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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. Here are five other posts: Will telehealth help the oldest adults during Covid-19?

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Measurement-based care in behavioural health: What exactly is it and will it be important in 2024?

Lloyd Price

Email , lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk , HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. 2006: Trivedi formalizes the MBC concept. Timeline of Key Events: 1896: Binet-Simon intelligence test published. 1921: Rorschach inkblot test introduced.

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Teladoc Livongo merger: what went wrong with the 'one-stop shop for virtual care' strategy?

Lloyd Price

The market for digital health is maturing. When the Teladoc Livongo merger was announced in 2020, the market for digital health was still in its early stages. However, the market has matured since then, and there are now a number of other digital health companies competing with Teladoc.

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Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

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Innovative offerings from 2020 (virtual) HIMSS

Aging in Place Technology Watch

CEO (and American Well founder) Dr. Roy Schoenberg noted that the pioneering telehealth company, founded in 2006, rebranded itself on March 9 as Amwell. As the newly published vision states: “No longer is telehealth merely a virtual urgent care service. J2Global – from the telehealth sublime to the reality of fax.

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Care Gets Personal at Philips for Parents and Babies

Health Populi

Further along the mother-and-childcare continuum, Philips supports nutrition and healthy eating for baby, advocating breast feeding and supporting this through an alliance with American Well, the telehealth provider. Note that Philips acquired Avent in 2006, well before the company committed to an all-health portfolio.

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AstraZeneca launches Evinova, a health-tech business to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector, the delivery of clinical trials and better health outcomes

Digital Health Global

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AstraZeneca today launches Evinova, set to be a leading provider of digital health solutions to better meet the needs of healthcare professionals, regulators and patients. Patient interaction is available through an easy-to-use, engaging patient app available in more than 40 countries and 80 languages.