Weekly Summary 2nd June 2023
- DHV-NET
- Jun 2, 2023
- 6 min read
TRIALS, EVIDENCE & REGULATION Geisinger, UCSF, UConn Health leaders draft digital health recommendations
Leaders from three health systems helped draft a framework they say can better evaluate digital health interventions. Geisinger, UCSF,...
Sami, a health insurance startup that aims to revolutionize the Brazilian private health care system, today announced it raised $18...
With increased strain on the Canadian healthcare system and the rise in demand for virtual healthcare post-pandemic, more group benefits...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Takeda Opens Digital Health Innovation Challenge in Partnership with Plug and Play Alberta
Seeking innovative tech initiatives to execute within the Canadian healthcare ecosystem Challenge application period runs June 1 to June...
We trained a machine learning model to classify user interactions with the digital treatment to determine if they were “using it as...
After a slow couple of years, there are signs that biotech M&A activity is coming back into vogue, and a series of small transactions...
ENGAGEMENT, BEHAVIOUR, INCLUSION Visualizing heart disease to communicate risk improves patient adherence
Visualizing early heart disease using cardiac imaging helps with patient understanding of risk and adherence to medication and lifestyle...
TELEHEALTH & REMOTE MONITORING RPM brings 30-day mortality rate to almost zero for heart bypass procedure
That's for coronary artery bypass grafting patients at Atrium Health's Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, compared with a national...
Consolidation and the threat of monopolization in healthcare are rising. The pharmaceutical industry has experienced a wave of...
TRIALS, EVIDENCE & REGULATION Evidence in Digital Health for EFfectiveness of INterventions with Evaluative Depth (Evidence DEFINE
Without the proper evidence for digital health products (DHPs), stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem, including payers, will...
ENGAGEMENT, BEHAVIOUR, INCLUSION Why the future of healthcare should start at the digital front door
This gateway technology lays the foundation for organizations working toward a future of identity-based care and improves patients’...
Personalised and precision health is a firmly established concept in the development of new prescription medicines, but not so much in...
TRIALS, EVIDENCE & REGULATION Rigorous and rapid evidence assessment in digital health with the evidence DEFINED framework
Here we propose a framework to assess Evidence in Digital health for EFfectiveness of INterventions with Evaluative Depth (Evidence...
AI undoubtedly presents powerful opportunities in this field, as it is currently having its moment in cross-industry adoption. We’ve seen...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Consumers want unified digital platforms to manage their healthcare experiences
Fifty-eight percent of consumers say that having a unified digital platform will increase their ability to effectively manage their...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Machine Learning Techniques for Developing Remotely Monitored Central Nervous System BiomarkersThis narrative literature review aims to provide an overview of the current landscape of biomarker development using mHealth technologies...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Rehabilitation Using Digital Healthcare
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of musculoskeletal rehabilitation using DHC. Systematic...
Strive Health, a Denver-based provider of value-based kidney care today announced it has raised $166M in Series C funding led by NEA...
Value-based healthcare platform Carrum Health today announced an oversubscribed $45 million Series B financing led by OMERS Growth...
In this piece, we highlight work being done to advance surgical care using machine learning, computer vision, wearable devices, remote...
The review shows various types and strategies of fall detection methods. Each type of fall detection is discussed with its pros and cons....
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Hospital length of stay prediction for general surgery and total knee arthroplasty admissions: Syste
Systematic review of length of stay (LOS) prediction models to assess the study methods (including prediction variables), study quality,...
Virtual care has expanded during COVID-19 and enabled continued access to healthcare services. As with the introduction of any new...
Digital health funding continued its steady pace over the past month, with Becker's reporting on 11 companies raising more than $367...
ReNAgade Therapeutics raised $300M; FemTec Health shut down; Canary Speech partnered with Microsoft Digital health news, funding round up...
While these are key benefits of digital therapeutics and this optimism may have been laudable, this approach to market relies on promise...
ENGAGEMENT, BEHAVIOUR, INCLUSION Why Haven’t we Tapped the Full Potential of Virtual Care? The Answer Lies in Experience
The majority of consumers perceive that in-person visits are better than virtual visits when it comes to care quality and forming better...
Will AI see us now? Interview with Professor Gina Neff, Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the...
Five subtypes of heart failure that could potentially be used to predict future risk for individual patients have been identified in a...
MENTAL HEALTH & CNS An Overview of Chatbot-Based Mobile Mental Health Apps: Insights From App Description and User Revie
In this study, we aimed to provide an overview of the commercially available popular mental health chatbots and how they are perceived by...
The promise of endless possibilities brings with it immense responsibility. Namely, the advent of generative AI has also raised numerous...
Although there is uncertainty and risk, the implementation of AI with the right compliance framework and infrastructure offers an...
EOFlow's device will be integrated into Medtronic's Meal Detection Technology algorithm Medtronic buys EOFlow for its wearable insulin...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Emerging sensing and modeling technologies for wearable and cuffless blood pressure monitoring
The review sheds light on the interdisciplinary research opportunities to combine the latest innovations in the sensor and signal...
Aims and Scope The mHealth (Online ISSN: 2306-9740), launched in 2015 and indexed by PubMed and PubMed Central in March 2017 is an...
While AI writing an entire paper is an initial experiment, developments in the technology can help researchers, editors and publishers in...
TELEHEALTH & REMOTE MONITORING Mobile applications for cognitive training: Content analysis and quality review
The aim of this study was to systematically search and assess cognitive training apps using the multidimensional mobile app rating scale...
Digital innovations in mental health offer great potential, but present unique challenges. Using a consensus development panel approach,...
FOR COMPANIES & INVESTORS Digital health funding leveled out in Q1 with help from investments in care delivery and navigation
Only one unicorn rose above the fray with Kindbody raking in a $100 million deal to increase its valuation to $1.8 billion. Kindbody...
Roundups: 15 Recent Digital Health Strategic Partnerships (hitconsultant.net)
The future of digital health is promising, with the potential to revolutionize the way we approach healthcare and medicine. Artificial...
Achieving universal health coverage by 2030, as resolved by the World Health Assembly this week, should ideally bring along with it a...
In this year’s Most Innovative Companies report, we examine what innovation-ready leaders (those that are ready to develop product,...
Several manufacturers have received clearance and approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), indicating that their products...
Wearable sensors are widely used in everyday life in fields such as sports performance tracking and healthcare. According to IDTechEx...
