Thought Leadership 5/11

Dec 15, 20195 min read

Would you trust AI with your Mental Health?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now playing a role in mental health care and if we can navigate the ethical and privacy concerns, it may...

Nov 10, 20194 min read

Doctors and nurses raise the alarm on WhatsApp being used to transmit patient medical information

Facebook's WhatsApp has been growing in user numbers to become one of the globally dominant and most widely used messaging apps. And as...

Nov 9, 20193 min read

Germany : the new Digital Healthcare Act (DVG)

Yesterday evening the German Parliament / Bundestag decided to pave the way for a broad usage and reimbursement of digital health...

Nov 3, 20191 min read

Facebook was also in the race to buy Fitbit, but Google paid double for the fitness tracking band

Fitbit would have given Facebook an easy entry into the wearables segment, where Apple is the leader. Google made headlines this week...

Oct 27, 20194 min read

Amazon’s second Healthcare acquisition is emblematic of the kinds of Digital solutions becoming Star

Near-record funding and a string of public offerings have led to substantial buzz for the digital-health arena. Still, many of the areas...

Oct 24, 20192 min read

Cleveland Clinic looks to technology to help double number of patients treated in the next 5 years

Last year, the Cleveland Clinic cared for more than 2 million patients—an unprecedented number. However, president and CEO Tom...

Oct 24, 20191 min read

Sony enters the Digital Healthcare market with remote IoT monitoring 'mSafety' wristwatch

Sony has entered the Digital Health market with a remote monitoring wearable device called mSafety. The product is a wristwatch designed...

Sep 25, 201912 min read

Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had...

Sep 7, 20194 min read

The Future Of Health Care AI Includes Panomics

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be attributed back to the days of the earliest algorithms. One could argue that AI dates as far back as...

Aug 29, 20198 min read

Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

The technology behemoth is preparing a move into the healthcare market, but critics fear profit will come before patients and privacy....

Aug 18, 20191 min read

How Software is Eating Care Delivery in Healthcare

We are in the middle of a truly transformative moment in the healthcare market—particularly in care delivery. Key tailwinds are coming...

Aug 16, 20196 min read

Is laughter the best medicine?

Laughing costs nothing, you can do it (almost) anywhere at anytime, there are no restrictions on the amount you chuckle each day and by...

Aug 13, 20192 min read

Robotic process automation: The way to bring about healthcare efficiencies?

Reducing costs but not taking time away between a doctor and patient is one of the key aspects to RPA according to Leivo, as she examines...

Aug 4, 20194 min read

My 2019 Digital Health Predictions

2019 Digital Health Prediction 1 : Apple, Amazon, Google or Microsoft acquires electronic record systems provider Epic (Epic Systems...

Aug 2, 20192 min read

London-based Babylon Health raises €495 million to democratize healthcare in the US and Asia

London-based Babylon Health took its name from the ancient city of Babylon, where almost 2500 years ago citizens would gather in the town...