Use of Digital Health

This is for operators who have best incorporated any aspect of digital health into the delivery of powerful new treatment and care programmes. Typically the users of the IT will be doctors, nurses or carers rather than patients (see our other award for patient platforms). This could include any sort of software from enterprise products downward!

 

KRY gets reimbursement in Germany as Docly all but leaves UK

Sweden's largest telehealth player KRY will be reimbursed in Germany after it received the necessary security accreditation. Meanwhile, Docly, the spin-off from Sweden's once largest player Min Doktor, has just withdrawn its healthcare services from its only international market following slow growth.
August 20, 2020

Benelux countries make moves on digital therapy reimbursement

The Netherlands and Belgium are closely following behind Germany in reimbursing digital therapeutics (DTx). Payors in the former are negotiating a strategy while the latter has just seen a rehabilitation app become the first to receive public payment. 
July 30, 2020

Interview: Pablo Pantaleoni, VP of global strategy, Headspace

Headspace started a decade ago as a meditation app founded by a Buddhist monk. It is now one of the world's most successful consumer B2C businesses with 65m downloads, 2m paying subscribers and north of $50m revenue. HBI speaks to Pablo Pantaleoni who is leading the early stages of clinical trials for digital therapeutics (DTx) through its medical subsidiary, Headspace Health.
July 30, 2020

Kaia Health eyeing France and UK launch

German digital therapeutics (DTx) app Kaia Health tells HBI it will soon launch in France and the UK after completing Europe's largest randomised control trial (RCT) for DTx focused on a chronic disease. 
July 23, 2020

Medgate moves into public health support role for pandemic

Switzerland's largest telehealth player Medgate has shown how digital health firms can provide invaluable support during a crisis. The company tells HBI that it has gone beyond its traditional role of working with insurers to support a number of different initiatives during the pandemic.
June 22, 2020

Telemedicine booth provider raises €15m

Investment activity in telemedicine booths has picked up over the past month with Babylon leading a Series B of US-based Higi and France-based H4D closing a €15m round. H4D's founder tells HBI that it's a half a billion potential market in France alone.
June 15, 2020

Homebound boost online mental health platforms

Much of the world’s workforce is sat working from home and many others are out on the frontline, either in hospitals or retail. That is presenting new potential customers for a host of online mental health services across Europe as they seek to plug the gap where the public sector has pulled back. Employers, health care providers and individuals – including children stuck at home – are now bumping up demand.
April 23, 2020

Interview: Cole Sirucek, co-founder, DocDoc

A Pan-Asian digital platform which uses over 500 data points to find the right specialist out of 23,000 doctors for individual patients is the basic idea behind the DocDoc platform. Why? Co-founder Sirucek reckons booking platforms and teleconsultation providers are “so irrelevant” to the patient’s problem when he/she is lost in the warring factions of providers and payors trying to maximise revenue. HBI explores.
March 26, 2020

Exclusive: Doctrin reduces frequent visitors by 39% at Capio

In December 2018, B2B digital health player Doctrin started to integrate its solution into Capio's primary care health centres in Sweden. One year on it shares data with HBI that shows significant reductions in frequent attendances, increase in productivity and reduction in waiting times.
December 10, 2019
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