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CES 2024: Meet the exciting innovations for health and well-being

What technologies will enter our homes in a few months? ICT&health checked it out at the CES 2024. This year we saw a further blurring...

Ensuring a Smooth Patient Journey through Telemonitoring: The MEDAL-C Study

Before initiating any medical research, obtaining suitable equipment is essential. Rigorous investigation is necessary to develop a well-defined care pathway, particularly when implementing telemonitoring. Emiel...

Top 7 most promising technologies of 2023 healthcare is waiting for

The 11th edition of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report by the World Economic Forum presents technologies that promise to impact our lives...

Chatgpt has the features of a cutting-edge innovation: it amazes and scares.

"The GPT revolution provides a cognitive edge, which until now was exclusively the domain of humanity." Interview with John Nosta, founder of a healthcare innovation...

Our favorite innovations for health and well-being at CES 2023

Home urine lab, a sleep mask that tracks eye movements and a self-rechargeable health tracker – among many wearables and tech premieres at Consumer Electronic...

Every health facility needs a CMIO. Here is why

Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) bridges medicine and IT in a healthcare organization. What does the expert do and why is it worth creating this...

A Framework For Moving From Ideas And Pilots To Adoption At Scale

Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) – a part of the Scottish Funding Council’s Innovation Centre Programme – developed a 5-stages innovation process model....

Digital health priorities during the French presidency of the EU council

France, led by Emmanuel Macron, wants Europe to be sovereign, green, digital and healthy. Its plans include strengthening the Health Union and accelerating digitization.

Israel’s Formula For Combating The Pandemic: Digitalization

How has Israel hacked the pandemic with emerging technologies, and what makes the country a vibrant hub for innovative startups? We talk to Carsten Ovens,...

The 16 Most Exciting Health And Wellness Innovations Of 2021

Every year, TIME chooses inventions that make the world better, smarter and more fun. This year, on the list of 100 technological innovations, there are...

Most Puzzling Questions About Digital Health

What are the trends and challenges? What is the future of health? We've checked the most frequently asked questions regarding digital health innovations posted on...

How Does Venture Or Startup Contribute To Healthcare?

“As a physician, you need to be involved in healthcare innovation from the design phase,” argues Gabriëlle Speijer, Radiation Oncologist at Haga Hospital (Netherlands) and...

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,...

Consumer Power Drives Changes In The Healthcare Industry

Interview with Brian O'Connor, a founder and Chair of the ECHAlliance – European Connected Health Alliance, a community of 16,500+ individuals and 700+ member organizations...

Goodbye stethoscope! Hello new generation medical devices

Popular instruments used in general medicine are being replaced by smart, digital, and mobile equivalents. They are more accurate, enabling doctors to transfer data directly...

8 Radical Innovations For Healthcare Presented at Ces 2021

This year's CES virtual edition was a stage for many health and well-being innovations. During CES 2021 developers presented numerous health and wellness technologies: apps,...

“Digital European Health Systems Will Be Also More Resilient”

Due to the report "How to spend it: A digital investment plan for Europe," EU's health systems must be modernized and secured by the more...

Tech Update: A “Link” To The Brain and a Well-Being Smart Band

Amazon presented a fitness band and an app that scans the body and analyzes the voice. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is getting closer to integrate the...

What Will Children’s Hospitals Look Like In The Future?

Digitalization, integrated care, telemedicine, robots – these are the pillars of modern hospitals highlighted in the study “Children’s Hospital of the Future.” The report by...

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...

EU Virtual Hackathon To Tackle Covid-19

The biggest pan-European online hackathon is taking place on 24, 25, and 26 April. Innovators, foundations, startups, universities, civil society, and investors will be together...

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...

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,...

Medical record stored underneath the patient’s skin

MIT engineers have developed a way to store medical information under the skin, using a quantum dot dye that is delivered, along with a vaccine,...

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...

Co-Creation In Healthcare. How A User-Centred Innovation Approach Creates Better Results

Whether you are using design thinking, or a Build-Measure-Learn approach to your project, the essence is that you would like to solve a problem someone...

A Drone Delivers Organ For Successful Kidney Transplant

In a first-ever advancement in human medicine and aviation technology, a University of Maryland (UMD) unmanned aircraft has delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at...

Researchers Developed Toilet Seat That Detects Congestive Heart Failure

With 1 million new cases of congestive heart failure diagnosed each year, a revolutionary product is making it easier for hospitals to monitor patients with...

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...

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....

Nurse creates a bridge between patient and technology

“Nurses are finely tuned to the needs of the patient and good at assigning priority to their needs and aspirations. Using their unmatched feedback loops...

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.

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...

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.

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...

Clinical Trial Launches To Develop Breath Test For Multiple Cancers

Researchers have launched a clinical trial to develop a breath test, analysing molecules that could indicate the presence of cancer at an early stage. This...

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...

AI Rivals Radiologists In Screening X-Rays For Certain Diseases

In a matter of seconds, a new algorithm read chest X-rays for 14 pathologies, performing as well as radiologists in most cases, a Stanford-led study...

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...

Clinical Progress Towards Bionic Eye

Medical researchers had successfully restored a sense of vision in four blind people with a bionic eye as part of a clinical trial in Melbourne.

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...

Women Innovators Prize 2019 Opens For Applications

The European Commission launched the sixth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize sheds light on the outstanding work of female entrepreneurs...

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...

Digital Technologies As A Way To Cope With Population Challenges

The study “Large-scale sustainable deployment of digitally-enabled innovation for health and care delivery to the ageing population” analyses the nature and barriers to investments by...

First Augmented Reality Solution For Hololens Cleared By The Fda

Preoperative clearance for augmented reality usage in surgical planning gives physicians access to a new solution that can improve surgical procedures by enhancing accuracy and...

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...

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...

International Unity And Innovation Answer To Global Health Threats

Bill Gates and Angela Merkel called for better distribution of innovations and solidarity in healthcare. The Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2018 and World Health Summit...

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...

NHS Searches New Innovations. Apply Until 24 October

NHS England is calling on the best innovators from across the world to apply to join scheme that aims to ensure NHS patients benefit from...

These Are The Most Promising Digital Health Innovations At Medica 2018

Over 50 start-ups will join MEDICA 2018 – the leading international trade fair for the medical sector – to present disruptive digital technologies for patients...

George Crooks: Having An Electronic Health Record Is Not Enough

What are the conditions that make it more favourable for technology solutions to be successful in health and care? One question to Professor George Crooks,...

Press Review: Ai In Healthcare, Mental Health Monitoring, Top Emerging Technologies Of 2018

September in the media: Articles and reports worth of reading.

The Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine 2018 Announced

The prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 was awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition...

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...

“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...

How Virtual Reality Can Help To Lower The Number Of Medical Errors?

Simulation and gaming technology developed by the abcdeSIM-VR project has provided revolutionary training solutions for medical staff. Is it a way to improve patient safety?

Ifa 2018: Huggable Sleep Robot Helps To Fight Insomnia

Take it to your bed and cuddle up to it. The Somnox peanut-shaped robot pillow helps to fall asleep faster, sleep longer and wake up...

Elon Musk Promises Technology That Connects Our Brains To Computers

Tesla CEO announced a “Neuralink” invention that will enable a superhuman cognition. Revelation or revolution?

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...

Self-Service Healthcare

Do you make bank transfers and book holidays by yourself? So why don’t you take responsibility for your own health? Digital innovations can help.

Bayer Accelerates Six New Startups

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...

Amazon Plans To Open Its First Clinic

Amazon intends to build clinics for its employees. First one should be opened in the Seattle’s headquarter later this year – suggest CNBC’s sources.

The Rise Of the Robot Therapists

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...

Together We Are Shaping Smarter Healthcare

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...

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...
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