Category Healthcare

Every year, Capital Factory in Austin, Texas, holds Austin Startup Week. During this event they bring entrepreneurs, local leaders, and companies together to connect and collaborate through various educational tracks, mentoring sessions, startup showcases, and networking mixers. This...

A year ago we wrote about how telehealth applications were reshaping the US healthcare ecosystem. Driven by the rapid increase in telehealth consultations during the Covid-19 pandemic, we saw for the first time adoption reach a significant proportion...

Technology is transforming healthcare at a faster rate than any of us can recall – involving everything from the emergence of precision medicine offering highly customized medical treatments, to the use of digital technologies to transform our experiences...

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven a surge in the adoption of telemedicine-related technologies. Overall telemedicine usage has stabilized at 38x higher than it was before the pandemic, with virtual visits, remote patient monitoring, patient portals, and even different...

Recent reports estimate a five-fold increase in virtual consultations, reaching a total of 400 million visits and about $25bn in value. Some parts of the US saw an increase in telehealth usage from 1% to 85%. While this...

Telehealth is often associated with remote video consultation applications in which doctors and patients meet over videoconference. In reality, however, the telehealth — also known as telemedicine — ecosystem encompasses the delivery of health-related services through technology, which...