Innovation Research: Share Health App Data with Health Insurance

Every Second Individual Would Like to Share Health App Data with Health Insurance  (in German).  Für die Studie befragte das TAB im April 1059 Personen aus der deutschen Wohnbevölkerung im Alter von 16 bis 74 Jahren über den Adressenpool eines Online-Panels. Die Forscher resümieren, dass trotz der vergleichsweise hohen Verbreitung der Anwendungen zur gesundheitlichen Selbstvermessung "verlässliche Nachweise einer präventiven oder gesundheitsfördernden Wirkung" nicht existierten. Dabei sei zu bedenken, "dass die Apps neben fehlendem Nutzen grundsätzlich auch ein Schadenspotenzial aufweisen können". Die "Entwicklung von qualitätsbezogenen Standards einschließlich geeigneter Prozesse für die Qualitätssicherung" durch politische Institutionen und Akteure scheine…

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Funding for Health Campaigns

Innovations for Improving the Impact of Health Campaigns (Round 24) is a new funding round of Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation. Innovations in approaches, practices, or tools that: dramatically improve the planning and microplanning, implementation / operations, and monitoring and evaluation that will lead to improved effectiveness of campaigns can be applied in low- and middle-income countries will be supported. GRAND CHALLENGES EXPLORATIONS DATE OPEN: 18 SEP 2019 DEADLINE: 13 NOV 2019 - 11:30AM PST — Read on gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovations-improving-impact-health-campaigns-round-24 More updates and useful links in our blog at https://medical-grants.com/useful-information-blog

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Digital health prescription platform Xealth raises $11M Series A | MobiHealthNews

The Providence-St. Joseph Health spinoff's platform allows clinicians to prescribe apps and other digital tools to patients through their normal EHR workflow. — Read on www.mobihealthnews.com/content/digital-health-prescription-platform-xealth-raises-11m-series More updates and useful links in our blog at https://medical-grants.com/useful-information-blog/

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Problems of Robots in the Healthcare: EU Report

This report summarises the presentations and discussions of a workshop on the use of robots and AI in healthcare, held at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday 19 February 2019. The aim of the workshop was to provide background information and advice for Members of the ENVI Committee on the status and prospects of applying robotic and artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies in healthcare. The first part of the workshop focused on the practical application of AI and robots in healthcare, while the second part examined the ethical implications and responsibilities of AI and robotic based…

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Burnout Diagnosis

What is burnout and how you can prevent it. The last update from World Economic Forum will give you an insight. More updates and useful links in our blog at https://medical-grants.com/useful-information-blog/

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YFG 2019 Internathional Scholarship Applications

YFG 2019 Applications The call for newcomer applications for the Young Forum Gastein 2019 scholarship in the healthcare is open until 17th May 2019, 23:59h. The scholarship covers the EHFG conference registration fee, travel and accommodation expenses and participation in the tailor-made YFG programme 2019. — Read on www.ehfg.org/ More useful information on international grants at https://medical-grants.com/useful-information-blog/

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New WHO Guideline on Digital Healthcare

The key aim of the following  guideline of World Health Organisation (WHO) is to present recommendations based on a critical evaluation of the evidence on emerging digital health interventions that are contributing to health system improvements, based on an assessment of the benefits, harms, acceptability, feasibility, resource use and equity considerations. For the purposes of this version of the guideline, the recommendations examine the extent to which digital health interventions, primarily available via mobile devices, are able to address health system challenges along the pathway to UHC. By reviewing the evidence of different digital interventions against comparative options, as…

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