Telemedicine & Smartphones

The 8 best dermatology apps to help with skin diagnosis, some check your lesions, others let you keep track of your moles.

One of the most common human fears is going to the dentist, although we all know how crucial oral health is and how strongly it is connected to our overall health. Let’s see what new technologies can do to revolutionise dentistry – and our attitudes.

Drugs and Digital Therapeutics are competing comrades, bringing better results together. However, healing with apps is a cultural shock we need to get used to.

Think of the medical tricorder from Star Trek—a handheld marvel that turns uncertainty into clarity with a simple scan.

We listed devices and technologies with the promise of curing cancer or transforming it into a manageable chronic disease.

So to get ready for this new year full of digital health potentials, let’s take a peek at 5 fields to expect medical innovation and developments out of.

The most useful skin-checking applications allow users to take pictures of their suspicious skin lesions, upload these pictures to a server, the images are first evaluated by an AI algorithm and the results will be later validated by a dermatologist.

Despite modern society moulding their profession into medical shopkeeping, pharmacists have much more to offer.

We compiled a list of ten research topics we believe are promising for anyone wishing to find their calling in digital health research.

From skin checking applications and AI to remote care devices and robotics, the field is going through a paradigm shift making patients more and more the point of care.

If you measure your daily step count or raise a virtual plant to drink more water a day, you already fell victim of the charms of gamification. Is it bad news? On the contrary! Gamified apps, devices, and therapies will gradually appear in every field of healthcare making behavior change easier and more fun. Here are the greatest examples of gamification!

Digital therapeutics offers evidence-based, clinically backed solutions to manage and/or improve health conditions via software and/or other digital health technologies that complement traditonal treatment regimes.

Do you feel under the weather but don’t want to go to the doctor yet? Are you searching for a solution to inform yourself about any possible condition from the comfort of your home and with the ease of your phone or computer? Of course, there’s an app for that! Not only one, but numerous. Join us as we test how well several services perform at gauging possible diagnoses based on one’s signs and symptoms. We entrust our diagnosis with the Mayo Clinic, WebMD, Your.MD, Symptomate and Ada symptom checker services. Here’s our big symptom checker review.

Car crashes, home injuries, fires, natural disasters: every minute – if not every second – spent without treatment in such cases of medical emergencies and […]

If you’re among the thousands of medical students worldwide or are about to pursue a degree in healthcare, it might have dawned on you that […]

The women’s health technology or so-called femtech market has been on the rise for the last couple of years, but if gained traction just recently. Here’s our guide to 10 outstanding companies in women’s health.