Specialist health communications agency KYNE is enhancing its digital offering with the help of artificial intelligence focused group Medit. Under a new agreement, Julie O’Donnell, co-founder of Medit, will lead KYNE’s digital strategy and expand its digital resources as the company’s new global head of digital. She said: “Having worked directly with the team, I
Otsuka’s US challenge for digital health startups has been won by NeuroFlow, a Philadelphia-based company working on technology to support people with mental health issues. The firm’s technology captures real-time and secure patient-generated data to support patients with their treatments via monitoring, positive reinforcement, and targeted guidance. NeuroFlow succeeded over five other entrepreneurs in Otsuka’s
Despite the advances in drug development, the methods for the production of medicine over the past 100 years have not yet moved away from mass production. Many who have a particular illness receive the same treatment with the equal amount of an active compound. New research from a study conducted by researchers from the University
The Japanese IT company is collaborating with Kyoto University on project to investigate the use of artificial intelligence within medicine, over the course of the next two years. The partners are focused on AI’s potential for accelerating research and development of next-generation medicine, including new approaches to diagnostics and drug discovery. The work will be
German pharmaceutical company, Merck, will soon be trialling a digital behavioural change programme that combines remote health coaching, peer support and connected technology in a variety of countries outside the US. Merck will be working with Blue Mesa Health to provide the US digital therapeutics firm’s chronic disease prevention programme to diabetes patients. Last year,
The Danish pharmaceutical company plans to use voice-activated technology such as Amazon’s Alexa to improve diabetes care have taken a step forward. Novo Nordisk have teamed up with HITLAB (Health Innovation Technology Lab) last year to support its 17th health innovation World Cup, which focused for the first time on voice tech in type 2
UK hospital has launched a new app that combines gaming, augmented reality and cognitive computing to aid young patients and their parents. Alder Hey Children’s Hospital’s Alder Play app allows patients to create and name an avatar that helps them understand their hospital visit before they arrive for a procedure and helps them to stay
Pharma company, Teva, has launched a new patient support programme that offers personalised, flexible digital support to patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. The firm says the MS Care Programme is the first of its kind to offer an “individually-based programme” in MS, combing “individualised digital tools” with real life guidance from a nurse
Pharmaceutical companies are making more of an effort to engage with European patients through digital challenges, but their success in doing so can vary as a small handful of innovators starts to emerge. Decision Resources Group (DRG) identified Novartis, Pfizer and Sanofi as best-in-class when it came to the range and sophistication of the digital
A smartphone app that aids pregnant women to manage gestational diabetes has been approved to become part of the NHS Apps Library. The app, which was developed by Drayson Technologies, GDm-Health, addresses gestational diabetes mellitus (GDm), a form of glucose intolerance that begins during pregnancy and resolves following birth. This form of diabetes can be
