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WhatsApp, Messaging Apps and the future of Digital Health in the UK
Messaging apps are the future of digital health technology in the UK. Looking forward 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, secure communication...
Apr 2, 20208 min read


Jewellery & Wearable Tech : The Future of Women's Health?
Health tracking equipment is advancing at a significant rate with many items available that are designed to easily and efficiently fit...
Apr 1, 20202 min read


The Digital Health Hype Circle 2019
For the third year in a row I would like to share my thoughts on what I see as the cutting edge, emerging, developing and mature...
Mar 31, 20205 min read


7 ways Google Glass is revolutionising healthcare
Almost all of the technology incorporated into Google Glass, (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cameras, voice activation etc.) is already available on...
Mar 29, 20206 min read


Should NHS Doctors charge for patient appointments?
Should NHS Doctors charge for patient appointments? Faced with an ageing population and increased demand from diabetic and asthmatic...
Mar 28, 20207 min read


Medtronic acquires UK Digital Health company Digital Surgery for over $300M
A British start-up developing virtual reality and artificial intelligence technology for doctors has been snapped up by a US medical...
Feb 13, 20202 min read


Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
What is Synchronous Telemedicine? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines synchronous...
Jan 17, 20205 min read


Project Nightingale : Google's four pillars for their secret patient data partnership
Introduction to Project Nightingale Project Nightingale is a data sharing project financed by Google and Ascension, a Catholic health...
Jan 17, 20203 min read


Proteus : What's gone wrong at the Billion Dollar Digital Health and Smart Pill Startup?
Proteus Digital Health’s CEO once confidently proclaimed that in a couple of decades, “every medicine will have a chip in it.” At a time...
Dec 15, 20199 min read


Doctors and nurses raise the alarm on WhatsApp being used to transmit patient medical information
Facebook's WhatsApp has been growing in user numbers to become one of the globally dominant and most widely used messaging apps. And as...
Nov 10, 20194 min read


Germany : the new Digital Healthcare Act (DVG)
Yesterday evening the German Parliament / Bundestag decided to pave the way for a broad usage and reimbursement of digital health...
Nov 9, 20193 min read


Sony enters the Digital Healthcare market with remote IoT monitoring 'mSafety' wristwatch
Sony has entered the Digital Health market with a remote monitoring wearable device called mSafety. The product is a wristwatch designed...
Oct 24, 20191 min read


My 2019 Digital Health Predictions
2019 Digital Health Prediction 1 : Apple, Amazon, Google or Microsoft acquires electronic record systems provider Epic (Epic Systems...
Aug 4, 20194 min read


Ambient Computing: the new battleground in Digital Health
Suddenly, everybody’s talking about ambient computing. I blame Intel, and I’ll tell you why in a minute. Ambient computing is real. It’s...
Jul 31, 20195 min read


5 ways Amazon can disrupt Healthcare and Pharma in 2019
Goldman Sachs recently produced a 30-page report based on the the work of five research analysts focused on Amazon's likely ambitions to...
Jul 18, 20195 min read
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