28Feb 2021 by digitalhc No Comments

ClubHouse: The place to be for the healthcare community?

Conferences

By now, you have probably heard about ClubHouse, that new social platform everybody is talking about. You may even have experienced FOMO if you are not an Apple user, as it’s only available for iOS at the moment and it’s invite-only, which makes people want in even more. @Joinclubhouse is ‘a social networking app that lets people gather in audio chat rooms to discuss various topics, whether it’s sports, (healthcare), wellness, art or why Bitcoin is headed to $87,000. Rooms are usually divided into two groups: those who are talking and those who are listening’ as described by the New York Times. I was lucky enough to join early January when it became a boom in the US and I saw it unfold along the weeks. Together with my friends…

18Aug 2020 by digitalhc No Comments

The New Era of Health Insurtech in the Insurance Industry

Conferences, Telemedicine

The digitization of the healthcare insurance sector is happening. Although they have been a bit slower in adopting digital solutions, compared to other players like pharma companies, insurers are getting into the game and slowly digitizing their services. As McKinsey mentioned in a recent report, digitization is needed to face the rising costs of claims and the complexity of claim management. Technological tools can help decomplexing insurance while making the end-to-end operational processes, from data input to payment, smoother. There is a clear shift in the insurance industry, from thinking in terms of prices to services. The main players have been expanding their services those past years and focusing more on the end-users. Sanitas was the 1st digital insurance in Spain. Through the BLUA app, customers can make a video consultation with their…

09Mar 2020 by digitalhc No Comments

5 Key Tips for Your High Impact Networking

Conferences

I was recently invited to Future Health Club to share my 5 key tips for high impact networking: Build a network. It's all about trust. It's not about you; it's about them! Work on your personal branding Be resilient See the presentation here - 5 Key Tips for High Impact Networking Main takeaways: Go to conferences and Meetups to educate yourself and meet like-minded people. Be active on social media - My favorites are Twitter and Linkedin. Follow influencers on Twitter (Here is a list to get you started in digital health), use relevant #, share, and comment. Linkedin, great to post articles to position yourself Join online communities like #pinksocks. It's a great way to meet and bond with new people easily. Meet people for coffee to get to…

31Jan 2020 by digitalhc No Comments

Innovating in Digital Medicine – Used Case of Hospital Sanitas CIMA Barcelona

Conferences, Hospital

On January 28th 2020, we organised a special edition of our Health 2.0 Barcelona meetings in hospital Sanitas CIMA in Barcelona. The hospital has been very active developing and implementing solutions to digitise the hospital and the services offered to the customers and patients through their digital medicine department. [caption id="attachment_759" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Hospital CIMA Innovation Team [/caption] Antoni Giro, Jose Luis Gonzalez, Jorge Velazquez and Cesar Morcillo, presented some of the services and solutions they have been putting into place across and outside the hospital: The Blua video-consultation, which enables patients to visit their doctor from the confort of their home, across Spain and beyond 24/7 or even receive their prescription directly at home. Connected Health, a service to monitor patients with cardiac condition or hypertension for example 24/7. Patients…

17Jan 2020 by digitalhc No Comments

Digital Health Ecosystem: Highlights 2019

Conferences, Digital Therapeutics

Every year, we organise a Health 2.0 Barcelona chapter where I share the highlights from the previous year in the digital health space and touch on what we can expect for the coming months. Here is a summary of the 2020 edition, looking back at 2019: [pdf-embedder url="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.44/tmv.1a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Trends1920.pdf"] Some notes about the slides Investment scene: 2019 was another strong year for digital health funding, the second record year after 2018, with about the same number of deals and the same average deal sizes (ca 20M). It was also the IPO year in digital health/wellness with 6 companies that went public, 4 of which ended 2019 with positive results. Investments received by European companies: Babylon leading the way with the highest ever round received by a European digital health company. Lead…