Digital Health in Germany and The Netherlands – Oranje Boven? – Interview with Jan-Eric Slot
The Netherlands are always referred to as one of the leading nations in Europe and even worldwide, when it comes to Digital Health. An attribute and quality that is not necessarily associated with the German healthcare system. We wanted to know whether this is really true and what the reasons are for the country’s exceptional Learn more...
Lessons learned from Onelife Health’s founder about how to do the go-to-market in the women’s digital healthcare market: Interview with David Schaerf
As the leading analyst and strategy consulting company for the digital health market, we have been exploring the developments of digital health and the way new technologies disrupt and reshape different market segments such as diabetes, respiratory, health insurance since 2010. Our new market study is concentrated on sizing the global women’s digital healthcare market, Learn more...
The changing business environment for digital health accelerators – are the heydays over?
The growth rate for new digital health accelerators has significantly slowed down over the last 2 years. At the same time, it is getting more and more difficult for many accelerators to fill their portfolios with good quality start-ups. With a little more than 350 digital health accelerators currently existing, and around 15,000 health app Learn more...
Why pharma should invest in digitally-enabled and patient-centric business models
Pharma has a productivity, regulatory and business challenge at hand in terms of bringing new drugs and therapies to the market and catering for the emerging needs of patient-centric care. How can pharma address and cope with this challenge? Patient-centered digital apps and solutions are able to provide a brand new arsenal of possibilities to Learn more...
What hinders the digitalization of chronic conditions: ten major barriers and possible solutions
Hundreds of millions of patients are affected by chronic diseases globally, often suffering from several of them. Despite such a huge opportunity, the coverage of chronic conditions with digital solutions is still below the acceptable level. Each of more than twenty common chronic conditions has its own specificity and is currently at its digital development Learn more...
How digital solutions and apps are disrupting care delivery in hospitals
New stakeholders are entering the hospital arena, contesting the hospitals’ traditional role and freedom to provide care to the community. The newcomers’ focus is on digital care delivery processes and on a digitally enabled patient experience. Hospitals will have to start now to prepare their organizations for the coming change. Creating digital partner ecosystems is Learn more...
Next generation of symptoms checkers will become one of the killer applications in digital health
Next generation of symptom checkers are entering the healthcare market with the intention to disrupt the way health services are provided. Symptoms checkers have a chance to belong to the set of killer applications within digital health market next to telehealth, e-prescription and chronic health management solutions. Market potential differs significantly country per country and Learn more...
How a novel patient-friendly technology is set to transform the continuous remote monitoring market for respiratory patients: Interview with Jonathan Palley, Spire Health’s Co-Founder and CEO
Connected digital health apps, wearables and tracking sensors have started a new era of healthcare with user-generated data being the core of patient-centered business models. With over 500 million Asthma and COPD sufferers today, the global digital respiratory market offers a huge opportunity for Pharma, med-tech and start-ups to offer tailored innovative patient-friendly solutions to Learn more...
Digital respiratory ecosystem: companies are positioning themselves to capture the respiratory market potential
Chronic respiratory diseases affect around 500 million of people globally. This huge opportunity is, however, not yet been properly addressed. The digital respiratory market is still at an emerging stage, with players positioning themselves to be ready when the market will take off. Many digital offerings are still at the stage of formation, whereas others Learn more...