Editor's Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD.
Medical science is now producing gene-editing technology, implantables, and pills with digestible microchips. The plethora of technologies will sense our body signals and can help predict and prevent illness. Increasingly, humans are becoming machines. We already have wearables, but we will soon have a
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Smart Toothbrush Beam Adds Gamfication That Gets Kids to Brush Their Teeth
Beam, the smarter dental insurance company, launched “Boulders and Band-Aids” within the Beam app, adding a gamification layer on top of the brushing behavior data already collected via the Beam Brush.
The new game allows anyone who brushes their teeth while using the connected Beam Brush or the Beam app’s manual timer to earn lives to play the game, which encourages users to brush more often, for longer. The Beam app is available for free from the App Store and Google Play.
A vast majority
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WellDoc Pulls In $22M To Accelerate Mobile Prescription Therapy Adoption
Digital health technology company WellDoc today announced $22 million in Series B funding led by Samsung Ventures and Merck Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund serving as co-lead. Other participants in the round include Adage Capital Management, Excel Venture Management, Alexandria Venture Investments and Hudson River Capital Partners LLC.
Welldoc plans to utilize the funding to continue commercialization and accelerate adoption of its flagship product, BlueStar, a FDA cleared mobile
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drchrono Launches First Fully Featured iPhone EHR
drchrono, the mobile EHR on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and web for physicians and their patients, today announced the launch of its fully featured and clinical documentation iPhone EHR.
Before today, drchrono only allowed a physician to take all of their paper medical forms and put them onto iPad and web, to do rounds and document patient information. With full clinical documentation, a physician can now literally see patients with an iPhone and do his/her rounds.
Key features of the
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Chilmark: Connected Health Market Bright, Yet Remains Immature
The US healthcare system’s shift towards value-based care has ignited an interest in new models of virtual, connected healthcare. As defined by Chilmark Research in their latest report, Migration to Connected Health: Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), ‘Connected Health’ is the application of technology to connect and extend healthcare delivery system (people, tools, facilities, and so on) in an ongoing, virtual, semi-automated manner across a patient
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Sytrue, HighFive Partner to Optimize Medication Reconciliation for Providers
SyTrue, Inc., a healthcare data-refinement company, that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions used to translate unstructured medical data into useable clinical information, announced today, a partnership with HighFive, who provides community wide medication management solutions.
Partnership Details
Leveraging SyTrue’s NLP OS™ and Semantic terminology server, HighFive has normalized medication data from free text as well as disparate systems into usable interoperable data
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47% of UK Adults Prefer Telehealth Visits Over Face to Face Visits
Almost half (47%) of UK adults would be happy to see their doctor virtually via telehealth visits rather than face-to-face with a doctor, according to Aviva’s latest Health Check UK report. The report reveals a growing appetite for digital health technology (including wearable health monitors, health advice mobile apps and video consultations with doctors) among UK adults. Digital health has the potential to remove the need for some doctor appointments and alleviate pressure on stretched
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TeleHealth Services, UbiCare To Engage Patients Throughout Care Continuum
TeleHealth Services and UbiCare are teaming up to provide a unique, proven patient education and engagement solution for hospitals, healthcare systems, clinics and ambulatory centers. Through their proprietary technologies, the companies are able to fully engage patients throughout the care continuum with timely, episode-specific messages sent directly to their personal devices. Patients will receive evidence-based reliable health information from their trusted care provider pushed to them no
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NYU Langone Researchers Use ResearchKit App to Track Concussions
This week, Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center unveiled the NYU Langone Concussion Tracker app for iPhone and Apple Watch that can track concussions during the critical six week following their diagnosis. Created by clinicians and IT experts at NYU Langone, the app offers a new way to engage patients in studies that use digital tools to shape clinical care.
The NYU Langone Concussion Tracker app will be used to track patient-reported symptoms during the six-week recovery period.
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Chiron Health Nabs $2.3M to Get Physicians Fully Reimbursed for Telehealth Visits
Telemedicine software and reimbursement services provider Chiron Health has $2.3 million in seed funding to bring a robust set of telemedicine tools to physician practices. Chiron Health is the only platform designed to get physician practices fully reimbursed for secure video visits covering both Medicare and Medicaid as well as private payers. Through their extensive knowledge of telemedicine regulation and reimbursement, the company guides practices through the complexities of telemedicine.
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