Radar HealthTech

Summary: "European insurance giant AXA has announced it is launching a digital healthcare platform in partnership with Microsoft. " "The platform is available to AXA customers in Germany and Italy,...

Summary: "The sleep revolution is here. From screening to diagnostics and from monitoring to therapies (including medical devices that are integrated with therapeutics), advanced data-driven...

Summary: "The internet has revolutionised how we live our lives in myriad ways. It was only a matter of time before healthcare became digitised too. In the wake of a year of social distancing, the...

Summary: "Facebook’s AI Research lab (FAIR) is trying to teach machines how to think like humans. That means being able to pick up a skill or information and use it to create something entirely new....

Summary: "Shipwrecks have become more frequent as the number of vessels in the oceans increases due to open trade policies between nations. Owning to their scope and location, shipwreck rescues can...

Summary: "A slew of new companies is finally addressing the estimated 6,000 women a day who enter perimenopause. Can they make hot flashes and dry vaginas cool?" Article written by  LISA SELIN DAVIS...

Summary: "In the race to out-compete other companies– artificial intelligence (AI) design is lacking a deep understanding of what data about humans mean and its relation to equity. Two Drexel...

Summary: "Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have used machine learning to identify pairs of small-molecule drugs and inactive ingredients that will self-assemble into...

Summary: "Neuralink, Elon Musk’s company focused on developing brain-machine interfaces, has posted a video to YouTube that appears to show a monkey navigating an on-screen cursor using only its...

Summary: "Stem cell research has allowed medicine to go places that were once science fiction. Using stem cells, scientists have manufactured heart cells, brain cells and other cell types that they...

Summary: "Japan Airlines (JAL) has started trials with three health credential apps – CommonPass, VeriFLY, and the IATA Travel Pass. The purpose of the health passport trail is to reopen borders...

Summary: "New technique speeds up calculations of drug molecules’ binding affinity to proteins." "MIT researchers have developed a machine learning-based technique to more quickly calculate the...

Summary: "Robotics being used in healthcare can be defined as the application and use of robotic technology to diagnose, treat, correct, restore, or modify a body function, body part, or disease....

Summary: "En 2015, un grupo de investigadores reunieron 2.748 estudios distintos que analizaban 17.804 rasgos en una población de más de 29 millones de gemelos. Esas investigaciones exploraban cosas...

Summary: "AI and its applications in healthcare have matured considerably over the last several years. AI technologies are more widely available to healthcare providers than ever before and they...

Summary: "Last week, Amazon announced it would expand Amazon Care — its employee-only health care service — to the public. The service lets you chat with nurses, move to video, arrange home visits,...

Summary: "La Cruz Roja prueba en Andalucía una nueva fórmula para la localización desde el aire de personas desaparecidas, combinando drones y 5G." Article written by Alberto Iglesias Fraga ...

Summary: "La asociación Barcelona Health Hub y la Mobile World Capital se unen para poner en marcha en el Hospital de Sant Pau un laboratorio para investigar el potencial de la tecnología 5G en el...

Summary: "With its culture of fortitude in adversity, tested ability to bounce back from natural disasters, and a wealth of cutting-edge technologies, Japan is uniquely positioned to contribute to...

Summary: "While adoption of virtual care solutions had steadily increased in the years leading up to the pandemic (with telehealth usage doubling from 14% to 28% between 2016 and 2019, per the...

Summary: "IBM scientists have utilized artificial intelligence to help speed up development of molecules for potential use in new “novel antibiotics” that are needed as the spread of antibiotic...

Summary: "The use of artificial intelligence in medical devices is on the rise. Although there is no specific directive or regulatory framework yet, AI decisions still need to be understandable and...

Summary: "Focused ultrasound allowed researchers to record and monitor brain activity in a non-invasive way. The technology allowed the researchers to predict movement." Article written by CalTech...

Summary: "Virtual reality (VR) is the name given to the technology that allows a user to simulate a situation or experience of interest, using a VR headset, within an interactive but...

Summary: "Artificial Intelligence has been playing a growing role in the world in the last few decades. What most don’t understand is artificial intelligence introduces itself in numerous structures...

Summary: "Amazon Care, the company’s app-based healthcare service for employees, will soon launch nationwide, Insider reports. The service is currently only available to the company's employees...

Summary: "EIC y EIT hacen gala de innovación europea, desde el Centro de Control del Clínico de Barcelona a una mascarilla lavable y antivirus, de origen alemán." Article written by Julio Miravalls ...

Summary: "Before the emergence of the novel coronavirus and the subsequent pandemic, the health and care system had a poor track record in adopting digital technologies at scale. However, in...

Summary: "Louise Parberry, senior sales engineer at InterSystems, explores why interoperability could be key when it comes to unlocking the success of healthcare startups." "Startups are behind some...

Summary: "What’s wrong with correlation?" "In May 2016, the COMPAS algorithm was flagged as being racially biased [1]. This algorithm was used by the US to guide criminal sentencing by predicting...

Summary: "By 2040, new technologies could reduce the total burden of disease by 6 to 10 percent." "Today’s interventions are the innovations of the past. Without them, healthy lifespans would not be...

Summary: "As we celebrate International Women’s Day, Jenny Thomas, programme director for DigitalHealth.London and co-producer of FemTech TV, explores the role of FemTech in the NHS." Article...

Summary: "The global market size for femtech is estimated to be around US$60.01 billion by 2027." "There has been a massive growth in the female-centric health technology market as revolutionary...

Summary: "The current pandemic highlights how remote healthcare robots currently being developed at SFU could be beneficial in the future" "Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to...

Summary: "Roche o Boehringer Ingelheim aceleran su paso en computación cuántica para encontrar la cura contra el Alzhéimer y otras graves enfermedades." Article written by Alberto Iglesias Fraga ...

Summary: "Biogen, a medtech company based in Massachusetts, has announced that is partnering with Apple in a research study to determine if it is possible to identify and develop biomarkers of...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Summary: "Read about news from Seven Bridges, Outcomes4Me, Carrum Health and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 08|02|2021 Source:MedCity...

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...

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...

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...

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....

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Summary: Insilico Medicine together with collaborators announces the publication of Molecular Sets (MOSES), a benchmarking system for generative chemistry models Article written...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Summary: La industria farmacéutica en España ofrece investigación, innovación, inversión, industrialización y empleo estable de calidad para contribuir a...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...