Thought Leadership

Google Care Studio: the power of search for medicine

Intro to Care Studio Health information is incredibly complex. Important parts of a patient’s history are often scattered across multiple...

Microsoft Competes With Google, Amazon In Healthcare

Microsoft showed just how seriously it takes its ambitions in the health sector when it announced its second most expensive purchase in...

Hapbee Wearable Tech, Cold Therapy and the Health Benefits of the Wim Hof Method

Wim Hof (AKA The Iceman) makes me proud to be Dutch…and maybe this heritage is what drove my cousins and me to roll around in the snow in...

Ultra WideBand impulse radar (UWB): The future of Remote Monitoring in Healthcare and Social Care

Ultra Wide Band (UWB) is a wireless technology developed to transfer data at high rates over very short distances at very low power...

What's the purpose of a medical advisory board in digital health startups?

The digital health startup scene has grown up a lot over these past years. Covid has acted as a catalyst for the industry. As...

Fully Homomorphic Encryption: the next big thing for Healthcare data

What is Fully Homomorphic Encryption? Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is an encryption scheme that enables analytical functions to be...

Can digital innovation reduce healthcare inequalities?

Covid-19 overshadows all our lives. But just because we are battling the same storm does not mean we are all in the same boat. The people...

Beyond bitcoin: Five possible uses for Blockchain in Healthcare

When I bring up blockchain in client meetings, or in dinner conversations, people tend to have one of two reactions. Either they see it...

Why Health Systems Should Build Their Own AI Models

With so many commercialized algorithms on the market, many health systems have an important decision to make: Should they buy an...

98point6: How We Treat Patients via Text

Virtual care may sound mysterious and even a little ambiguous, but it’s actually more straightforward than you think. In this new series...

Custodians, Enablers, Arbitrageurs, Innovators: the key principles for success in Digital Health

The Big Unlock refers to the massive opportunity unfolding in healthcare from the digitization of patient medical records and the...

What can the NHS learn from Japan’s Unique Social Care System?

Longevity has increased immensely over the last several years, paving the way for longer, often fuller lives of people around the world....

Brain-computer interface industry gathers pace, directly connecting machines and minds

On the 10th Floor of a nondescript building at Columbia University, test subjects with electrodes attached to their heads watch a...

Australia is leading the way in giving people personal control of their own Electronic Health Record

The Digital Health Evidence Review, released by the Australian Digital Health Agency, has found that Australia is one of the few...

Blockchain and Healthcare: the Estonian experience

In 2016, the Estonian government was looking for new and innovative ways to secure the health records for its 1.3 million residents. It...