Cannabis Unclear licensing rules raise concerns that big foreign firms applying for patents might squeeze out local players and drive up the cost of cannabis-derived medical products. Last week, Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly (NLA) passed a bill allowing the use of cannabis and kratom, a local plant with opioid properties…
Opinion Emmanuel Fombu, Global Strategy and Digital Innovation Leader at Johnson & Johnson reflects on health professionals’ fears of AI and their place in the healthcare workforce of the future. Sure, robots might be better at carrying out specific operations or at carrying out monotonous tasks without tiring, but it’s the…
Opinion Mohamed is a passionate Blockchain enthusiast who is committed to helping grow the Blockchain ecosystem around the world. Here he talks about healthcare’s slow adoption of technology and the challenges that come with hefty privacy regulation of patient data. The life-and-death nature of the industry might be a factor of…
Innovation Joonho J. Lee is a CEO and CoFounder of Cognita Lab INC developing risk management framework around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and financial services industries. Here he discusses the use of blockchain in the healthcare industry and the need to remain “cautiously optimistic.” Many people asked whether I…
France Eric Bothorel, Deputy at the French Assemblée Nationale and responsible for the parliamentary group on data, knowledge & AI, provides an exclusive interview on France’s digitalization process. Bothorel describes France’s progress in frontier technologies like AI and Big Data and explains their expanding role in the healthcare sector. Can…
Innovation Richie Etwaru is founder and CEO of Hu-manity, whose vision is to empower people to take ownership of their inherent human data. The pharmaceutical industry has never seen the full end-to-end benefits of a world where explicitly consented data is available. And this can happen without disruption. Everyone can indeed…
Innovation Axel Schumacher, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Shivom, highlights the need for Big Pharma to adopt new technology. Of course, we know that pharma is often innovation-averse. The healthcare industry has been full of disruptions in the last decade, ranging from the explosive growth of medical devices and the…
Innovation “Imagine a world where every single ingredient inside every single pharmaceutical you take is traced from start to finish.” We can all agree that the healthcare system in the United States is in dire need of an overhaul. Technological advances propel us into the 21st Century, but the way data…
Hong Kong Matthew Man, CEO of Hong Kong cold chain monitoring technology specialist Myndar, expounds on the company’s formation, its differentiating factors, and countering resistance to new innovations in the healthcare sector. How did you identify the niche in the market for your cold chain monitoring technologies? I founded Myndar back…
Pharma In May 2018, PharmaBoardroom’s readers were asked what they felt were the biggest new sources of disruption to the traditional pharma industry today. Options included 3D Bioprinting, blockchain storage, genomics and artificial intelligence. 3D Bioprinting As Figure 1 (below) shows, 11 percent of our survey respondents felt that 3D bioprinting…
Brazil When combining the sheer size of Brazil – the fifth largest country in the world – with its tropical climate, its largely perfectible infrastructure, and the soaring importance of temperature sensitive biologicals, one understands the urgent need to develop solutions guaranteeing appropriate transport conditions in Brazil. “We may be vaguely…
Brazil Paulo Vitor de Andrade, founder and director of Grupo Polar, elaborates on his journey to build the Brazilian company of reference in cold chain solutions and the company’s relentless efforts to disseminate knowledge to improve the logistics environment in Brazil and globally. Grupo Polar is recognized as a reference in…
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