On January 7, the K-Start-ups attending the Consumer Entertainment Show, or CES in Las Vegas were awarded with the Global Media Awards 2023. They were selected in advance by press media from Europe, South Korea, Japan and the US as outstanding domestic innovators in attendance of the event. The awards were given based on the competitiveness, how likely they are to successfully enter the global market, how marketable they are and the investment value. The ceremony was held in the K-Startup Joint Pavilion. This year, the size of CES grew by an amazing 50% compared to 2022, with more than 2,800 companies attending from 173 countries around the world.

At Health Hero, our goal is to improve the digital healthcare experience for our users. To achieve this, we have recently integrated a range of advanced AI technologies, including natural language processing, predictive modeling, data analysis, and clinical decision support, into our platform. These technologies enable us to offer valuable services to companies, individuals, and health insurance providers. For companies, our AI-powered tools and systems can streamline health management processes, reduce costs, and improve the well-being of their employees. For individuals, our AI technologies can provide personalized health recommendations, assist with medication reminders and other tasks related to health management, and help detect potential health issues early on.

Data and analytics capabilities are becoming increasingly important'table stakes' in the property and casualty sector across Europe, North America and Asia, according to a session at the Barbados Risk and Insurance Management (BRIM) conference. Speaking at the session'Next generation insurtech: predictive modelling and artificial intelligence (AI)', Klaas Stijnen, co-founder and chief product officer at Montoux, cited NewVantage Partners' 2022 Big Data and AI Executive Survey, which found that although investment in data and AI initiatives continues to grow, achieving data-driven leadership remains an elusive goal for most organisations. Similarly, the survey found that although the take-up of AI initiatives is accelerating, the actual implementation of AI into widespread production remains low. Stijnen outlined that a data analysis-driven approach is led by data scientists, in which the focus is on available, known data and is separate from the decision-making process. Alternatively, a decision-driven approach is based on data science, which more readily challenges bias to seek missing data and is integrated into a firm's decision-making process.

The digital healthcare revolution has already begun, and it will gain further momentum in 2022 as providers and patients look for new and better ways to improve care. Companies with strong offerings, management teams and balance sheets are poised to capture tremendous value. Healthcare deals were hot in the first nine months in 2021. They brought in a total of $21.3 billion in venture funding across 541 deals, dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 billion set in 2020, according to Rock Health. But startups will continue to lead the way in innovation with the use of AI, IoT and data analytics, especially with data becoming the central currency of healthcare.

The healthcare system in Latin America (LATAM) has made significant improvements in the last few decades. Nevertheless, it still faces significant challenges, including poor access to healthcare services, insufficient resources, and inequalities in health that may lead to decreased life expectancy, lower quality of life, and poor economic growth. Digital Healthcare (DH) enables the convergence of innovative technology with recent advances in neuroscience, medicine, and public healthcare policy.a In this article, we discuss key DH efforts that can help address some of the challenges of the healthcare system in LATAM focusing on two countries: Brazil and Mexico. We chose to study DH in the context of Brazil and Mexico as both countries are good representatives of the situation of the healthcare system in LATAM and face similar challenges along with other LATAM countries. Brazil and Mexico have the largest economies in the region and account for approximately half of the population and geographic territory of LATAM.11

In recent years, healthcare went through a major digital transformation. This transformation includes digitizing health records, medical records, integration between multiple patient record databases, and so on. There is a huge amount of digital transformation occurring in patient visits, appointments, follow-up, test results. Mainly the interaction and communication between patient and doctor is digitalized. It is also undeniable that in recent years, a new revolution of healthy living has occurred.

Many experts have already started contemplating that the damage due to COVID19 that is apparently visible today; may its economy, social, political or other aspects of our lives, is just the tip of the iceberg, and the gigantic submerged part is yet to be realized by the world and will be visible gradually post-COVID. I am praying that this prediction comes out wrong, otherwise it's not going to be any less than a horrible nightmare for all of us. On the contrary, probably the biggest positive aspect that COVID has attributed and initiated so far is that, it acted as a wakeup alarm for the entire world to focus on the healthcare systems. It brutally proved that healthcare and medicine today is far behind to fight against a pandemic or any biological warfare, the possibility of which cannot be ignored in the future. COVID has proven that in this highly connected world we should be concerned about everything that is happening even in the remotest corner of the world, because the same can come and knock at your door the very next day.

Chris Bain is a professor of Digital Health in the Faculty of IT at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Abraham Oshni Alvandi is a research assistant in Digital Health in the Faculty of IT at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Many people don't understand quite how their data is used, or why, and a lot of companies aren't forthcoming with this information. Menstrual tracking apps are some of the most popular on the digital health market. Through collecting intimate data about users – when their period is, when they last had sex, their mood and general health, even which sanitary products they use – the app offers an estimate for when they are the most fertile and when to expect their next period. According to a study recently carried out by Privacy International (PI), several menstrual tracking apps have been sharing user data with Facebook via the social network's software development kit (SDK). The SDK allows software developers to receive analytics on which aspects of their app are most popular with users.

Perhaps, like me, you have recently had parents die, passing through the ignominies of the death process--loss of hearing, loss of sight, loss of mobility, and decreased cognitive power. Maybe you are in your late 50's and your parents are in their early 80's and you are considering how to maintain a high quality of life for them. You might even be someone in your 80's thinking about how to improve the life of your children who are constantly worried about you. The future of a quality existence for seniors is not about the stupendous achievements in artificial intelligence with respect to robotic surgery, virtual nursing assistants, clinical judgments, or administrative workflow as suggested in Bernard Marrs article on How Is AI Used In Healthcare. It is about those basic social constructs and safety measures that give us purpose, make us feel loved, provide confidence, and enhance our diminishing senses, and AI is one of many players that will play a critical role in improving all our lives.