Weekly Summary 26th May 2023
AI Conversational Agents and Avatars for Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Lifestyle-Related Behaviors:
This review aimed to get a greater understanding of the virtual agents that have been developed for cardiometabolic risk factors and to...
AI Digital health care evolves in the aftermath of the pandemic
Artificial intelligence is the future of optometric disease monitoring. Digital health care evolves in the aftermath of the pandemic...
FOR COMPANIES & INVESTORS New billing codes must include digital health
Brian Scarpelli, senior global policy counsel at the Connected Health Initiative, discusses how the initiative is working with the AMA to...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Will Your Next Therapist Be a Robot?—A Review of the Advancements in Robotic Upper Extremity Rehab
With the recent advancements in technology, robots have been widely involved in upper extremity rehabilitation exercises. Although...
ENGAGEMENT, BEHAVIOUR, INCLUSION Medicines adherence: Overcoming pharma’s biggest barrier to treatment success
Patient non‐adherence to medication is a serious challenge. Can digital health technologies successfully address the issues surrounding...
FOR COMPANES & INVESTORS Digital health megadeals down in Q1; first unicorn in nearly a year
Digital health megarounds declined 85 percent year over year, accounting for just $575 million in the first quarter of 2023 Digital...
FOR COMPANIES & INVESTORS Payers Need Clear Outcomes Data to Reimburse Digital Health
It’s clear that services like telehealth and remote patient monitoring have potential to provide value within the healthcare industry,...
FOR COMPANIES & INVESTORS The role of accelerator programmes in supporting the adoption of digital health technologies
Evidence-based digital health technologies are increasingly important in delivering care to an ageing population with constrained...
BREAKTHROUGH VTT creates a biodegradable ECG patch and paves the way to a more sustainable future for wearables
The new nanocellulose and carbon ECG patch aims to reduce the carbon footprint of plastics and electronics for one of the world’s largest...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Can Pear bud again? Ex-CEO McCann bids for assets
Digital therapeutics (DTx) company Pear Therapeutics may be heading for a new lease of life, if a plan by former chief executive Corey...
CHANGE & INNOVATION The barriers to digital transformation in healthcare
As hospitals and health systems continue to accelerate digital transformation throughout their organizations, many do not consider the...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS A review of multi-factor authentication in the Internet of Healthcare Things
This review paper aims to evaluate existing solutions in healthcare authentication and provides an insight into the technologies...
AGEING The effectiveness of wearable activity trackers for increasing physical activity and reducing sedent
Traditional interventions such as education and counseling are successful in increasing physical activity (PA) participation, but are...
HEALTHCARE Digital version of a positive psychology intervention tested among health care workers
Researchers tested a digital version of a positive psychology intervention called "Three Good Things" (3GT) among health care workers to...
DATA People with long-term conditions sharing personal health data via digital health technologies
Sharing personal health data with others is not without its risks: sharing data creates threats to the privacy and security of personal...
AGEING Wearable devices: underrepresentation in the ageing society
Older people are underrepresented in many wearable device studies, such as the Apple Heart Study.3 With a mean age of 41 and less than 6%...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS State of Digital Health Q1’23 Report
Global digital health funding holds steady at $3.4B in Q1’23 after plummeting for 4 straight quarters. State of Digital Health Q1'23...
Is generative AI a brilliant assistant or a creativity killer? A copy of ourselves that prove that the original is copyable? Just a...
AI AI tool outperforms human emergency call handlers in identifying stroke, new study shows
A team of researchers from Denmark has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework to address the number of strokes that go...
FOR COMPANIES & INVESTORS Health Tech Startups Show Stakeholders How Digital Solutions Can Offer ROIA
panel during the MedCity News INVEST conference discussed what digital health technologies need to do to demonstrate return on...
AI What's Next For AI In Healthcare In 2023
Let’s take a birds-eye view of what we can expect from AI in healthcare in the coming period. In this post, we will not discuss abstract...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Artificial Intelligence With Robotics in Healthcare: A Narrative Review of Its Viability in India
This short review focuses on the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) with robotics in the healthcare sector. It may have...
ENGAGEMENT, BEHAVIOUR, INCLUSION From Inside-Out to Outside-In: Rethinking Patient Engagement
We live in a world in which the patient is empowered like never before. Think of how your interactions with the brands you love are...
AI Use and Design of Chatbots for the Circular Economy
From this perspective, this study presents how artificial intelligence can help achieve this goal. Therefore, at the beginning of this...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Digital interventions to moderate alcohol consumption in young people
Objective: We conducted a review of systematic reviews to assess the available evidence on digital interventions aimed at reducing...
BREAKTHROUGH FDA: The heart-checking smart toilet seat is a go
After years in development, the FDA has said a smart, sensor-laden toilet seat has passed the agency’s muster. FDA: The heart-checking...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Digital health news, funding round up in the prior week; May 22, 2023
BetterUp partnered with Carahsoft; HippocraticAI raised $50M; CVS shuts down clinical trial business Digital health news, funding round...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS German Digital Health Startup Patient21 Secures $108M to Transform Primary Care
Patient21, a Berlin, Germany-based digital health startup raises has successfully raised €100m ($108M) in Series C funding from investors...
AI The next era of digital therapeutics
Digital therapeutics (DTx), which often incorporate AI algorithms, have incredible promise, but because they are in many ways...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Swing’s digital therapy for fibromyalgia gets FDA nod
Swing Therapeutics has joined the ranks of digital therapeutics (DTx) developers with an FDA-approved product, after the regulator...
TRIALS, EVIDENCE & REGULATION Participant Engagement in Microrandomized Trials of mHealth Interventions: Scoping Review
Background: Microrandomized trials (MRTs) have emerged as the gold standard for the development and evaluation of multicomponent,...
HEALTHCARE A whole person view of obesity care: Staying competitive in an evolving market
These twin innovation cycles of GLP-1 development and digital health innovation for obesity care parallel many dynamics we see in the...
TRIALS, EVIDENCE & REGULATION Digital health technology in clinical trials
Digital health technologies (DHTs) have brought several significant improvements to clinical trials, enabling real-world data collection...
AI WHO urges caution with healthcare AI deployments
While the World Health Organization says it's "enthusiastic about the appropriate use" of large language models such as ChatGPT, it has...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Use of artificial intelligence algorithms to predict systemic diseases from retinal images
In this review article, we concentrate on the areas where AI-based investigations could expand on existing conventional analyses to...
OTHER RESOURCES Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal
Journal Aims and Scope The objectives of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery are to (a) present the current state of the art of...
TELEHEALTH & REMOTE MONITORING Remote patient monitoring using artificial intelligence: Current state, applications, and challenges
This review results show that AI-enabled RPM architectures have transformed healthcare monitoring applications because of their ability...
AI Outperforming doctors and dealing with hallucinations — how GenAI will transform healthtech
Meet the European startups using GenAI in healthcare and drug discovery https://sifted.eu/articles/gen-ai-will-transform-healthtech?utm_s...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Great Ormond Street and Roche UK partner to improve child care using AI
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and Roche UK have partnered to co-develop digital tools aimed at identifying better ways...
MENTAL HEALTH & CNS Personalization strategies in digital mental health interventions: a systematic review
Personalization is a much-discussed approach to improve adherence and outcomes for Digital Mental Health interventions (DMHIs). Yet,...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Digital health interventions to support family caregivers: An updated systematic review
Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in the U.S., and disease management largely falls onto patients’ family...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Roundups: Tampa General, Henry Ford, PatientsLikeMe, Other Digital Health Partnerships
Roundups: Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships (hitconsultant.net)
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Vitality members benefit from AI-powered mental health support
Vitality has completed a pilot that found its health insurance members who used conversational AI support through the Wysa app...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Pear pulped: Digital therapeutics maker's assets sold for $6M at auction after bankruptcy filing
Pear Therapeutics' once-high-flying assets were split between fellow digital therapeutics maker Click and three other buyers in...
FOR COMPANIES & INVESTORS Digital health startups you need to watch in 2023
With so many impressive and intriguing digital health startups in medtech, it’s hard to know which to keep tabs on. So we’ve identified...
AGEING Breaking Down Barriers: Empowering Older Adults Through Telemedicine
The ageing population is rapidly growing across OECD countries. By 2050, the share of the population aged 65 and over is projected to...
