From IBM to Google – 10 Surprising Companies You Didn’t Expect to Embrace Disruptive Health Innovation

From time to time, I come across collaborations in healthcare between companies which are both promising and surprising. From IBM to Google – here are the top 10 companies you didn’t expect to embrace disruptive health innovation. Digital health sounds like a niche but will have an impact on all areas of our lives soon. Collaborations between innovative healthcare companies and industry leading giants underscore this notion. The ones I’m most excited about feature companies that everyone knows, but whose exciting contributions to digital health get little attention. 1) Insurance that promotes healthy living Oscar Health, the hipster insurance company, works with the wearable maker Fitbit. Insured people can submit their Fitbit data and if they reach their fitness goals, they get $1 every day. It helps keep people healthy and motivated with a simple but quantifiable reward. 2) Patients helping drug research The patient community site Patientslikeme.com started working with the pharma company AstraZeneca to support patient-driven research initiatives. AstraZeneca will use data from the community site to improve outcomes in several therapeutic areas. This is how a big company can make use of data from a startup. 3) Replacing animal experiments with biomaterials The biomaterial printing company Organovo teamed up with L’Oréal to print out synthetic skin samples. New substances can be tested much faster and on samples resembling actual human skin, instead of animal ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Medicine GC1 Source Type: blogs