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20.01.2022
DiGA then and now – How European Healthcare is entering the digital age
Meanwhile in Finland… More than 20 years. This is how long Finland is using an electronic patient record already. The citizen of the north are used to receiving medical services like consultations and check-ups fully digital besides going to the doctor physically when necessary.
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13.01.2022
State of Digital Health – Digitalization in Healthcare is advancing rapidly
What is true in evolution appears to be a law that serves quite well in business as well: the companies that outperform are the ones that give the returns you as an investor are looking for. It is fair to say that finding those companies at a stage where they are “affordable” for investors is an art practiced by just a few – and even for them there is a good chunk of luck involved. But one can increase the chances of luck by gathering the right information at the right time to make right decisions. Currently we can observe which innovations and business models of the past 2 years will survive and set themselves up for sustainable success looking forward.
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06.01.2022
Fake it until you make it?! How to separate the good from the bad (in start-up investing)
Extreme Number 1: Apple announced some great news not long ago: they have finally reached the $3 trillion market cap! Once a start-up (even though back then this term did not exist yet) that started with an idea, a plan, and successful implementation, Apple made it to become an international super-power that arguably could exert even more influence on people than most of the nation-states nowadays do towards their citizens.
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30.12.2021
Top Success Stories 2021: The Advancement of Digital Health
As readers of the Aescuvest Newsletter & Blog, most of you are probably amused about what Germans cared most about in 2021. People certainly do not learn how to get wealthy by asking Google about the Queen’s age. This is why we want to take an unconventional review of the year today – no COVID, Federal Elections, WhatsApp Bugs, or info about the whereabouts of Dieter Bohlen. We talk about trends, success stories, and investment opportunities in 2021 in the sector of digital health!
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23.12.2021
The Big Picture: 5 Laws driving our modern economy
Have you heard about the rule that 80% of the global wealth is created by 20% of the population? Or that 80% of the music we listen to is getting created by 20% of the artists? In the late 19th century, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto recorded his observation that just 20% of the population in the country owned about 80% of all the land and this is where the so-called Pareto Principle got discovered.
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16.12.2021
Big Tech in Digital Health: Strategies and Implications
This year was quite a journey for global healthcare. Almost every sector experienced strong growth in the past 12 months but there is a difference between simple growth and a major shift. Pharma is not just growing – it is actually performing a turnaround from folders and papers to the cloud and smartphones.
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09.12.2021
Digital Eye Strain Syndrome: How to save your eyesight in the age of home office
In the digital age many people are working on a screen – in Germany almost one quarter of the entire workforce is working in an office job on screens (Statista Research Department, 2020). Recently, the shift to the home office increased the average screen time again: 74% of all people are spending more than 4 hours in front of their desktop (Vivior Consumer Survey, 2021). Usually, with no or little breaks. Are you one of them? The Digital Eye Strain Syndrome is a logical result of wrong workspace set-up and it will result in a whole arsenal of unwanted symptoms.
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02.12.2021
Diving into the Israeli Tech Space
Israel is definitely worth a visit – not just to wander through the vibrant streets of Tel Aviv or to experience the holy place of Jerusalem. Also to dive into the wide ranging start-up scene! It is interesting to see what kind of start-ups Israel is producing. You won’t find the next Gorillaz or Blablacar in Israel – it seems like Israeli entrepreneurs are more on a mission of changing the world than solving “minor problems”: cyber security, healthcare, data management. Israeli start-ups are doing the tough stuff.
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25.11.2021
Why the future of health is digital: Learn more about “systems biology”
Everything is getting replicated into the digital world nowadays. Connected fridges order food automatically as soon as you run out of eggs, cars increase their maximum velocity overnight due to a software update while standing in your garage, our character is basically replicated on the internet on our social media profiles, work and study happen while sitting in a chair and looking at a screen all day long. The list goes on and on. Let’s face reality, folks: we are living in a new dimension called the metaverse – a digitalized world of our physical reality. Profound.
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18.11.2021
What Digital Health Venture Capitalists invest in
Ride the wave! Healthcare start-ups are in demand. Corona woke up the whole world and reminded us that we are all mortal. The industry recognized that taking care of our health is priority number one – building social networks, fintech solutions or decentralized metaverses comes second. Therefore, healthcare start-ups got a lot of back wind within the past months, popping up at every corner. Now it is time to ride the wave!