In developing countries, explanations for health problems or general human biology can be heavily influenced by traditional beliefs. Some communities still believe that during their period, women are cleansing of evil spirits or that a woman giving birth to twins is a bad omen. The solution to these misconceptions is education. But to provide it, health education companies face infrastructure challenges and technology affordability issues.
Read MoreThree segments of the digital health market are worth keeping an eye on: big tech, digital pharmacy, and retail, says Erin Brodwin, Health Tech Correspondent for STAT News.
Read MoreIn January 2021 a jury in Montana delivered what is believed to be the first verdict in a wrongful life case, awarding over $400,000 compensation for medical and emotional costs due to the unwanted treatment of Rodney Knoepfle. In theory, patients have the right and option to draft an advanced care plan, a written document with their preferences about advanced medical treatment, life support, and resuscitation in case of a serious health event.
Read MoreIn a world where everything is personalized, it is only natural to match caregivers with the elderly based on personality profiles.
Read More4 digital health Japanese startups, directly and indirectly, addressing healthy aging.
Read MoreAI is complex and when introduced to the clinical practice, adoption is anything but easy. “On the one hand, there's the hype machine that provides these very extravagant articles about magical things that you can do it with AI. Then there's the reality of what can be achieved and what can be done. At Hacarus we’re addressing this with a training program for the medical industry, which we call the Hacarus AI Academy. This is a full course program, where we train doctors, medical professionals, researchers in pharmaceutical companies, the basics of how to work with AI. “
Read MoreNo doubt, mobile technology has brought massive improvements to public health. One of the challenges we still need to overcome though is gender stereotyping. Women also often suffer from inequity in healthcare because they are for many reasons at the bottom of the ladder in their access to even using technology, says Dr. Padmini (Mini) Murthy.
Read MoreCrista Galli Ventures Fund is especially attentive to giving an opportunity to founder with under-represented backgrounds. The fund was founded by Dr. Fiona Pathiraja who is a radiologist by training.
Read MoreMusic can change our mood, energize us, make us feel invincible. It goes beyond that: it can heal. MedRythms is a digital therapeutics company that received a Breakthrough Device designation from the FDA for its patented digital therapeutic that treats chronic stroke walking deficits.
Read MoreMedication management is a complicated, expensive, and complex healthcare problem. Because taking medications is only on a small part of patient’s lives, taking them correctly can be complicated and burdensome. On Medisafe, patients manage almost 30,000 medication doses every hour. The app is free for the users, but the generated data creates value that helps partners of Medisafe to promote collaboration and improved decision-making throughout the healthcare industry.
Read MoreDr. Dimitri Varsamis is Senior Policy Lead for digital primary care at NHS England. End of 2020 he published a report titled Incentives and levers for digitising and integrating primary care in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA - lessons for the UK’s NHS. Dr. Varsamis researched primary care digitalisation prior to the global coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreIn some aspects, January 2021 seems like March 2020. In March, the virus was here, but we didn’t know much about it. By 2021, the vaccine is here, but it’s unclear if enough people will get vaccinated. Will it be a few months or more before the vaccinated individuals will need to get a booster dose? What will be the impact of the new strain of coronavirus that’s spreading faster than the previous strains? There’s a lot of factors it seems that to make a point against being overly optimistic. John Nosta disagrees.
Read MoreThe future in digital health with some of the experts and opinion leaders from the digital health industry across the world. You can hear from experts from the US, Israel, Mexico, Chile, Spain, and South Korea. They shared their thoughts about the state and future of digital health globally.
Read MoreThe idea behind regenerative medicine is to enable medicine to use human cells as therapies. This means that instead of using artificial joints and other implants we currently use for healing, we could use cells that would regenerate our own tissues. This would disrupt the industry of joint replacement implants and surgery.
Read MoreThere 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.
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