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Achieving sustainable impact remains a key digital health challenge, and carefully exploring the preferences of patients might be part of the solution, argues Vasileios Nittas.
In the UK, it is estimated that around 1.5 million people have a learning disability.
It follows a £2.1m pre-Series A funding raise announced earlier this year.
Much has happened in the healthtech landscape in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in the first half of 2019 – according to Galen Growth Asia’s latest report for that period, APAC healthtech funding hit $2.
Chinese healthcare ecosystem platform Ping An Good Doctor has reached strategic cooperation with nearly 50 hospitals across China, including the Aviation General Hospital of China Medical University, Sichuan Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, and the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, to jointly develop a new “internet hospital” model, the company recently announced.
The new funding will be used to help grow Vine's team and develop its platform.
The company helps patients prepare for appointments through texts, emails, phone calls and paper mailing.
Also: Blink Health's head of product; SonarMD's customer experience lead, chief product officer; American Well's group VP of government solutions.
Women’s health has been historically under-studied and has only recently come to the foreground of healthcare technology, with investment in femtech initiatives rising significantly in the past few years.
Philips Health Technology Ventures, Vesalius Bio Capital lll and Health Innovations contributed to this round.