When you walk into a doctor’s office or a hospital, you don’t even think twice about the machines that your healthcare professionals are using to treat you. It’s an inherent trust that wherever you…
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Regulated mobile health applications are called digital health applications (“DiGA”) in Germany. To qualify for reimbursement by statutory health insurance companies, DiGA have to prove positive care effects in scientific studies. Since the empirical…
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Like many insurers, UnitedHealthcare and Optum are dealing with a surge in digital solutions, according to Dr. Debra Nussbaum, senior director of behavioral health at Optum. And they’re trying to make sure the new…
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What You Should Know:
– Mass General Brigham AI is spearheading the Healthcare AI Challenge, a multi-institutional initiative designed to assess the latest AI technologies in real-world healthcare scenarios.
– The virtual, interactive series of events…
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Men who have sex with men (MSM) who use dating applications (apps) have higher rates of engaging in condomless anal sex than those who do not. Therefore, we conducted a two-arm randomized controlled trial…
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DarioHealth, a digital chronic condition management platform, announced a collaboration with an unnamed pharma company that will leverage DarioConnect (formerly Twill Care) to advance its direct-to-consumer initiatives using Dario’s engagement and navigation technologies.The aim…
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Global clinical-stage biotech company HuidaGene Therapeutics has received FDA clearance to move forward with its application for its investigational drug, a CRISPR/Cas13 RNA-editing therapy to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) dubbed HG202, developed…
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A trial at King’s College London has found that a novel therapy using computer-generated avatars can help people with psychosis reduce the distress and frequency with which they hear voices.
AVATAR therapy is a series…
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– A new independent evaluation from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) has found that digital hypertension solutions focused on medication management deliver the most significant improvements in blood pressure control…
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Background: Despite the growing availability of smoking cessation apps, low engagement and cessation rates have remained a significant challenge. To address this issue, we used a user-centered design to iteratively develop a mobile app…
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