Apple Rumored To Enter Health Insurance Market in 2024 – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Researcher, Author & Futurist)
Ben Wood, chief analyst at European CCS Insights predicts that Apple will enter the US health insurance market in partnership with a major insurer in 2024 - Forbes reported.?
The company already collects heaps of health data, such as blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, ECG readings and body temperature from the Watch, and through phone apps that help people regulate their medication or manage chronic conditions like diabetes.???
The analysts believe having access to such rich data will give the company a head start in the insurance market and allow it to cut costs for consumers.
“They are in such a strong position to do this,” said Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight. “They’ve got a wealth of personal health data through Apple Watch. If they join some of the dots together they can become a very competitive health insurance player and that potentially is going to have quite an impact on the structure of the healthcare market in the U.S.”
Holter monitors work well, but they are not comfortable. Even if you manage to find a comfortable sleeping position with the large box, it will wake you up multiple times during the night to inflate the cuff.
24-hour data are more revealing than sporadic readings - and we must also add that there is no guarantee that patients use a traditional device correctly. This is why I had high expectations when I began testing the BioBeat 24-hour blood pressure monitor.
Around the world, populations are getting older, and their health needs are becoming more complex. In many ways, healthcare facilities are still stuck in the 20th century and are long overdue for a top-to-bottom overhaul with digital health leading the way.
We hope this comprehensive review will arm policymakers, healthcare professionals, and people on the business side of care to better see what is coming and what the hospital of the future will be like.
They said that vaccines targeting cancer could be available before the end of the decade! There have been mRNA vaccine trials already, but COVID has shifted the spotlight, and as we are coming out of the pandemic, Pfizer/BioNTech will focus on cancer vaccines again.
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HealthTap, a virtual healthcare provider based in California, and Samsung have established a strategic agreement to offer virtual healthcare to Samsung Smart TVs in the United States.
"Consumers can review a doctor's bio and credentials, watch video interviews to designate their preferred doctor and then schedule an appointment to see the provider."
Since the Human Genome Project was completed 20 years ago (for a whopping $2.7 billion), the price fell from billions of dollars to the millesimal of the original cost, and now it's $200 for a full sequence.
OK, but what could we, laypeople, find out with the help of cheap genome sequencing? We listed some practical, useful info we can learn from these tests.
This article is an interesting overview of digital health and medical technologies that have the potential to improve breast cancer patient outcomes.
Using bioimpedance spectroscopy for surveillance can trigger early interventions that reverse lymphedema for at-risk breast patients, while wireless localizing devices and oncoplastic radiation markers improve surgery and radiation treatment.??
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