Sunday, August 25, 2019
The typical behavior that people exhibit when they get ill has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Millennials and Gen Z patients are more likely to live in a point and click world. Therefore, their first course of action will not be to book an appointment with their family doctor. Indeed, as more and
[ Read More ]Digital disruption, in any industry, comes in waves. While other industries have benefitted from modern technology, healthcare has some catching up to do. Consider, for example, application programming interfaces or APIs. Today, consumer technology runs on modern APIs. We have all heard that APIs have a big part to play in the health IT interoperability,
[ Read More ]Digital health is a hot topic in healthcare because of how it is slowly reshaping developed health systems all over the globe. In fact, the global digital health market was valued at $100 billion in 2016 and this figure is expected to double by 2020. In the United States, “Obamacare” or the Affordable Care Act
[ Read More ]The struggle to address worldwide health issues has been going on for many years. From the challenge of meeting the needs of the ageing population to the increasing threats of more serious health conditions, the need to improve healthcare processes has never been more important than today. Combining technology and science, digital health is the
[ Read More ]The medical and healthcare world has been blossoming with various changes that have been happening fast. It’s actually quite unbelievable how quickly these changes have occurred. While it can be quite difficult to be able to see these changes from an outside perspective they are there. The future of healthcare is changing literally every single
[ Read More ]Healthcare marketers have always been slow to adapt to marketing trends. In fact, marketing efforts in this highly-regulated sector are reportedly two years behind less risk-averse industries. So, it’s no surprise that digital is a largely unexplored and untapped healthcare marketing channel. However, in the last few years, many healthcare marketers have started leveraging digital
[ Read More ]The technology was invented to make life easier for humans, but technology seems to be making humans busier. It is also changing the way people live their day-to-day lives. As businesses go digital, workers also move back to their homes to work remotely in online companies. Younger people run startups on the internet, working on
[ Read More ]A 2015 Cancer Research UK study found that many people suffering the ‘10 red flag signs’ of cancer –such as a persistent cough, a mole changing size or color, or unexplained weight loss– didn’t visit a medical professional because they thought it was ‘trivial’. Whether it be due to long wait times, expensive private health-care
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