Voice could be called one of the exciting new avenues for medicine and healthcare. US company Authenticx listens, analyzes, and activates customer voices. The AI based software analyzes millions of conversations patients have with customer support agents through phone calls or emails. By analysing these conversations, it unveils recurring trends that healthcare organizations use to make informed, proactive decisions for improved workflows and care.
Read MoreStartup Health - the US-based organization supporting digital health innovators across the world is 11 years old. It currently supports 400+ companies in 27 countries across the world. 80% of startups still come from the USA, but that will hopefully change, with a higher percentage of innovators coming from other parts of the world, hopes co-founder and President of Startup Health Unity Stoakes
Read MoreWhich innovations are reasonable to implement in healthcare today? And which technologies are currently not ready for prime time just yet?
Read MoreDue to the nature of cancer, readiness for risks in drug development is much higher here than it might be in other medical fields. Can digital health innovators learn anything from oncology medicines development?
Read MoreIn this episode, founders of four very different companies talk about their fundraising experiences. Speakers: Luc Henry – CEO and co-founder – Limula, Kei Wieland Müller - Co-Founder & CEO at Ebenbuild, Fouad Al-Noor - Co-Founder & CEO of ThinkSono, Hans Juergen Stein - Managing Director of mentalis.
Read MoreKarim Karshavjee is the Program Director of the Masters of Health Informatics program at the University of Toronto. He is the co-author of the chapter on Designing Disease-Specific mHealth Apps for Clinical Value in the book Smart and Pervasive Healthcare. The chapter offers an overview of the current usability and use of mHealth apps and what to take into account if you are developing one. To quote one of the findings - “While investments in mHealth is continues to grow, usage of mHealth apps continues to be low. Based on the data in 2017, the use of apps was especially low amongst patients with chronic disease who are most likely to benefit from their use [4]. While 38% of respondents with no health condition had downloaded 1–5 mHealth apps in a survey in 2017, only 6.6% with hypertension had done the same. “
Read MoreSharing of data has improved with the introduction of the messaging standard called FHIR. But throughout the years, debates about open standards and open ecosystems have started to become louder and louder.
Read MoreGreat design comes together when the designer takes into account viability, feasibility and
desirability. “When we think about human-centered design and what we call design thinking, we have three pillars that we weigh. We weigh that desirability piece, the piece that most people associate with design, but we also weigh the viability piece, making sure whatever is being made is profitable or funded and definitely sustainable over time,” says Tim Peck, Executive Portfolio Director of Health at IDEO - probably the most prominent global design company.
Read MoreVoice tech is one of the tech areas with high potential to optimize healthcare processes for providers and ease chronic disease in management for patients. In reality: How far are we from futuristic ideas where everything would be operated with the help of voice? How do innovators reduce the risk of misunderstandings in designing voice technologies? What does the development of human-like bots look like?
Read MoreAlmost anyone asked about digital health in the UAE could use only one word to describe it: ambition. Tune into two discussions about the business and culture of digital health adoption in the Middle East.
Read MoreExactCure is a digital health startup from France addressing the challenge of preventing the negative effects of medications. Each individual has a different metabolism and can react differently to a drug or combination of drugs. With the help of digital twins, precision medicine is advancing accuracy and safety in medical care.
Read MoreIt’s been quite a while since we started talking about Clubhouse in the past tense. But last year, it was THE platform to join.
Some people got more from it than others. Medical doctors Diana Van Stijn and Jhonathan Bringas, a married couple from the Netherlands made a mark in the digital health community in the Digital Health Channel, which was founded by Bringas and healthcare expert Amit Goldman. The Channel has 6400 members today.
“Digital health experts know a lot about health, a lot about technology, but oftentimes they don't know a lot about the psychology of the users, the behavioral economics and ways in which you can motivate them," says Talya Miron- Shatz, PhD, an expert in medical decision making.
The psychology behind decision-making is crucial for companies to be able to present meaningful information to people, not just offer them data people can’t understand.
Read MoreThe field of healthcare digitalization is maturing and getting increasingly sophisticated, demanding healthcare and technology leaders to think more strategically than they were perhaps required a few years ago.
Read MoreThis is the last episode of Faces of digital health in 2021. Instead of an interview or a string of predictions for 2022, you will hear a reflection about the past year or two which I had with two other podcasters - Joy Rios - the host of HIT like a girl podcast - a podcast and a community supporting women in healthcare IT, and Bianca Rose Phillips - the host of Voice of Law podcast. Bianca is a digital health lawyer, and the author of a recently published book Making The Digital Health Revolution.
Read MoreEnd of 2021 the regulators in healthcare are on board with VR, progress is happening on the software and hardware side, so where is VR at the moment in terms of development, challenges, and accessibility for health and medical purposes?
Read MoreAs part of the December 2021 series of discussions with inspiring people in healthcare and digital health, this episode presents Claire Murigande - Medical Affairs Expert, TEDx speaker and the host of Narratives of purpose podcast.
Read MoreMarlyn Harris is a cybersecurity expert. She’s also a nurse. And a veteran who served in the gulf war. Her mix of experiences is perfect for cybersecurity projects, she says.
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