What Healthcare Do Patients Want, When Doctor’s Offices Disappear?
Telemedicine sets the course for future medicine, how useful are hospital robots during the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual ward rounds – a review of the most...
Transforming Healthcare By Combining Education, Business And Research
EIT Health, founded mostly under the EU Horizon 2020 framework, has an ambitious vision: to deliver innovative healthcare solutions that can positively transform healthcare outcomes...
Europe Braces For The Game Of Data-Driven Economies
Europe is seeking its path of technological progress, focusing on democratic and ethical values. Will such idealistic visions suffice for the old continent to become...
Discover newest innovations for health and well-being: self-made electronics on skin, wearable-tech glove translates sign language into speech in real-time, automatic service dog for visually...
An Attractive Niche In Digital Health Can Be A Deadly Business Trap
Healthcare startups should have a profound understanding of the science behind the problem they are solving, says venture capital investor Dr. Vishal Gulati. What other...
The Power Of Big Tech Companies And How They Shape The World
Digital technologies are not just tools, but powerful weapons that enable economic growth, create new divides in society, cause wars, and threaten democracy. No one...
The German Health System Is Undergoing A Digital Shift
"The Act to Improve Healthcare Provision through Digitalization and Innovation," passed at the end of 2019, allows doctors to prescribe approved mobile health applications for...
In discussions on the digital transformation of healthcare, the emphasis is usually put on digitization. The context of transformation is neglected. In reality, it is...
Articles That Will Keep You Up To Date With Advances In Digital Health
Our Editorial Board members recommend nine must-read articles. Carefully selected from hundreds of news, these publications are an expert overview of what is currently happening...
We’re On A Steep Learning Curve That Includes Everyone
Digital technology is becoming a part of every care journey – says Shawna Butler, a nurse, tech enthusiast, EntrepreNURSE in residence at Radboud University Medical...
Digital Health And Pandemics: What Covid-19 Reveals About The Challenges
"Covid-19 has been an eye-opener for digital health, with some expectations and promises realised, others unfulfilled and yet others taking us by surprise. Unfolding events...
Post-Covid-19 Questions: Where Is The Balance Of Virtual Vs. In-Person?
The coronavirus crisis has accelerated the implementation of digital health solutions. Telecare, telemedicine, mobile health apps are on growth. Patients and their doctors, having no...
EU launches the European COVID-19 Data Platform for open science, Stanford researchers want to use wearables to identify early signs of COVID-19, Apple and Google...
Welcome to a world of digital-first, physical next healthcare
Daily life has been disrupted beyond all expectations over the last few weeks. Workplaces have shut, schools closed, stock markets crashed. Cities have become ghost...
Why it is time to look beyond flattening the curve – and start getting ahead of it
‘Flatten the curve’ graphs have become a familiar sight, making it clear to what extent proactive intervention slows the spread of the disease and eases...
World After Lockdown: How We Got Used To Digital Technologies
The current situation makes us aware that investment in health care and science means investment in economic development. Or that, sometimes, meeting your doctor online...
Covid-19: Digital Health Literacy Is A Key To Saving Time, Costs And Lives
The outbreak of coronavirus has reinforced the importance of health literacy to public health. More than a third of populations are at risk of having...
Telemedicine Benefits During Covid-19 Pandemic. But Is It Here To Stay?
The coronavirus pandemic has forced healthcare to go online. In many countries, online teleconsultations are currently the only way to give and receive medical advice....
The aggregation of innovations and data will lead to a radical change
Doctor, if you think that digitization in health care comes down to electronic medical records and will not significantly affect your work, then you are...
The Ability Of Technology To Get Healthcare Repaired
Digital health, a long time associated only with technical innovations like EHR, wearables, or telemedicine, is now recognized as a tool supporting disease prevention, health...
The Future Of Healthcare. Will Medicine Become Data Science?
Data are one of the most valuable resources available today. Like oil or gold, they can be further processed and commercialized in many different forms,...
Redesigning Of The Clinical Processes Enhances Digitalization
Increased digitalization of clinical workflows can help caregivers in their clinical documentation, decision making, and interactions with clinical specialists. Better informed nurses and physicians can...
8 Health & Well-Being Gadgets For Consumers Showed At Ces 2020
Flying taxis, interactive robots, foldable smartphones, smart kitchens, autonomous cars – every year, thousands of exhibitors show in Las Vegas technologies that will enter the...
Successful digitalization in healthcare depends mostly on change management skills. Even the best technology is not enough. One also must know how to manage change,...
Digital Health 2020: Ai, Ar, Vr, Telemedicine Enter Everyday Life
We asked digital health leaders what trends will dominate medical technologies in 2020. In this second part of the report, we present opinions of Denise...
Digital Health 2020: Time For Innovations To Mature
We asked digital health leaders what trends will dominate medical technologies in 2020. In the first part of the report, we present opinions of John...
The Women’s Health, the Heart and Movement, and the Hearing Study have been developed in partnership with the World Health Organization, American Heart Association, Harvard...
Facebook Has Just Launched New Healthcare Features
Facebook is taking the next step towards the healthcare market. Last month, Mark Zuckerberg‘s company introduced the “Preventive Health” tool that connects people to health...
How To Ensure Human Touch In Digital Healthcare Driven By Ai Solutions?
What impact will the digital transformation and increased use of Artificial Intelligence have on the relationship between a patient and a doctor? How to take...
New Study Confirms Virtual Reality is A Painkiller
After putting on VR goggles, patients leave reality and enter a breathtaking, unreal world. The distraction is so enormous that brain seems not to able...
High time for a change in Digital Therapeutics valuation
Digital therapeutics (DTx) will increasingly take their own place within the healthcare sector. The international "Digital Therapeutic Alliance" (DTA) positions them as "a new category...
Robots In Healthcare: Creepy Dolls, Therapists Or Social Companions?
For doctors, the DaVinci surgery system is just a technical tool, a more precise version of a scalpel. Alzheimer’s patients treat Paro, a robotic seal,...
Unregulated M-health Threatens the Positive Influence On Healthcare
The mobile health apps market is snowballing. Do we need regulatory policies for the evaluation of m-health app? Are there studies available that show the...
Model Predicts Cognitive Decline Due To Alzheimer’s, Up To Two Years Out
A new model developed at MIT can help predict if patients at risk for Alzheimer’s disease will experience clinically significant cognitive decline due to the...
It Is Not Enough To Just Have A Good Idea Or A Nice Implementation In One Place
How should health policy adapt to “disruptive" technologies? A brief interview with Nick Fahy, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford and a consultant...
Digital Health Literacy Is An Essential Capacity To Master In Everyday Life
Kristine Sørensen is a new member of the ICT&health International Editorial Board. She is the founding director of the Global Health Literacy Academy and the...
A Robotic Bear “Huggable” Entertains And Helps Hospitalized Children
Interacting with a teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level. A new study demonstrates that “social robots” used...
A Report Like A World Atlas Of Digitalization 2019
Some digital health technologies are being used widely by healthcare professionals, while others are yet to be adopted. Eight lessons from the Philips’ Future Health...
Women In Digital Health: From Community To Sustainable Tech Industry
According to a study conducted by Swiss Healthcare Startups, only 29% of digital health startup founders are female. Sunjoy Mathieu, the Founder & Co-lead "Women...
I asked 5 leaders in digital health change a simply question that has remained unanswered: what are the most common mistakes when implementing digital health...
A digital future! But what kind of future exactly?
Scientists around the world are delving deeper into even newer powers of machine learning and artificial intelligence, while society is experiencing fear fuelled by science-fiction...
Who Releases First Guideline On Digital Health Interventions
WHO released new recommendations on 10 ways that countries can use digital health technology, accessible via mobile phones, tablets and computers, to improve people’s health...
New Eu Study: Are Wellbeing & Lifestyle Mobile Apps Safe For The Patients?
The European Commission has published a “Study on Safety of non-embedded software; Service, data access, and legal issues of advanced robots, autonomous, connected, and Artificial...
Four Actions to Help Medical CIOs Build a Healthier Future
CIOs play a lead role in the digital transformation of healthcare and are at the forefront of what is changing and the technology opportunities that...
WHO: Public Consultation On The Draft Global Strategy On Digital Health
The World Health Organization has opened a public consultation on the first draft of the Global Strategy on Digital Health. The consultation period will close...
Support To Enabling The Digital Transformation Of Health And Care
The new Horizon 2020 project DigitalHealthEurope will provide comprehensive, integrated and centralised support to the Digital Health and Care Innovation initiative in the context of...
“The risks of basing digital health strategy on industry hype and alluring prototypes”
The World Health Organisation recently hosted a landmark “Symposium on The Future of Digital Health” (Copenhagen, February 6-8th 2019), which was attended by healthcare leaders,...
An MIT-led research team has developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses of insulin, potentially replacing the injections that people...
Most U.S. Patients Not Using Online Medical Portals
Most people in the U.S. with health insurance don’t use the patient portals that are increasingly provided by doctors for online communication, a new study...
“For Patients, Wearables Are Fantastic Tools To Manage Health And Well-Being”
On his 8th birthday, Aron Anderson received his first chemotherapy treatment against cancer located in the lower part of his spine. There was pain, suffering...
Health Care 2019: Spotlight On Digital Health Innovations
Major advances in wireless technology, miniaturization, and computing power are fuelling an exponential increase in the pace and scale with which digital health care innovations...
Components of digitalization: evidence, knowledge and technology
The Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (NSE) has an ambitious goal: To accelerate the development and implementation of policy on eHealth. But how to transform...
Digital Health’s New Mission Is To Ensure Healthcare For All
The digitalization of healthcare must go far beyond the fascination with new technologies and instead become a core strategy for strengthening health systems around the...
‘Move in a direction which really makes the difference’
Innovation based on empathy, enabling people to achieve the best results as part of a team and turning good healthcare solutions into a commercial success....
Smart watches, smart badges, implantable sensors – modern technology allows us to measure and track our physical activity, mood and state of health. In following...
How Can A “Worst-Case Scenario” Exercise Support The Digitization Projects?
Implementing digital health solutions requires building a culture of innovation, recognizing and addressing the needs of the staff in relation to the new technologies. But...
Ingestible Capsule Provides Closed-Loop Monitoring And Treatment
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule that can be controlled using Bluetooth wireless technology. The capsule, which...
Evidence Standards Framework For Digital Health Technologies
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) developed standards that ensure new technologies are clinically effective and offer economic value.
Who Launched An Initative To Accelerate Digital Health Adoption
The WHO Regional Office for Europe, together with the Norwegian Centre for eHealth Research, is hosting Symposium on the Future of Digital Health Systems in...
Objectivity With No Empathy: How Symptom Checkers Can Help Patients?
Artificial Intelligence is getting better in diagnosing. Although AI still can’t see and examine patients, it has an access to an unlimited medical knowledge and...
100% ePrescriptions In Finland And 0% In France. The Digital Gaps In Europe
In 2016, the proportion of primary care practices using an EMR was about 80% on average across 15 EU countries. Most countries are transitioning from...
Wearable Patch Monitors Blood Pressure Deep Inside Body
A new wearable ultrasound patch that non-invasively monitors blood pressure in arteries deep beneath the skin could help people detect cardiovascular problems earlier on and...
Digital Disruption Is Not Something Post-Apocalyptic
“The data-driven economy and the art of data science are already shaping our culture by introducing more analytical, scientific approaches into our daily lives”, says...
Aim High, Fail Fast. 9 Tips On How To Be Innovative In Healthcare
How to create a culture of innovation in a hospital which supports the implementation of new digital health solutions? Here are several practical tips on...
Best Quotes Of 2018 On The Digital Transformation In Healthcare
Yearly round-up of the best interviews. 10 opinions, visions and ideas shared by digital health experts: John Nosta, Lucien Engelen, Vytenis Andriukaitis, Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Brian...
8 Healthcare & Digital Health Predictions For 2019
AI explodes across the healthcare and life sciences, digital health focuses on individual care, hospitals start to mine meaningful small data and blockchain moves finally...
Integrated Care: Adoption, Case Studies, Barriers And Guidelines
New study “Health system performance assessment – integrated care assessment” validates a framework for the performance assessment of integrated care implementation that could be used...
Analysis shows that online cognitive behavioral therapy reduces symptoms in cases of mild, moderate or severe depression. In a sweeping new study, Indiana University psychologists...
“Medicine In The Digital Age”. Free Online Course By Rice University
The future of healthcare is connected, patient-centered, mobile and social. This 5-week MOOC features in-depth interviews with thought leaders in digital health, including Eric Topol...
Active Cooperation To Improve Data Exchange Hospitals
Dutch Hospitals and ICT suppliers are actively working together to realize digital data exchange within and between hospitals on a technical level. The aim is...
Six Building Blocks For Sustainable Digital Health
Report “The Promise of Digital Health: Addressing Non-communicable Diseases to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage in LMICs” presents a roadmap that can help countries realize the...
An AI Solution That Could Make Evidence-Based Medicine Available For Every Doctor
Today’s science faces a paradox: While medical knowledge has been expanding exponentially, it is impossible for doctors to follow all the latest recommendations, guidelines, scientific...
2018 Future Health Index Report On Telehealth Released
How to accelerate telehealth adoption to help make value-based care a reality? The third part of the Future Health Index (FHI) by Philips is available...
How can women exploit the digital transformation and which female capabilities will be demanded in the future? What can women do, to best benefit from...
Digital Solutions Influence Business Models Of Healthcare Insurers
Health insurance companies have started to make use of digital technologies to reinvent the way they interact with their members and health care providers. Mobile...
Machine-Learning System Could Aid Critical Decisions In Sepsis Care
Researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a predictive model that could guide clinicians in deciding when to give potentially life-saving drugs...