There’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has hastened digital transformation across the board. Among the changes of the past year is a leap in the use of telemedicine, preparing the way for far more transformative digital health technologies that are just starting to come to maturity. As with most…

Chronic diseases: a failure of decision making Chronic disease is the world’s leading cause of premature mortality, a huge burden on healthcare costs — and, in most cases, preventable. So why aren’t we preventing it? Much is down to individuals’ ability to make healthy decisions. …

In spite of its specific characteristics, chronic disease has typically been managed based on traditional medical frameworks that were designed to deal with acute conditions. But times are changing. …

The anatomy of digital healthcare ecosystems Latest thinking on healthcare innovation spotlights the notion of health ecosystems and their evolution in line with the sector’s new reality and needs. …

Clinical outcomes for digital health solutions cannot be exported. This may be a good thing Unlike drugs, digital health solutions — with outcomes predicated on changing behaviors — need to be trialed locally to allow for the impact of culture on how people act. Upsides of this approach may go…

Regional fragmentation creates important barriers for the arrival of healthcare innovation in Latin America. Platforms helped to bridge this gap in biotechnology. Emerging digital platforms will play a similar role in health-tech. On 25th January 1990, Avianca Flight 52 from Bogota to New York crashed, killing 73 of those onboard…

With the development of innovative digital health applications that need to be connected and integrated to improve patient care, the time is now right for digital platforms to disrupt healthcare In the mid 1990s, James Clark had a big new idea. Flushed with his success as the founder of the…

As we enter the third wave of digital health, it’s time to learn from earlier experiences and promote adoption of new applications by putting doctors front and center. The route to empowering patients should go right through their physicians, not around them. The doctor has been central to patient health…

If digital medicine is going to live up to its promise of improving the lives of chronic disease sufferers, health ecosystems need to get smarter In a 2019 study, professional services firm Cognizant asked healthcare professionals what an effective chronic disease management solution would look like. Care providers answered that…