Doctor Anywhere, a Singapore-headquartered digital health platform, has scored SG$88 million ($65.7 million) in a Series C funding round led by growth equity investor Asia Partners.
The round also saw the participation of Novo Holdings, Philips and OSK-SBI Venture Partners, as well as the company's existing investors such as EDBI, Square Peg, IHH Healthcare, Kamet Capital and Pavilion Capital. ...
Hong-Kong headquartered life insurance company Prudential announced that it will partner with telemedicine provider MyDoc to offer consumers access to value-added health services on their mobile phones, including doctor consultations, electronic prescriptions and electronic medical certificates.
MyDoc's services will be integrated into Pulse by Prudential, the first app of its kind in the region...
Many physicians of various ages and geographic locations are turning to online medical consultation tools as an additional resource when providing care, according to a recent investigation published in npj Digital Medicine.
Conducted jointly by the Scripps Research Institute and WebMD, the study found that 310,563 unique physicians had used WebMD’s Medscape Consult — an online, free-to-use...
Source: Ruder Finn mHealth Report
Several surveys were released this past week at -- or coinciding with -- HIMSS, focusing on different areas of consumer engagement in digital health. The Atlantic surveyed 1,000 US residents, finding that only 12 percent had emailed or texted their doctors. A Ruder Finn survey of more than 1,000 US adults found that 16 percent of smartphone and tablet users...
