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Six things we learnt at Himss 2018

Digital health players are morphing from app providers into health care service companies. Digital health is also a bridge which will enable big pharma and medtech to extend its reach far beyond pills and machinery and into services. And a mass market is opening up, as payors finally start paying for digital health apps and services.  We report from Himss 2018, which brought together a giddy mix of venture capital, digital health entrepreneurs, academics, some payors and forward-thinking chief technology officers from public sector hospitals, mainly from the Nordics, Spain and the Netherlands.
May 29, 2018

Medgate AI project to cut costs by 30-40%

Digital healthcare pioneer Medgate is evaluating opportunities in Germany and other European countries. A chatbot based on the 12 million telehealth sessions it has held over the past 19 years is in development and will be launched at the end of 2018 and should reduce costs by 30-40%, Medgate CEO and founder Andy Fischer tells Healthcare Nova. 
May 25, 2018

Kry: The Business Model

Here we look at the business model deployed by Kry, which together with Medgate and babylon, is one of Europe’s largest player in the delivery of digital healthcare. The Swedish company claims 2% of all doctor primary care visits in Sweden (350,000 since launch) and has since spring 2017 opened in Spain and Norway with a series of other openings planned in 2018 and pilot permission in the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg.  So what does it offer, who pays and how does it see the policymaker and legal debate around digital health rolling out across Europe?
May 21, 2018

Medgate AI project to cut costs by 30-40%

Digital healthcare pioneer Medgate is evaluating opportunities in Germany and other European countries. A chatbot based on the 12 million telehealth sessions it has held over the past 19 years is in development and will be launched at the end of 2018 and should reduce costs by 30-40%, Medgate CEO and founder Andy Fischer tells Healthcare Europa. 
May 21, 2018

Telemedicine law in Russia sparks flurry of investments

A law passed in January legalised digital health services across Russia, paving the way for several large investments in fast-growing platforms including one by the 'Google of Russia'. We talk to some of the biggest players about what the law means and the opportunities for foreign disruptors who want to enter the country.
May 15, 2018

Chinese health apps raise $1.6bn dollars – but are they what the doctor ordered?

Digital platforms in China are raising huge sums. In the last month, Tencent-backed WeDoctor raised $500m from investors in a private share sale that values the company at $5.5bn, while Ping An spinoff Good Doctor raised $1.1bn with a Hong Kong-exchange listed IPO. Healthcare Nova speaks to L.E.K.’s Shanghai-based managing director Stephen Sunderland to find out more about the digital health revolution.
May 15, 2018

FREE BLOG Germany opens the door for digital doctors

Doctors in Germany will soon be able to treat patients via phone, text message, email or online chat after a large majority voted in favour of the change at the AGM of the German Medical Association (Deutscher Ärztetag), following a controversial debate.
May 14, 2018
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