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.

Klick Health announced that President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, will take the stage at the next Klick Ideas Exchange.

MyAdvice, a leading provider of software-based marketing solutions for medical, dental and law practices, announced the addition of new functionality to its industry-leading Catalyst website.

A federal judge on March 21 said Apple Inc. must face a Silicon Valley company’s claims it illegally monopolized the U.S. market for heart rate monitoring apps for the Apple Watch.

EVERSANA, a pioneer of next generation commercial services to the global life sciences industry, unveiled NAVLIN by EVERSANA™, a new, comprehensive ecosystem of price and access solutions to help established and emerging pharmaceutical companies navigate global market access complexities. NAVLIN combines best-in-class data, software and insights into an integrated platform, backed by a team of innovative industry experts.

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Office of the Surgeon General will request input on COVID-19 misinformation online as they seek to understand the role it played during the pandemic and its impact on health decisions made by individuals.

Google-owned Fitbit recalled more than a million of the company’s Ionic smartwatches following reports that overheating batteries had caused burn injuries, the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on March 2.

Psychological stress from the pandemic may be widespread, but those who have had COVID-19 are at much higher risk for new mental health problems than individuals who have managed to avoid the virus, according to a new study. Additionally, researchers have found the BA.2 version of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus – while potentially more transmissible than its BA.1 predecessor – has not led to more hospitalizations or more severe disease in South Africa.

Read Roberts, director of Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) data solutions at PRECISIONscientia, believes 2022 will see social media platforms as the new method for handling pharma medical education and peer-to-peer communications. So pharma must embrace a new type of digital sleuthing to find KOLs and Digital Opinion Leaders (DOLs), but they must do so carefully and think how to mitigate many risks in this highly regulated market, according to Roberts.