Industry and start-ups

A SPECIAL FOREWORD BY ECHALLIANCE CHAIR BRIAN O’ CONNOR Dear all, This report marks more than 10 years of creating and fostering collaborations across borders and silos. We have learned a lot during that time. On occasions, we may have gone down the wrong road yet, despite that, we were able to accomplish so much.…





More scrutiny, regulation, open standards: 16 specialists tell us what they expect to see in 2020. Over the past year, we’ve seen a number of initiatives that aim to accelerate the use of digital tools and services for healthcare announced in Europe and the Middle East. Most recently, the Mayo Clinic revealed that it would be working with…

Published by: US Food & Drug Administration Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies have the potential to transform health care by deriving new and important insights from the vast amount of data generated during the delivery of health care every day. Medical device manufacturers are using these technologies to innovate their products to better assist…

Abstract While health policy scholars wish to encourage the creation of technologies that bring more value to healthcare, they may not fully understand the mandate of venture capitalists and how they operate. This paper aims to clarify how venture capital operates and to illustrate its influence over the kinds of technologies that make their way…

  Authors: World Economic Forum. Dalian Laurent Haug Chen Kuan, Infervision Pius S. Hornstein, Sanofi China Liu Jiren, Neusoft Corporation Jessica Tan, Ping An Insurance

Foreword Who is this document for? Those who need to brief decision-makers about the issues to be considered when making small or large investments in digital health. These decision-makers may be senior government officials, but this document is also intended to be of use to those within the health system (e.g., health managers), or to…

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DeepMind Technologies Limited is a British artificial intelligence company founded in September 2010. Acquired by Google in 2014, the company has created a neural network that learns how to play video games in a fashion similar to that of humans, as well as a Neural Turing machine, or a neural network that may be able…

HappyAir is an ecosystem for integrated care. It has been developed for patients affected by chronic or rare respiratory  disease and pulmonary conditions. We provide a multifunctional approach:  Including healthcare professionals, therapists and patients in their clinical-care and self-management, with shared benefits. HappyAir ecosystem enables people to share relevant information, to make shared decisions based…

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