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Japan’s Healthcare Innovation Goes Hand-In-Hand With Quality Of Life
Faced with the most elderly population in the world, Japan is applying its technological know-how to coping with the problems that arise from this social phenomenon, particularly in the area of healthcare. Technology is helping to make life as long as possible, but the value of life isn’t just a question of how long people can live. Quality of life is equally important and Japanese technology is making great strides in this area as well. The award-winning Syrinx is a wearable electrolarynx that gives a voice to people who have lost theirs through illness, while optical examination device imo opens up new possibilities in diagnosing glaucoma and other eye diseases. Giving People Their Voice Back As a scientist specializing in electricity engineering, University of Tokyo graduate student Takeuchi Masaki is well aware of how technology can contribute to the modern world. But with a deep interest in social welfare, he also recognizes the importance of applying his knowledge to improving people’s lives. “In order to actually meet people who have lost their voices, in the summer of 2019 I visited an organization called Ginreikai in Tokyo,” Takeuchi says of the group that helps people who have lost their voice. Many people who have lost their voice use an electrolarynx to communicate. This is a vibrating, stick-like device that users have to hold near their throat. In combination with movements of the tongue and mouth, the electrolarynx echoes through the mouth to produce actual words. In this way, these people can communicate, but the downside is they have to hold the “stick” to their throats and the voice that is emitted is very robotic.
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Have you seen 12 Episode | Season 3 of GIANT's Healthy Innovators Live TV Show on our Youtube channel?
Host: Barry Shrier, Founder and CEO, GIANT Health Events Guests: Brian Harris, Co-Founder & CEO, MedRhythms, Inc., Carrie (Hurwitz) Williams, Partner, McKesson Ventures Chris Naoumidis, Co-founder & CEO, Mindset Health Click here to check out the full episode.
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Six Customer Experience Lessons Businesses Can Learn From The Healthcare Industry
As I research and study different industries, I’m often surprised at how strategies in one industry can be identical in another. I recently participated in a Twitter “tweet chat” with VisitPay, a company that is creating an improved patient experience with better finance and payment solutions for the healthcare industry. The chat included 10 questions. If the questions didn’t include the word healthcare in them, most of them could have been appropriate for just about any industry. So, let’s dive into a few of the answers and comments and learn what we can from the way healthcare manages the customer—make that patient—experience. Healthcare is competitive, just like any other business. Healthcare professionals have learned the importance of delivering an excellent patient experience. Their future business depends on it. While nobody wants to go to the hospital or visit a doctor because they are sick or need a procedure, the choices patients make are for competitive reasons. Why do they prefer one hospital over another, or one doctor over another? It’s for the same reasons why someone prefers one automobile manufacturer over another. Or one retail store over another. Typically, there are competitive reasons that have to do with quality, service and experience. What follows are some of the main concepts from the tweet chat: 1. The product must work: Doctors or medical centers must do what they are supposed to do, which is to make people well. That’s a given. It’s like buying a car. You expect it to start when you put the key into the ignition.
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INSIDE VSL: Creating the Foundations - 8th April 2021 at 16:00
Join experts in healthcare including Professor Shafi Ahmed discussing the Top Trends in Healthcare in 2021 at InsideVSL: Creating the Foundations. Click here for more information.
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Why Healthcare Could Face Unprecedented Cyber Threats In 2021
Continued attacks against healthcare and medical infrastructure will likely accelerate this year and could potentially lead to serious consequences. There are several reasons for this trend. Medical records are proverbial gold for cyber thieves. The personalized content in these records is ripe for social engineering exploits. Cybercriminals can use specific personal medical details on your record to socially engineer their way into your wallet and the wallets of those in your inner circle.
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Healthcare Price Controls Don't Come For Free
America's healthcare bill continues to rise. Our tab reached $3.8 trillion in 2019, nearly $11,600 per person, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Health care consumes some 17.7% of our nation's gross domestic product. In recent months, two leading research organizations, the Rand Corporation and the Kaiser Family Foundation, have released plans for reining that bill in. Kaiser, for example, says, "Reducing the prices private insurers pay for health care services could help alleviate the financial burden of health care for employers and individuals with private insurance." In other words, America would spend less if the price of health care were lower. Perhaps these eminent researchers will soon tell us that we'll have fewer floods if it rains less—or we'd have more money in our 401(k)s if we saved more.
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Have you seen 11 Episode | Season 3 of GIANT's Healthy Innovators Live TV Show on our Youtube channel?
Host: Barry Shrier, Founder and CEO, GIANT Health A big thank you to our valuable guests: Neil Crump, NHS Story Amplifyer, Chief Partnership Officer, BOB.health Rayna Patel, CEO and Co-Founder, Vinehealth Click here and Enjoy!
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We’re delighted to announce BOB.health is joining us as an official Media Partner of European Health Tech Innovation Week 2021!
Read Bob.health 13 tips for fruitful collaborations between innovative companies from GIANT 2020 here. #innovation #healthtech
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Five Steps Toward Effective Data Deidentification In The Healthcare Industry
Founder and CEO of MENTIS — a leading provider of sensitive data discovery, data masking and monitoring solutions.
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What Healthcare Marketers Can Learn From DTC Brands
Healthcare is being disrupted by a new category of direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands. These brands have built innovative business models to confront the primary challenges and opportunities in today's healthcare landscape, including rising healthcare costs, changing relationships with primary care, and access to telehealth. But many of these brands are also innovating in their marketing, building strong brands, and trying new marketing tactics most healthcare marketers haven't explored yet. In this article, I'll share what I believe to be some of the best healthcare marketing strategies inspired by this growing category of brands. Lead with product and service. DTC healthcare brands have taken inspiration from other DTC e-commerce brands that have paved the way to make people feel comfortable purchasing goods and services online. Like e-commerce brands, you should lead with the products and services you offer and the needs they address. For example, while DTC brand HIMs offers many products, they primarily offer prescriptions that require a telehealth visit. However, they've made sure the site experience feels more like an e-commerce brand than a telehealth practice. They lead with their products, making sure that prescriptions are able to be browsed and that prices and medications are easily understood, just as they would be in an e-commerce storefront.
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Alignment Healthcare Launches IPO To Grow Medicare Advantage Line
Alignment Healthcare, a provider of privatized Medicare benefits for seniors, has launched its initial public offering. Alignment, which operates in California, North Carolina and Nevada with 81,500 health plan enrollees in more than 20 markets in these states, is the latest health insurer to launch an IPO this year. Oscar Health, which sells individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act and has been expanding its own Medicare Advantage business, went public earlier this year. In Alignment’s case, the company earlier disclosed hopes of raising nearly $500 million, which would help raise capital for future expansion. Alignment Thursday night announced pricing of its IPO of 27.2 million shares of its common stock at $18 per share, “including 5,500,000 shares of common stock to be sold by certain existing stockholders.”
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Independently Track Real-world Performance of HealthTech
evid.health is a suite of tools & services designed to develop data-rich views of health technologies based on real-world user insight & analytics. They engage HealthTech users to generate data & insights driven by Peer review, User Research, Customer experience,…
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