The integration of LLM-Based AI agents into healthcare has the potential to revolutionize workflows and improve patient outcomes. However, these opportunities come with a critical challenge: ensuring compliance with strict regulations like HIPAA, while also...
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Breaking News: The Arionkoder Grant Shortlist Is Here!
The Arionkoder Reshape Health Grants is one of our key initiatives that supports innovative healthtech startups by developing and strengthening their product capabilities, especially around AI and UX, with up to $50k per grantee. This year, in our second edition, the...
Celebrate World Mental Health Day: Simple Steps to Improve Well-Being at Work
As we observe World Mental Health Day, it's important to recognize the significant role mental well-being plays in both our personal lives and professional environments. Poor mental health doesn't just impact individuals—it affects entire organizations, from employee...
The fitting requirements of AI for clinical applications
AI has become a hot topic across many industries. The hype surrounding tools like ChatGPT has sparked new ideas and experimentation in a wide range of fields, pushing the boundaries of creativity and leading to successes in endeavors that once seemed like science...
Reshaping Health Tech: Avoiding AI FOMO and Focusing on Real Value
Health tech startups often struggle to make a lasting impact because they fail to align their innovations with real-world problems and user needs. This misalignment is one of the key reasons so many startups fall into the infamous Health Tech Valley of Death where...
AI is Inevitably Reshaping Healthcare: Why Ignoring It Could Be a Huge Mistake!
AI is a powerful tool for rewriting the playbook across many industries, and healthcare is no exception. With its vast potential, AI offers game-changing benefits: simplifying data management, minimizing human error, improving patient safety, and even streamlining...
Sleep: The Cornerstone of Health in the Digital Age
Sleep has become more than just a nightly routine—it’s now widely acknowledged as crucial to our overall health and well-being. The proliferation of digital sleep aids and technologies promises better rest, yet the irony is that the very same technology may also be...
Simplifying health experiences for patients
Technology has long played a role in healthcare, from early medical devices to today’s advanced systems. However, the persistent challenge has been the lack of user-centered design. While technological tools have the potential to enhance patient care and streamline...
Understanding Health Tech users: Clinicians
In the context of our Health Tech Guild, we are reviewing the main participants we design for. We consider this crucial to creating more human-centered products, and we’ve started with possibly the most relevant actor: The Clinician. Clinicians are central figures in...
Shaping the Future of Healthcare: Meet our Health Tech Guild
Technology drives innovation in every industry, and healthcare is no exception. However, creating software and digital solutions for healthcare in the United States is a complex task that requires cross-collaboration. With years of experience working with health...
Meet Alvee, one of our Reshape Health Grantees
https://youtu.be/UTnKFNvANJA We helped Alvee build their digital product through our Reshape Health Grants. See Alvee's case here, and find the transcript for Nicole Cook, Alvee's CEO's interview below. Nicole Cook: So we help healthcare organizations to reduce health...
Health Equity for All: Why We Need a Fundamental Shift
Over the past year, I've dropped some 40lbs , and let me tell you, I feel fantastic. I’m more agile, springy, and I’ve become very mindful of what I eat, where it comes from, and what’s in it. This focus on food as medicine, combined with regular doctor visits and...
The current problem with AI in Health Tech: great applications, disconnected experiences
The latest AI revolution, which includes Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) presents an extraordinary opportunity to address bottlenecks in health tech. These technologies offer the potential to personalize and summarize information, streamline operations,...
Why Value-Based Care Is Falling Short and How Digital Products Can Help
First, what is Value-Based Care? Value-based care is a relatively new way of thinking about healthcare that focuses more on keeping patients healthy and less on the number of services provided. Instead of doctors and hospitals getting paid based on how many tests or...
Redefining Time: Bioengineering’s Influence on Tomorrow
Life is incredibly rich, isn't it? And when I say "life," I'm not just referring to us humans but everything around us – the crops in the fields, the weather patterns, even our own bodies. Back in the early 2000s, I had this itch to dive into bioelectronics. The idea...
Breaking Boundaries: Exploring LLM Applications in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry is on the brink of a major leap forward, with technology paving the way to tackle long-standing challenges more effectively. From the cumbersome clinical trial recruitment processes to the lack of tailored patient education and support, we...
Did you know that the FDA approved the first AI-powered device to detect skin cancer?
Precision and speed are paramount in healthcare when it comes to early diagnosis. In line with this goal, the FDA has recently provided clearance for the first real-time, non-invasive skin cancer evaluation device powered by AI. Skin cancer, affecting one in five...
Transforming Healthcare: Mapping Opportunities for AI Automation and Augmentation
Creating impactful AI features in healthcare requires thoughtful integration, user-centric design, and a clear vision of how AI can empower users through automation and augmentation. In several health tech projects we've been working on lately, we've observed a keen...
Did you know that Google developed a chatbot that can diagnose patients automatically?
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Google Research has taken a new step with the introduction of AMIE, an innovative AI system tailored for diagnostic medical interactions. Let's delve into the key aspects of AMIE and understand its...
Innovation Alchemy: Blending Kitchens and Operating Rooms
Picture this: a surgical team operating on a patient and saving his life. Now, picture this: the chef and his team at your favorite restaurant preparing that dish that you just love. At first glance, these situations seem worlds apart, right? One is all about...
From the Silk Road to the Science Bridge: A Journey of Innovation
Once upon a time, joining continents used to be an epic adventure that the likes of Marco Polo and Columbus would undertake. Tales were told about these heroes who interconnected the world and delivered new, groundbreaking products across the globe. Today,...
Understanding Healthcare Ecosystems for a Better Tomorrow
When we look closely at the systems that shape our society, few are as intricate and important as the ones dealing with our health. Health ecosystems are complex puzzles with hundreds of moving parts that also act as a meeting point for all kinds of stakeholders who...
Navigating the Evolution of Healthcare: From Ideas to Real World Impact
Throughout history, humanity has faced various concerns. Some issues like creating appropriate shelter, have been resolved or at least mostly resolved. Others, up to this day, remain unsolved: healthcare, to me, stands out as a critical one. As a species with a...
How Rapid Prototyping can help in digital health products
Rapid prototyping is a process that enables product designers to quickly create and test multiple versions of a product to refine and improve it. This process can be particularly useful in the digital health sector, where there is a growing need for innovative...