Why more physicians should enter industry
KevinMD
JUNE 30, 2018
Attend any biotech or health informatics conference and one thing becomes clear: the scarcity of physicians.
Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes
Health Populi
JANUARY 22, 2020
The second chart comes from the study, quantifying global citizens’ trust levels by industry sector since 2012. Technology was the only industry whose trust-equity fell in the year. But consumers’ trust with other industries, especially finance, energy and telecomms, grew in the past year.
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Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 26, 2021
The main areas of use of biotechnology today are medicine, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and other industries, where BioTech innovations can reduce the cost of production, speed up the development of vaccines, or model the changes of […]. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.
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Gerresheimer successfully completes acquisition of Blitz LuxCo Sarl, the holding company of the Bormioli Pharma Group
Digital Health Global
DECEMBER 11, 2024
With this acquisition, Gerresheimer strengthens its European footprint with additional production sites and underpins its market position as a leading full-service provider and global partner for the pharma and biotech industries. Gerresheimer expects the acquisition to be accretive to the Group’s Adj. EBITDA margin and Adj.
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Bonfire Analytics Raises Oversubscribed $2M Venture Round to Accelerate Digital Health, Medical Device, & Biotech Adoption Across Healthcare Providers
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Healthtech is a burgeoning part of the healthcare industry and has rapidly risen in value. However, a major bottleneck for the healthtech industry is the inability to sell effectively into the healthcare provider and plan markets. physicians, physician groups, hospitals, health systems, etc).
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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens
Health Populi
APRIL 24, 2018
trust in the healthcare industry declined by 9 percentage points in just one year, declining from 62% of people trusting — that’s roughly two-thirds of Americans — down to 53% — closer to one-half of the population. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points.
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Healthcare, Heal Thyself! How the Industry Can and Should Play the Trust Card
Health Populi
MAY 26, 2021
Most industries operating in the U.S. also lost consumers’ trust during the pandemic, except for a handful of businesses — most notably, the health care industry gained a lot of American trust-equity from 2020 to 2021. It’s going to take every stakeholder in the industry to collaborate on this crucial objective.
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MDisrupt Secures American Heart Association Ventures Investment, Enters Strategic Collaboration for Association Members
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 24, 2024
“Our collaboration with the Association will create valuable opportunities for thousands of members to engage with industry, apply their expertise in new roles, and shape the future of healthcare technology.” MDisrupt has raised $6.6 million to date, including its most recent $3 million in seed funding.
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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds
Health Populi
MAY 20, 2021
Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. now, looking at health citizens’ trust in five segments of the health care industry between 2015 and 2021. in the first quarter of 2020. and around the world.
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Why Investors and Media are Calling Biotech Showcase™ “The Place to Be to Start the Year”
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 24, 2024
Biotech Showcase is true to its name – great companies are highlighted.” Tina Elder, Global Managing Director, EBD Group US, said, “Biotech Showcase has once again shown itself to be the premiere destination for innovators and partners to access a powerful network of industry decision-makers, media and top investors.
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Jimini Health Launches with $8M in Funding to Transform Mental Health with Responsible AI-Supported Therapy
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Co-founded by industry leaders Luis Voloch, Mark Jacobstein, and Sahil Sudeach with a background in AI, healthcare, and biotechnologyJimini Health brings together expertise from healthcare and technology to create an evidence-backed, clinician-led mental health model.
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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023
Society for Participatory Medicine
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
By the power vested in clinical research, the FDA now pronounces us patient and industry. This activity sent pharma and biotech companies scrambling to hire DE&I officers and related patient advocacy, engagement, and experience personnel as they came to terms with this foreign notion of actually collaborating with real, live patients.
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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical
Health Populi
APRIL 24, 2019
The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer measured the biggest gap in trust for the healthcare industry between the U.S. Fewer American women, too, trust the healthcare industry than men do. In this study, the healthcare industry is comprised of five segments: hospitals and clinics; pharma; biotech (separate from pharma); consumer health (e.g.,
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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch
Health Populi
JUNE 24, 2021
I welcomed the opportunity to learn from this team’s approach in weaving together the dynamic issues that help us to plan for the long-tail of COVID-19 and its impact on the economy and prospects for the health care industry and health citizens.
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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2021
In addition to the importance of cross-industry collaboration to effectively move to value-based care, the other key theme coming out of the U-M Summit was health equity. Speaking of design, this Summit was indeed well-designed by spotlighting pragmatic representatives from these various stakeholder groups.
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'LinkedIn for healthcare' startup lands $13M backed by Menlo Ventures, Novartis
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 21, 2020
million in a Series A funding round to scale up its platform that is a LinkedIn for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Startup H1 landed $12.9
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The New Drug Companies Aren’t Drug Companies At All
Health Populi
JULY 11, 2019
.” GNS has already been hard at work to build out those deep partnerships with health ecosystem stakeholders including health plans, health care providers, and pharma and biotech companies some of which are shown in the table.
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Medidata acquires Shyft for $195M, establishes unified trial, commercialization data platform
Mobi Health News
JUNE 12, 2018
Medidata, a New York City-based company that offers cloud storage and data analytics services for clinical trials, announced today that it has acquired Shyft Analytics, maker of a cloud data analytics platform specifically designed for the pharma and biotech industries.
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Pharma’s Future Relevance Depends on Empathy, Messaging, Partnering, and Supporting Patients and Providers
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
COVID-19 is re-shaping all industries, especially health care. And the pharma industry is challenged along with other health care sectors. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Accenture’s general advice to the industry is that, “pharma companies need to move further, faster.” in May and June 2020.
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How AI is Shaping Drug Discovery at AION Labs
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 25, 2024
Mati Gil, CEO at AION Labs , stands at the forefront of this revolution, pioneering the use of AI to tackle the challenges inherent in the pharma industry. In a recent video interview below, he shared insights into how AI is transforming drug discovery, emphasizing the need for innovation in an industry marked by complexity and high stakes.
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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical
Health Populi
JULY 26, 2022
According to the team’s analysis, Amazon is not yet active in AR/VR, med-tech/biotech, or insurance (but see more on that below via Mike McSherry’s observations). To do so, Amazon could/would leverage AWS, Amazon Web Services, the cloud business that health care industry stakeholders already use for data management.
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EVERSANA Expands Global Commercialisation Capabilities and Strengthens Agency Network with Healthware Group Acquisition
Digital Health Global
OCTOBER 11, 2023
The acquisition immediately expands EVERSANA’s European operations and worldwide capabilities to help pharmaceutical, medical device, and emerging biotech companies globally launch products, expand market access, or solve unique geographic and market-specific challenges.
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Elevance, Hims & Hers, HCA Healthcare named Best Companies to Work For by U.S. News
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Elevance Health, Humana, Hims & Hers Health and HCA Healthcare are among the best large, public healthcare companies to work for, according to a new industry-specific ranking published Tuesday | The ranking of top public healthcare employers considered metrics such as compensation and work/life balance.
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Employee Benefits are Evolving with Help from AI
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 16, 2024
Biotech and software firms are actively investing in AI healthcare platforms capable of symptom assessment, multilingual medical guidance, and automated notetaking. Prior to Well, David was the VP of Transformation at Aetna and the Head of Biotech at PPD.
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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care
Health Populi
JANUARY 8, 2019
As my friends at #JPM this week are hearing in San Francisco, AI is part of virtually every biotech and med-tech story. Those of us who have worked in the health care ecosystem for some years know that the industry doesn’t change fast. As Shelly put it, we in industry have a responsibility.
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Wellness in 2023 Is About Connections, Mental Health and Science – Global Wellness Summit’s 2023 Trends
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
Whether looking at biotech beauty and what “clean” really means, effectively dealing with obesity, or biohacking our biology, wellness-engaged health citizens are not interesting in the shiny new thing without data backing up claims. Being Missourian in spirit and intent: seeking the science and the evidence.
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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA
Health Populi
MARCH 19, 2019
Key issues facing the industry in 2019 and into the next few years range from regulation of dietary supplements and the role of CBD in self-care, the omni-channel consumer, ecommerce vs. bricks-and-mortar, trust, and wrestling with consumer privacy. Consumer health went opposite, up 7 points, biotech up 3, insurance up 8, pharma up 6.
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Healthcare Startups Shine at Collision 2024
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 18, 2024
Innovative startups in the health IT, medical device, and biotech fields were among the shining stars at the annual Collision conference. The healthcare solutions on display at Collision 2024 were grounded, practical, and backed by dedicated teams who understood how long it takes to become an overnight success in the healthcare industry.
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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
These four pillars Susannah, Lisa and I addressed in the context of PLM+UHG are also raised in today’s deal…with some nuances intriguing me around the public’s trust in the tech industry, as well as the nature and mission of a faith-based healthcare organization. Let’s talk about Technology and Trust. health care.
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Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials
Digital Health Global
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Healthcare Industry Driving Change Healthcare industry is rapidly becoming an engine of change for the use of DHTs in clinical trials. The company will supply solutions to AstraZeneca while extending services to pharma, biotech companies, and clinical research organizations.
Accenture Invests in QuantHealth to Accelerate Use of AI-Powered Clinical Trial Simulations to Drive Cost-Effective Drug Development
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
Accenture announced it has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures , in QuantHealth , an AI-powered clinical trial design company that simulates clinical trials in the cloud, allowing pharmaceutical and biotech companies to more quickly and cost-effectively develop treatments for patients. Petra Jantzer, Ph.D.,
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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022
Society for Participatory Medicine
JANUARY 27, 2022
The same definition of patient engagement applies to industry, except that the interventions lead to more human centered design and value-based care. Healthcare stakeholders such as health systems, pharmaceutical companies, biotech and life sciences firms, and insurance companies serve patients as end users.
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Wyss Center Geneva Appoints Erwin Böttinger as new Chief Executive Officer
Digital Health Global
APRIL 3, 2023
Together with our partners from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the University of Geneva and Geneva University Hospital, the Wyss Center is poised to catalyze the unique concentration of world-class brain health research at Campus Biotech to drive clinical breakthroughs.”
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Bonfire Analytics, an AI-Driven Sales Intelligence Platform, Closes Pre-Seed Round
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Bonfire Analytics is a company that enables digital health, medical device, and biotech organizations to identify qualified leads through machine learning and analytics. Funding within healthtech can be difficult due to the competitiveness of the industry.
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$100+ Billion spent on myriad of acquisitions across Pharma and Biotech industries in H1 2018
Lloyd Price
JULY 5, 2018
For many biotech companies, mergers and acquisitions have become a cornerstone in building a robust pipeline that can ensure positive growth for years to come. 2017 was considered to be a lean year for M&A in biotech. Although 2017 was slow for M&A activity, analysts have predicted 2018 could be a return to a spending frenzy.
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BioscienceLA Launches Leadership Catalyst Program For Emerging Leaders in the Life Sciences
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 15, 2023
–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #Biotech –Taking a people-first approach, BioscienceLA, the ecosystem accelerator for life sciences in Greater Los Angeles, has launched its inaugural Leadership Catalyst Program for trailblazers in biotechnology and related sectors. We are delighted to be part of this impactful program.”
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Sanguina Raises $2.8M in Series A Funding to Drive Innovation in Home-Based Testing and Wellness Management
Digital Health Global
JULY 25, 2023
Woman-led biotech company, Sanguina, secures funding to advance accessible digital health and wellness platforms PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga.–(BUSINESS Sanguina) is a leading biotech company focused on advancing accessible digital and at-home health platforms for rapid home-based testing and disease management. Series A funding round.
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B Capital Closes Inaugural Healthcare Fund, Commits $500 Million to Healthcare Innovation
Digital Health Global
MARCH 1, 2023
Technological advancements in biology, AI and automation are transforming the industry, with business models seeing the convergence of traditional players in novel ways. “We are witnessing unprecedented innovation across the healthcare landscape,” said Robert Mittendorff, MD, General Partner and Head of Healthcare at B Capital. .
BIOQuébec and BioFlorida Announce Strategic Partnership
Digital Health Global
OCTOBER 13, 2023
This agreement is set to intensify collaboration and bolster industry growth in of both regions. Fostering global connections and innovation and fueling growth are key to advancing the life sciences industry in Florida,” said Nancy K. Bryan, President & CEO of BioFlorida. Preferential registration rates for all partnered events.
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Affineon Secures $5M to Power Physician Productivity
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 13, 2025
The healthcare industry is hungry for solutions that combine advanced AI technology with practical applications, said Matt Miller, Managing Partner at Headwater Ventures. With offices in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, GPG Ventures invests nationally in biotech, digital health, medtech, consumer health, and general B2B tech.
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Global OTC/DTC Infectious Disease Diagnostic Market 2023 to 2027
Digital Health Global
MARCH 14, 2023
Players Include 1DropDiagnostics, Abbott Laboratories, Ador Diagnostics, ADT Biotech and Akonni Biosystems DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “OTC/DTC Infectious Disease Diagnostics Strategies and Trends for Over the Counter and Direct to Consumer. Industry Participants 4.2 Industry Structure 5 Market Trends 5.1
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Launch of Aptadir Therapeutics With a Novel Class of RNA Inhibitors
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Claudia Pingue, senior partner and head of the Technology Transfer Fund of CDP Venture Capital SGR , added: “Aptadir is the first biotech company born from EXTEND, National Technology Transfer hub established on the initiative of CDP Venture Capital and funded with co-investment partners, Angelini Ventures and Evotec.
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Unlearn Raises $50 Million Series C to Optimize Clinical Research With AI-Powered Digital Twin Technology
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Pharmaceutical companies are spending over 100 billion dollars a year on clinical research, yet the industry remains skeptical about new technology that has the power to truly transform research,” said Charles Fisher, Ph.D., Founder and CEO at Unlearn.
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Cognitive AI: Empowering Clinical Teams with Data-Driven Insights
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 22, 2023
As our ability to utilize data to demonstrate positive clinical outcomes continues to be enhanced through technology, healthcare and biotech companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate positive clinical outcomes and patient benefits from these investments.
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