By Yuki Noguchi | NPR.org | October 8, 20197:18 AM ET Virtual reality — long touted as the next big thing in tech — hasn't taken off as a consumer product, but employers are embracing it as a more efficient and effective tool for on-the-job training. This year, Walmart is training more than 1 million employees using [...]
By Mackenzie Garrity | Becker's Hospital Review | October 8, 2019 Greeley-based University of Northern Colorado was granted $1 million from HHS to collaborate with Denver-based digital health company Cliexa to study technology used to identify high-risk adolescents. With the funding, the university will support a 700-person clinical trial. Patients will leverage Cliexa's risk screening tool, which [...]
By ARUNDHATI PARMAR | MedCity News | Oct 8, 2019, at 2:22 PM This is the fourth fund launched by Accelmed, a group of funds based in Israel and New York, which currently manages more than $300 million. Accelmed, a group of funds that invests in health tech companies, announced Monday that it is launching a [...]
By Andrea Park | Becker's Hospital Review | October 7, 2019 The global digital health market is expected to reach a valuation of more than $234 billion in 2023, up from 2019's estimated $147 billion, driven by the healthcare industry's ongoing transition toward a model of value-based care, per a new Frost & Sullivan report. The [...]
By Zoë LaRock | Business Insider | Oct 7, 2019, 10:55 AM Even though the digital health industry is steadily maturing, health tech companies might still have a long way to go when it comes to establishing themselves as viable partners for entrenched health firms. Business Insider Intelligence Forty-four percent of leaders working across the healthcare [...]
By Kayla Matthews, HIT Consultant | October 3, 2019 – When CIOs were asked about “significant” barriers to their Digital Health efforts, the top four responses pertained to issues with sponsorship and/or leadership. – Currently, the health delivery industry as a whole is still in the earliest stages of what will prove [...]
