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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...

Recent Most Impressive Scientific Inventions

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...

Understanding The Transformation

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...

Covid-19 News: Open Data, Tracking and Wearables

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...

Data & Strategy: Taiwan’s Successful Response To Covid-19

All models suggested that Taiwan would have to face the coronavirus pandemic just after China did. However, that was not the case. At the beginning...

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 coronavirus: a test case for excellent remote healthcare

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...

Denise Silber Joins The International ICT&health Editorial Board

Denise Silber, founder of Doctors 2.0 & You, is among the most influential thought leaders in healthcare. As a part of the Editorial Board, she...

Digital Health Needs To Be Embedded In The Conception Of The Health System

We talked with Denise Silber, founder of Doctors 2.0 & You and a global thought leader, about the present and future of digital health innovations...

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...

8 Necessary Steps Towards Digital Transformation

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...

Who still follows the Hippocratic Oath?

As a physician, nowadays you have less than 10 percent of the information you need at your disposal about what determines a patient’s health. This...

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...

Apple Unveiled Three New Health Studies

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...

Novartis & Microsoft Collaborate On AI, Amazon Offers Health Services

There is happening a lot in the digital space: Amazon has gone live with a pilot project 'Amazon Care' to offer medical services on the...

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...

Rethinking Workforce Skills To Become Ready For Future

Digitalisation disrupts the way doctors and nurses used to work. We have to get ready for the redistribution of tasks, new roles and forms of...

To Make Healthcare Sustainable We Have To Get Out Of The Silos

How can healthcare systems keep up with the changing face of healthcare to create the health system of the future? At the European Health Forum...

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...

How Does Finland Use Health And Social Data For The Public Benefit?

Finland is not only the happiest country in the world but also leads the way in access to health and social data for research and...

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...

Culture, UX/UI, education, accessibility. Digitalization’s biggest barriers

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...

First App That Can Hear Ear Infections In Children

Researchers at the University of Washington have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of...

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...

Cyber-medicine & humans. 7 new concerns about digital healthcare

Innovations in healthcare need to be discussed as never before, footnotes and small print for user manuals of health apps need to be read carefully...

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...

Where Did EHR Go Wrong? And what Is The Cost Of Digital Health?

Two articles which caused a stir in the media over the past several weeks. One is a story about how healthcare digitisation is a mess...

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,...

New Developed Pill Releases Insulin In Stomach

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....

Becoming A Self-Doctor In The Era Of Wearables

Smart watches, smart badges, implantable sensors – modern technology allows us to measure and track our physical activity, mood and state of health. In following...

Healthcare Providers: The Route to Digital Transformation Success

Mapping The Brain At High Resolution

New 3-D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.

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...

Who Will Design The Healthcare Of The Future?

Digital health has recently become a favorite topic for the media all around the world. In articles about AI, big data or robotics, one can...

Discussion: Big Data In Precision Health

What data is missing to get to the next level and to replace a doctor? How to predict, prevent and cure diseases precisely? Watch a...

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...

17 Must-Read Articles & Stories

We’ve chosen the most relevant texts on digital health published in the international press over the last 12 months. Read them to get a full...

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...

Internet Therapy Apps Reduce Depression Symptoms

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...

Technological change in healthcare is not simply about adoption

The lack of data in healthcare leads to ineffective spending and poor investments. In a sector where money is decisive in terms of our health...

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...

Get Digitalized Or Marginalized

Europe lags far behind digital leaders like the USA and China. It won’t change in the next few years that also doesn’t bode well for...

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...

“Health At A Glance 2018” By Oecd Is Out Now

Health at a Glance: Europe 2018 presents comparative analyses of the health status of EU citizens and the performance of the health systems of 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...

9 Funny Cartoons Comment On The Challenges For Digital Health

Do we need ethics in AI? Is digitalization a key to better healthcare? Is data a new blood? See the cartoons from the European Health...

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...

Women Drive Digital Transformation In Healthcare

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...

Let’s Make Digital Health Great Again!

The promise of digital health in Europe is undeniable. But to make this promise a reality, it is necessary to break down several barriers to...

Medica 2018: Digitalisation Of Healthcare Offers Huge Potential

Study on Healthcare 4.0 shows that Germany needs to catch up fast. Turnover of up to 15 billion Euro could be produced by new digital...

Must-Watch: The Digital Divide In Health(Care)

Zayna Khayat & Bastian Hauck talk about health's Copernicus moment and the future of health(care) at the SingularityU Germany Summit 2017.
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