Germany unveils a new strategy to “bring healthcare into the 21st century”
The German Federal Ministry of Health presented an ambitious "Digitization strategy for healthcare and nursing care....
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E-health in Portugal and its five most popular services
Digital health was not brought to Portugal by the COVID-19 pandemic – the country pioneered its first e-health...
A quest to restore emotional care in medicine
Medicine is much more than 10-minute visits in a rush and patients left alone with their health concerns. So how do we...
New light-and-sound therapy could help patients with alzheimer’s
Startup Cognito Therapeutics has announced trials of an Alzheimer’s therapy device that will last a year and involve...
Data in healthcare: can we trust something we don’t know?
Data is key to shaping evidence-based health policies, providing citizens with tools and medicines that contribute to...
Who’s florence 2.0 will tell you now how to stay healthy
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a chatbot for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. It provides advice on a...
Smart healthcare and innovation: what’s next in digital health?
Digital health and promising buzzwords have been inseparable for years. But more and more, the question arises about...
Technology Helps Deliver Care In A Way That We Never Imagined
The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine, but quite a few barriers still block benefits that patients...
Does Prevention Justify Total Control? Data And Ethics During Health Emergencies
Lockdowns, contact tracing, obligatory testing, monitoring of people in quarantine, and COVID certificates – in...
Primary care physicians need… 26.7 hours a day to do their work
A new study published in The Journal of General Internal Medicine shows how overworked primary care physicians are: if...
Digital health at a glance in 29 European countries
The Ministerial Delegation for Digital Health of the French Ministry of Solidarity and Health presented an overview of...
What disrupts or facilitates the deployment of digital health?
Electronic health records, telecare solutions, eHealth applications for patients – the number of digital health...
What Will Metaverse Offer Physicians And Patients In The Future?
The metaverse promises a radically new virtual experience, an immersion into a digitally created world. As a physician,...
What Exactly Does The EU Commission Do For Healthcare?
A conversation about the latest EU initiatives for health, European Health Data Space and strategies for resilient...
Healthcare is no longer just a place you visit. It’s a service that visits you
This year's EIT Health Summit 2022 in Stockholm shed more light on the healthcare innovations shaping the post-COVID...
Digital Therapies Can Help Patients If Only Health Systems Understand Their Value
Digital platforms developed with physician input with clinically proven benefits for patients are a whole new quality...
Estonia’s roadmap to telehealth: identify needs, test and update
How can telehealth better meet the needs of patients? "Identify the needs, improve digital skills, access to the...
Mobile Health Tools Will Not Scale If Other Adoption Factors Are Neglected
While some of the factors impacting patients’ adoption of mHealth tools may be hard to influence – e.g. intrinsic...
Is strategically critical healthcare moving toward data protectionism?
The war in Ukraine shows that also innovation is strongly influenced by the geopolitical situation. And that has...
A Framework For Moving From Ideas And Pilots To Adoption At Scale
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) – a part of the Scottish Funding Council’s Innovation Centre...
First Principles Thinking For Digital Health Lawmaking
As business philosophy advisors, we ask our clients certain fundamental questions - “what is the core value of your...
6 basic rules to increase digital skills among healthcare professionals
Organizational processes, higher quality of care, and seamless access to data. Electronic medical records are to make...
Digital health is exciting, but it also has life-threatening bugs
We are so blinded by technological innovations that we overlook the dangers they pose – argues Prof Harold Thimbleby...
Findings From Covid-19 For Healthcare Stakeholders To Remember
COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented use of telemedicine and has triggered the implementation of novel solutions such...