I see no legitimate rationale for delaying the digital transformation in healthcare
How to introduce innovation and AI in healthcare organizations if there is no business model for prevention and quality – Our interview with Professor Ran...
Mindset: the last barrier to advances driven by data sharing
"Innovation can be disruptive and create chaos before making things better," said Nele Labi, Vice-chancellor for Innovation at the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs. Is...
This week, the Dutch OLVG hospital in Amsterdam officially introduced artificial intelligence at its ICU. The doctors in the intensive care unit started using AI-driven...
When it’s time to replace the health IT system and how to do it
The IT system is the heart of a healthcare facility. When it generates errors, is user-unfriendly or lags behind the clinic's or hospital's development strategy,...
Doctors as data curators: care depends on information flow
Doctors combine the knowledge gained from the patient during appointments with data from other points of care to make evidence-based decisions in line with the...
Data in healthcare: can we trust something we don’t know?
Data is key to shaping evidence-based health policies, providing citizens with tools and medicines that contribute to their well-being and accelerating research. However, we still...
Technology Helps Deliver Care In A Way That We Never Imagined
The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine, but quite a few barriers still block benefits that patients could gain. How to change that? Our...
A Bias Called The “Availability Heuristic” Can Determine The Level Of Innovation In A Healthcare Facility
While some hospitals are openly experimenting with new technologies, becoming "early adopters" and "innovators," others end up as "laggards." So, where does the initial negative...
11 tips from CEO’s how to manage a healthcare facility
Healthcare facility managers face difficult decisions between economic stability, patients’ well-being, and available resources. When responsibility for the financial situation overlaps with medical processes and...
70% Of Health CEOs Expect Hospitals To Evolve Into “Healthcare Hubs”
KPMG surveyed 200 health leaders from around the world on using digital health technologies, the impact of COVID-19 and new healthcare models. The results are...
Technology introduces the ‘healthcare anywhere’ approach
Digital transformation leads to the transition of the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and monitoring of chronic diseases – previously attributed to a doctor’s office or hospital...
Digitally-Enabled Primary Care: A Case For Evolution, Not Revolution
How can we strengthen primary care by introducing digital health solutions and what have we learned from the pandemic? We asked this question to Claudia Pagliari,...
Physicians In The Lead Of Med-Tech Innovation Design
Technology is essential for healthcare—nobody doubts it any more. We have also learned that innovation consists of more than buying a device or software program....
We Can’t Afford To Continue Delivering Care In The Analogue Way
“If the digital-first approach enables people to access high-quality healthcare services, we should go for it,” says Andy Fischer (Zwitserland), President of the International Society...
7 Rules That Distinguish Top Digital Health Leaders
To guide a hospital through a digital transformation, the managers should pay attention to several key competencies. While most of them can be learned, they...
Travelling During The Pandemic: Europe Plans Digital Certificates
To facilitate safe and free movement inside the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission (EC) is working on a Digital Green Certificate (DGC)....
White Paper: Rethinking Digital Therapeutics’ Strategies
The great momentum being generated by Digital Therapeutics (DTx) in North America and Europe is second to no other digital health segment today. Indeed, the...
How To Make A Career Shift And Become A Digital Doctor
Evidence-based healthcare has profoundly transformed the way the medical community delivers care to populations. Despite the tremendous progress, there are still some common and serious...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...