By Moni Miyashita and Michael Brady, Harvard Business Review | May 28, 2019 In southeast England, patients discharged from a group of hospitals serving 500,000 people are being fitted with a Wi-Fi-enabled armband that remotely monitors vital signs such as respiratory rate, oxygen levels, pulse, blood pressure, and body temperature. [...]
By Roy Saar, Venture Beat | May 26, 2019 Japanese drug maker Otsuka Pharmaceutical agreed to pay as much as $300 million to Click Therapeutics Inc. in January to develop digital therapies for patients with major depression. News of the deal opened the eyes of digital health entrepreneurs and investors [...]
The Medical Futurist | May 25, 2019 What would you do without your smartphone or laptop for a week? Some cannot even imagine putting them down for a second, not thinking much of the vulnerability of our entire digital existence. What if a hurricane destroys the electric grid? What if [...]
By Malia Lewin, MedCity News | May 24, 2019 Life sciences companies overwhelmed with large volumes of information and data available - both in terms of therapies and patient-reported outcomes - must establish a more efficient, bi-directional communication model with care teams to succeed. The speed of scientific breakthroughs in [...]
By Hanae Armitage, Stanford Medicine | May 24, 2019 Invisible sensors, machine learning for disease diagnoses, big data in the clinic and more took the stage as topics at this year’s Big Data in Precision Health Conference. What can big data do for you? That question seemed to animate the [...]
CNBC | May 24, 2019 CNBC’s Healthy Returns Summit was held earlier this week in New York City, featuring keynote presentations and panel discussions on the future of the health-care industry. Topics ranged from controversial genetic-editing technique CRISPR to the way AI is changing the practice of drug discovery and [...]
