By Kevin Truong, MedCity News | May 21, 2019 The company just announced strategic alliances with Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer and Sanofi to develop new clinical research programs utilizing the Project Baseline platform across therapeutic areas ranging from cardiovascular disease to oncology to mental health. Alphabet’s Verily life science division launched [...]
By Kevin Truong, MedCity News | May 19, 2019 As videogames have become mainstream and emerged from the dimly-lit arcade rooms of years past, gaming technology has found increasing application in medical training, pain management, rehab, and digital therapeutics. On Justin Barad’s office desk in San Francisco sits an old [...]
By David Shaywitz, Forbes | May 18, 2019 After breathlessly ascending the peak of inflated expectations, and careening down through the trough of despair, digital health seems poised to re-emerge, battered but not beaten, in the form of digital medicine: digital health plus evidence plus humility. That was my key [...]
By David Muoio, MobiHealth News | May 16, 2019 The pharmacy benefit manager will be vetting each of the tools featured within the new formulary for therapeutic value, usability, security, privacy and cost effectiveness. Express Scripts will be releasing a stand-alone formulary in 2020 that highlights vetted digital health tools [...]
By Spandan Mahapatra, Tate Consultancy Services, Fierce Healthcare | May 15, 2019 Historically, the healthcare industry has been slower to adopt new and emerging technologies—partially due to regulatory boundaries and legacy IT infrastructure. But as of late, the healthcare industry is rapidly becoming one of the most technologically advanced in [...]
By Samyukta Mulling, John P. Pollak, Said Ibrahim, Harvard Business Review | May 14, 2019 Health systems do not systematically collect information on social determinants of health (SDH) — the conditions in which people are born, live, grow, and age — despite knowing that they have a big impact on individual and population [...]
