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How Is France Executing The Vision To Become The European Digital Health Leader?
In June 2021, France announced a €7.5 billion Health Innovation Plan, as part of a broader financial investment to boost the French industry. This funding goes beyond digital health, it’s aimed at supporting biotech development, startups, m…
Bringing ePrescribing To The Next Level: To Patients
The US has had ePrescribing since 2001. However, after four years, only 4% of clinicians had adopted it. Electronic prescribing became legal in all 50 states by 2007. Eight years later, controlled substances and prior authorization were ena…
(RERUN) Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana: How is Medtronic Labs Redefining Chronic Disease Management (Anne Stake)
A systemic approach to care for non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes is Africa is in its early stages, with the biggest challenge for patients being the price of medications, says Anne Stake, Chief Strategy and Product O…
How Can AI Help Predict Patient Drug Response? (Genialis)
Drug development is undeniably expensive. For years, the pharmaceutical industry cited an estimate of 3 billion US dollars. However, a recent study published in 2020 discovered that the median cost actually falls between 985 million and 1.3…
How Can Digital Tools Aid Long-Term Chronic Care Management? (Omada Health)
Chronic diseases are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioral factors. They require long-term management and often behavioral changes. Achieving long-lasting effects can be extremely difficult, and…
How Can Generative AI Superstaff Healthcare? (Munjal Shah)
The field of generative AI companies is evolving fast and many companies, that have been exploring the field for years, are gaining in visibility. However, new companies are popping up as well. One of them is Hippocratic AI, founded in 2023…
What Are Investors Betting On In Generative AI in Healthcare?
Generative AI is definitely the word we will remember 2023 by. Knowing that administrative burden is among the key reason for physician burnout, the idea that AI could tackle this challenge, became a little bit more tangible with the raised…
BEST OF 2022: Has The Risk of Becoming a Nurse Become Too Great in the US?
Nurses play a key role in patient care, but their contribution to patient outcomes is often undervalued and underappreciated. It took a pandemic to create a major shift in their job opportunities and power to negotiate. Many nurses left the…
When Does it Make Sense To Get a Pharmacogenomic Test?
Healthcare is one of the rare industries, in which often times, by requesting a service, the work hardly begins for the patient. Especially in complex cases, care is rarely seamless: test are done, drugs are presribed and if all goes well t…
Norway: The “pilot illness” - easy to do hospital pilot projects, difficult to get larger deployments
Telemedicine is becoming an archaic term in 2023. It is also too broad. We now have at-home hospitals, virtual wards, remote monitoring, and more. Video consultations and online patient portals saw a spike during the pandemic. While many en…
LATAM Ep.4: Improving Primary Care in Mexico
Mexico has 126 million people which is a bit more than half as much as Brazil in South America, or three times as much as Argentina, which we discussed in one of our previous episodes as well. Mexico has a predominantly public healthcare sy…
LATAM Ep. 3: Improving Cancer Care in South America (Pegasi)
In the last few episodes, you’ve been able to hear two episodes about digital health in South America. We talked about Peru with Jhonathan Bringas, MD and innovator, CEO of Lapsi Health, we dove into Argentina with Santiago Troncar, CEO and…
Finland: Room for Improvement in Public-Private Partnerships
In this episode, we’re diving in the Finish ecosysyem. What makes Finland repeatedly achieve the rank of the happiest country globally? In this episode, you will hear from Päivi Sillanaukee, Special Envoy for Health and Wellbeing at the Min…
Europe: How are Slovenia, Germany and the Netherlands Envisioning Future Healthcare Digitalization?
If it seems that the world is moving faster and faster with the rapid evolution of AI and other technologies, the digitalization of healthcare infrastructure is not changing with that speed. However, countries across Europe are ambitiously …
LATAM Ep.2: Argentina: Great Medical Education System and Turbulent Political Instability
South America is a large market, with great potential from the language perspective, since Spanish is the official language in most countries, except for Brazil. But what are the specifics of the region? In this episode Santiago Troncar, th…
Cerebral: The Future Potential in Mental Health Lies in Leveraging AI For Care Provision
Access to mental health services wasn’t great before the pandemic. Then two things happened: the need for mental health services increased. But so has access to telemedicine providers of mental health support. The Drug Enforcement Administr…
Healthcare digitalization in South America Ep. 1: How digital is Peru? (Jhonatan Bringas)
After a series about digital health in the APAC region, this is the first episode about healthcare and digital health in South America. Speaker: Peruvian clinician and innovation Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, MD. Jhonatan is based in the Ne…
Women's Health Globally: What Does It Mean in Different Cultures?
Women's Health has increasingly garnered attention, with growing research, investments, and discussions surrounding the topic. Although overall digital health investments experienced a decline last year compared to previous years, the propo…
APAC Series Ep. 4: What is Fueling Hesitancy Towards Telemedicine in South Korea? (Mira Kang)
In South Korea, life expectancy at birth was 82.7 years in 2017, higher than the OECD average of 80.8. At the moment, Korea has one of the youngest populations among OECD countries, with only 13.8% aged 65 or over. This is expected to incre…
APAC Series Ep. 3: Easy Access To Clinicians and At-Home Testing in Vietnam
This is the third episode in a series of discussions about digital health and healthcare in the APAC region. In this episode, Beth Ann Lopez, a Co-founder and CEO at Docosan, a healthcare marketplace that aims to make it effortless to acces…
APAC Series Ep.2: China From A to Z: Healthcare Policy and AI Development (Ruby Wang)
This is the second episode in the Digital health in APAC Series. The first episode featured Farid Bidgoli, GM for Roche in Thailand, who discussed what is Roche looking into in Thailand when it comes to digital health. In this episode, the …
APAC Series Ep. 1: What is Roche Keeping an Eye on in Thailand? (Farid Bidgoli)
This is the first episode in the series of discussions about healthcare and digital health in the APAC Region. In this episode Farid Bidgoli, General Manager for Roche in Thailand and neighboring countries. Farid talked about the healthcare…
What Exactly is Open Access To AI and Why We Are Not There Yet in Healthcare? (Bart De Witte)
After an intense race in AI development lighted by the release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, two important things happened in the last week of March 2023: Over 1000 tech workers, such as Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX, Steve W…
How is Healthcare Re-Shaping (Towards Virtual and Retail Care) Globally, According to NextMed Health Participants?
Healthcare is facing challenges on all fronts. WHO estimates a projected shortfall of 10 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle-income countries. Countries at all levels of socioeconomic development face, to varying…