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Hospitals in our pockets: the future of African healthcare

Before British primary care digital health player Babylon came along, the Rwandan government had never signed a contract with a private healthcare provider. A universal healthcare coverage scheme called Mutuelles de Santé had been operating in the country since 1999, but ten years later was spending 9.7% of GDP on health. The government and its citizens needed a means to make healthcare more accessible and affordable: so in 2016 it invited a private digital health platform to help connect patients to doctors.
August 2, 2018

German state making moves to publicly-funded telemedicine

Baden Württemberg, Germany’s third-most populous state, is offering free-to-use telemedicine services to four million of its statutory-insured inhabitants, including diagnosis and prescription, as part of several pilots.
August 2, 2018

Interview: Zoe Blake, CEO, XenZone Group

The world faces an explosion in demand for mental health services, so how far can this be met by digital platforms? XenZone is the largest such platform in England. Some 40% of all young people aged 11-25 have free at point of access to its service. We talk to Zoe about the service, which employs 200 people and is profitable, about its markets and its plans for the future.
August 2, 2018

Amazon makes further inroads into healthcare

Amazon, the e-commerce giant that takes $4 of every $10 spent online in the US, this month bought PillPack, a pharmaceutical delivery service that cuts out the brick-and-mortar pharmacy. Shares in traditional drug stores chains fell off a cliff-edge, Walgreen Boots Alliance by 10% and CVS Pharmacy by 8%. Today, it's pharma. But tomorrow..? Healthcare Nova speaks to a tech-savvy operator who sees the e-commerce giant soon venturing into health insurance, AI and data-storage.
July 18, 2018

China 2030 programme attracts European interest

Norwegian telemonitoring platform Dignio tells us it is among the European players vying for substantial contracts in China as the country begins its healthcare system overhaul.
July 11, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2017: Coaching users to optimum health through an app

The Quealth app has 111,000 users and focuses on combating five prominent lifestyle-driven diseases. It shows users how their lifestyle is effecting their health, and encourages a healthier lifestyle. The unique algorithms which Quealth uses helped them differentiate them from the rest of the nominations in this category.
July 6, 2018
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