The Medical Futurist | January 15, 2019 Globalization reached healthcare big time: a French patient can easily ask a Belgian company to sequence the DNA of his tumor tissue, then convince a Swiss pharma company to sign them up for a relevant clinical trial on a Spanish island. Not only [...]
By Jennifer Bresnick, HealthIT Analytics | January 15, 2019 Microsoft and Walgreens will apply artificial intelligence to improving chronic disease management and retail-style patient experiences. Microsoft and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) are collaborating to apply artificial intelligence to the challenges of developing retail-style healthcare interactions. The two companies will work [...]
By Sean Day & Megan Zweig, Rock Health | January 2019 In a banner year for digital health funding, AI/ML companies raced to the top in dollars raised, investors showed excitement about on-demand healthcare services, and more women CEOs closed rounds than ever before—though they still represent a small sliver [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | January 14, 2019 The American Medical Association has found that physician practices aren't using telehealth or telemedicine in large numbers, often because they're having problems paying for the new technology. Telemedicine and telehealth may be the norm rather than the exception in hospitals and [...]
By Jessica Kim Cohen, Becker's Hospital Review | January 12, 2019 The FDA has drafted a new regulatory framework outlining how it wants to review digital health products, based on a pilot program the agency rolled out in 2017. Four things to know: 1. The FDA's pilot, dubbed the Digital [...]
By Dan Michelson, Contributor, Becker's Hospital Review | January 11, 2019 If you want to understand the shifting sands of healthcare, you'll find no better place than the nonprofit provider track during the infamous JP Morgan Healthcare Conference that took place this week in San Francisco. Over 40,000 players were [...]
