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JULY 7, 2020

While M&A in digital health has slowed down, it’s useful to identify some of the deals conducted in the H1 2020 to see how vertical integration is scaling and shaping up. Three examples that Rock Health points out are: Teladoc, acquiring InTouch Health, a global virtual care provider.

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JANUARY 20, 2019

The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers. To give you an example of this process, here’s one of my favorite examples of Philips’ design-ful approach in a health care setting.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For example, “patient engagement” tools were defined as, “solutions to promote patient wellness and active participation in their care for chronic diseases,” e.g., adherence to treatment regimens.

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MAY 16, 2022

These enablers include, Technology, such as the proliferation of mobile phones, DNA sequencing, and fast-declining data storage costs – all examples of Moore’s Law; and, Human factors, with technology enabling social connectivity, well-being, decentralization, and DIY ( which I detail in my book, Health Citizenship ).

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JULY 16, 2019

In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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JUNE 10, 2019

Adopting these applications can help health care reduce costs, drive labor efficiency and support people-centered design and experience. Get to Know Me is the use of technology to develop and deepen relationships with people.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

There’s a growing evidence base that music bolsters health and cognitive function , and can lower stress. The program is featured in the AARP Showcase of tech focused on the Longevity Economy and healthy aging.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection. These barriers are an underlying theme in CTA’s paper on advancing health equity through technology, sponsored by CTA and the App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (ACT).

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation).

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JANUARY 8, 2019

” Making things “slightly better” is happening: for example, testing longer battery life, improving camera technology, and testing hardware security are among the marginal improvements that can make our tech experiences so much better.

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We also have engineers based in Kuala Lumpur, so we can evaluate medical technology that is bought and sold outside the United States. If we take AI for example, we often don't know what's happening in the black box. Thus, they are not used to a rigorous validation process. So how do we validate it? rare diseases).

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Heart health at home. The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

This has underpinned the growth of “digital front doors,” examples of which are shown in the third graphic from Rock Health’s report. Several of these organizations launched IPOs during the pandemic, and others plan to go public early in 2021.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

I’ve thought about Valencell as a sort of “Intel-inside” many other fitness and wearable technology products over the years I’ve been tracking digital health tools.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

For consumer-facing digital health apps and tools, closely heed the five elements bulleted above having to do with “my data” as a patient: privacy/security and being a good health data steward, giving me empowerment over my personal health information, ensuring no foreign government will have access to the data, speaking honestly and with (..)

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

CSweetener also curates a Speakers Bureau to help alleviate the ongoing challenge of “manels” (men on panels) at technology meetings. In the past few months, she’s traveled to Australia and Ireland, for example, to spread her knowledge about digital health and technology to healthcare providers, investors, and innovators.

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Key to the potential power of this vision is that Copilot’s access to data would go across all aspects of Microsoft 365, from notes and text to apps and workflows – even within electronic health records ( more on the example of Epic EHR below ).

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

toward clinically relevant digital health applications) will expand care delivery models beyond physical medicine to include behavioral health, digital wellness therapies, dentistry, nutrition, and prescription management, according to Behera. Favorable reimbursement policies (e.g., In-patient care and hospital management.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

The most common conditions employers, plans, and health systems are covering via digital tools are diabetes, among two-thirds of the purchasers; primary care, for 62%; and mental health, preventive care, and cardiovascular conditions for over 50% of purchasers.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Some cities in the geographies of Beck’s constituencies, in Australia and New Zealand, are cities with leadership in data culture, as Beck puts it, pointing to Wellington as an example. The report includes eight examples of healthcare innovations that fit into this vision including Medical Informatics Corp.

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For example, 57% of consumers share or forward news items they find interesting, but only 29% of these folks have good information hygiene (specifically, vetting the source and veracity of the shared story). Based on this index, only one in four people around the world have “good” information hygiene.

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