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The world is experiencing a rare opportunity that allows people to pause and evaluate priorities – a wake-up call! From the hectic lifestyle of meetings, studies, seminars, and all, the world stopped. It is an excellent time to evaluate habits and consider ways to improve your life as you pick up new ways to work towards achieving life goals.   Many studies and experts have mentioned quality sleep as one of the key ingredients to...

Better technology doesn’t always mean better mental health.  We already know about the drawbacks of social media. Alarming statistics have emerged in the past decade. The Royal Society for Public Health UK found that four out of five of the main social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat) had a net negative effect on anxiety levels. In addition, a significant association has been found between social media use and depression amongst young American adults1. ...

Summary: Digital healthcare is growing, and it’s just the tip of the iceberg when we consider the overwhelming possibilities and promise they offer for transforming healthcare services. This will transform and make value-additions to patient care across the world. Digital healthcare and medical apps can truly be considered as the tip of the iceberg when we consider the overwhelming promise and possibilities they offer to transform the healthcare services. These technologies will continue to transform...

Each day we automatically gather numerous digital health funding events happening around the world using our digital market analysis and insights platform, DigiHealth Informer. This data helps to inform our analysis of company-related innovation activity, including therapeutic category areas of focus, innovation trends and more. Below are a few digital health funding events we recently detected related to online prescribing and other topics. Organization Name: Nurx Investment Amount in Millions (USD): $52 Investment News Headline: Telemedicine startup Nurx...

If you are running a digital health start-up, ensuring the health of your company’s brand should be a top priority. Ensuring the names, logos and slogans for your company and products are protected will be critical to the long-term health of your organization.  Here are five critical steps that I recommend you consider when selecting and protecting your trademarks. Step 1: Choose a Strong Mark from the Start A company’s trademark is often the first...

A Change Is Needed In May 2018, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published an editorial calling for a paradigm shift in the deployment of preventive interventions. The key points are: Clinical studies have proven behavioural interventions, such as the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), to be highly effective. These interventions are being adopted very slowly owing to old financing models by payors and scalability challenges for providers. Digital interventions can overcome these barriers and...

There’s no escaping it: the digital age is in full swing. Everyone, regardless of age, owns or has access to a smartphone, tablet, computer, laptop, digital TV, and other pieces of technology designed to inform, entertain, and make life a bit easier and comfier. The majority of children today are exposed to technology not only in their homes but in their schools as well. Because of this, a registered clinical psychologist from Sydney points out...

The importance of digitization has been pretty well understood for quite a while now, but some businesses and industries are still hesitant to go through it. The healthcare industry is one such example, but given the security threats technology poses, it’s quite understandable. With advancements in software and server security, healthcare can now fully take advantage of digitization. It should be realized that healthcare is a trillion dollar industry spread over hospital care, clinical services,...