The Associazione Farmaceutici dell’Industria (Afi) presented the ‘My e-Leaflet’ project which was developed with key stakeholders from the Italian healthcare community, including patient associations, healthcare professionals and practitioners.
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NHS launches care integration project
The UK government has published a white paper setting out legislative proposals for a Health and Care Bill.
Continue readingCovid, we live the flop of twentieth-century anti-digital health care
The hospital-centric model, the organisational form of family medicine, the lack of multidisciplinarity in the CTS, the lack of self-criticism and planning of the NHS after the first lockdown, the emphasis on televisits and not on active remote surveillance: these are the mistakes that are costing us dearly and how to remedy them.
Perfection or nothing: the attitude that holds back innovation
Even in crisis or emergency situations, such as the one we are experiencing for Covid-19, the habit of rejecting everything that is not 100% effective is not lost, emphasizing its limits and possible problems.
WHO publishes a guide on how to integrate digital interventions into health programmes
The guide complements the WHO guideline with recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening.
During the truce of Covid-19 we have not sufficiently enhanced the “digital weapons”
After the long emergency we all took a breath and imagined that the worst was over. Unfortunately, this is not the case and we risk paying dearly for this choice.
Germany invests 3 billion euros for emergency, digitization and IT security
German Health Minister Jens Spahn has announced an extraordinary investment plan for health care.
Uber now delivers drugs
Uber Health extends its activities by starting the delivery of pharmaceutical products through a partnership with the on-demand digital prescription platform NimbleRx.
Epidemics do not know borders: let’s create a European epidemiological network
Imagine fighting current and future epidemics by delegating the collection and management of epidemiological data to local and regional health authorities and regions does not make sense: we need a common European action.
Lesson learned from Coronavirus: five issues on digital health
The unprecedented crisis caused by the pandemic has triggered an acceleration of the spread of new digital tools.