Posts tagged healthcare
Women's Health: What it is, how it's funded and what changes do we need? (Joy Rios)

What is women’s health, and what kind of business are rising up in the field of femtech? For a long time, female bodies have been perceived as male bodies with differ reproductive organs. However, differences go beyond that: 80% of people with autoimmune conditions are women. 66% of patients with Alzheimers diseases are women, symptoms of cardiovascular diseases present themselves differenly in women and men, and more.

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Learning From pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy - What's Next to EHDS? (Eric Sutherland)

Eric Sutherland is Senior Health Economist and Digital Health Lead at OECD, who worked on the pan-Canadian health data strategy before his current role.  He discusses the upcoming implementation of the European Health Data Space, what needs to happen next, how do we involve the public, encourage trust in data sharing, and also build capacity for digital health implementation. We are moving into the era of new required data professionals, not just data analysts, but also data controllers, data stewards, and more. 

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How Is Patient Data Consolidated and Presented to Doctors in the US?

Healthcare data in the US is very fragmented. But many companies have been working on creating consolidated patient views, Reveleer being one of them.

In the US, patients have their healthcare data scattered across care providers, who they often change if they change their job and, consequently their insurers. Insurers have their own networks of healthcare providers, causing the individual to go from one healthcare provider to a different one when life changes happen. And when these providers use different IT systems, data gets siloed.

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How Does AWS Support Startups Through the AWS Health Innovation Podcast

Alex Merwin is Head of Growth, Healthcare & Life Sciences Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this episode, he presents the AWS Health Innovation Podcast, which showcases startups that are advancing healthcare & life science by leveraging cloud computing technology. In this episode he shares how AWS supports startups, what trends is Alex observing in the health innovation space, what does his podcast cover.

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Kenya: How is Ilara Health Improving Availability and Affordability of Diagnostic Devices?

Kenya has a lot of talent and opportunities for innovation. Access to care is not a problem because there are plenty of community nurses present all across the country. However, they have a limited problem and mostly focus on main infectious diseases, leaving serious conditions undiagnosed, says  Emilian Popa, Founder and CEO of Ilara Health.

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Startups in Nigeria: The Biggest Challenge is Access to Market (Jennie Nwokoye, Clafiya)

One of the biggest challenges for healthcare startups in Nigeria is access to market. “In Nigeria, healthcare is fragmented, making it difficult to find distribution channels. We have to be creative and may need to look outside healthcare for distribution channels.” , says Jennie Nwokoye is the founder and CEO of Clafiya - a digital primary healthcare service that connects individuals and businesses to health practitioners to provide convenient, quality, and affordable, on-demand primary care from their mobile phones.

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What Are Investors Betting On in Generative AI in Healthcare?

Generative AI is definitely the word we will remember 2023 by. Knowing that administrative burden is among the key reason for physician burnout, the idea that AI could tackle this challenge, became a little bit more tangible with the raised awareness and public understanding of generative AI. But where are we exactly, and how is generative AI utilized for clinical use cases, administration, patient care and in biotech? 

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APAC Series Ep. 3: Easy Access To Clinicians and At-Home Testing in Vietnam

Docosan is a third-party marketplace that connects medical providers to patients in Vietnam. People rely on word of mouth to determine where to seek care. However, with great connectivity even in rural areas, people are tech-savvy, which prompted Lopez to think about a digital solution to address the gap between patients and quality clinicians.

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