Blog articles from 08/2019

As leading companies in the ride share space continue to look for ways to invest in the non-emergency medical transportation market, Uber recently announced a partnership between its healthcare business and American Logistics Company, a transportation management company based in California. This is Uber’s first national collaboration with a healthcare transportation management company.    Healthcare plans and organizations can now provide smarter patient pickup and...

From a consumer perspective, the idea of video entertainment is simple: watch something that is engaging and interesting. While several differentiating factors impact consumer selection , such as ease of use, pricing and promotional value, and platform availability, the type of content offered heavily influences the traffic a video service receives. Consumers ultimately care about what they’re watching and will tolerate other elements that might hinder their video entertainment source...

Prior to Parks Associates' sixth annual Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness , Dev Singh, CEO of ViKi Health AI, shared his insights on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. What features of wellness and fitness apps are in highest use? Which are in highest demand? Health and fitness applications can be divided into following categories: Fitness Tracking, data storage and management- for tracking and storing workout...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Joe Smith ,  MD, PhD, CEO, Reflexion Health  gave his insights on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Joe will participate on the panel   Expanding Reach: Making Remote Patient Monitoring Work   on Wednesday, August 28, at 3:15 PM. Panelists who will join him on this session include: Amy...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Ardy Arianpour ,   CEO & Co-Founder,  Seqster  gave his insights on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Ardy will participate on the panel Consumer Technology in Healthcare: Preparing for the Tech Giants on Thursday, August 29, at 8:30 AM. Panelists who will join him on this session include: Sumit...

Parks Associates is excited to highlight women in healthcare speaking at the 6th-annual Connected Health Summit from August 27-29, 2019 in San Diego. Connected Health Summit explores new strategies and innovations that will expand and improve independent living solutions for consumers and caretakers, including innovative monitoring and smart home solutions. The conference examines consumer adoption and usage of connected health technologies and key adjacencies between smart home,...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Melissa Gonzales , EVP, Americas, Medela gave her insights on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Melissa will participate on the expert panel Innovation at Transformative Life Stages: New Parents and Caregivers on Tuesday, August 27, at 4:00 PM. Panelists who will join her on this session include: Ori Balaban , VP...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Chris Nicholson , CEO, mPulse Mobile shared his thoughts on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Chris will participate on the  Consumer Engagement Strategies: Charting a Path Forward  panel on Thursday, August 29, at 11:15 AM. Panelists who will join him on this session include: Fahad Aziz , Co-Founder & CTO,...