Australian organization Hello Sunday Morning has been tackling alcohol abuse for over a decade, with a digital approach, that has by today been developed to the level of a soon to be a digital therapeutic (DTx). Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and lock-down across the world, Hello Sunday Morning has been noticing an increase in alcohol consumption.
Read MoreOn 9 April 2020 Healthday.si and Faces of digital health organised a webinar, supported by Project Arte and Technology Park Ljubljana, about the effects of COVID-19 on health tech funding. Tune in to hear from Nana Bit-Avragim (Germany), Levi Shapiro Israel), Giovanni Loser, investor (Italy), Blaž Triglav, healthcare executive (Slovenia).
Read More“If the Pharma industry doesn’t reinvent itself and its processes, it will become nothing but a supplier to Big Tech, which is rapidly moving into healthcare,” says Paul Simms, CEO and Founder of Eyeforpharma. Paul does believe Pharma companies are putting effort into adopting and helping develop DTx. But as DTx are in their early days of development and adoption, we will see a lot more failures before a universal system will be identified and put in place.
Read MoreDigital therapeutics (DTx) are clinically validated digital solutions with proven positive effects on disease management and outcomes. They must undergo a clinical trial to prove their efficacy, however, they are not regulated the same as new medications, says Jessica Schull, European Lead for the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA), shaping advocacy and organizational engagement for the DTx industry in European countries.
Read MoreWhen Europe became the new epicentre of the Covid-19 spread, and with the steady rise of infected in the US, tech companies offered their knowledge to curb the pandemic: from Covid-19 apps, the rise of telemedicine use in the US, 3D printing in Italy and more efforts to curb the Coronavirus crisis.
Read MoreAs of 2017 healthcare is the leading category of the 78,5 billion in consumer debt collected each year, which is more than 40 times the size of credit card debt. While the number of uninsured is reducing, it is being replaced with the issue of underinsurance. 3 in 10 people reported costs caused them not to take their medicines as prescribed in the past year, writes law professor Christopher T. Robertson in his last book Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It.
Read More“Research shows that if you show up overconfident you have 58% better chance of getting hired. Your demeanour really matters it needs to support the verbal message. Voice, tone and body language present 93% of information absorbed by the listeners, only 7% are words. If voice, the tone is not aligned with the message, you are in trouble,” says Beth.
Read MoreEntrepreneurs, policymakers and doctors are the most common commentators of medicine and healthcare. Patients are in the limelight much less often. Their stories, however, can be very powerful in bringing understanding of the faults of healthcare systems.
Read MoreSocial isolation and loneliness are linked to several health problems such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and even death. Can these problems be alleviated with the help of robots?
Read MoreBuilding communities is time-consuming and demands special soft skills. Aline Noizet is a digital health connector with rich experiences of building and getting to know communities in digital health.
Read MoreIn May 2020, Medical Device Regulation goes into effect. Digital health companies providing software intended for medical use will need to comply with new requirements. According to Jovan Stevović, CEO and Co-Founder of Chino.io, companies are much better prepared for MDR than they were for GDPR.
Read MoreIf the critical issue of data security and privacy protection in the past was how to archive data and prevent unauthorized access to archives, the cloud brought a whole new set of challenges. “AI and machine learning are improving safety, but the bad guys are using these technologies as well,” says Chris Bowen, Founder of ClearDATA.
Read MoreNine opinion leaders in digital health - John Nosta, Rafael Grossmann, Aline Noizet, Brian de Francesca, Irma Rastagayeva, Eugene Borukhovich, Manesh Juneja and Nana bit Avragim and Levi Shapiro - answered a seemingly simple and open-ended question: What are your predictions about trends in digital health and healthcare in 2020?
Read MoreAfrica has 54 countries, that differ a lot in terms of their quality of health care, political situation, and innovation.
Read More"Pinksocks movement is an opportunity to celebrate someone other than yourself. We don't want to monetize it. We wish to keep it as far from business as possible. This doesn't mean the movement doesn't have a real-world impact,“ says Nick Adkins.
Read MoreLess than 600 people traveled to space by today. What do we know about space health so far, and why does it matter for the broader population?
Read MoreAfter 20 years of individual problems with poor sleep, Richard Jacobs decided to take a research approach to the problem.
Read MoreIf we decide to let monetization of healthcare data get out of control, a dystopian future lies ahead.
Read MoreMost AI systems today are developed to aid diagnostics, not influence treatment choices. Compared to diagnosis support tools, which are based on existing diagnostic images, treatment outcomes predictions, and hence therapy suggestions are more complex. They demand more complex clinical trials.
Read MoreVoice applications in healthcare are used in telemedicine, for remote patient monitoring, clinical trials, and more. Bill Rogers, CEO of Orbita - a leading provider of conversational AI for healthcare - explains the current state of voice assistants in healthcare. Orbita helps healthcare organizations tap the power of voice assistants, chatbots, and other conversational AI technologies to engage patients, improve care, and reduce costs.
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