In January, we invited Alexandre Lebrun - CEO of Nabla and Israel Krush, CEO of Hyro - two companies specializing in AI in healthcare, to join a debate to clarify the state of natural language processing in healthcare.
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Symptom checkers have been around for a while. However, research shows that their reliability is still poor and varies substantially among providers, says a systematic review published in Nature in 2022.
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Symptom checkers have been around for a while. However, research shows that their reliability is still poor and varies substantially among providers, says a systematic review published in Nature in 2022.
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How will healthcare look like in 2033, realistically, without hype?
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“9 out of 10 students indicate that their campus is in a full-blown mental health crisis. Prior to Covid, 10% of all of our visits were focused on mental health. And at this point, close to 80% of all of the visits that we have with students are our related to mental health,” says Luke Hejl, CEO of TimelyMD, the leading virtual health and well-being solution for college students.
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The pandemic has significantly increased the need for mental healthcare and destigmatized discussing wellbeing and mental health issues in everyday conversation. Unfortunately, the number of quality providers of mental health services is still much lower than the demand, and the number of people that are seeking help is rising.
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If someone told you to get an eye exam, would you associate that with a virtual reality headset? It might be where ophthalmology diagnostics will end up in the near future.
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Where is blockchain in 2022, what can we expect in the future, how it relates to web3, and what could NFT - nonfungible tokens do for healthcare?
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The biggest open question around the European Health Data Space (EHDS) are timelines, says Nick Schneider, Head of division 511 on new technologies and data use at the Germany Federal Ministry of Health.
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Nurses play a key role in patient care, but their contribution to patient outcomes is often undervalued and underappreciated. It took a pandemic to create a major shift in their job opportunities and power to negotiate.
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To many outside observers, the UK healthcare system and the NHS seem centralized and consolidated. It’s far from it.
One of the highly ancipated news at the HLTH2022 event - the largest digital health event, which is taking place in Las Vegas between the 13-16th, was the release of the global digital health report, prepared by FINN Partners and Galen Growth | Global HealthTech Insights.
Tune in to a short 10 min discussion published on Faces Of Digital Health Podcast with Julien de Salaberry.
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In this episode, Hannes Toivanen, Lead, Global Digital Ecosystem Engagement at Takeda, and Jesus Jeronimo, Director of New Digital Services & Products at Sanitas + BUPA ELA. Jesus and Hannes talked about how pharma, insurance companies, and healthcare providers work with startups, and what makes a successful partnership.
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OneLondon is a project that supports a vision of joined-up health and care. It is a pan-London collaboration between leaders from the 5 Integrated Care Systems in the capital. London’s healthcare system is complex. It covers a population of 10 million people and is connecting 35 NHS Trusts and 1385 GP practices.
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Too often, patients need to repeat their medical history when in contact with different healthcare providers. Consequently, clinicians need more time to make decisions than necessary because they can’t access patient data. London managed to digitize urgent care plans.
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This series of discussions gives an overview of the current state of cancer care, advancements made due to genomics progress, how innovators are leveraging genomics and AI to advance drug research, and what happens when patients survive cancer.
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More than 1 million sexually transmitted infections (including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV hepatitis, and other infections), are acquired daily worldwide. Most STIs are asymptomatic, making early detection that much more critical to prevent the spread of these diseases. This is where at-home diagnostics will potentially make a difference.
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A systemic approach to care for non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes is Africa is in its early stages, with the biggest challenge for patients being the price of medications, says Anne Stake, Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Medtronic Labs.
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In Africa, the regulation for medical devices still needs to be put in place. Most medical devices are imported because there often aren’t any local capacities for larger manufacturing of devices.
Taking into account the low buying power of most healthcare providers, this results in Africa being donated second-rate medical equipment, says Herve Mwamba, South African entrepreneur, regulatory, and quality assurance consultant.
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There are “five rights” of medication use: the right patient, the right drug, the right time, the right dose, and the right route. It might seem obvious, but in practice, an error can occur at the level of each of these “right”s.
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