We Need To Accelerate Adoption Of Digital Health Services In Europe
The challenge is not the development of innovative solutions but the pace at which they enter the market – says Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director General of...
400.000 Volunteers Have Joined Apple And Stanford Watch Heart Study
A study with 400.000 participants being conducted by researchers at Apple and Stanford is to determine whether a wearable technology can identify irregular heart rhythms...
Read These 3 Books To Get Ready For The Future Of Healthcare
Disruptive technologies in healthcare are advancing very quickly. If you want to explore what digital health is about and how medicine is changing, don’t miss...
Researchers Show Effectiveness New Noninvasive Blood Glucose Test
For those living with diabetes, monitoring blood glucose accurately is necessary to prevent diabetes-related complications such as heart attacks, blindness and coma. Researchers from the...
Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence that uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to "learn" from data, without being explicitly...
AI In Healthcare. Do The Rewards Outweigh The Risks?
Healthcare is undergoing a technological revolution. The development of AI for medical purposes seemingly holds the key to unlocking massive untapped potential for increased cost...
Will Soon Amazon’s Alexa Diagnose You And Buy Medicines?
A new Amazon patent “Voice-based determination of physical and emotional characteristics of users” allows to identify illness and emotions through voice and speech. You even...
Digital Health Literacy – Key Factor For The Democratization Of Health
The digitalization of healthcare brings brand new opportunities for patients. Experts talk about the democratization of healthcare, better access to health services, strengthening prevention and...
Watch Apple’s Vision Of The Future Of Healthcare From 1988
30 years ago Apple made a video “Healthcare 2008”. The forgotten footage forecasts many today’s innovations like telemedicine or electronic health records. But some of...
How Can Design Contribute To Gaining Acceptance For Digital Health Tools?
Amy Cueva, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Mad*Pow, believes that design can help to humanize health systems. But how can we avoid “shiny object...
Digital Diabetes Care Solutions Becoming Smarter. 10 Market Trends
Digital diabetes solutions would never launch without smart consumer devices. The constant increase in the penetration of smartphones and tablets is one of the most...
Forget Telemedicine Kiosks. This Clinic Drives Itself To A Patient
Artefact’s vision for healthcare in the age of artificial intelligence: Self-driving medical clinic on demand where patient can get diagnosed, consulted or transported to an...
Finland: Digitalization Of Health Care Leads To Patient Empowerment
Finland ranks among the three strongest health technology economies in the world. It’s also a country where digitalization path the way to the future of...
“The digital transformation of health and care will improve the lives of all Europeans”
Giving access to personal health data everywhere in Europe. Joining big data for genomic research and for detecting outbreaks of infectious diseases. Funding high-level digital...
Report: What Exactly Does Smart Health Care Look Like?
“2018 Global health care outlook” reviews the current state of the global health care sector, explores trends and issues impacting health care and patients. It...
Innovative Medicines Initiative (Imi) Applies Blockchain To The Drug Development
The accelerator programme is part of new Calls for proposals launched by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI). Of the other topics launched in the Calls,...
Who Published The First Classification Of Digital Health Interventions
The diverse communities working in digital health – including government stakeholders, technologists, clinicians, implementers, network operators, researchers, donors – have lacked a mutually understandable language...
Seminar: Digital Solutions In Health And Prevention
Join the seminar “Digital Solutions in Health & Prevention” on October 10th in Brussels, part of European Week of Regions and Cities, including sessions about...
Mission Healthcare: Apple Watch Series 4 With Ecg And Fall Detection
Yesterday, Apple’s CEO Jeff Williams unveiled a redesigned Apple Watch Series 4. It’s slimmer, faster, available in stainless steel or aluminium with a new Digital...
Digital Challenges For Pharma. Interview With Eugene Borukhovich
Eugene Borukhovich – Global Head of Digital Health & Innovation at Bayer, a founder of Health 2.0 NYC, Amsterdam & Dusseldorf local chapters – shares...
European Commission Invites To Ict 2018 Conference
ICT 2018 “Imagine Digital - Connect Europe” will take place in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018. The European ICT community will gather to discuss future...
How World Health Organisation wants to strengthen national health systems with digital health? How digital health can tackle challenges in public health? We talk with...
Philips Presents New Personalized Consumer Health Solutions
At the 2018 Global Innovations Show in Berlin (IFA, August 31 - September 5), Royal Philips announced a range of intelligent, adaptive, personalized consumer health...
Deloitte Survey: Only 14% of US Physicians Offer Virtual Visits
Virtual care is a must-have for health systems. But how can hospitals and health systems gain physician buy-in? Deloitte published the results of the 2018...
The young companies from Canada, Germany, Israel, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States came out ahead of more than 1,800 competitors from 100...
Rock Health Survey: Adoption Of Digital Health Tools
Wearables, telemedicine, mobile apps, data sharing, online information search – 7 key conclusions from Rock Health Digital Health Adoption Consumer Survey.
Many technology companies are working on artificial intelligence systems that can analyze medical data to help diagnose or treat health problems. Such systems raise the...
The Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2018 explores five trends that underscore the importance of building a foundation of trust as technology has a greater...
One question to Dr. Bertalan Meskó, director at The Medical Futurist Institute. You have personally tested many new innovations. What is your personal experience with...
Emmanuel Macron’s AI Strategy: Controlled Disruption
France government plans to spend 1.5 billion Euros over the next 5 years to support research in the Artificial Intelligence field, collect data and encourage...
More than 350 million people across the world suffer from depression. When mental illness is still considered taboo and there is a global shortage of...
Technologies and innovations are transforming healthcare with an enormous speed. We often hear and read, that digital health innovations are disrupting medicine, reforming the conservative...
Healthcare Interoperability and key considerations. Ready for the future?
Interoperability will be an ongoing challenge for healthcare provider CIOs and CMIOs due to the industry’s unique information exchange requirements and compliance mandates. The ever-expanding...
Swedish healthcare provider digitizes pathology for primary diagnostics
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a contract with Dalarna County Council in Sweden for digital pathology. Dalarna...
Digital coaching increases health, medical adherence RA patients
Digital coaching can increase health and medicine adherence for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, while at the same time reducing symptoms such as flares. That was...
Cheap microchip can turn 2-D ultrasound machine in 3D imaging device
A $10 microchip can turns a 2-D ultrasound machines into a3-D imaging device. This low-cost upgrade could more easily image babies or trauma patients who...
Key chain attach iEAT device can monitor food for allergens
Researchers at Harvard Medical School, funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, have developed a $40 device that fits on a key...
‘E-health is great. But if we lose the analogue heart, then we’ve missed it’
Zubin Damania aka ZDoggMD, was practicing at Stanford University for 10 years. Then he decided to switch his career to something completely different: since then...
The analogue hearts needs to be part of the digital revolution in healthcare
Technology must support both healthcare professionals and patients. But in many cases it is still lacking awareness to bring about such a real change. Innovation...