healthcare

McKinsey has been looking at the attitudes of patients in the context of what it means to Big Pharma

The thing that stood out for me was this statement:

The 'worried well' older person who wants to get more control of their own health will be a rich vein of business for companies that can craft the right offer and message.

In the past I have blogged about the difficulty for digital health startups trying to engage the big healthcare players. The obvious alternative strategy is to sell direct to the consumer/patient.

Practice, the line of 3D, multiplayer Serious Games developed by Muzzy Lane Software for McGraw-Hill Education, which already includes Practice Operations, Practice Marketing, Government in Action, and Practice Spanish: Study Abroad, is about to get a new addition: Practice Medical Assisting.

The provision of healthcare to the older person is a BIG issue. No, it is not an 'issue', it is a massive problem.

Why? Three reasons.

A new market research report published by Meticulous Research states that the Global VPS (Virtual Patient Simulation) Market shall reach $508.7 million by the year 2019, at a CAGR of 21.1% over the period. The VPS Market Report is segmented by products, technology, geography and end-users.

I invite you to ponder the following

1.     Why is it that commercial aeroplanes don’t fall out of the sky?

2.     Why is it that terrorism did not take root, establish itself, and grow in the USA/UK?

MIT's Technology Review has one of the scariest articles I think I have ever read.

I am well aware about the enormity of the problems created by Dementia but I was shocked when I read the facts presented in this article.

When a healthcare venture capitalist and a leading digital health company exec get together to put “Digital Health in the Hot Seat,” you’re sure to get an earful.  In a session at last week’s Digital Health Summer Summit, Lisa Suennen, Managing Member of Psilos Group, and Don Jones, Vice President of Wireless Health, Global Strategy and Market Development, at Qualcomm Life gave participants a list of marching orders for making digital health work.

This third and last post regarding my experience withe UK healthcare system follows on from two earlier posts – Part I and Part II – if you have not read these posts you may want to do so.

This post follows on from the previous one – if you have not read it then you may wish to do so, as this post continues the story, the conversation.