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Why UK homecare lags behind nursing homes in tech-assisted care

Technology-assisted homecare in the UK remains nursing homes' poor relation, despite the potential to reduce the live care needed and solve understaffing issues. HBI speaks to multiple tech experts and asks why it hasn't caught on in the same way.
April 15, 2021

Babylon makes triple hires from US tech scene

UK-based digital health company Babylon has hired a trio of new senior management personnel from Amazon, Expedia and Brex. The tech unicorn says the new leadership will work on US-based growth this year. 
March 4, 2021

IBM’s flight from healthcare shows AI must be local

IBM is on the retreat from its decade long AI in healthcare project: a multi-billion-dollar buy-and-build strategy to gather billions of data points fed into supercomputer Watson. Critics say the business has been unprofitable, overpromised and questioned how fit for purpose it is. HBI gets the inside track.
February 25, 2021

The evidence needed for health apps is changing

The quick rise of health apps has meant processes for approval and reimbursement have largely replicated ones for bringing new drugs to market. That is now starting to change, with many of the new reimbursement schemes recognising a need for real-world evidence over randomised clinical trials and new standards being created specifically for apps.
February 25, 2021

Swedish regions vow to stop paying for telehealth

A quarter of Swedish regions, home to more than a quarter of all Swedes, have signalled that they will stop paying millions of euros to the country's for-profit telehealth suppliers like Kry.
February 18, 2021

Efficiency innovations becoming added-value for oxygen suppliers

Many oxygen suppliers have been continuously hostile to innovation that could make delivery more efficient, HBI hears. The pandemic has renewed attention on supply, pricing and patient outcomes leading to some to reassess the approach. HBI speaks to one medical device company that claims to save up to 80% of oxygen for an inpatient. 
February 11, 2021

How digital is digital health?

Vast sums are being invested in so-called “digital health” but there remains surprisingly little medical proof that digital therapeutics, telemonitoring and coaching programmes actually work. And often so-called digital platforms merely knit together analogue processes. For instance, linking millions of diabetes patients to human counsellors and logging their blood sugar and insulin doses online may merely add huge cost without improving outcomes.
February 7, 2021

Integrating diagnostics and therapeutics

Diagnosing and giving therapy can be two very siloed services. Increasingly, innovators are building platforms to understand how the two could come closer together. We speak to one of the world's best-funded AI start-ups, Lunit, about its attempt to integrate diagnostics and therapeutics.
February 4, 2021

Big Picture: Europe’s Ophthalmology Market

Topics include: Bouncing back from the financial hit of COVID as business becomes brisker Meeting pent-up demand, and the need to relieve pressure on public waiting lists How to persuade payors of the benefits of technology – the advantage of digital pathways Post-COVID consolidation pushes and opportunities; is bigger always beautiful? Panel includes: Tobias Koesters, Partner, […]
January 27, 2021
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