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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

Health Populi

I analyzed those general results with health/care implications here in Health Populi. In this study, the healthcare industry is comprised of five segments: hospitals and clinics; pharma; biotech (separate from pharma); consumer health (e.g., over-the-counter medicines); and, health insurance.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. health care. ” Note: this release was written after the Wall Street Journal published this story.

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Insulin Cocktails, Mouse Cures, Group Appointments

Insulin Nation

The combo drug would combine Novo Nordisk’s long-acting insulin and its insulin-promoting GLP-1 drug into a new product that would be called Xultophy, according to Fierce Biotech. A new study is examining whether a common gout medication can help prevent kidney disease in people with Type 1 diabetes. Keep Your Kidneys. Move to Ecuador?

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Digital Health's Silk Road: Will more Chinese HealthTech companies expand to Europe?

Lloyd Price

link] Case Study 1: Ping An Good Doctor Ping An Good Doctor is a Chinese online healthcare platform that has expanded to 10 European countries, including France, Germany, and the UK. Health management tools: Patients can use health management tools to track their health data and set goals.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests.

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Medicine 2.0 : Implications of Connected Medical Devices & Digital Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Connected’ medical devices give patients greater control over their health data, and in turn enable doctors to use the data to prompt beneficial patient behaviour. Another issue may be a future requirement to perform double-blind studies involving large patient cohorts for combination products.

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MRM Health Initiates Clinical Research in Parkinson’s Disease

Digital Health Global

The clinical study is expected to enroll up to 100 subjects, including an age-matched healthy volunteer cohort. MRM Health recently obtained positive phase 2a clinical data with MH002 in Ulcerative Colitis and has an ongoing clinical study in Pouchitis. Sabina Bruehlmann, Chief Executive Officer at Nimble Science Inc.,

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