Healthcare under attack. How to stop life-threatening cybercrimes?
The report “Playing with Lives: Cyberattacks on Healthcare are Attacks on People” by CyberPeace Institute shows how...
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After A Year And A Half Boom In Digital Health, Troubles Return
Since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the use of telehealth or mobile health apps is growing at an unprecedented rate....
New, Tech-Related Social Determinants Of Health
Human health is determined by various factors: behavioural, social, economic, cultural, environmental. Today, digital...
Report Shows Expansion Of Dtx, Apps, Digital Devices And Wearables
The latest report, “Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption”, developed by the...
Can Technology Still Save India’s Collapsing Healthcare System?
Low government spending on healthcare (1,28% of the country’s GDP), poor infrastructure, inequalities in access to...
Turning short-term acceleration into long-term sustainable growth
ICT&health met experts from the Robert Bosch Foundation (Germany) and the Health Foundation (UK) to discuss the impact...
The State Of Digital Transformation In Latin American Health Systems
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold in the Latin-American region, financial hardship leads to collapsing...
Find out six principles for AI in healthcare developed by WHO
The latest report of the World Health Organization, Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health, is one...
Benefits of wearables: do we see what we want to see?
Can a fitness tracker change the lifestyle and improve the health of its owner? Studies in this area are conflicting or...
Gaia-x. What’s behind the project everyone is talking about?
GAIA-X has the ambition to create a European wide network of stakeholders to drive digital data exchange. National hubs...
Patients Are Often “Included” To Improve Corporate Image
Many med-tech companies are convinced that the hi-tech solutions created by their engineers and wrapped up in...
Digitally-Enabled Primary Care: A Case For Evolution, Not Revolution
How can we strengthen primary care by introducing digital health solutions and what have we learned from the pandemic?...
Dr Google Gets A Medical Degree To End Misdiagnoses
Google announces an AI-assisted web app to assess dermatological conditions. When you google for information about a...
Physicians In The Lead Of Med-Tech Innovation Design
Technology is essential for healthcare—nobody doubts it any more. We have also learned that innovation consists of...
How Big Data Accelerate Research On Blood Cancers
A pan-European public-private initiative, HARMONY Alliance, demonstrates how artificial intelligence and access to data...
We Can’t Afford To Continue Delivering Care In The Analogue Way
“If the digital-first approach enables people to access high-quality healthcare services, we should go for it,”...
How To Increase The Value Of Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote patient monitoring received a needed push from the pandemic crisis, which has accelerated its adoption. As a...
Nowhere is digital health more needed than in Africa
With the lowest worldwide healthcare spendings, doctors shortages, dominance of rural areas, and poor infrastructure,...
Top 8 Challenges of Developing Telehealth Solutions
COVID19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns put in front many benefits of telehealth. Among them is improving patient...
World’s biggest pharma companies go digital
Pharmaceutical companies were late to realize the impact of digitization on transforming the healthcare system and life...
7 Rules That Distinguish Top Digital Health Leaders
To guide a hospital through a digital transformation, the managers should pay attention to several key competencies....
Travelling During The Pandemic: Europe Plans Digital Certificates
To facilitate safe and free movement inside the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission (EC) is...
Does Digitization Make Us Happy (And Healthier)?
According to the World Happiness Report 2021, the top 3 happiest countries are Finland, Iceland, and Denmark. Besides,...
What Should Be Done To Make Patients Love Telecare?
While some patients appreciate the comfort of virtual medicine, for many people, the lack of direct contact with a...