Former Google executive, Vic Gundotra has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of AliveCor, Inc., the leader in FDA-cleared ECG technology for smartphones, effectively immediately, replacing Euan Thomson, the company's interim Chief Executive Officer. Gundotra formerly served as Senior Vice President at Google from 2011 until April 2014, heading up the company's social initiatives. He joined Google in 2007 as vice president of engineering, where he was responsible for mobile
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Archives for 2015
Stanford Engineers Test Tricorder-Like Detector for Tumors
Science fiction such as Star Trek popularized the tricorder, a handheld detector that can gather readings from the environment or even diagnose disease. Today, Stanford engineers is currently testing a tricorder device that might be able to spot fast-growing tumors detailed in Applied Physics Letters and presented at the International Ultrasonics Symposium in Taipei, Taiwan. The new touchless ultrasound technology could possibly provide a new way to detect early stage cancers in the
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CACI Awarded $77M Contract to Build Military Health Clinical Analytics Systems
CACI International Inc has been awarded a $76.8 million three-year contract to provide build the next generation military health clinical analyics systems to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARSYSCEN) Atlantic.
Contract Details
SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic provides advanced health IT solutions that support the Defense Health Agency (DHA) and military health. Under the contract, CACI will build, deploy, and maintain state-of-the-art medical intelligence and decision
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IBM Watson, Boston Children’s Partner to Help Clinicians Treat Rare Pediatric Diseases
1 in 10 Americans suffer from a rare disease, and half of these patients are children, according to the Global Genes Project. There are some 7,000 known rare disorders ranging from benign abnormalities to life-threatening disease. Many affected children pass away before a diagnosis can be made, leaving families to grieve without knowing what might have been done to help them, or how to avoid additional brothers or sisters being affected.
To help tackle this problem, IBM and Boston Children's
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Physicians Using Nuance Have Captured Over 100M Patient Stories
Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced physicians have documented more than 100 million patient stories annually physicians using Nuance cloud-based clinical voice recognition. This milestone comes on the heels of dramatic growth in healthcare organizations using web and mobile apps with embedded Nuance Dragon Medical cloud-based solutions, which have increased up to 30% month-over-month since the beginning of the year. Nuance anticipates this pace of adoption to continue based on market
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WellTrackONE, Zoeticx Partner to Bring EHR Interoperability to Medical Facilities
Zoeticx, Inc. and WellTrackONE Corp.have announced a partnership to bring interoperability to medical facilities’ EHR systems. The collaboration will enable Zoeticx’s Patient-Clarity platform software to integrate WellTracksONES’s Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) patient reports and associated medical data to any EHR, Health Information Exchange (HIE) or other data repository.
As part of the agreement, providers will be able to easily access and manage WellTrackONE’s AWV reports without using any
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GE Healthcare Acquires Advisory Firm, The Camden Group
GE Healthcare has acquired healthcare & strategic advisory firm, The Camden Group that will act as the U.S. business unit of GE Healthcare’s global advisory firm, GE Healthcare Partners. The acquisition will enable the firm to deliver strategic and financial consulting to healthcare organizations, as well as advisory consulting on population health management, value-based care, clinical integration and care redesign across the continuum. Financial terms of the transaction were not
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Walgreens/MDLive Expands Telehealth Visits to Consumers in 20 States
Pharmacy retail giant Walgreens is expanding its partnership with MDLive to offer consumers in 20 additional states 24/7 access to MDLIVE's telehealth visits via Walgreens mobile app. The latest expansion brings the total number of states to 25.
As part of today’s expansion, patients in the following states will now have access to MDLIVE telehealth services through the Walgreens mobile app: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
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StartUp Health Goes Global with Launch of StartUp Health Finland
Global health innovation company StartUp Health is expanding globally with the launch of StartUp Health Finland in partnership with Finpro’s Team Finland Health growth program. The partnership will further both organizations’ missions, to grow and scale the next generation of businesses and strengthen Finland’s position as a digital health leader.
StartUp Health Finland Overview
StartUp Health Finland will focus on coaching and supporting the emerging ecosystem of Finnish entrepreneurs and
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Boston Children’s, Rock Health Partner To Develop Digital Health Tools for Pediatric Care
Boston Children's Hospital and full-service digital health venture fund Rock Health today announced a strategic partnership to develop digital health tools and devices to improve pediatric care. The announcement was made during Boston Children's Hospital's Global Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards.
Partnership Details
As part of the partnership, Rock Health will fund and support promising digital startup companies and Boston Children's will act as clinical advisor to help startups shape
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