TFH #016: What is Health 4.0, the burdens of Digital Health, connecting the dots, NHSE launches remote monitoring for heart failure, Pear Therapeutics lays off 9% of staff and more.
The Benefits and Burdens of Digital Health Solutions - I think that telemedicine visits make physicians more efficient, assuming it works the first time. But you can sit at your desk, and I can talk to 1, 2, 3, 4 patients in a row, quickly. I don’t have to wait for someone to take their blood pressure and move them out of the room.
Doctors need space to ‘connect the dots’ of digital health - It’s a space many others have tried to create. Yet despite numerous attempts arising from the worlds of academia, payers and market research, there has yet to be one definitive resource for tapping into the plethora of digital health and medicine tools.
NHS England launches remote monitoring initiative for heart failure - NHS England has launched a new initiative to support heart failure patients with the tools and expertise they need to remotely monitor their condition at home.
Digital health companies must act on health equity - In a world where care delivery and patient-to-provider interactions are increasingly facilitated by digital tools, and the makers of those tools count hundreds—even thousands—of healthcare organizations as customers, technology should be a central part of the healthequity discussion.
Virtual care platform, Suvera, raises £5M in funding - Launched in October 2019 by UK based entrepreneurs Dr Ivan Beckley, Dr Will Gao and Ryzard Akita, Suvera is a CQC registered digital health company that delivers a virtual care platform designed to care for people with long term conditions from home.
ResMed acquires Mementor and its digital health app for insomnia - Mementor is the developer and owner of the digital insomnia therapy app Somnio. ResMed described Somnio as Germany’s first and only permanently approved digital health application (DiGA) in sleep medicine, eligible for reimbursement in Europe’s largest economy.
Pear Therapeutics lays off 9% of staff - The company mixes cognitive behavioral therapy with patient education to treat such conditions as opioid use disorder and chronic insomnia. Laying off 25 employees, along with other cost reductions, will lower Pear Therapeutics' operating expenses by about $28 million over the next 18 months, the July 25 filing stated. The firm went public in December.
7 key considerations for evaluating digital health platforms - Nearly every hospital, health system, and physician practice has implemented some type of portal, but a true integrated digital health platform goes far beyond the basics of simply providing test results and messaging patients.
Can We Reach Health 4.0 in the Next 3-5 Years? - Health 4.0 is an ideal future state in which technology connects our currently fragmented healthcare system and clears the path for a seamless patient experience.
Why mental health chatbots need strict safety guardrails - Mental health continues to be a leading clinical focus for digital health investors. There's plenty of competition in the space, but it's still a big challenge for the healthcare system: Many Americans live in areas with a shortage of mental health professionals, limiting access to care.
FHealth Accelerator Launched For Healthtech Start ups - The focus is on start ups that work in the areas of D2C, home healthcare, telemedicine , patient centric innovations, medtech and digital therapeutics. The accelerator is based in Mumbai, but inviting applications from all over India.
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