The 2023 State of VR Survey was provided to a list of clinicians, contacts, decision makers and industry participants to gather data...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS PICKTruepill’s Sid Viswanathan Out As CEO As Troubles Mount ANot quite 18 months after being named CEO of Truepill, cofounder Sid Viswanathan is gone. The company, worth $1.6 billion at its last...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Walgreens Sells AmerisourceBergen Shares To Raise $1.85 Billion To Accelerate Healthcare Strategy
Walgreens Boots Alliance has sold shares of AmerisourceBergen for initial proceeds of $2.85 billion, which will be used to accelerate the...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS Insilico Medicine's new AI tool shows promise in predicting clinical trial outcomes
Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a clinical-stage end-to-end generative artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery company, has...
Allurion Technologies has commercialized a gastric balloon in the form of a pill that patients swallow. But the weight loss platform from...
DEALS & COMPANY NEWS FemTech: First Women’s Medical-Grade Wearable Smart Ring Submitted for FDA ClearanceMovano Health, makers of the Evie Ring, the first medical-grade wearable smart ring for women announced that it has submitted a 510(k)...
HEALTHCARE A survey of the knowledge, perceptions of and attitudes to digital health of healthcare professional
To explore the knowledge, perceptions of and attitudes to digital health of Bulgarian hospital professionals in the first study of...
Artificial intelligence can be safely used to improve the accuracy of screening of mammography results, according to a new study...
CHANGE & INNOVATION TECHNOLOGYThe Secret Sauce to Business Success: Have You Mastered the Business Transformation ProcesStaying competitive requires more than just keeping up with the latest trends. It demands a deep, fundamental shift in how businesses...
LightForce Orthodontics Secures $80 Million Series D Funding Led By Ally Bridge Group, Opens Second Digital Factory LightForce...
CLINICAL TRIALS Delivering the direct-to-patient promise: Are regulatory and tech challenges standing in the way?
While direct-to-patient distribution is a key component of decentralised trials and use continues to grow within protocol designs, many...
DIGITAL THERAPEUTICS Mapping Factors That Affect the Uptake of Digital Therapeutics Within Health Systems: Scoping Review
In this review, we aimed to map the most frequently discussed factors that determine the integration of digital therapeutics into health...
Digital technologies offer tremendous potential for shifting from traditional medical routines to remote medicine and transforming our...
EVIDENCE & REGULATION FDA updates device consensus standard list with digital health, biocompatibility and sterilization s
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated and expanded its list of premarket medical device consensus standards that include...
AI Patient data: more than half of UK public don’t trust AIMore than half of the UK public (56%) don’t trust the NHS to use AI to analyse their patient data – even if it would help the NHS deliver...
AI enables researchers to design novel therapeutics with desired properties,” according to Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare...
Whilst growth in the overall digital pathology AI market is set to scale quickly, cannibalization and consolidation are expected to...
CHANGE & INNOVATION The global effect of digital health technologies on health workers’ competencies and health workplac
Systematic reviews have quantified the effectiveness, feasibility, acceptability, and cost-effectiveness of digital health technologies...
The new device, which can be incorporated into a bra, could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer. A...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Appliation of Social Robots in Healthcare: Review on Characteristics, Requirements, Technical Solut
This review examines the current state-of-the-art of social robots used in healthcare applications, with a particular emphasis on the...
A new review paper co-authored by two Johns Hopkins pain experts suggests that scrambler therapy, a non-invasive pain treatment, can...
CHANGE & INNOVATION The effect of digitalization on service orientation and service perception among Israeli healthcare
Healthcare systems globally are adapting to rapid changes, including digitalization, to thrive. The main objective of this study is to...
FOR COMPANIES & INVESTORS Digital health funding, deals reach lowest levels in yearsDigital health startups across the globe raised $3.4 billion across 348 deals in the second quarter, with mega-rounds making up more than...
During SilverCloud by Amwell’s annual Digital Mindset conference, experts deliberated the potential of technology in addressing current...
Augmedics, a provider of augmented reality (AR) surgical navigation, announced it has been named the successful bidder for the digital...
BREAKTHROUGH The Next Frontier in European Digital Health: Ingestible Sensors and Their Impact on Patient Care
The next frontier in European digital health is set to revolutionize patient care with the advent of ingestible sensors. These tiny,...
MENTAL HEALTH & CNS Leaning into the digital age: the role of TikTok and other technologies in providing mental health
iPatients are increasingly seeking information about mental health from social media platforms such as TikTok. Clinicians should be...
The authors, both employed by a company providing consulting services for public and private health care organizations, examine the use... WEARABLES A Wearable Multimodal Wireless Sensing System for Respiratory Monitoring and Analysis
This paper proposes a sensor data fusion method of lung sounds and cardiograms for potential real-time respiration pattern diagnostics,...
AI The shaky foundations of large language models and foundation models for electronic health records
In this narrative review, we examine 84 foundation models trained on non-imaging EMR data (i.e., clinical text and/or structured data)...
There's still not much sign of a recovery in financings in the digital health sector, currently continuing a quarter-by-quarter slump...
AGEING Digital health technologies supporting the application of comprehensive geriatric assessments in lon
To provide high-quality elderly care, digital health technologies (DHTs) can potentially assist in reaching the full capacity of...
This review is written by Dr. Weixing Song from the Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University. Published in the National Science...
REVIEWS, SURVEYS, PREDICTIONS Longer-Term Effects of Cardiac Telerehabilitation on Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: Systemat
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of cardiac telerehabilitation. JMIR mHealth a
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