NHS plans £150m voice recognition investment ... it would be great if the NHS Digital at home Health Check program - which aims to prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease, and some cases of dementia - would benef… https://t.co/V9ICwmjXuv

"a period of market consolidation is on the horizon, where smaller, single-product DTx/DiGAs are rolled up into platforms of multiple digital therapies, reducing customer acquisition costs and making marketing more efficient"

Quote of the week: "dilution doesn’t cause bankruptcy. Lack of cash causes bankruptcy". Great insights from one of the world's most successful dedicated digital health venture funds, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund. William Taranto Joe Volpe

£10 million Digital NHS Digital Health Check market engagement - aims to prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease, and some cases of dementia among adults aged 40-74 years.

McKinsey on digital health in pharma: "pharma has only scratched the surface...companies mistakenly assume that smaller bets have lower risk; spreading resources too thinly across an uncoordinated set of activities and initiatives… https://t.co/jCWvNY6GzU

Findings from 19 trials involving 3567 participants suggest that chatbot interventions are effective for increasing physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, sleep duration and sleep quality.

Health tech and life science tech growth stage companies are reaching maturity and beginning inorganic growth at much earlier points, and the idea of early exit but continued growth with PE backing has changed the shape and expecta… https://t.co/apdYeA2Qnc

Babylon and Mindmaze merge... I'm curious to understand rationale / potential synergies which are not obvious ...

"Snapchat recently revealed that 150 million people sent more than 10 billion messages to its chatbot in its first two months."

Another prime example of how pharma loves to focus on products that consumers will need to continue to take ad vitam aeternam to mitigate symptoms of their unhealthy decisions, without solving anything... imagine how much healthy f… https://t.co/jAW68IWSMP

McKinsey: potential productivity impact of GenerativeAI on Life Sciences and Healthcare: $210-370Bn combined

Another example of Private Equity driven digital health consolidation: WebMD buys Limeade for $75M to extend employee wellness platform - WebMD's 9th sizeable acquisition since the acquisition by KKR (Internet Brands) in 2017

After having pioneered the application of computer vision and AI to understand movement and give specific feedback that improves exercise form and therapy effectiveness, Kaia Health is now first in the MSK market to apply Large Lan… https://t.co/Z6ykbOU2Oe

UK "will provide patients with the average waiting times for a first outpatient hospital appointment"... as I do not see any mention of increasing capacity to actually reduce waiting times, is this intended to discourage patients?

Some key take-aways for founders/CEO's in this report: when deciding to invest, the quality of the management team is almost 3X as important as the product / technology; and in the assessment of the team, ability/potential is by fa… https://t.co/09Asrbp9KN

The FDA may want to review the approach for PRVs as the peculiar trade in PRVs seems to be unrelated to the intended purpose of speeding up market access of "new therapies to market for rare pediatric or neglected tropical diseases"

Novo Nordisk acquires Biocorp to enable faster innovation and development of novel connected device. Congratulations @EricDessertenne and team!

Quite interesting - also in the light of the continued talk about Bayer potentially spinning off the consumer health business...

Lancet: "To take advantage of the wealth of data from clinical care, key stakeholders should come together to make health-care datasets increasingly accessible, inclusive, and representative"

How to grow your digital health company quickly and in a capital efficient manner? Do as Florence: identify interesting assets in companies that are struggling... Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health (presumably for a fr… https://t.co/14AU8CQTLi