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Guest contributor Damien Gruson, Coordinator, City-Labs Project, says trust and education are essential if AI is to transform healthcare. Artificial intelligence to transform healthcare – are we ready for health 2.0? With a market projected to reach $70 billion by 2020, AI is dominating the …
US DIGITAL HEALTH ADOPTION SURVEY The digital health market in the US is quite volatile for a combination of regulatory, political and economic factors. However, it can still be useful to reflect on a market characterised by patient choice and advanced wearables, mHealth and eHealth …
RARE VASCULAR DISEASE PATIENT GROUPS DEVELOP APP TOGETHER To begin with Mhealth, apps and eHealth can play a critical role in rare diseases. They can help address some of the gaps in health infrastructure, from finding out about getting a diagnosis, through to information, support …
INSIDER’S VIEW OF PHARMA BARRIERS TO APP CREATION In this post we are looking at the insiders view on app creation and barriers. In a recent interview for Eye for Pharma, Sanofi’s Chief Data Officer, Milind Kamkolkar identified some clear reasons why most pharma apps …
Why do so many patients drop out of eHealth self-management support? A recently-published joint study in Norway, investigated why 12 patients with Type 2 Diabetes quickly left a programme of 4 e-consultations intended to support their self-management with eHealth. Interviews with the patients identified 4 common …
Asthma UK, mHealth In its recent report, “Smart asthma: Real world implementation of connected devices in the UK to reduce asthma attacks”, Asthma UK continues its long-standing commitment to digital health in asthma. As a result, the report explores “opportunities and possible pitfalls as we …
Driving patient advocacy Patient advocacy with apps: Firstly, through their use of the internet, social media and apps, there is more of a level playing field between small and larger patient groups. Secondly, for years patient organisations of all sizes have created advocacy toolkits to …
American Sleep Apnea Association research app… To begin with advances in both hardware and software now give patient groups practical ways to start encouraging people to share data for research. The first wave of patient groups that are using Apple’s Sleep Apnea ResearchKit to gather …
Citizens raise app safety concerns To begin with citizens made up nearly half of respondents to public consultation by the European Commission into app safety concerns around health apps. With attention to the synopsis report, published in March 2017: Firstly it aimed to explore concerns …