Background: The increasing prevalence of sedentary lifestyles has prompted the development of innovative public health interventions, such as smartphone applications that deliver personalised exercise programs. The widespread availability of mobile technologies (e.g., smartphone apps…
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Singapore’s Health Promotion Board has partnered with several technology companies to pilot programmes that aim to promote self-health management by delivering data-driven, personalised recommendations for preventing and managing chronic diseases.WHAT IT’S ABOUT
The DigiCoach programme with…
Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface implant startup Neuralink has received approval from Health Canada to perform a clinical trial on its N1 brain implant and R1 robot, which is used to place the implant into…
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Technology to allow faster diagnosis and assessment of skin conditions is being rolled out across primary care in Scotland, starting with Dumfries and Galloway and Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Using a secure mobile phone app…
NHS England has announced plans to provide advanced eye scans in the community for people with diabetes, potentially saving up to 120,000 hospital appointments a year and helping to prevent sight loss.
The rollout of…
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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Background: Maternal mortality remains a persistent challenge in low- and middle-income countries, where evidence-based interventions of obstetric triage and prehospital communication remain sparse. There is limited implementation evidence for technology-based approaches to improve obstetric…
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Introduction
The recent partnership between Shared Medical Services (SMS) and Nebraska Medicine marks a significant development in mobile medical imaging. With the deployment of the Philips Mobile MR 5300 BlueSeal, SMS and Nebraska Medicine aim…
New telehealth feature on MedAdvisor patient appPharmacy-focused MedAdvisor has announced the launch of a new telehealth functionality on its mobile patient application.
The telehealth feature allows patients to book virtual consultations with providers, receive e-prescriptions,…
Lifelight, a DigitalHealth.London Accelerator alumnus company, announces their partnership with Sanitas, one of Switzerland’s largest health insurers. The collaboration empowers users to obtain indicative blood pressure estimates through mobile devices.Developed by xim Limited, Lifelight…
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