Weekly Summary 28th April 2023
Updated: May 26
COMPANIES & INVESTORS Apple may want to use AI to change your diet, sleep routine, and mood, Bloomberg reports
Apple is developing an AI-powered health coach under the codename Quartz, Bloomberg reported. It will use Apple Watch data to monitor...
MENTAL HEALTH & CNS ChatGPT is giving therapy. A mental health revolution may be next
The prospect of AI treating mental illness is raising a myriad of ethical and practical concerns. ChatGPT is giving ther
TRIALS, EVIDENCE & REGULATION Clinical validation of digital health technologies for personalized medicine
If a bright side to this horrific pandemic could be identified, it must be as the requisite catalyst to finally usher in the...
COMPANIES & INVESTORS In Which Areas of Healthcare Do Investors Want More Startup Activity?
While the digital health sector might feel a little cramped in some areas, there are wide open spaces in others — and investors are ready...
CHANGE & INNOVATION How Digital Transformation is Accelerating Healthcare and the Impact on Hospitals in the Future
The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health technologies across the healthcare industry. Digital transformation is now...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Screen time, phone usage, and social media usage: Before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Technology use has increased in the past several years, especially among younger generations. The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed...
Earth Month takes place during April every year. It’s a time to raise environmental awareness and create consciousness around the issues...
BREAKTHROUGH Wearable patch can painlessly deliver drugs through the skin
Using ultrasonic waves that propel drug molecules into the skin, the patch could be used to treat a variety of skin conditions. Wearable...
AI Epic analytics leader details efforts to bring GPT-4 into healthcare and growing work in genomics,
Health IT giant Epic made a big splash Monday at the HIMSS 2023 conference when it announced plans to integrate generative AI into its...
COMPANIES & INVESTORS European healthtechs chasing US expansion face fierce competition and a funding crunch
The promised land for healthtechs is now a trickier nut to crack European healthtechs chasing US expansion face fierce competition and a..
AI Consumer Trust: How Healthcare Organizations Can Build Confidencent e with AI
Trust is a vital componof healthcare. It impacts whether someone shows up for a doctor’s appointment, follows their treatment plan,...
HEALTHCARE Why physicians aren't adopting digital health technologies
There is a limited number of physicians adopting mobile apps, wearables and home-monitoring, Politico reported April 26. Why physicians...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Mobile Health Self-management Support for Spinal Cord Injury: Systematic Literature Review
Objective: The objective of this systematic literature review was to identify mHealth SMS tools for SCI and summarize their...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS A systematic review of neurophysiological sensing for the assessment of acute pain
This review identifies different non-invasive sensing technologies, their analytical tools, and the implications for their use. There are...
TELEHEALTH & REMOTE MONITORING Tech Is Changing Physical Therapy Treatment, but We Still Need a Human Touch
By combining in-home and virtual care, we can meet patients literally where they are. More importantly, we can improve outcomes, reduce...
HEALTHCARE New research sheds light on how to choose quality eHealth tools
With so many eHealth tools available, it can be challenging to select the best one for a specific health need. A recent study published...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Wearable Motion Capture Devices for the Prevention of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are a major contributor to disability worldwide and substantial societal costs. The use of...
METAVERSE TECH: VR, AR, TWINS, BCHN Exploring a new frontier in health care tech: Non-fungible tokens for secure health data management
Digital transformation in health care has been greatly catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the accelerated adoption of...
CHANGE & INNOVATION Supporting digital health transformation in eastern Europe and central AsiaNew WHO/Europe fellowship programme seeks to enhance the use of data science to improve public health outcomes, including amid health...
METAVERSE TECH: VR, AR, TWINS, BCHN Why is the healthcare industry hesitant to join the metaverse?
Emerging technologies such as AR and VR are becoming increasingly routine for professional training, surgical assistance, and treatment...
METAVERSE TECH: VR, AR, TWINS, BCHN Exploring exciting possibilities of healthcare in the metaverse
The arrival of healthcare applications in the metaverse offers the ability to leverage more continuous data. Exploring exciting...
DIGITAL THERAPEUTICS Adoption of digital therapeutics will require flexibility and patience
During the Venture Connect panel on demystifying digital therapeutics at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition here on...
COMPANIES & INVESTORS Emerging Mental Health Devices and Platforms worth $17.64 Bn by 2031The Global Emerging Mental Health Devices and Platforms Market is estimated to reach over USD 17.64 billion by 2031, exhibiting a CAGR of...
AI THE PROMISE AND POTENTIAL PITFALLS OF AI MEDICAL SCRIBES
With the age of electronic health records, patient-provider interactions generally involve providers doing their best to balance the...
AI The impact of AI on digital health: the fifth industrial revolution
We’re about to enter the Fifth Industrial Revolution where artificial intelligence (AI) and humans acting in synergy create an outsized...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Retrospective content analysis of consumer product reviews related to chronic pain
In this study, we performed an exploratory data mining study that analyzed CP-related Amazon product reviews. Our descriptive analyses...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Readiness for implementation of novel digital health interventions for postoperative monitoring
An increasing number of digital health interventions (DHIs) for remote postoperative monitoring have been developed and evaluated. This...
TELEHEALTH & REMOTE MONITORING Digital health and telehealth in cancer care: a scoping review of reviews
This scoping review of reviews characterised the peer-reviewed literature reviews on digital health and telehealth interventions in...
DATA The impact of commercial health datasets on medical research and health-care algorithms
In this Health Policy paper, we review the current landscape of commercial health data vendors, with special emphasis on the sources of...
HEALTHCARE 2023 trust-barometer
The mass-class divide revealed in the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer: Navigating a Polarized World is manifesting in healthcare. Inequality...
ENGAGEMENT, BEHAVIOUR, INCLUSION Digital Divide Worsens Healthcare Inequalities During Pandemic
Columbia University Researchers has discovered that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical importance of access to healthcare...
AI Google, Microsoft and startups test out generative AI in healthcare
It's been five months since Microsoft-backed OpenAI released its generative large language model ChatGPT, followed by GPT-4 in March....
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Digital Health Market Size Set to Skyrocket with Projected CAGR of 21% from 2022 to 2032
The global Digital Health market, which was worth USD 171,323.8 million in 2021, is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 21% between 2023-2032....
TELEHEALTH & REMOTE MONITORING 2023 Telemedicine & Digital Health Trends
A US Perspective 2023 Telemedicine & Digital Health Trends | Foley & Lardner LLP
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS A Comprehensive Review on Machine Learning in Healthcare Industry
We examined the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms in improving time series healthcare metrics for heart rate data transmission...
AI What's the most effective use of AI in healthcare? 30 leaders share
AI is beginning to appear more and more in healthcare settings. So much so that the Department of Veterans Affairs created an Artificial...
AI HealthGPT hints at a future of fitness apps with personalized assistants
Besides writing cover letters, the future of ChatGPT may be in the health sector. Researchers from Stanford University took the... AI A.I. generating huge buzz in medical community as a way to reduce paperwork
Generative AI and its role in health care took center stage at the HIMSS
