Walgreens has announced the launch of its Center for Health & Wellbeing Research, a website that features more than 50 Walgreens outcomes studies completed over the past six years. Areas of research include access to care and patient experience, adherence and clinical outcomes, digital health and member engagement, health care costs, HIV and specialty pharmacy, vaccinations and more.OverviewLed by a team of more than 25 Walgreens health services researchers, clinicians, statisticians, public
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Lyra Health, Welkin Health Partner to Develop Personalized Care for Behavioral Health Needs
Lyra Health, a digital health company transforming access to behavioral health in the workplace, has partnered with digital health startup Welkin Health to develop an end-to-end solution that will strengthen Lyra's work providing timely and personalized care for employers, and their employees in need of behavioral health services.Welkin’s configurable case management platform consolidates email, text, and phone communications between patient and care provider, creating a comprehensive overview
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Happify Health Raises $9M To Expand Evidence-based Emotional Health Platform for Employers & Health Plans
Happify Health, a New York City-based provider of evidence-based emotional health software solutions for employers and health plans has raised $9 million in funding led by TT Capital Partners (“TTCP”) with participation from existing investors. The company plans to use the funding to increase infrastructure support and expand its digital platform that provides clinically tested, highly personalized behavior change interventions for use across the emotional health continuum. Founded in 2012,
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Google Acquires Mobile Health Monitoring Startup Senosis Health
Google has acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle, WA-based mobile health monitoring startup that develops apps to measure, diagnose, and manage diseases, GeekWire first reports. Co-founded by Prof. Shwetak Patel at the University of Washington’s (UbiComp) research lab, Senosis Health mobile apps collects health metrics to diagnose pulmonary function, hemoglobin counts and other critical health information.Together with four other clinicians, researchers and tech transfer experts, the company’s
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Health Invest Finland Raises $1.5M for Smart Wearable Device for Elder Care
Health Invest Finland Oy, a digital health firm has raised $1.5 million in funding led by Finnish funds Kuus Invest Oü, Viavan Oy, and European business angel investors. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate the deployment of it’s My+Care™ (MyPlusCare) cloud-based health and wellbeing service solution targeted for the elderly care market globally.According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the number of elder persons (aged 65 years or over) is
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Medisafe Launches “Medisafe Insights” to Turn Medication Data Into Actionable Insights for Pharma
Medisafe, a personalized medication management platform has announced the launch of Medisafe Insights, a proprietary market research tool (HIPAA compliant and ISO secure) for pharma. Eclipsing 4 million users and 1 billion doses managed, Medisafe is turning its database of patient information, combining demographics, medication details, medical conditions and comorbidities, engagement with content and interventions, and other key information, into actionable insights for pharma. The launch of
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Libertana Home Health to Deploy Amazon Echo-based Digital Care Assistants for Patients
Libertana Home Health, a manager of California-based health and housing waivers is teaming up with Orbita to deploy a first-of-its-kind home care solution using Amazon Alexa voice assistant technology. Libertana is using Orbita Voice, an enterprise-grade software platform for creating and maintaining conversational voice apps for Alexa, to engage individuals in managing activities of daily living and self-care, and more effectively inform home care professionals in triaging care needs and
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Welltory Raises $1M to Expand Stress Management App
Welltory, a New York based digital health startup working on a stress & energy management app, has raised $1 million in seed funding from business angels. The company plans to utilize the funding from the seed round to launch the next version of their app.Founded in 2014 by co-founders Alexander Lyskovsky, Jane Smorodnikova and Pavel Pravdin, Welltory’s stress and energy management app let users see how lifestyle changes - morning meditation, working from home, or a diet change - affect
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Newtopia Secures Patent for Hyper-Personalized Disease Prevention Platform
Newtopia, a precision health company focused on building highly personalized disease prevention programs has been awarded a patent for its novel and hyper-personalized disease prevention platform. Newtopia partners with insurers, employers and brands to offer disease prevention and management programs to risk-assessed individuals that deliver proven sustainable outcomes, quantifiable cost savings and a substantive ROI. Newtopia’s patent, U.S. Patent 9,554,754, is a system, method and computer
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Buoy Health Lands $6.7M to Expand AI-Powered Symptom Checker to Providers, Payers
Buoy Health, a Boston, MA-based digital health startup has raised $6.7M in Series A funding led by F-Prime Capital Partners and an undisclosed strategic investor. The round also included participation from FundRx, Jack Connors, and other angel investors.Formed out of the Harvard Innovation Laboratory in 2014, Buoy Health’s artificial intelligence-powered online symptom and cure checker leverages an intelligent algorithm backed by medical data to diagnose patients. Designed to resemble an
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