A panel of experts and leaders across healthcare, biopharma, and high tech will explore how to break down silos and think like a learning health ecosystem.

Google announced on March 24 the latest plans for using smartphones to monitor health, saying the company would test whether capturing heart sounds and eyeball images could help people identify issues from home.

Merck Manuals, a comprehensive digital medical reference for healthcare professionals and consumers, announced that its professional content is now accessible within Microsoft Teams. 

Britain will trial a new coronavirus tracing program on the Isle of Wight, just off the south coast of England, cabinet minister Michael Gove said on Sunday as the government looks at how to minimise the risk of a second wave of infection.

A smartphone-based relaxation app could help migraine sufferers reduce the number of headaches they get each month, a small study suggests.

Norm Phillips, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer with BioPharm Communications, explains the challenges and opportunities for pharma and describes advantages they have compared to those in the consumer marketing world, such as identifiable influencers, customer-level data and access/reimbursement insights.

A new report published by researchers at Northwestern University offers the possibility of an early diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease – via an eye test.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Jeff Bezos’ Day One Fund teamed up to donate $15 million to the Diagnostics Accelerator as part of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation.

Voice search (such as Apple Siri) and voice assistants (such as Amazon ECHO “Alexa”) are on the rise, and it’s been predicted that by the end of 2020, 50% of interactions with technology will be via “conversations” with them.

HBA is hosting two educational webinars in October 2018: “Increase Your Communication Confidence in Three Weeks: There’s an APP for That” and “Presenting Effectively in Any Situation”