The Medical Futurist | March 14, 2019 While the digital health market is expanding rapidly, ninety percent of start-ups will probably die within two to five years from their inception. That’s an awfully high number, so we looked around what could possibly go wrong with digital health start-ups to avoid [...]
By Adam B. Cohen and Kyan Safavi, Health Affairs | February 27, 2019 Digital health technologies hold great promise to solve some of the biggest problems in our healthcare system, including achieving higher quality, lower cost, and greater access to care. In the January 2019 issue of Health Affairs, we [...]
By Fred Donovan, HIT Infrastructure | February 22, 2019 CAMBRIDGE—The biggest question when it come to digital health technology is not getting “new, cool stuff” into the hospital, but how can it fit seamlessly into the existing clinical workflow, observed Jaydeo Kinikar, head of marketing and business development at Philips [...]
By Meg Bryant, HealthcareDIVE | February 8, 2019 Dive Brief: Microsoft on Thursday unveiled new tools aimed at enhancing communication and collaboration between healthcare providers. A new capability in Microsoft Teams alerts clinicians and support staff of urgent messages every two minutes for up to 20 minutes. A second new feature [...]
By Sean Duffy, contributor, CNBC | January 31, 2019 Start-ups might seem glamorous, but entrepreneurs in health care should resist using the term. Omada Health CEO Sean Duffy said that potential customers are looking for evidence of maturity, as a mistake could be a disaster. He's always referred to Omada [...]
By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | January 21, 2018 A new brain training game works like ‘digital Ritalin’ to improve focus, researchers have shown and are hopeful it could replace controversial ‘chemical cosh’ drugs. The University of Cambridge has today launched a free app which they claim provides a ‘welcome [...]
