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Oct 22, 2017

The real innovators in Digital Health won’t be Amazon, Google and Apple

In the recent past the expectations have grown that Amazon, Apple, Alphabet (Google and Verily) and other tech giants will take the lead in Digital Health. The reasoning also makes sense: At this point there…

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Apr 6, 2017

Medicine 4.0 is gaining momentum

Industry 4.0 is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It refers to machines and processes being tightly integrated with the internet, including the Internet of things and cloud computing. We all have read about Industry 4.0’s…

Felix Hofmann in felix.care

May 28, 2017

Will future X-ray machines and MRI scanners come in the size of a smartphone?

Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have been able to generate X-rays by a phenomenon called “triboluminescence” using adhesive tape. Triboluminescence refers to the…

Felix Hofmann in felix.care

Jul 4, 2017

Will bio-artificial AI outperform traditional AI?

When we talk about artificial intelligence we intuitively imagine objects out of silicon chips, metal and plastic. If these devices are able to perceive their environment and take actions to maximize their chance to succeed at a specific goal…

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Apr 10, 2017

Medical costs may fall in the coming years

For the last 50 years healthcare costs have been rising about 2% faster than economic growth in developed countries. The big drivers for this trend are the ageing population, increased prevalence of lifestyle diseases (e.g. diabetes), an inefficient…

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Apr 16, 2017

Will future pharma companies not produce any drugs?

We have gotten used to these crazy times in that: Uber (the biggest taxi company) owns no cars. Facebook (the biggest media company) doesn’t employ any journalists. Airbnb (the biggest property booking platform) doesn’t own any apartments.

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Apr 22, 2017

The patient’s new responsibility in state-of-the-art healthcare systems

Unhealthy behavioral and lifestyle choices account for as much as 70 percent of healthcare costs. Key drivers are smoking, alcohol abuse and obesity. Of course these lifestyle choices are significantly…

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