Ada Editorial

Dr. Upadhyay

Health and happiness after a diabetes diagnosis

Are you among the more than 400 million people who have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes? If so, here’s some good news.

Dr. Upadhyay

UTI or STI? How to spot the difference

To help you spot the difference between a UTI and an STI, two easily mistaken infections, and better understand your health.

Dr. Upadhyay

Five hygiene myths that drive doctors crazy

Too often, patients have symptoms caused by overzealous cleaning, so I’ve sterilized five myths about hygiene.

Dr. Novorol

Putting the ‘Med’ in MedTech: three tips for how clinicians can succeed in digital health

The only way to build effective products and services for healthcare is to make clinicians part of the process.

Dr. Novorol

Diversity in healthtech: why securing funding is harder for female founders

Rock Health’s analysis found that just one in seven health tech startups that received investment in 2018 had a female CEO.

Dr. Novorol

It’s time for a better dialogue between regulators and healthtech pioneers

The current regulatory landscape is complex and not set up to respond rapidly to the proliferation of new healthtech products...

Dr. Novorol

Setting the bar high: the challenges of benchmarking digital health

To accurately benchmark and test emerging digital health technologies, external evaluation should be rigorous.

Dr. Novorol

Seven trends that healthtech innovators expect to shape 2019

I asked my healthtech peers what they expect to see over the next 12 months. Here are their predictions for seven trends...

Dr. Novorol

Why healthtech needs more female leaders

In business meetings, on panels, or even just at networking events, it’s very unusual for there to be more women than men present.

Celia

Ada vs. Dr. Jargon

Medical ‘jargon’ in doctor–patient consultations is now a mainstay of popular culture references to the health system.

Celia

It’s personal: Ada stories behind our Global Health Initiative

Statistics are powerful, but such staggering numbers can make it easy to forget they are made up of individual lives.