Summary: "El paciente está cogiendo mucho peso en el proceso de elección de los productos farmacéuticos, bien porque se co-responsabiliza cada vez más de la gestión de su enfermedad y su...
Machines can do most of a psychologist’s job. The industry must prepare for disruption
Summary: "Psychology and other “helping professions” such as counselling and social work are often regarded as quintessentially human domains. Unlike workers in manual or routine jobs, psychologists...
How Robotic Technology Is Advancing In Healthcare Industry?
Summary: "“Healthcare Industry has started to embrace the robotic technology which is paving the way for improved services. Let us learn more about it through this blog!” The progression of various...
Beware hype over AI-based healthcare in lower-income countries
Summary: "While there is great potential for artificial intelligence to improve cancer care in low- and middle-income countries, there is also great hype surrounding the technology." "Terms such as...
How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Medicine?
Summary: "Thanks to the technology that we have at our hands these days, our everyday lives are much easier. We are able to complete multiple tasks without even leaving the comfort of our homes,...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about news from Seven Bridges, Outcomes4Me, Carrum Health and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 08|02|2021 Source:MedCity...
Health HUB Vienna – Transformation of the Healthcare System
Summary: "Health Hub Vienna is a platform for open innovation in healthcare. Pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, private and public insurance companies, healthcare suppliers and...
A Female-Founded Startup Is Using AI to Improve In Vitro Fertilization Success
Summary: "Undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) is no easy process and therefore it is only untaken by those who deeply desire to have a child. However, these individuals often find their dreams...
Startup Ozette unveils AI approach to understanding the immune system
Summary: "Ozette applies artificial intelligence to immune monitoring to gain greater insight into a cancer patient's immune system. Beyond informing treatment decisions, the technology can guide...
3 Reasons Why National Digital Health Transformations Fail
Summary: An armada of digital health technologies is set to bring healthcare to the 21st century. Artificial intelligence can make the alarm fatigue epidemic a thing of the past....
How to Build a Strategic Digital Health Function within Biopharma
Summary: "Key takeaways on digital health from the 2021 JP Morgan Healthcare conference." "During the 2021 JP Morgan Healthcare conference, I had the opportunity to virtually sit down with Karan...
Latest trends in medical monitoring devices and wearable health technology
Summary: "Wearable technology in healthcare includes electronic devices that consumers can wear, like Fitbits and smartwatches, and are designed to collect the data of users' personal health and...
Adopting a Member-Centered Approach to Digital Health Management
Summary: "Payers have a real opportunity to play a meaningful role in the future of healthcare as an advocate for patients." "The coronavirus pandemic has proved to be a watershed moment for how...
The Cultivation of Digital Health Citizenship
"Seeing the digital as productive of citizenship, rather than facilitative of it, this paper unpacks the contested role of technology in acts of digital health citizenship. Drawing on longitudinal...
Ensoma Launches with $70 Million Series A and Takeda Licensing Deal
Summary: "With a Takeda collaboration already in its pocket, Ensoma announced a $70 million Series A round to help develop its platform of engineered gene therapy vectors for off-the-shelf in...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Carrum Health, an innovative surgery benefit offered to self-insured employers, announced that it is expanding the availability of complex cardiac care for its members with Cleveland...
Biotech entrepreneur George Church launches gene therapy startup to design safer viral vectors
Summary: "Adeno-associated viruses have become popular vectors for the delivery of gene therapies. But, despite their relatively safe profile, they can trigger some unwanted immune responses, which...
AI revolution in medicine
Summary: "It may lift personalized treatment, fill gaps in access to care, cut red tape but risks abound" "Third in a series that taps the expertise of the Harvard community to examine the promise...
Top 6 Crowdsourcing Examples In Digital Health
Summary: "During your school years, you might have encountered several instances where your teacher laid out a task or asked a question, and asked you and your classmates to come up with an answer...
Telehealth innovation spurred amid COVID with virtual visits, wearable monitoring devices
Summary: "Telehealth is giving a whole new meaning to the term “house call” as the technology connecting doctor and patient is expanding to include primary care visits to cancer care." "While the...
Barcelona Health Hub is recognized as one of the top digital health organizations
Summary: "It’s well known that cooperation is the key to success. Whether you want to keep up with peer professionals, stay up to date on the latest developments, establish new partnerships, or...
AI-powered healthcare isn’t without pitfalls, but its potential is vast
Summary: "Algorithms are poised to change everything about keeping people healthy—including patients who might never have the opportunity to see a human doctor." "The idea of AI (artificial...
What Does the Future Hold for Robotic Surgery?
Summary: "Remote surgery has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, but what’s necessary to make it a reality?" "One development that could mitigate the gap, however, is the expanding role of...
Malaysia-Sweden collaborate to launch Digital Health Innovation Challenge
Summary: "The initiative invites startups registered in Malaysia to identify next-generation solutions for healthcare challenges, esp. non-communicable diseases (NCD)" "The initiative is a...
Vertical Aging: The Digital Neighbour Network
Summary: "AMS Healthcare partnered with UHN OpenLab to explore the trend of Canadian seniors increasingly moving to urban apartments, condos and co-ops in order to remain living independently. The...
Push Doctor partners with Well Pharmacy on UK’s first ‘pharmacy-first’ digital service
Summary: "Digital healthcare company Push Doctor has partnered with Well Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy chain, on the launch of the UK’s first ‘pharmacy-first’ digital health service in a bid to...
Digital Health Hubs
Summary: "Cooperation is the key to success. Whether you want to keep up with market trends, establish new business partnerships, or pitch your ideas and solutions, joining one of the industry...
Este corazón artificial de última generación saldrá al mercado este mismo año
Summary: "Carmat, una startup francesa que afirma haber fabricado el “corazón artificial más avanzado del mundo”, anunció recientemente que planea comenzar a vender su dispositivo en Europa...
Estos exoesqueletos, creados y fabricados en España, reducen los tiempos de rehabilitación
Summary: "Al repetir de forma consciente y continuada un movimiento, por ejemplo, cuando un exoesqueleto te hace andar, nuestro cerebro, como tiene espasticidad, las neuronas son capaces de...
Immersive Emergency Point-of-care Ultrasound Training Solution
Summary: "New technology introduces a new level of realism to pediatric emergency training" "Gaumard Scientific Co., a healthcare simulation company committed to industry leadership through...
Focus on infrastructure to support the most disruptive changes to health care; home hospital care
Summary: "As we witness the remarkable and unprecedented acceleration of telehealth, our industry must harness emerging technologies to support new models of care. There is no better place to do...
A new era for healthcare in your home
Summary: "Eligible South Australians can now receive hospital-level care from the comfort and privacy of their own home, with the rollout of the new My Home Hospital across metropolitan Adelaide."...
La impresión 3D aplicada a la farmacia ya tiene centro de investigación en Álava
Summary: "La Diputación Foral de Álava, la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) y el centro de investigación y desarrollo tecnológico Tecnalia van a poner en marcha un Centro de Investigación en...
IDIA and the WHO announce strategic collaboration to support the scale-up of health innovations
Summary: "The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) today signed a strategic Collaborative Agreement to support the scaling of health...
Digital innovation in the pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries
Summary: "The pharmaceutical and chemicals industries are no strangers to digital technology, with decades of experimentation using data and statistical techniques to improve productivity and...
It’s time to be more open-minded to newcomers moving into health, even from tech
Summary: "Silicon Valley types like to talk about disrupting things. But health care doesn’t want to be disrupted." "Who wants to see their medical care taken over by a bunch of techies willing to...
Female-Founded Telehealth Startup Calibrate Announces $22.5 Million Series A
Summary: "When Calibrate—the female-founded telehealth startup trying to disrupt the $70 billion weight loss industry—came out of stealth mode in June, it was operating in three states, had 10...
NIH launches database to track neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19
Summary: "The body’s response to COVID-19 infection on the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscle can be particularly devastating." "A new database will collect information from clinicians about...
Octopus Ventures to launch £100m fund to capitalise on the ‘digital healthcare revolution’
Summary: "Octopus Ventures will look to transform public healthcare systems across the continent and emerging markets by ramping up its investment activity." Article written by Damian Shepherd...
The European startups hacking the ageing process
Summary: "For the first time in human history, more people die from diseases that come as a consequence of old age — such as cancer and heart attacks — than infectious disease. It is also the first...
Anthem Has Started A Digital Incubator For Innovative Healthcare Solutions
Summary: "Anthem Inc, one of the world’s largest healthcare solutions company, is venturing into healthcare innovation through its Anthem Digital Incubator platform." "Earlier this month, Anthem’s...
Glovo empieza a vender test de antígenos desde su app, aprovechando la crisis de la COVID-19
Summary: "En un plazo de 2 horas, un sanitario llega a tu casa y te hace un test de antígenos para saber si eres positivo en coronavirus. ¿La novedad? El pedido lo puedes hacer por Glovo. Desde...
Introducing the EIT Health startup database – a European healthtech community
Summary: "We’re pleased to launch the EIT Health startup database. The new open-access platform is dedicated to tracking EIT Health supported startups. EIT Health provides acceleration...
Teamit Research participates in H2O, a European project set to empower patients
Summary: "BHH member Teamit Research participates in the Health Outcomes Observatory (H20) project which focuses on the creation of an innovative, ethical framework to collect and govern patient...
Así es cómo el uso de videojuegos favorece la curación de los niños con cáncer
Summary: "Un estudio científico pionero realizado en el Hospital La Paz de Madrid ha revelado que el uso de los videojuegos puede favorecer la curación de los niños enfermos de cáncer. En concreto,...
Biotech firms strike partnership to strengthen R&D in metabolomics
Summary: "Biotech players OWL and BIOSFER have entered into a strategic partnership with a view to strengthening R&D in developing diagnosis methods and personalised medicine using...
Philips and Merck partner to develop personalised fertility treatment
Summary: "Remote patient monitoring, cloud-based platform services and AI-enabled ultrasound diagnoses will be used to improve outcomes in fertility treatment." "Netherlands-based global health...
EL AUGE DE LA TELEMEDICINA IMPULSA EL BARCELONA HEALTH HUB
Summary: "Este nodo de innovación potencia el desarrollo de las startups de salud digital desde el Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, haciéndolas convivir bajo un mismo techo con grandes corporaciones...
Rwanda venture tests digital health potential in developing world
Summary: "Babylon’s high take-up masks concerns for equality of access and hyping of AI capabilities." "Babylon’s telemedicine service has since registered 2m users across the African nation and...
Solo la diversidad de datos ayudará a eliminar los sesgos de la inteligencia artificial
Summary: "CES 2021 acogió una mesa redonda donde se plantearon los desafíos de esta problemática y cómo empezar a ofrecer soluciones." "La eliminación de los sesgos es uno de los principales...
Google completes Fitbit acquisition
Summary: "For more than a decade, Fitbit has helped people around the world live healthier, more active lives. A clear pioneer in the industry, Fitbit built a vibrant community of more than 29...
7 Digital Health Trends We’ll Keep An Eye On In 2021 – The Medical Futurist
Summary: "Tech is often criticized for a culture of moving fast and breaking things. But what we saw this year was tech enabling bio and healthcare to move fast, to heal. We will always...
It’s Time to Heal: 16 Trends Driving the Future of Bio and Healthcare
Summary: "Tech is often criticized for a culture of moving fast and breaking things. But what we saw this year was tech enabling bio and healthcare to move fast, to heal. We will always need...
Monitoring, tracking, and alert products for those 60+ among innovative tech introduced at CES 2021
Summary: "The growing population of older citizens will soon have an arsenal of helpful technology." "It's official. We're getting older and there are increasingly more of us. The World Health...
Young People’s Use of Digital Health Technologies in the Global North: Narrative Review
Summary: "Over the past decade, an expanding array of digital technologies have emerged that can be used for promoting or managing young people’s health and physical fitness. These devices and media...
Digital health in spotlight as virus shifts tech show focus
Summary: "Digital health care is in the spotlight at the tech industry’s big event this week amid a pandemic that has highlighted the importance of remote services, with a potentially lasting impact...
Moving digital health forward: Lessons on business building
"Building a successful digital health business involves several strategic steps, as illustrated through the lens of six digital health start-ups." "Established companies in the life sciences,...
Biotech Voices: Next-gen therapies are evolving fast. The drug development model needs to keep up
Summary: "In the current regulatory environment, after an important discovery is made, a trial alteration is required, which is a costly and lengthy process that limits the ability to bring novel...
AI Drug Discovery Startup Valo Raises $190 Million And Unveils Cancer Therapy Programs
Summary: "Valo Health, which is developing a drug discovery platform powered by both artificial intelligence and large patient datasets, announced Monday that it’s working on multiple targets that...
5 Predictions for Digital Healthcare in 2021
Summary: "In 2020, the world witnessed in disbelief how a virus shut down the world. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept through nations, it paralyzed healthcare systems across the globe, prompting calls...
Google’s quantum computing division will help develop new drugs
Summary: "Google’s Quantum AI division is teaming with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to develop new types of drugs, the companies announced. The idea is to research and develop quantum...
Forecast: Health Care In 2021 Will Focus On ‘Digitization Of The Patient Experience’
Summary: "Digital health startups are likely to see continued opportunity, investment and initial public offerings in the new year as people rethink the way health care is delivered." "Investors in...
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare after COVID-19
Summary: "AI is on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight. It can play an even bigger role in healthcare afterward." "The Covid-19 pandemic put most of the world on pause for a year. Still, there is...
Israel performs first-ever augmented reality, 3D eye socket surgery
Summary: "The innovative technology utilizing a 3D printer and augmented reality resulted in a both a particularly accurate execution of the operation, and a significant reduction in time." Article...
5G will be crucial for the security of critical sectors like healthcare
Summary: "5G connectivity will play a vital role for organizations in critical industries like healthcare, as will 5G cyber security." "5G will not just have lightning-fast connectivity and...
Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab
Summary: "As Strickland watched Post from her kitchen table, she began thinking about how she might be able to use a process like his to grow not artificial beef but the cells that produce breast...
Google’s five buzziest healthcare moves in 2020
Summary: "Google's activity in 2020 highlight how it's leveraging its cloud service to widen its stance in healthcare. In this third and final installment of our Big Tech Countdown, we recount...
Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Merck, Teva y Amazon unen fuerzas para crear un laboratorio de innovación en Israel
Summary: "La Autoridad de Innovación de Israel y el Ministerio Digital Nacional israelí han anunciado este domingo que cuatro farmacéuticas (Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Merck y Teva), el Fondo Biotech de...
Are AI Biases a Risk in Healthcare?
Summary: "The use of AI or Artificial Intelligence in healthcare has been increasing in the past decade. This is because it makes the process of assisting patients and doctors during times of need a...
Proximie: the startup rethinking surgery with augmented reality
Summary: "Healthtech startup Proximie has seen a 430% increase in the number of surgeries it's been used in this year" "The UK-based startup Proximie, which has developed an augmented reality tool...
Neos Surgery recibe 1,9 millones de la CE para mejorar el tratamiento de la hernia discal
Summary: "La financiación se destinará a la validación clínica del dispositivo Disc care, que se ha diseñado para dar respuesta a una necesidad médica no resuelta como es la herniación del disco...
Gene editing has made pigs immune to a deadly epidemic
Summary: "When covid-19 began to race around the world, countries closed businesses and told people to stay home. Many thought that would be enough to stop the coronavirus. If we had paid more...
Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model
Summary: "Highmark’s Living Health model is designed to eliminate the fragmentation in health care by re-engineering the healthcare delivery model with a more coordinated, personalized,...
Highline Beta invests in Aifred Health to support its mission of improving clinical decision making for mental health
Summary: "Aifred Health’s technology, including AI-based insights, provide information to physicians on the right treatment for each individual patient.". Article written by Unknown 11|12|2020...
Una nueva versión de la aplicación de Xemio se integrará en un proyecto europeo sobre cáncer y BIG DATA
Summary: "A partir de enero del año próximo se pone en marcha el proyecto que incluye nuestro piloto. El piloto, al que llamamos mACMA, es un ensayo de viabilidad de la participación de pacientes...
Un emprendedor español se hace con el primer premio europeo a la innovación
Summary: "El emprendedor español Andreu Climent, CEO de la startup Corify Care y profesor asociado de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), consiguió el primer premio en la categoría de...
Covid-19 is bringing digital therapeutics to the forefront of medicine
Summary: "In what may have sounded like a futuristic scenario mere months ago, doctors today can prescribe a video game treatment for their patients. Children with ADHD are now “playing” their...
What One Health System Learned About Providing Digital Services in the Pandemic
Summary: "Even before the pandemic struck, Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare had been aggressively employing telehealth. During the pandemic, telehealth and other digital services have...
How Sutter Health Is Changing Healthcare Through Empathy and Human-Centered Design
Summary: "Chris Waugh is not your typical healthcare chief innovation officer. When explaining what his team wants to accomplish, his conversation doesn't launch with a discussion about how...
Digital inequalities are a problem but we don’t have all the answers
Summary: "Digital inequalities have been an increasing priority, not just as digital access to services has become more prevalent within the health and care system, but also as other public services...
‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at protein folding
Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) has solved one of biology's grand challenges: predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry out...
How Big Data Could Revitalize the Pharmaceutical Industry
Summary: "Big data has become one of the biggest businesses around. The evolution of fields like network virtualization and machine learning has given businesses access to larger pools of...
Reversing vision loss by turning back the aging clock
Summary: Aging has implications for a wide range of diseases. Researchers have been looking for ways to halt the aging process for millennia, but such methods remain elusive. Scientists at Harvard...
Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain
Summary: "Technologies such as noninvasive brain stimulation and virtual reality gaming offer insights into how dreams arise and what functions they might serve." "Adam Haar Horowitz is the first to...
Global strategy on digital health 2020–2025
Summary: A terrific report by the World Health Organization explains what the next five years of digital health innovation can look like and what the industry’s strategy should be for utilizing...
Imagining perfect molecules using AI – a benchmarking system for generative chemistry
Summary: Insilico Medicine together with collaborators announces the publication of Molecular Sets (MOSES), a benchmarking system for generative chemistry models Article written...
Enhancing cancer-fighting T cells by manipulating their microenvironment
Summary: Genetically engineered T cells have been successful in treating blood cancers but have yielded limited benefits in solid tumors. Scientists have explored different combination strategies to...
Elon Musk’s Starlink May Potentially Revolutionize Healthcare
Summary: For many, high-speed broadband internet has incredible implications for connectivity. One of the most important potential benefits of this technology may be its impact on healthcare and...
Why we need Artificial Intelligence in healthcare now
Summary: In this article, Amy Molten, Paediatrician and the Director of Medicine for Buoy Health, an Artificial Intelligence-powered healthcare navigation platform, discusses the vital role of...
Does Artificial Intelligence Design New Drugs Or Discover Them?
Summary: What is discovery? In mathematics, there is this age-old question of whether new math is discovered or invented. It makes sense to ask the same sort of question about modern drug discovery....
Vericool Launching Vaccine Recyclable and Compostable Shipping Cooler
Summary: "Vericool, the inventors of the world’s first recyclable/biodegradable cooler, have developed a worldwide sustainable thermal solution for shipping COVID-19 vaccines that is both recyclable...
Innovar para reinventar los seguros en la era digital
Accenture y Zurich cuentan en ‘Innovar para Vivir’ cómo está siendo la transformación digital del sector seguros Article written by Unknown 22|11|2020...
Medical technology gives healthcare a shot in the arm
Coronavirus has killed hundreds of thousands of people and has strained health systems around the world, but for Tony Young there may be a patch of a silver lining. The pandemic is accelerating use...
Pandemic will accelerate AI adoption, healthcare leaders predict
An Intel survey of healthcare decision-makers suggests great excitement for more widespread artificial intelligence and machine learning adoption, but also some skepticism. Article written by Kat...
Digital health acceleration shows no signs of slowing down
Investors expect to see more innovation, collaboration and adoption going into the new year and beyond. Article written by Mallory Hackett 19|11|2020 Source:Mobi Health...
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery
Summary: Amazon is making its biggest push into the healthcare industry yet with the launch today of Amazon Pharmacy: a new service offering home delivery for prescription medication. Article...
Levels raises $12 million for biowearable that tracks impact of diet on health
Summary: Fledgling biowearables startup Levels has raised a hefty seed round for a system that tracks the impact of diet on human health and promises to help users improve conditions like...
When AI can save lives
Summary: Healthcare has once again fallen under the spotlight, given the current global situation. Medical science has undoubtedly improved rapidly, extending life expectancy across the globe. But...
HOW DIGITAL HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY CAN REINVENT THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
Summary: "Everything else in life has become accessible with the click of a button or a swipe on a phone — so why can’t the act of going to the doctor be just as convenient?" "As a surgeon of nearly...
Vodafone releases report on how 5G and IoT technology can transform healthcare
Summary: The report surveyed 2,000 people on their attitudes towards advancing technology in health and social care and contains government recommendations. Article written by Sophie Porter...
Así plantan cara a la COVID las compañías farmacéuticas en España
Summary: Desde el pasado febrero las compañías farmacéuticas trabajan sin descanso en torno a cuatro grandes frentes que han surgido a consecuencia de la pandemia. Article written by Thais Escamilla...
Swedish health tech startup Mendi crowdfunds €3 million for neurofeedback device
Summary: Mendi, a Swedish health tech startup creating consumer devices for brain health, has raised €3 million through Kickstarter and Indiegogo, where customers ordered over 10,000 Mendi...
How can 5G connect a post-COVID healthcare ecosystem?
Summary: 5G networks could transform all of the critical components of healthcare, a subject especially meaningful today as the spread of the coronavirus has put unprecedented stress on healthcare...
Google partners with imaging software firm Claritas HealthTech for new teleradiology platform
Summary: Google Cloud Healthcare API and Singapore-based Claritas HealthTech have partnered to launch a new teleradiology product known as tRAD, the pair announced on Thursday. Article written...
Telefónica crea Koa Health, el ‘spin out’ de Alpha, junto con Ancora Finance Group y Wellington Partners
Summary: La nueva compañía contará con una inversión inicial de 14 millones de euros que podría elevarse hasta los 30 millones. Article written by Fernando Cano 05|11|2020...
La Covid, catalizadora de patentes en España
Summary: Las solicitudes de patentes en España han pasado de 985 a 1.120 este 2020. INNOVADORES habla con expertos del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, el CSIC, Pons IP y la Universidad Politécnica de...
MACHINE LEARNING DISCOVERS POTENTIAL NEW TUBERCULOSIS DRUGS
Summary: Many biologists use machine learning (ML) as a computational tool to analyze a massive amount of data, helping them to recognise potential new drugs. MIT researchers have now integrated a...
HOW CAN AI CONTRIBUTE TO A CORONAVIRUS VACCINE?
Summary: Biomedical research of vaccines against COVID-19 was already being tested in humans in March. Three months after the initial outbreak was identified in China, many of those owed their rapid...
Solarea Bio Announces Series A Financing Led by S2G Ventures and Bold Capital Partners
Summary: Financing will advance its musculoskeletal product through a clinical proof of activity trial as well as continue the discovery and development of its ongoing pipeline of microbial-based...
Facilitar los procesos de innovación, clave para avanzar en salud digital
Summary: La actual crisis sanitaria provocada por el Covid-19 ha puesto en evidencia, más que nunca, las oportunidades que la salud digital proporciona a organizaciones sanitarias y ciudadanos....
Apple, Google, Amazon And The $9 Trillion Battle Over The Future Of HealthTech: Former Apple CEO John Sculley
Summary: Apple has the most popular health wearable on the planet. Google bought Fitbit. Amazon just released the Halo Band. All now have a fitness and health subscription service. Article written...
Pharma, take note: Millennials plan to spend more on meds, study says
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has millennials worried—and that has them planning to buy more prescription drugs in the future, new research finds. Article written by Sharon Klahr Coey 15|10|2020...
Spain’s Savana Medica raises $15 million to bring to the US its AI toolkit turning clinical notes into care insights
Summary: Savana,, a machine learning-based service that turns clinical notes into structured patient information for physicians and pharmacists, has raised $15 million to take its technology from...
Quil launches in-home health monitoring solution as telemedicine usage explodes
Summary: Quil Health, a joint venture from Comcast and the Independence Health Group, today announced plans to launch a product that connects caregivers with loved ones. The Quil Assure platform...
La industria farmacéutica ofrece innovación, inversión y empleo
Summary: La industria farmacéutica en España ofrece investigación, innovación, inversión, industrialización y empleo estable de calidad para contribuir a...
El Parc Científic se abre a las ‘start-ups’ tecnológicas
Summary: El Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB) ha empezado a comercializar 1.200 m2de nuevas instalaciones que destinará a captar empresas de tecnología médica ( medtech ). Article written by Rosa...
Digital mental health subscription service Cerebral lands $35M
Summary: Digital mental health company Cerebral announced that it closed its Series A funding round with $35 million. The investment was led by Oak HC/FT with participation from Westcap, Liquid 2...
2020 breaks record in digital health investment with $9.4B in funding
Summary: With $9.4 billion invested up through the third quarter, 2020 will be the largest funding year for digital health to date. Article written by Heather Landi 07|10|2020 Source:Fierce...
Health Innovation Tops $6.6B in Funding and IPO Market Heats Up in Record Third Quarter
Summary: The third quarter of 2020 ended with more than $6.6B in health innovation funding, making it the most-funded quarter this market has ever seen since we began tracking funding in 2010....
Implementation of an on-demand app-based heart rate and rhythm monitoring infrastructure for the management of atrial fibrillation through teleconsultation: TeleCheck-AF
Summary: "During the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, outpatient visits in the atrial fibrillation (AF) clinic of the Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+) were transferred into...
How health tech companies are ramping up and adopting new technologies to capture the mHealth market
Summary: As epidemics and a shortage of healthcare workers continue to impact the healthcare system arround the world, the growth of telemedicine and the increasing popularity of mHealth solutions...
Curar el cerebro, el próximo objetivo de las nuevas tecnologías
Summary: La inteligencia artificial y la realidad virtual se están utilizando ya para personalizar tratamientos y mejorar los diagnósticos de pacientes con enfermedades mentales y neurológicas....
These Are The Startups Applying AI To Transform Healthcare
Summary: Artificial intelligence offers an unprecedented opportunity to stop the broken helthcare sector in the US and reshape its practice in the clinical, administrative an pharmaceutical...
Así funcionan los dispositivos que leen y modifican el cerebro para mejorar capacidades humanas
Summary: El desarrollo de las interfaces cerebro-máquina y la evolución de la IA son la clave para conseguir humanos sanos con habilidades mejoradas. El escenario abre múltiples interrogantes éticos...
Una mirada de futuro sobre el healthtech más allá del COVID-19
Summary: La crisis sanitaria ha supuesto un importante espaldarazo a la implementación del healthtech pero estas nuevas soluciones tecnológicas tienen que respetar el nuevo marco europeo y promover...
Back to the future: Digital health-led decentralization of healthcare delivery
Summary: Flare Capital Partners principal Ian Chiang identifies the innovators and trends that will drive decentralization of healthcare in the coming years. Article written by Ian Chiang...
La industria farmacéutica reclama ser un pilar en la reconstrucción
Summary: La crisis del Coronavirus está ofreciendo la oportunidad de rediseñar un sector muy estratégico tanto para la salud como para la capacidad económica e industrial de un estado. Article...
The future of tech in healthcare: wearables?
Summary: Despite great feats in tech innovation over recent years, modern healthcare continues to remain relatively undisrupted. Article written by Nick Ismail 15|08|2020 Source:Information...
20 Spanish healthtech companies to watch
Summary: The Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem boasts a high quality of healthtech startups, ranging from drug discovery to novel virtual reality therapies. Article written by Tim Smith 26|06|2020...
Five innovative startups improving the lives of people with diabetes
Summary: "The diabetes epidemic is a growing concern in many parts of the world. In the UK, over 3.9 million people have the chronic illness, which Diabetes UK estimates will increase to 5...
4 reasons why hospitals looking for real innovation should listen to their intrapreneurs
Summary: Given today’s healthcare challenges such as the ageing population or the management of chronic patients, healthcare organisations are under pressure to adapt their care to the new times. We...
How Germany vows to become a top country for digital health solution providers
Summary: Ralf-Gordon Jahns, managing director of Research2Guidance, explains what Germany's Digital Care Act is all about. Article written by Ralf-Gordon Jahns 17|03|2020 Source:Mobi Health...
How Germany vows to become a top country for digital health solution providers
Summary: Ralf-Gordon Jahns, managing director of Research2Guidance, explains what Germany's Digital Care Act is all about. Article written by Ralf-Gordon Jahns 17|03|2020 Source:Mobi Health...
5 Predictions for HealthTech in 2020
Summary: While innovative technologies are transforming the delivery of care and improving outcomes, US's healthcare system ranks one of the worst among high-income nations. Here are 5 healthtech...
How well can computers connect symptoms to diseases?
Summary: "A new MIT study finds “health knowledge graphs,” which show relationships between symptoms and diseases and are intended to help with clinical diagnosis, can fall short for certain...
Sanofi Health-U 2019: innovación a través de Corporate Entrepreneurship
Summary: Las oportunidades no siempre nacen de forma orgánica en las organizaciones, sino que pueden surgir de sinergias con el ecosistema. En esta línea muchas empresas lanzan programas de...
Health services: the new revenue stream for Apple
Summary: When companies reach the point where current product portfolio growth becomes more complicated, servitization becomes a clear growth driver. Article written by Equipo Connociam 01|10|2019...
10 pioneering health-tech start-ups set to have a global impact
Summary: The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers of 2019 lists 10 innovative health companies tackling global healthcare issues. Article written by Unknown 01|08|2019...
The Gamification of Healthcare May Boost Patient Adherence and Outcomes
Summary: "Your smartwatch is inviting you to add a little competition to your workouts. You can earn badges for reaching milestones you’ve set for yourself or that are associated with group...
Why tech companies keep hitting the same wall when they try to get into health care
Summary: [...] But these companies keep hitting the same stumbling block: the inability to share health information across medical systems. Millions of patients are learning that they can’t share...
Precision medicine: Opening the aperture
Summary: To keep pace with the evolving ecosystem for precision medicine, pharma players must be attuned to three crucial components: data collection, individualized solutions, and supporting...
Innovar para mejorar la Atención al Paciente: el caso del quirófano y el payaso
Summary: Una curiosa historia del sector sanitario que nos muestra de forma muy humana como la orientación al cliente resulta ser clave para instaurar una innovación de éxito. Article written...
Keeping Up with Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
Summary: The IoMT (internet of medical things) is dramatically altering the landscape of the industry, and the overall IoMT market is expected to grow from $41 billion in 2017 to $158 billion by...