Research has shown that the demography of this region (the Middle East) is dominated by a young population. Over 70% of the population is between the ages of 14 and 34 and thats the millennials. More and more I hear how they are the future of all things ahead and this...

The whole disease paradigm has changed. A couple of decades ago it was infectious diseases like malaria, cholera, typhoid, influenza, AIDS, TB, etc, that was the scourge of the planet. People were dying - hospitals systems and pharmaceutical advances were focussed in a...

I have been following some of the mega trends that digital health is going through, and have always been fascinated by the fact that why are employers not more sensitive to the health and wellness of their employees. After all, here is a productive and highly paid work...

Today it is more or less mandatory that if you are a hospital CIO and responding to your management's request to go "digital" you will look to develop yet another app that will get you 'closer' to your patients, or customers as you may now be calling them! But will it...

I recently read an article where a leading digital health integration platform Validic, is now collaborating with personal wearables maker Polar (and there are so many of them now) in providing an integrated corporate wellness platform. This is great news. Not because...

I love Fitbit. There, I said it. And I have been loving it for more than 4 years since the time I was first gifted my original Ultra. I clipped it on, walked 5k steps from day 1 and slowly averaged to 8k without any special effort. It was just an awareness, a heightene...