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28Jul 2020 by twidh

Everything You Need to Know About Digital Health

Digital Health

Digital health is defined as a concept that uses technology to improve the health and wellness of an individual. It's a broad and developing sector, covering everything such as wearable gadgets, health apps, ingestible sensors, robotic care, artificial intelligence, electronic records, etc. It's all about utilizing digital transformation and brings cultural changes to the healthcare sector. What's making the healthcare sector interesting? The aims of the industry are complicated, such as disease prevention, monitoring patients, and managing chronic conditions without increasing the cost of the healthcare condition. All innovation potentially benefits both patients and healthcare providers. By gathering all data on health apps ranging from activity level to blood pressure, the digital health service will help individuals to improve their living style and stay away from more frequent visits to…

23Jul 2020 by twidh

How to Grow Your mHealth Startup During COVID-19

Digital Health, Technology

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus racked havoc for many small and large companies, while most of the startups were forced to shut down. Having to go into a lockdown situation abruptly presented challenges as well as opportunities for many businesses. One of the industries that can leverage the opportunities during COVID-19 is the healthcare and medicine industry. While there is restricted access to hospitals and clinics, patients are becoming more inclined to mhealth apps. Therefore, to grow your mhealth startup during COVID-19, here are the opportunities you can grab while overcoming the challenges faced during the lockdown. What are the tips for growing your mHealth startup during COVID-19? The lockdown has not only impacted businesses but has also increased the concerns of patients with non-communicable diseases, such as Diabetes.…

02Jul 2020 by twidh

Digital Healthcare: A Revolutionizing Trend in Healthcare Industry

Digital Health

Providers and patients around the world are increasingly embracing digital healthcare technologies. Telehealth, m-Health, e-health, artificial intelligence-powered devices, virtual reality tools, PMS, EHRs/EMRs, wearable medical gadgets, and 5G mobile technology are some of the key emerging trends in the digital healthcare field. Digital healthcare drives innovative technologies in managing practice and improving care outcomes. Intelligent technologies are adopted to empower patients by providing personalized care and allowing informed decision-making. Patients become active partners in the treatment process and can easily navigate through complicated healthcare delivery systems. They gain instant access to their medical records and e-prescriptions that the doctors share via EHR/EMR among various stakeholders, including other specialists, pharmacists, nurses, diagnostic labs, patients, and staff. Patients are steadily shifting towards digital healthcare also to fulfill their on-demand care requirements. Busy…

29May 2020 by twidh

Social Distancing with MedicPad’s founder, Mihai Draghici

Digital Health, Startup

Recently, we had the chance to sit down with Mihai Draghici, the Founder of MedicPad. He a serial entrepreneur with almost 20 years of enterprise software development experience launching various successful startups in the USA, Mexico, Canada, Europe, and India. MedicPad manages the patient intake process and medical records using cloud-based software. The company works closely with medical teams to align patient intake strategy and efficiency goals to deploy advanced and customized applications and patient management systems that not only solve problems but add value to clinical organizations. They have developed Self-Checkin Kiosks to minimize human interactions in these times of social distancing. The kiosk allows patients to register their admission, be directed to the doctor’s office, and even pay for services using its self-service kiosk system. Is the trend…

27May 2020 by twidh

European Digital Health Calendar June 2020

Conference, Digital Health

This Week in Digital Health offers this European Digital Health calendar as a resource to help make connections between providers, payers, and innovators. Our goal is to bring together senior-level healthcare professionals to learn about cutting-edge innovations and foster dynamic conversation addressing how technology is transforming healthcare. European Innovation Calendar | European Accelerator Deadlines | European Digital Health Conferences Feel free to email updates, corrections, or add conference dates. UXD HealthCare - With Healthcare -Tech being one of the fastest-growing industries globally, How will Healthcare UX improve, adapt, and enhance patient experiences! We will discuss our UX Challenges and how to design the needs, not the wants of our Users. We will look at trends globally. Are we designing for Machine learning and AI! How are we designing for Telemedicine and will Chatbots, Messaging…

06Apr 2020 by twidh

Virtual Digital Health Conferences and Meetings

Digital Health, Virtual

We can't home school junior, but we can help your remote workday be more productive. Whether it's a digital conference or networking, we've got your Digital Health calendar covered. Our goal is to bring together senior-level healthcare professionals to learn about cutting-edge innovations and foster dynamic conversation addressing how technology is transforming healthcare. European Innovation Calendar | European Accelerator Deadlines | European Digital Health Conferences Feel free to email updates, corrections or add dates Library How can digital health solutions help in the time of pandemics? The deployment and impact of telemedicine in a global pandemic Live Initiatives to fight against #Covid19: - a webinar about labor measures in business. Apr 7 - 9.30 How to adjust your Marketing in times of COVID-19, with Adelina Peltea (VP of Growth @ Holded) - English Apr 7 -…

19Feb 2020 by twidh

DIGITAL HEALTH REINVENTED AFTER 4YFN CANCELLATION

Conference, Digital Health

Barcelona Health Hub is organizing Digital Health Open Doors, an event that has been created to ensure the leading digital health projects and startups, and the sector’s entire ecosystem, still have a forum The alternative leading digital health event following the cancellation of MWC2020 and 4YFN will be held on the Sant Pau Hospital art nouveau site Barcelona Health Hub is one of the active members of the spontaneous Tech Spirit Barcelona movement that has arisen to represent the innovative talent making Barcelona an undisputed technology hub Barcelona, 19 February 2020. - Next Tuesday (25 February) Barcelona Health Hub (BHH), together with ECH Alliance, Healthio and the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Private Hospital Foundation, is organizing Digital Health Open Doors at the BHH’s headquarters on the Sant Pau Hospital…

11Jan 2020 by twidh

Talking Digital Health Startups with Frederic Llordachs

Digital Health, People, Startup

Recently, we sat down with Dr. Frederic Llordachs, cofounder of Braincats. He was a co-founder of the successful eHealth start-up Doctoralia (now part of the Docplanner Group), the largest global platform for healthcare search and accessibility. At Braincats, the extensive experience of the team helps clients face the business challenges of growth, address strategic issues in the digital transformation arena and reach new levels of scalability of your business projects. What kind of companies do you like to work with? We work with founders and corporates that really want to start new projects based on digital in healthcare. It doesn't matter if they are entrepreneurs or big companies' executives. What makes a good founder? An entrepreneur obsessed with solving a problem and (very important) being rewarded for that. How does being…

31Oct 2019 by twidh

Virtual Therapeutics for More Effective Mental Health Therapies

Digital Health, People, Startup

Recently, we had the chance to catch up with Xavier Palomer Ripoll, CEO at Psious. The company's mental health technology solutions help psychologists and therapists around the world to perform faster and more effective therapies. Psious is the developer of a mobile-based technology, made by psychologists for psychologists, using hyper-realistic virtual environments to treat anxiety disorders by means of virtual exposure therapy. The platform has a suite of mobile applications with virtual environments to provide treatment for multiple phobias as fear of flying, acrophobia, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, among others, as well as relaxation and Mindfulness environments. Psious is building on the efficacious use of virtual exposure therapy technologies by combining several systems such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and binaural sound, for making them available on any mobile-based platform, without any specialized equipment…

26Sep 2019 by twidh

Digital Help for Behavioral Changes

Digital Health, Startup

With Barcelona Health Hub Summit only a week away, we caught up with Iván Lorca of MedTep. MedTep unifies passive and active data to present it to patients and healthcare professionals in a meaningful way. This allows healthcare professionals and patients to upgrade prevention and monitoring processes fostering the adoption of behavioral changes. What is a digital care plan and why is it important? A care plan is a treatment or prevention program designed and specified by a healthcare professional for a specific patient. It is important because through care plans we aim to help people adopt behavioral changes that allow them to complete therapies, improve adherence and change their lifestyle. Besides that, care plans are defined by leading experts and are based on recognized standards. There are a lot…