TFH #014: Apple's Digital Health strategy, the health platform cold start problem, the bias in AI and why it matters, England's women's healthcare strategy launched and more.
Apple releases digital health strategy - A report published yesterday shares the ways Apple products are helping users, developers, and health organisations advance personal health, research, and care.
Will the "Platform Revolution" succeed in the healthcare sector? - Almost $12 billion was invested in digital health platforms in 2021, above the $8 billion invested in all other digital health ventures just two years earlier in 2019. Platforms for the healthcare industry may only be as successful as the network effects they can produce.
First Ever Women's Health Strategy for England Launched - This new strategy sets ambitious goals to address pervasive, systemic problems within the health and care system in order to improve the health and wellbeing of women and change how the health and care system listens to women.
The next decade for health tech may look a lot like the last decade for fintech - After the 2008 financial crisis, a new slate of regulations aimed at protecting consumers and businesses opened the floodgates for a surge of fintech companies to develop into household names over the last decade. Now, it might be healthcare’s turn.
£25million digital social care fund for ICSs - The Digitising Social Care programme, a unit within the NHS Transformation Directorate, is making £25 million available to Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in 2022/23 to support adult social care in digitising.
NHS Digital to trial wireless technologies for better health care - The Wireless Centre of Excellence trials will allow NHS organisations to access funding for wireless technology that has the potential to improve connectivity in health and care settings.
Customer centricity should be the focus of UK digital health plan - The UK government has been trying to actively drive digital transformation programmes in the National Health Service (NHS) over the last few years. The UK historically stems from a lower digital maturity level compared to its counterparts across Europe.
Overcoming Barriers In The Digital Health Space - Market Data Forecast (via Digital Journal) predicts that the size of the global digital therapeutics (DTx) market will grow at a combined annual growth rate of 34.62% between 2022 and 2027 and be worth $14.4 billion by 2027—up from $3.26 billion in 2022.
Healthcare professionals react to the new digital health plan - Last week at HTN we focused on the Department of Health and Social Care’s new digital health plan. You can read our summary of the plan here. We wanted to know what healthcare experts thought of the plan, so we sent out a call for comment to share some of the reactions, views and opinions from across the industry.
Bias in AI: It’s a matter of time - Artificial Intelligence (AI) feels like a popular buzzword in healthcare over the last few years. In a piece for Digital Health, David Newey, deputy CIO at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, explores bias in AI and what needs to be done.
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