F077 DTx series 4/5: Want to get rid of back pain? (Mark Liber, Kaia Health)

Kaia Health is a digital therapeutics company offering a solution for mitigating musculoskeletal diseases such as chronic back pain. Kaia Health works by offering the user an AI-supported motion sensor guided exercises, which means that an individual not only tries to follow the video instructions but can get feedback if he is executing the positions correctly or not. The app is additionally supported by an actual coach the user can connect with.

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F073 DTx series 2/5: What's Pharma got to do with digital therapeutics? (Paul Simms)

“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.

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F072 DTx series 1/5: How do DTx differ from medications or digital health apps? (Jessica Shull)

Digital 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.

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F071 Why is St. Louis a hidden digital health ecosystem gem in the US and the latest about digital health efforts for COVID-19

When 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.

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F070 Why is getting sick in the US financially toxic for many people? (Christopher T. Robertson)

As 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.

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F069 What else is there to learn about pitching digital health solutions? (Beth Susanne)

“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. 

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F60 2020: Redefined experience, further progress of DTx and new expectation about investments, quantum computing 

Nine 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? 

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