Digital solutions for multiple chronic conditions management: What are the strategies to develop a successful one-stop shop app for the complete patient care?
Millions of patients worldwide suffer from more than one chronic condition and struggle with the necessity to use several narrowly focused apps to manage their health. Creating a successful app-based solution to provide complete patient care is one of the key challenges for digital health developers today. Although some of them attempt to deal with Learn more...
How mobile micro-insurance will impact the health insurance industry – Interview with Jose Martin, Global Health Manager at BIMA
The development of digital technology, especially mobile communication and telehealth, have led to the emergence of micro-insurance that cover the health risks of low-income families, which are generally uncovered by traditional insurance products. To find out how mobile micro-insurance can unlock the global potential, we talked with Jose Martin, the Global Health Manager at BIMA. Learn more...
Using real-time data to feed predictive care models for diabetes management – Interview with Erez Raphael, CEO at DarioHealth
Today, there are more than 425M people suffering from diabetes globally. With the global rise of this metabolic disease, digital diabetes care platforms and mobile health app companies strive to present innovative and patient-centric solutions to empower and encourage diabetes patients’ engagement, so they can better manage their health condition. Diabetes is a growing global Learn more...
Health accelerators must adjust their offerings to meet the needs of start-ups. What health start-ups expect from accelerators – Global survey results
The market for accelerators in the digital health industry is tough: Several hundred accelerators are active in this arena. Competition is high and unicorn start-ups are scarce. Even for accelerators with an attractive brand it is hard to attract a high enough number of good-quality applications from start-ups – let alone for less-attractive or less-known Learn more...
10 Disruptive Digital Business Models For Health Insurers
Digital technologies will transform the health insurance business. Early adopters have started to implement new digital business models with initial success. A new report describes ten digital business models for health insurers that will disrupt the industry. Advances in higher-quality digital technology—especially apps, sensors, and artificial intelligence (AI)—along with their proliferation among members have Learn more...
How a SaaS platform powers digital therapeutics and patient engagement programs for leading healthcare organizations – Interview with Dr. Amir Kishon, Chairman and CEO at RMDY Health
Digital therapeutics lead a new chapter in healthcare by utilizing technology to enhance patient care. Cloud-based digital therapeutics SaaS platforms offer healthcare stakeholders a novel way to transform their digital health programs to better engage with their patients, thus empower patients throughout their health journey. Digital therapeutics SaaS platforms enable healthcare stakeholders to build Learn more...
Y Combinator has the highest brand recognition among health accelerators in North America – as well as globally
Y Combinator has the highest brand awareness among North American health accelerators, followed by Techstars accelerator and StartUp Health accelerator. The ranking of the brand awareness from (North American) health accelerators shows a very clear number one: Y Combinator. Nearly half (43.4%) of all start-ups in North America are familiar with Y Combinator. The Learn more...
Research2Guidance welcomes Rainer Herzog as Vice President for the DACH Region
Berlin, June 8th, 2018 – Research2Guidance, a leading analyst and strategy consulting company of the digital healthcare market since 2010, is pleased to announce that Rainer Herzog has joined the firm as Vice President for the DACH Region, to further develop R2G’s growing portfolio of key regional and global healthcare and start-up clients. Learn more...
Only 7 % of mHealth apps have more than 50,000 monthly active users – Best mHealth user retention concepts
User retention for digital healthcare solutions is still a major issue. Only 7% of digital health app portfolios count more than 50,000 active users. Connecting to a HCP is seen as the most effective retention approach by digital health market players. New data from mHealth Developer Economics research reveals that user retention for Learn more...