potential benefits of data sharing in healthcare are often discussed. In a piece for Digital Health, David Hancock, healthcare executive advisor at InterSystems, explores why he thinks...
PUBLIC and Amazon Web Services launch UK healthcare accelerator
Summary: "PUBLIC, a government technology company, will be bringing its extensive experience in managing accelerator programme, to the first UK-based cohort of the Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
Roundup: France announces €650M boost for digital health, Enovacom and Medanets join forces to provide mobile first health data
Summary: "A partnership between global interoperability firm Enovacom and Nordic nursing app specialist Medanets will enable nursing staff to access patient data through their mobile devices....
This is what healthcare leaders see as the future for digital health
Summary: "Senior healthcare leaders from 14 countries say strengthening resilience and preparing for future crises is a top priority, according to a new report commissioned by Royal Philips."...
Philips says more than 1,000 medical devices types can connect to its information platform
Summary: "Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced the release of new device drivers that enable its Philips Capsule Medical Device Information Platform (MDIP) to integrate with more...
FDA outlines best practices for healthcare AI alongside Canada, UK regulators
Summary: "The FDA is joining hands with fellow regulators in Canada and the U.K. to present 10 principles outlining best practices in the development of artificial intelligence-powered healthcare...
La receta electrónica va al alza: sus usuarios se incrementan un 14,3% en septiembre
Summary: "El uso de la receta electrónica gana peso. La cifra de ciudadanos que han utilizado este servicio interoperable del Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS) se ha incrementado un 14,3% en...
Virtual reality has potential to change airway management training
Summary: "Virtual reality is being used in medicine to improve airway education and training. New research presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting demonstrated that the LumetoXR virtual reality (VR)...
Contributed: Top 8 healthcare uses for 3D printing
Summary: "New technology developments have enabled healthcare advances in 3D printing with an estimated $6.08 billion by 2027 in terms of software, hardware, services and materials." Article written...
Amazon announces Alexa program for hospitals and senior care
Summary: "Amazon has two new programs that integrate Alexa into hospitals and senior living communities, the company announced today." Article written by Nicole Wetsman. Photo by Alex Castro/The...
Israel‘s Largest Hospital Joins SciTech Project to Develop Digital Health Simulation Hub in New Jersey
Summary: "Israel‘s Sheba Medical Center is joining forces with the Liberty Science Center (LSC) in New Jersey to develop a high-tech hospital simulation space, focusing on digital health and home...
AI to Protect Astronaut Health: Announcement of Intel AI Mentor from NASA and Intel
Summary: "In this 21st century, AI is set to protect astronaut health from cosmic radiation through the recent collaboration of NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) and Intel known as Intel AI...
Before AI can reshape healthcare, it needs to help shorten the waiting list
Summary: "5.6 million people in the UK are currently on hospital waiting lists. Digitisation is helping: remote appointments, for example, soared in popularity during the pandemic and can cut down...
Docty offers patient centric services through complete set of geo located digital solutions
Summary: "In an exclusive conversation with the Financial Express Online, Ramya Subramanian shares how Docty addresses societal health disparity by making healthcare solutions accessible to one and...
Big Pharma, Big Money: Johnson&Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer, Novartis in digital health
Summary: "In the first article to the series, we will explore developments coming from pharma giants Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer and Novartis. Let’s take a closer look!." Article written...
Healthcare’s Digital Revolution: Are We Ready to Reimagine the Work?
Summary: "By now, we have all experienced how the electronic health record (EHR) rollout did not go as planned. If we have read Dr. Wachter’s book The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the...
AI can help insurers manage claims, improve underwriting and boost customer experience
Summary: "In a time of change and uncertainty, customers are seeking reassurance and easy transitions to the “new normal.” Insurers that take advantage of the new data and customer insights this...
AI in healthcare: The tech is here, the users are not
Summary: "Since the beginning of the year, there has been a significant uptick across health plans, healthcare providers, and analytics firms utilizing AI to change how healthcare is delivered and...
Key initiatives taking place across the digital health landscape
Summary: "The digital health landscape in the UK is complex and evolving, with many organisations involved it its regulation and functioning. Andrew Davies, digital health lead at the Association of...
Digital health ecosystems: Voices of key healthcare leaders
Summary: "COVID-19 has made it more pressing than ever to integrate online and offline offerings and to establish integrated health ecosystems. We asked key healthcare leaders about their views to...
THE DIGITAL HEALTH ECOSYSTEM: The most important players, tech, and trends propelling the digital transformation of the $3.7 trillion healthcare industry
Summary: "Until now, healthcare was the only remaining industry that had yet to feel the rapid impact of digitization endured by retail, banking, and media. But consumer adoption of digital tech,...
Contributed: The challenges of evaluating digital health
Summary: "A product that plays music to help children brush their teeth for the right amount of time, is rightly part of the digital health technology space, alongside a product that checks heart...
Digital Health Apps Must Allow Users to Delete Accounts, Per New Apple App Store Rules
Summary: "Apple just announced all apps that allow for a user to create an account must also give that user the ability to delete their account from within the app itself. The new rule is effective...
Thriving in the Era of Medtech 3.0: Five Key Trends to Watch
Summary: "With the global cloud computing market for healthcare slated to top $55 billion by 2025, the medical device industry is solidly in the throes of the Medtech 3.0 era." Article written...
Healthcare of the Future: A Cryptography Game-Changer for Biomedical Research at Scale
Summary: "Predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory medicine, known as P4, is the healthcare of the future." Article written by EPFL. 11|10|2021...
AI development could negatively impact human rights
Summary: "As researchers studying the intersection between AI and social justice, we’ve been examining solutions developed to tackle AI’s inequities. Our conclusion is that they leave much to be...
Pulse check: An analysis of the FDA’s list of AI- and ML-enabled devices
Summary: "Artificial intelligence and machine learning have come a long way—once buzzwords in digital health, they’re now minted in healthcare’s dictionary. We at Rock Health took a stab...
Apple looks to digital biomarkers for features detecting depression, cognitive decline
Summary: "Apple is looking to use digital biomarkers to help detect depression and early-stage cognitive decline, according to a new report out of The Wall Street Journal. " Article written...
Amazon’s healthcare ambitions have a new target: your home
Summary: "Amazon is trying to establish its health-related offerings as indispensable. The main way it’s doing that is by providing services that are integral to your everyday healthcare routines."...
Telehealth usage surges, but satisfaction declines
Summary: "The pandemic drove many patients and physicians to adopt telehealth as a safe and convenient way to access care at a time when many physical offices were closed and patients were afraid to...
Noruega y la innovación en salud: de cápsulas para pacientes infecciosos a sensores contra las migrañas
Summary: "En Forskningsparken (en noruego, parque de investigación), situado estratégicamente entre la Universidad de Oslo y un hospital local, se levanta el Science Park de la ciudad. Un edificio...
Intimate data: can a person who tracks their steps, sleep and food ever truly be free?
Summary: "Constant advances in tracking have given tech companies new ways to keep selling their latest devices, while happily collecting the data we generate and sign away without reading the terms...
We are in the midst of a digital health revolution
Summary: "We are in the midst of a digital health revolution. While the past decade saw big data and healthcare analytics enter the foreground, the next decade is poised to be defined by artificial...
3 Benefits of using AI in EHR Software Systems
Summary: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is being adopted in the healthcare industry rapidly as it helps to streamline clinical processes and helps to improve patient outcome levels."...
Artificial Intelligence Makes Bad Medicine Even Worse
Summary: "In other words, AI systems like the one from Google promise to combine humans and machines in order to facilitate cancer diagnosis, but they also have the potential to worsen pre-existing...
The rise of digital marketing in medtech
Summary: "Digital marketing offers medtech companies powerful ways to personalize engagement with healthcare professionals and respond to their changing needs." Article written by Ralph et al....
Digital health is a vital tool: here’s how we can make it more sustainable
Summary: "The pandemic has shown us the extraordinary potential of digital health to fight global health inequalities by providing expanded access to healthcare: as well as by better informing our...
AI cannot be regulated by technical measures alone
Summary: "Any attempt to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) must not rely solely on technical measures to mitigate potential harms, and should instead move to address the fundamental power...
The next generation of data-driven healthcare is here
"Implementing artificial intelligence and blockchain technology into healthcare and medicine is key to unlocking human longevity." Article written by Garri Zmudze. 26|09|2021 Source: Cointelegraph...
Boosted by virtual reality and AI, telesurgery is on the rise
Summary: "Browd is professor of neurological surgery at the University of Washington, an attending neurosurgeon at Seattle Children's Hospital, and cofounder and chief medical officer at health IT...
The TOP100 Digital Health Companies In 2021
Summary: "The global digital health market continues its boom: with spectacular growth, it could reach $ 660bn by 2025. Investors have poured an unprecedented amount of money into healthcare in...
Big Tech In Medicine: How Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM & NVIDIA Disrupt Healthcare – The Medical Futurist
Summary: "These six companies have the most projects in healthcare, and their presence is not negligible at all: they all have the power and the incentive to transform and help digitise this...
Proyecto de Cofares para aportar innovación a la salud y la farmacia
Summary: "La farmacia y la distribución se preparan para aportar innovación a la salud de los ciudadanos y encontrar alianzas estratégicas entre los sectores afectados para que estas acciones...
La salud digital duplica su inversión en el año del coronavirus
Summary: "En 2020, este mercado alcanzó los 21.600 millones de dólares en todo el mundo. La inversión en telemedicina alcanzó los 4.300 millones de dólares, lo que supone un aumento del 139% con...
Luis Cortina (Siemens): “El futuro de nuestra sanidad pasa por crear ‘hubs’ de digitalización”
Summary: "El director general de Siemens Healthineers España habla sobre hacia dónde va encaminada la apuesta tecnológica en salud y acerca de la mayor concentración empresarial que atraviesa el...
AI algorithm to treat psychiatric illness, stroke developed by Google, Mayo teams
Summary: "San Francisco: Google is all set to collaborate with researchers to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to improve brain stimulation devices to treat people with...
From Theory to Real-World Practice: Clinical Integration of Digital Therapeutics
Summary: "The Digital HealthAlliance1 has put forth a 10-point list of core principles for DTx products as a first step in operationalizing the industry; these principles also help to distinguish...
7 Ways to Make a Healthcare App that Brings Value to Its Users
Summary: "What is the most common thing between MyFitnessPal, Nike Training Club, and Medscape? They have all capitalized on the increasing demand for healthcare apps. If you aim to create a...
Future challenges for digital healthcare
Summary: "The digital health “revolution” appears to be well under way. According to a recent survey by the American Medical Association, the vast majority of physicians believe that...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Transforming Life Sciences
Summary: "Artificial intelligence (AI) plays an important role in our everyday lives. In recent years, it's become the centre of attention in various business sectors from communications to...
What Is Nanotechnology And How Is It Impacting Neuroscience?
Summary: "Nanotechnology is one of those buzz words that can seem kind of difficult to pin down. So what exactly is it? For example, how does it differ from traditional chemistry and physics? And in...
Tesla Is Developing A Robot. If Combined With Neuralink, It May Have Revolutionary Healthcare Applications
Summary: "Musk’s most recent announcement was on behalf of Tesla, and was yet another ode to fearless innovation. Last week, during Tesla’s much anticipated “AI Day,” an event meant to showcase the...
Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?
Summary: "When David Feinberg, head of Google Health, announced this past week that he was departing to take up the CEO role at the EHR company Cerner, media reports took it as an admission of...
NVIDIA and Harvard Create New AI Deep Learning Genomics Tool
Summary: "We show that our method can be used on small subsets of rare lineage-priming cells to denoise signal and identify accessible regulatory regions at [a] previously unattainable genomic...
Eli Lilly joins $30M Series A financing for startup bringing AI analysis to endoscopy
Summary: "Endoscopy enables gastroenterologists to examine the digestive tract, scouting for pre-cancerous polyps. Startup Iterative Scopes is developing technology that employs artificial...
The Rising Heat on Digital Transformation in Healthcare and What Lies Ahead in 2021 – Techment
Summary: "The pandemic has impacted healthcare in two ways – it has impacted its ability to deliver care with a traditional delivery model, thus made it resort to technology solutions. On the other...
The stay-at-home hospital: medical device innovation and virtual wards
Summary: "Development in medical devices has meant that patients can exchange health data with their clinician completely remotely. Doctors can monitor a patient’s symptoms, provide advice on care...
Clinical trials are better, faster, cheaper with big data
Summary: "Today,researchers are using artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to speed up the process, reduce costs, and get effective treatments more swiftly to those who need them. And...
From Theory to Real-World Practice: Clinical Integration of Digital Therapeutics
Summary: "Leveraging DTx to improve mental and physical health is likely to be the biggest, paradigm-shifting change that medicine has known since the invention of antibiotics. However, how to apply...
Mobile Health in Rheumatology: A Patient Survey Study exploring Usage, Preferences, Barriers and eHealth Literacy
Summary: "Patients with RMD are very eager to use mHealth technologies to better understand their chronic diseases. An overwhelming majority was willing to share app data for research purposes....
Digital health, heart disease devices feature in latest FDA breakthrough designations
Summary: "Digital health and heart disease devices from companies including Philips dominate the latest batch of breakthrough designations from FDA, giving the companies a speedier path through the...
As the world grays, it’s time to ensure seniors’ tech literacy – Health Tech World
Summary: "According to the Pew Research Center in 2019, some 41 per cent of people 65 or older – that’s 22 million people out of 56 million in the U.S. – do not even have wireless broadband access...
Improving Patient Data Security and Interoperability with EHR Integration
Summary: "In recent times, telehealth providers have readily integrated EHR software into their existing system. The use of virtual integration healthcare solutions has seamlessly processed patient...
Exxact | Deep Learning, HPC, AV, Distribution & More
Summary: "We may still be years and decades away from having robot nurses or doctors, but there is no question about their usefulness and the eventual necessity of healthcare robots to be taken more...
5 Technological Innovations Changing Medical Practice
Summary: "Virtually every sector of the economy is experiencing the refreshing impact of technological innovation. Particularly in the health sector, there are plenty of business opportunities for...
HCPs use of digital as a resource and tool for better outcomes
Summary: "It’s no secret that HCPs are using digital more and more. When visiting a doctor, it’s pretty common to see a doctor going from room to room with laptops. Usually, when an HCP starts their...
The future of healthcare in Asia: Digital health ecosystems
Summary: "Asia is paving the way for digital health ecosystems, and potential ecosystem orchestrators can generate value by taking bold, strategic actions." "This article explores the driving...
Harnessing AI to discover new drugs inspired by nature
Summary: "Nature has a vast store of medicinal substances. "Over 50 percent of all drugs today are inspired by nature," says Gisbert Schneider, Professor of Computer-Assisted Drug Design at ETH...
IQVIA reveals integration of digital health tools into mainstream medicine
Summary: "Digital health tools are increasingly having a positive impact on health outcomes. Some are becoming integral parts of mainstream medicine, according to findings released by the IQVIA...
How do Digital Health Standards Assess Evidence? | eMHIC
Summary: "Digital health technologies are often born out of the desire to help people tackle a health challenge, be it to reduce anxiety or monitor for signs of skin cancer. The possibilities...
The Dark Matter of Digital Health
Summary: "Industry boosters would have us believe that we can accomplish this to a meaningful degree just by firing up an algorithm." "In fact, the opposite is...
The Galien Foundation Debuts 2021 Prix Galien USA Nominees in «Best Biotechnology Product,» «Best Pharmaceutical Agent,» «Best Medical Technology» and «Best Digital Health Solution» Categories
Summary: "The 2021 Prix Galien USA nominees, totaling a record-breaking 82 product nominations, include products evaluated in the following categories: "Best Biotechnology Product" – 20 nominees;...
A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come
Summary: "Some scientists have compared DeepMind’s new database to the Human Genome Project. Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project provided a map of all human genes. Now, DeepMind has provided...
5 Myths About the Current State of Healthcare Technology
Summary: "Here are some common healthcare technology myths, and the facts behind them." Article written by MailMyStatements. 28|07|2021...
Despite industry buzz, femtech funding still lags
Summary: "Femtech has been a hot topic in the digital health world for some time. Despite industry buzz about the tech, investment in the technology still lags behind other sectors." Article written...
Warby Parker’s digital vision test lets users renew their glasses and contact lens prescriptions remotely
Summary: "Eyewear company Warby Parker has updated its digital vision test app to now let users renew their glasses or contacts prescription." "The new version of the test, renamed the Virtual...
Ciudadanos, conocimiento y tecnología: tres claves para la digitalización sanitaria
Summary: "Avanzar hacia la digitalización supone incorporar al funcionamiento del sistema sanitario algunos conceptos cada vez más presentes a nuestro alrededor como la Inteligencia Artificial, el...
Designing digital health with community
Summary: "Digital health solutions could do great things for the wellness and wellbeing of Indigenous communities. But respect and trust between researchers and community is key." Article written by...
19Labs, Doctory Bring Next Generation Telehealth Kiosks To The Middle East
Summary: "19Labs and Doctory have entered into a partnership that will bring GALE eClinics to Gulf countries and the Middle East. GALE eClinics are next generation point-of-care platforms that...
How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook – The Markup
Summary: "If you’re a drug manufacturer looking for patients, one company has become a major destination in the past few years: Facebook. " "The social media giant, through its power to target users...
Using digital tech to support employees’ mental health and resilience
Summary: "Poor mental health takes a heavy toll on individuals and businesses. New digital solutions can help employers provide personalized support and make well-being a strategic focus for their...
Booz Allen Hamilton VP: How Will 5G Impact Healthcare?
Summary: "The embrace of 5G network technology is expected to have major implications for the American economy, specifically the healthcare industry. As healthcare organizations emerge from a...
Barcelona y La Caixa acuerdan la creación de un nuevo centro de investigación en salud
Summary: "Acuerdo por la ciencia. El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y la Fundación La Caixa han acordado impulsar la creación del CaixaResearch Institute. Este nuevo centro de investigación comportará...
Study to Test If Wearable Device Can Predict Symptom Worsening
Summary: "Researchers at the University of Alberta are studying whether combining a commercially available wearable device with artificial intelligence can effectively predict symptom worsening in...
Crean el primer marcapasos biodegradable que se disuelve en el cuerpo una vez el corazón ya late correctamente
Summary: "Un marcapasos inalámbrico y biodegradable para quienes necesiten ayuda temporal para corregir problemas del corazón. Es el nuevo trabajo de científicos de la Universidad de Northwestern...
Google Launches a New Medical App
Summary: "Billions of time each year, people turn to Google’s web search box for help figuring out what’s wrong with their skin. Now, Google is preparing to launch an app that uses image...
The next phase for medical wearables
Summary: "Wearable technologies are already beginning to revolutionise medical care, with a host of devices now capable of monitoring an ever-growing array of vital signs and biomarkers. But how can...
Engineers develop a practical way to make artificial skin
Summary: "Stanford researchers show how to print dense transistor arrays on skin-like materials to create stretchable circuits that flex with the body to perform applications yet to be imagined."...
Se despide una edición del Mobile World Congress con la salud como protagonista
Summary: "Acaba la edición del Mobile World Congress (MWC) más excepcional. Después de su cancelación en 2020, el congreso ha vuelto a reactivar la actividad ferial en la ciudad. (...) Durante los...
Barcelona tiene poder: quinta ciudad europea en inversión en ‘digital health’
Summary: "Barcelona tiene poder. En un año que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, la capital catalana ha escalado hasta la quinta posición en el ranking de las ciudades europeas con rondas...
What if an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine?
Summary: "IT WAS A scene that the Nobel committee had dearly hoped to avoid. As the recipients of this year’s prizes filed into the Stockholm Concert Hall to take their seats, dozens of protesters,...
Amazon’s Dive Into Healthcare: A 2021 Update
Summary: "Last November, Jeff Bezos’ company expanded its remote pharmaceutical service further when it launched Amazon Pharmacy in the U.S. The service allows clients to order a “mix of generic and...
Digital health industry sees growing focus on LGBTQ+ health
Summary: "A new market segment is emerging in digital health with the aim of making healthcare more inclusive and accessible for a traditionally overlooked population: the LGBTQ+ community. Prior to...
Using virtual populations for clinical trials
Summary: "A study involving virtual rather than real patients was as effective as traditional clinical trials in evaluating a medical device used to treat brain aneurysms, according to new research....
NASA inches closer to printing artificial organs in space
Summary: " In America, at least 17 people a day die waiting for an organ transpl