Consumer

Health Support group users will now be able to ask admins to anonymously post questions to the group page. 

Those using the Garmin Connect fitness platform and certain Garmin smartwatches will receive period predictions and targeted educational content.

Chatbots, symptom checkers and other AI healthcare guidance services should take a page from Amazon and others on to engage users, experts say.

Patients are driving a new shift in health care, with expectations for greater access to personalised, convenient services growing. 

A new programme based at Imperial College London will focus on technologies that help people with dementia to live well in their own homes, while generating data to help researchers better understand the cause and progression of the condition.

Amazon sent Prime users an email advertising virtual pharmacy PillPack, which the company acquired in 2018. 

Digital health innovators look to the wrist, the ears and the wall for new ways to keep seniors safe.

Consumer spending in health and fitness apps also tripled during this time, according to numbers from App Annie.

A chat with Dr. Ali Parsa, Founder & CEO, Babylon Health

Now consumers are turning to the web for their health products—whether it is to get a pharmacy prescription, a urine test or an “embarrassing” sexual health product.