By Barbara Jorgensen | EETimes | 10.16.19 Taiwan start-ups have some digital healthcare technologies they’d like to bring to the United States. They have a few hurdles to clear first. For many foreign companies, unique technology isn’t enough to secure investors in America. The medical technology market is highly regulated, and venture capitalists remain [...]
by Conor Hale | Fierce Biotech | Oct 14, 2019 7:05am Bayer has signed onto sprawling new collaborations with 11 digital health startups spanning areas such as oncology, ophthalmology, pulmonology, radiology, digital therapeutics and cardiovascular health. Formerly known as its Grants4Apps partnership program, the German pharma has consolidated the group’s digital health initiatives under the [...]
How leading health systems are balancing their immediate priorities with investments for a digital future in a value-based care era. By Paddy Padmanabhan, | Advisor, Contributor, CIO | OCT 16, 2019 4:18 AM PDT The continuing hold of fee-for-service in payment models has implications for the adoption of technology-led innovation in health systems. In the inevitable shift towards value-based care, [...]
SilverCloud Health and Microsoft joined forces, fueled by what they viewed as a serious industry-wide responsibility to be more responsive to the needs of individuals dealing with mental conditions By CHUCK GREEN | MedCityNews - Oct 15, 2019 at 8:48 PM The treatment of mental health conditions appears to have received a boost with a recently [...]
This conversational AI changes everything By Lance Ulanoff | Medium | May 8, 2018 I think it was the first “Um.” That was the moment when I realized I was hearing something extraordinary: A computer carrying out a completely natural and very human-sounding conversation with a real person. And it wasn’t just a random talk. [...]
By Yuki Noguchi | NPR.org | October 8, 20197:18 AM ET Virtual reality — long touted as the next big thing in tech — hasn't taken off as a consumer product, but employers are embracing it as a more efficient and effective tool for on-the-job training. This year, Walmart is training more than 1 million employees using [...]
