There are a number of players that are trying to disrupt the pharmacy market. Companies such as GoodRx, RxSaver and now Amazon Pharmacy are starting to bring pricing transparency in the field. The Amazon Prime prescription savings benefit can save members up to 80% off generic and 40% off brand name medications when paying without insurance. Truepill is offering healthcare players a fast way to digital transformation.
Read MoreAmong the projects he sees as most promising at the moment are blockchain project used for credentialing (for example read/listen more about HPEC here) of medical professionals, projects using blockchain to adjudicate business contracts between different parties, where adjudication normally happens in silos. There’s also project MELLODY (Machine learning ledger orchestration for drug discovery). This is a collaboration among 10 major pharma companies that are using a blockchain-based infrastructure and federated learning to speed drug development.
Read MoreNew Zealand is not a very large country so one might think digitalization of the healthcare system shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. On the contrary, it is far from simple because of the complex and fragmented healthcare system design.
Read MoreSummus Global enables people from across the world to connect to renowned medical experts. The company has a network of over 4,000 specialists. Their customers come from the US, China, Canada, Philippines, Spain, England, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Turkey, and Ireland.
Read MoreAnthem is striving to become a digital AI-first enterprise and make healthcare far more predictive, far more proactive, transparent, and personalized than it currently is.
Read MoreVirtual reality can have a literally healing effect. Over 5000 studies by today have shown the efficacy of VR for pain management, PTSD, eating disorders, mental health, even helping manage pain during childbirth. The FDA provided a special designation for virtual reality as a breakthrough device for managing pain.
Read MoreAustralia has a national digital health strategy, which predicts that by 2022 the essential, foundational elements of health information that can be safely accessed, easily utilized, and shared. According to dr. Louise Schaper, CEO of Australasian Institute of Digital Health, there's been a lot of government commitment to invest in digital health.
Read MoreSanitas is the leading Spanish health insurance and service provider and have been devoted exclusively to health care for more than 60 years. The Sanitas’ Cima hospital in Barcelona is an exemplar in digital innovation adoption.
Even before COVID, an innovation platform was established which seeks to promote entrepreneurship among employees. Another platform is in place, that aims to attract startup talent in areas such as prevention and genomics, liquid hospital, artificial intelligence, blockchain, data & analytics, and robotics.
Read MoreChronolife is a French company innovating in the space of smart garments for remote patient monitoring. Clothes are not the main innovation of the company, their secret sauce is a patented neuromorphic (bio-mimetic) algorithm, HOTS (Hierarchy Of event-based Time-Surfaces). The algorithm detects and predicts deterioration in patients’ state of health and alerts caregivers to allow earlier intervention and avoid costly hospitalizations.
Read MoreDo you remember the first connected scale? It came to the market in 2009 by a French company called Withings. By today the company created a number of connected health devices and is increasing its efforts to expand its presence in the clinical space.
Read MoreEpisode 101 highlights some of the thoughts about digital health development and factors impacting innovation and solutions design across the world: Venezuela, India, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Read MoreWhat is the state of healthcare in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia? Four presented digital health startups are improving access too health, health data management for healthcare providers, cancer management, and genomics advancements.
Read MoreData gathering is not a problem in COVID-19 race towards a reliable vaccine. The challenge is how to evaluate it, says Glen de Vries, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Medidata. End of July Medidata started working with Moderna to support clinical trials of mRNA-1273, Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
Read MoreWhen Jens Spahn became the health minister In March 2018, Germany quickly became the European Northern star of accelerated healthcare digitization. What exactly happened?
Read MoreORCHA offers app providers a review that gives them oversight of their compliance with different jurisdictions. So far, over 6000 apps have been reviewed. ORCHA, which operates in 6 countries in Europe, New Zealand and UAE, uses 300 data points in their review process.
Read MoreDespite enjoying clinical practice, Benedict Evans still came to a point where he felt he is not passionate enough about what he does, and as a surgeon, he realized he enjoys talking to patients more than treating them when they are under anesthesia. He went to a consulting position at McKinsey, then back to an NHS Trust to drive digital innovation and now to a VC position.
Read MoreLeah Houston is an Emergency Physician who has been following blockchain development since 2012. When a hospital she used to work for stole her identity for fraud billing, she decided to design a blockchain-based solution that would prevent such abuses from happening to any doctor in the future.
Read MoreIn this series with Shawna Butler, Sherezade Ruano, Karmi Soder and Mary Lou Ackerman, you will hear about what nurses actually do, the changing role of nurses in healthcare, relationship nurses have with technology — IT systems, new innovations, why they should be at the policymaking table.
Read MoreKaran Raj is a “veteran” in online education. He founded TheOSCEstation — an online medical education website with videos explaining different medical topics. Given his research interest in the development of medical education and his interest in the role of social media platforms in this mix, going to TikTok was a natural move for him. Following him, you can learn about embarrassing things he did as a doctor, weird things patients have said, and even more unusual topics such as — Can cheese give you nightmares?
Read MoreTikTok is an increasingly popular platform without an age limit of the audience and creators. 15 to 60-second videos offer audience information, challenge them to dance, or just take user’s minds off every day worries. All sorts of professionals are using TikTok to build their brand or just have a little bit of fun. Medical workers are no exception.
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