Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal (CIUSSS West-Central Montreal) covers 345,000 people, with a staff of over 12,000 and over 600 doctors. In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Connected Health Innovation Hub inside the network was formed to further leverage technologies and innovation for increased healthcare improvement and sustainability.
Read MoreBianca Rose Phillips is a Global Digital Health Law theorist from Australia and a Digital Health Think Tank founder. In her legal work, she is focused mostly on Australia and the USA. Many people know her by her framework of the so-called 8 pillars of digital health lawmaking.
Read MoreTwo-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy in the US cite medical issues as one of the main factors to their financial downfall. Part of the reason is the healthcare costs structure that has shifted towards patients, says Ric Sinclair, the Chief Strategy and Product Officer of Waystar.
Read MoreIn developing countries, explanations for health problems or general human biology can be heavily influenced by traditional beliefs. Some communities still believe that during their period, women are cleansing of evil spirits or that a woman giving birth to twins is a bad omen. The solution to these misconceptions is education. But to provide it, health education companies face infrastructure challenges and technology affordability issues.
Read More4 digital health Japanese startups, directly and indirectly, addressing healthy aging.
Read MoreNo doubt, mobile technology has brought massive improvements to public health. One of the challenges we still need to overcome though is gender stereotyping. Women also often suffer from inequity in healthcare because they are for many reasons at the bottom of the ladder in their access to even using technology, says Dr. Padmini (Mini) Murthy.
Read MoreDr. Dimitri Varsamis is Senior Policy Lead for digital primary care at NHS England. End of 2020 he published a report titled Incentives and levers for digitising and integrating primary care in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA - lessons for the UK’s NHS. Dr. Varsamis researched primary care digitalisation prior to the global coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreNew Zealand is not a very large country so one might think digitalization of the healthcare system shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. On the contrary, it is far from simple because of the complex and fragmented healthcare system design.
Read MoreAnthem is striving to become a digital AI-first enterprise and make healthcare far more predictive, far more proactive, transparent, and personalized than it currently is.
Read MoreAustralia has a national digital health strategy, which predicts that by 2022 the essential, foundational elements of health information that can be safely accessed, easily utilized, and shared. According to dr. Louise Schaper, CEO of Australasian Institute of Digital Health, there's been a lot of government commitment to invest in digital health.
Read MoreSanitas is the leading Spanish health insurance and service provider and have been devoted exclusively to health care for more than 60 years. The Sanitas’ Cima hospital in Barcelona is an exemplar in digital innovation adoption.
Even before COVID, an innovation platform was established which seeks to promote entrepreneurship among employees. Another platform is in place, that aims to attract startup talent in areas such as prevention and genomics, liquid hospital, artificial intelligence, blockchain, data & analytics, and robotics.
Read MoreEpisode 101 highlights some of the thoughts about digital health development and factors impacting innovation and solutions design across the world: Venezuela, India, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Read MoreWhat is the state of healthcare in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia? Four presented digital health startups are improving access too health, health data management for healthcare providers, cancer management, and genomics advancements.
Read MoreWhen Jens Spahn became the health minister In March 2018, Germany quickly became the European Northern star of accelerated healthcare digitization. What exactly happened?
Read MoreWhen Europe became the new epicentre of the Covid-19 spread, and with the steady rise of infected in the US, tech companies offered their knowledge to curb the pandemic: from Covid-19 apps, the rise of telemedicine use in the US, 3D printing in Italy and more efforts to curb the Coronavirus crisis.
Read MoreAs of 2017 healthcare is the leading category of the 78,5 billion in consumer debt collected each year, which is more than 40 times the size of credit card debt. While the number of uninsured is reducing, it is being replaced with the issue of underinsurance. 3 in 10 people reported costs caused them not to take their medicines as prescribed in the past year, writes law professor Christopher T. Robertson in his last book Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It.
Read MoreIn May 2020, Medical Device Regulation goes into effect. Digital health companies providing software intended for medical use will need to comply with new requirements. According to Jovan Stevović, CEO and Co-Founder of Chino.io, companies are much better prepared for MDR than they were for GDPR.
Read MoreIf the critical issue of data security and privacy protection in the past was how to archive data and prevent unauthorized access to archives, the cloud brought a whole new set of challenges. “AI and machine learning are improving safety, but the bad guys are using these technologies as well,” says Chris Bowen, Founder of ClearDATA.
Read MoreAfrica has 54 countries, that differ a lot in terms of their quality of health care, political situation, and innovation.
Read MoreSlovenia is a country of 2 million people, with a universal healthcare system, and quite a few success stories about digitization to share. One digitally unrelated thing patients in Slovenia can be grateful for is access to drugs.
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