The Digital Health Today Blog

How Wearable Technology Is Improving Seniors’ Lives

Technology is constantly changing the way we live and consume information every day — from our mobile devices to social media. Wearable technology, though, takes this trend to the next level. More specifically, seniors are benefitting from the wearable tech that... read more

Let's Make a Deal: Bayer G4A Seeks Healthcare Innovation Solutions

Sponsored Content Congratulations! You’ve put in through the hard work to create a new healthcare technology product or solution, and now you’re at the stage where you’re ready to sell it. All you need is a shot at a big corporate client. But when the prospective... read more

Four Ways Technology is Helping Mental Health

Mental illness has historically been brushed under the carpet and treated as a taboo subject. Thankfully, times are changing. With many celebrities, and even royalty, sharing stories about their own mental health health challenges, people are becoming more open about... read more

Healthcare Gets a Dose of Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) has traditionally been associated with gaming, however the development of VR solutions for healthcare applications is accelerating rapidly. Technologies such as the Oculus Rift and Oculus Go headsets are freely available – at a price – and tech... read more

Can AI and Machine Learning Bend the Cost Curve in Healthcare?

Let’s just call it how it is… The evolution and gradual integration of AI and Machine Learning into a healthcare provider’s data system has created mixed feelings for everyone involved. New technology always manages to carry some skepticism among its users, but the... read more

Top Twitter Accounts to follow in Digital Health

With so many social media platforms to choose from, it can be hard to keep up with all the conversations! While LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram have their place, it seems (in our opinion anyway) that Twitter is the ‘go to' destination for connecting and... read more

Digital Health Apps in the NHS: The Risks and Benefits of the ‘NHS Digital Apps Library'

A growing aging population with increasingly complex conditions and comorbidities, patients today demand new technologies to help them simplify and manage their health more effectively and efficiently. Digital health apps have enabled patients to become proactive in... read more

How Amazon's Alexa Technology is Transforming Healthcare

Have the sniffles? Forget “Dr. Google,” where a cursory search of symptoms may incorrectly point you toward a cancer diagnosis. Amazon Alexa, the voice-assisted technology built into a number of appliances and smart products—most notably Amazon’s Echo smart... read more

Frontiers Health Program Highlights for the 2017 Berlin Event

The age of healthcare convergence has brought two great sectors of industry together: medicine and technology, creating new opportunities and themes in areas like health technology, digital therapies and health insurance innovation. Frontiers Health conference... read more

7 Ways Predictive Analytics Can Improve Healthcare

In the last century alone, healthcare technology has remarkably transformed the average life expectancy of around 7 billion people across the world. But with every advancement, there comes a price. The advancements in healthcare have resulted in an ever-increasing... read more

Three Tips on Approaching the Chinese Market

Want to enter the Chinese market? Here’s what digital health companies need to consider. The total health market in China has an estimated value of over £1 trillion this year. Within that, the digital health market is projected to experience rapid growth, from $3... read more

Digital Health Today Ranks #19 in Top 100 Digital Health Publications

Onalytica looks at individuals, brands and publications that are leading the social media conversation around health tech. They analyzed over 812,000 tweets that contained several key words and combinations such as HealthTech OR ((Health) AND (Tech OR Technology)) or... read more