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New players enter healthcare like Google, Apple, Amazon, Alibabba, Verily and Samsung
With a new to be launched (2019) huge whiteboard Surface Hub 2.0 Microsoft might just change the way we can do video-consultations in healthcare. Bu making them almost real-life-size one of the burdens experienced during health(care) consultations got out of…
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Below the announcement from the website of Deloitte Center for the edge. Deloitte and Lucien Engelen sign partnership Collaboration for Digital Health Strategy & Transformation to further reinforce its support to the healthcare market and in addition to that strengthen…
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One day after the great show Google delivered with their Google Duplex for Google Assistant, Deloitte and Amazon announce a collaboration for health(care) with the Amazon DOT. The program is called Deloitte Assist has been developed in Australia and translates…
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It’s the stuff disruptors dream of. A group of Seattle doctors and investors had a plan to revolutionize primary care by freeing themselves, and their patients, from the dictates of insurance. They would charge a monthly membership fee for delivering…
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The question is whether they indeed shelved it, or as they do for a couple of years, decide every year if this is the year they are going to engage with it, or not. Amazon Business, which sells bulk items…
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Interesting longread on a “FREE” model of dental care. Last December, we changed dental insurance. The new insurer included in its offering a set of “free” electric toothbrushes, the vibrating “sonic” kind called evocatively “Beam Brush.” One for each of…
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Dubai will start to use a body scanner Bodyo made : the AiPod claims to track your health and can be placed in supermarkets, airports, city halls etc. Due to the financial support the government is giving, these scans are free. Curious…
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Facebook had planned to work with hospitals and other medical groups on a proposal to share data about the social networks of its most vulnerable patients. That project is now on pause until Facebook addresses issues around user privacy and…
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Apple is launching a major privacy push, with software updates across all its devices to introduce new data privacy information immediately, with an updated website offering new privacy management tools to follow in May. Thursday’s updates (macOS 10.13.4, iOS11.3 and…
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Apple has continually revised its Health app since it first debuted back in 2014. It now collects more pieces of data, it works with more sources of data and even plays nice with the Apple Watch. It’s even become a…
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