Consumer Digital Health

Work, family, and other responsibilities can take up so much time that it gets hard to focus on eating healthy, exercising, and losing weight. If you have diabetes, balancing out life and wellness can become a real issue. Klinio diabetes app was designed to reflect the needs of people who want to fight diabetes but can hardly find the time. It’s not your typical app. It’s a virtual assistant and app for people with diabetes that offers advanced features to help you take better care of diabetes.

The most important goals of pharma and medtech/diagnostics companies for investing in digital products and services are related to supporting their core business, especially enhancing existing portfolio products and collecting relevant customer/patient data (for example for R&D). Other objectives have also gained importance since 2019: Healthcare companies hope to leverage digital health for payer/provider partnerships (for example for innovative contracting) or for managing product lifecycle (particularly medtech/diagnostics companies).

Most consumers are bullish on the benefits that digital health technologies can play in their health. Most health care practitioners are also positive about the potential of digital health — recognizing room for improvement for better data integration, interoperability, and the opportunity to bridge gaps to achieve health equity and bolster access.

mWell’s patients will have easy and quick access to UnionDigital’s banking services with the aim of making its financial services accessible to more Filipinos.

You will systematically review how business model innovation is researched and reported across digital health business studies. Your work will be part of a more extensive scientific study that is subject to being published in a renowned management peer-reviewed journal, which you are invited to co-author based on your contribution. The project can be conducted entirely remotely. We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups to apply. Students from other universities are also welcome to apply.

The good AI and healthtech can do is undisputed, but testing new technology using old methods is holding it back.

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) is a medical treatment involving the use of highly concentrated electromagnetic energy that is supplied through PEMF machines. Sentient Element PEMF machines are one of the best in today’s market. This energy penetrates your body to reach your cells, providing them energy needed heal themselves and impart strength.

Digital health can help seniors age in place, but companies should consider usability and accessibility for their devices to succeed with the population, said panelists at CES 2023.

The dermatologist tested out the app for this article. She Is critical about it: “I noticed a bunch of limitations. For example, it does not take into account a patient’s story, something that is really important in order to make a good assessment of a skin patch.” She also raises questions about the use of phone cameras: “If you upload a blurry photo, you don’t get any kind of notification that the photo is too blurry. That’s crazy, because you can’t get proper advice that way, can you?” Several studies, including a study published in the Netherlands Journal of Medicine, show that similar apps have a low positive predictive values. The study found that a large proportion of app users receive false warnings about possible skin cancer and are quickly advised to seek medical attention.

Prominent investors think the explosion of funding during COVID-19 was a good thing, but the ongoing market correction is a good thing, too.

Patient engagement is an important part of your health care services, as it can help boost your patient’s motivation to get better. You don’t want to communicate with your patients to make them feel down or feel helpless with their health conditions. Thus, creating the patient engagement strategies for your health care organization is paramount for the health improvement of your patients.

By following the patient at each stage of its disease progression, from diagnosis to disease management, and integrating a variety of technologies, digital health provides deeper insights and help for care management.

The meteoric rise of telehealth and other types of virtual care during the Covid-19 pandemic sparked some of the highest funding in digital health’s history. This avalanche of investment — akin to the boom in electronic health record systems more than a decade ago — created a media frenzy, with health care and consumer media outlets creating the impression that digital health will solve the industry’s problems. Not all of this enthusiasm was misplaced. Digital health continues to massively change the health care industry. Yet health care providers, payers, and investors have become warier about funding and partnering with startups. Several high-profile and well-funded digital health companies were recently shown to have misled, overprescribed, or were outright fraudulent in their claims toward customers and partners.

“Monetizing Digital Health Solutions 2023: How to make money with digital health solutions?” whitepaper provides a comprehensive analysis of the views and opinions of 638 digital health stakeholders and decision makers worldwide on the monetization of digital health solutions. By exploring the current monetizing opportunities, this whitepaper delves into strategies, business models, use cases, and reimbursement options that can effectively generate revenue in the digital health landscape. Moreover, it uncovers the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in monetizing digital health solutions, that enable solution providers to make informed decisions and unlock the potential of this rapidly evolving industry.

Rich Communication Services (RCS) is telecommunication’s response, backed by GSMA, to the evolution of these messaging apps. It offers a parallel experience, but with even more intelligent features, and does not require the hinderance of having to download an app. Businesses around the world have rolled out these messaging services, allowing them to deliver creative and frictionless customer experiences in a setting that users are completely familiar with. Using intuitive AI, a few quick taps on the screen and a customer can have a full conversation with a brand. This could be getting answers to queries, arranging a delivery, or actually making a 1 click purchase directly within the message.

This year was shaping up to be a rebound year for digital health funding before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March and the subsequent collapse of similar banks threw the future of digital health funding back into disarray.

The collaboration will allow pilgrims to access virtual health care services remotely, offering more convenient, accessible, and affordable digital health care during pilgrimage for Umrah and Haj.

Kenyan healthcare startup Zuri Health has raised funding from Moroccan Venture Capitalist UM6P Ventures. Zuri Health is a telemedicine company that started in 2021. It allows African patients to access high-quality, reasonably priced healthcare using mobile apps, websites, WhatsApp chatbots, and SMS services. Patients can use the app to arrange lab and diagnostic tests, consult with doctors, purchase medication from pharmacies, and plan home visits with qualified medical professionals.

This year at CES, highlights in the automotive realm included Volkswagen’s tantalizing glimpse of its new ID.7 electric sedan set to launch by 2026. Another highlight was BMW’s i Vision Dee, a concept vehicle that explores the possibilities of mixed reality and the extent to which automotive personalization could change the relationship between owners and vehicles. BMW is calling the I Vision Dee “the ultimate digital companion,” because of its immersive, emotionally intelligent AI, Dee. Equipped with a “Mixed Reality Slider,” the sleek dashboard can project AR (augmented reality) scenes or entirely virtual worlds onto the windshield.

PEMF stands for Pulsed Electromagnetic Field. Devices that utilize PEMF technology emit electromagnetic waves at different frequencies in order to stimulate and encourage your body’s natural recovery process. You’re probably wondering how PEMF technology can benefit your body when other electromagnetic fields - like those produced by microwaves and x-ray machines - are harmful. According to Bulletproof, “frequency and duration make all the difference.” The waves created by PEMF devices occur in brief bursts and are very low-frequency, like the electromagnetic waves found in nature. In fact, most waves involved in PEMF treatments have a lower frequency than you would be exposed to during a thunderstorm.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, digital health technologies transformed the way that many of us received health care, supercharging the uptake of digital tools such as telehealth platforms, mobile symptom trackers, and remote monitoring. However, the whole-scale adoption and impact of digital health technology in national health systems around the world has still not yet fully materialized. A critical reason is that they often lack the necessary scientific evidence to back the range of benefits—from improved health outcomes for patients to better cost-benefit outcomes for payers such as insurance companies and health care providers—that its manufacturers claim they can deliver. 

Many healthcare organizations are seeking to harness the vast potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its four components — machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and robotics — to transform their clinical and business processes. They seek to apply these advanced technologies to make sense of an ever-increasing “tsunami” of structured and unstructured data, and to automate iterative operations that previously required manual processing.

What are digital health tools? There are several competing definitions but perhaps the most important one with is what the public make of this evolving industry and of the tools they are prepared to use.

The largest growth in adoption was among digital health tools that aid in remote care. The percentage of physicians using tele-visits/virtual visits grew from 14% in 2016 to 80% in 2022 while the percentage of physicians using remote monitoring devices grew from 12% in 2016 to 30% in 2022. The digital health tools that garner the most enthusiasm among physicians are tele-visits (57%) followed by remote monitoring devices (53%).

Millions of connected implant devices constantly collect data from patients around the world. And yet healthcare providers often struggle to extract timely and actionable insights into patients’ wellbeing and make proactive interventions. Medtronic, the largest global medical device company, chose OutSystems to build FocusOn™, a remote monitoring and triaging platform for cardiac conditions that saves clinical staff time and ensures better outcomes for patients.