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KPMG talks healthcare opportunities in the islands 

We talk to Dr. Ed Fitzgerald, who is being appointed head of healthcare for KPMG Island Group. The firm’s offices are present in a region covering 45 million people across Bermuda and the Caribbean, and a further 760,000 in Malta, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Quarantining after his recent return to Bermuda, he told us of the island’s challenges in reducing its per capita healthcare costs (second only to the USA), why islands struggle to introduce universal health coverage and spotlights commercial opportunities. 
May 5, 2021

KRY raises biggest European telehealth round in two years

Swedish telehealth company KRY tells HBI that it will soon launch its mental health offering across Europe and is considering a move into digital therapeutics after raising a $300m Series D. The company confirms its valuation is now above $2bn. Click here to see our telehealth report, and click here to see a profile of […]
April 29, 2021

EU countries to pump €50bn into health and social reform recovery plans

EU countries have already earmarked over €47bn euros to spend on health care from the €672bn Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the continent's centrepiece of COVID-19 recovery. Digital innovation, primary care and long-term care are clear spending priorities across the board. We should know the full allocations next week.
April 29, 2021

Kaia Health raises $75m to develop motion tracking solution

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.
April 28, 2021

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

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

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
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