digital health app

Humanity launched an iPhone app in the U.K. that claims to slow aging. The app will be available worldwide in early September.

The mobile health platform serves as an "integrated virtual clinic".

The company also intends to set up offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southeast Asia.

Also, a new telemedicine platform goes live in Singapore.

The chronic disease management company also seeks to enter the Middle East and US markets.

Called Linkx score, the health engagement app will connect health activities and be able to implement the collected data with health risk prediction and illness prevention using dacadoo’s Health Score tech.

A new meta-analysis published in JMIR revealed that while fitness apps modestly increase physical activity, the average observed step count between app users and nonusers did not reach statistical significance.

We spoke to Ultromics CEO Ross Upton and Ada Health Chief Medical Officer Dr Claire Novorol about the two start-ups' approaches to leveraging AI to improve patient outcomes and access to services. 

The National Health Service (NHS) in England is introducing a new app that will allow patients to access NHS services on their smartphones and tablets, to be gradually rolled out across the country starting from December this year.

While many readers are optimistic that healthcare will make progress on consumerism in one to three years, others said it will take between five and seven to actually happen.