The Digital Health Today Blog

The Perils of Making Healthcare Too Personal

Healthcare is deeply personal. We all know that. And projects and ventures that arise from personal experience are often accompanied by great passion, which can be wonderful. However, that intimate relationship with the healthcare system can produce some blind spots.... read more

Announcing Our Partnership with ECHAlliance

We are pleased to announce that Digital Health Today and ECHAlliance have partnered to facilitate and promote the work being done globally to improve health and social care. ECHAlliance members are a core part of the Digital Health Today Community, so we are working... read more

Announcing Our Innovation Partnership with DigitalHealth.London

We are excited to announce our new innovation partnership with DigitalHealth.London! Our two organizations are now working together to support sharing of resources and opportunities for digital health innovators across the digital health ecosystem.... read more

Virtual Reality in Health: Applications in Surgery and Therapy

Dr. Brennan Spiegel (@BrennanSpiegel) of Cedars-Sinai and Dr. Justin Barad (@jbhungry) of OssoVR present applications of Virtual Reality in health. Dr. Barad is an orthopedic surgeon and founder of Osso VR. At the CES event, Dr. Barad demonstrated a tibial nail... read more

Top Health Technology at CES 2017

The 2017 CES show, held in Las Vegas on January 5-8, attracted over 165,000 attendees from around the world and featured over 3,800 companies. Exhibitors range across a wide spectrum from virtual reality headsets and wearables to drones and self-driving cars. With the... read more

High-tech Company Devises Low-tech Answer to Global Clean Water Crisis

Water is fundamental to health, but 1.8 billion people in the world drink from contaminated sources. This makes water sanitation among the most pressing global health priorities. A new initiative aims to provide 500,000 people in the developing world with safe... read more

New Tool for Developers of Health Apps to Determine Regulatory Requirements

In an ongoing joint effort by the Federal Trade Commission, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the Food and Drug Administration and the Office for Civil Rights, a new tool was just approved and released that is aimed at providing... read more