Abu Dhabi will work with Israel's largest payor-provider Clalit and its largest hospital Sheba Medical Centre in two separate MoUs that promise to work on population health management, genome sequencing and digital health services.
Berlin-based Ada Health will soon launch direct-to-consumer diagnostic tests, sensors and wearables to sit alongside its symptom checking services. CEO Daniel Nathrath tells HBI that it's been about two years since the product commercialised, so HBI sat down to determine where the company and its product are today.
Outpatient group Gajda-Med has won Poland's multi-million euro contract to deliver first-contact telehealth services for the Polish NHS. It follows a recent trend of private sector companies moving to work on national hotlines, including in Sweden and Switzerland, and it is very controversial where operators already own physical clinics.
HBI hears the first eight months of Germany's digital app reimbursement is viewed as "modestly positive", with statutory insurer AOK saying that it has prescribed 4,700 apps under the framework.
For Europe's digital health start-ups, the average size of a funding round has doubled since 2020 and quadrupled since 2018. New reimbursement schemes, better regulation and the pandemic have driven more and more investors to the sector.
GPs in the UK have said that telehealth has left practices feeling overwhelmed by patient demand, with some requesting e-consultations every single day. It's not the first market where telehealth has driven over-consumption of healthcare services.
Europe's most funded digital therapeutics start-up Kaia Health has raised a $75m Series C bringing its total amount raised to date to over $100m. CEO Konstantin Mehl tells HBI it will be spent on building the commercial team in Germany and the States as well as developing its motion detection solution used for treating chronic pain on mobile phones.
Marcol-backed digital health platform HealthHero has bought French telehealth player Qare, meaning it joins the small ranks of pan-European telehealth players.
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