Bayer HealthCare has launched its own digital health accelerator program in Berlin, Germany called "Grants4Apps," selecting five digital health startups from around the globe that will advance their business ideas and technology in areas such as hormone tests, patient adherence, breathing patterns, clinical trials and vitamin deficiency. The selected five digital health startups will receive financial support of up to 50,000 Euro and will work out of the company's pharmaceutical division in
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Archives for 2015
How Samsung Is Enhancing Mobile Access to Personal Diabetes Data
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business.
Almost 30 million children and adults in the United States suffer from diabetes costing the healthcare industry more than $245 billion annually, according to the American Diabetes Association. Managing diabetes effectively requires daily ongoing management to keep blood sugar levels under control. People with diabetes interact with their insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system throughout the day and are looking for
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Intel Leverages IoT, Big Data with Open-Source Cancer Cloud
This week at the Intel Devleoper Forum, Intel announced a collaboration with Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University called the Collaborative Cancer Cloud that uses analytics to advance cancer care via genomics analysis and targeted treatment plans. The precision medicine analytics platform allows institutions to securely share patient genomic, imaging and clinical data for potentially lifesaving discoveries. It will also enable large amounts of data from sites all
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Novant Health To Integrate Epic MyChart with FitBit & HealthKit
Starting this month, Novant Health patients will be able to share data from FitBit and Apple HealthKit with their doctor through Novant Health's patient portal, Epic MyChart. By integrating with Fitbit and Apple HealthKit, Novant Health's more than 430,000 MyChart patient portal users will be able to submit data from personal fitness devices, such as smart scales and wearable fitness trackers, directly to their doctors.
According to Epic, Novant Health leads the nation in patient engagement
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What Is The Future Impact of Population Health Management?
Editor's Note: Erdem Asma MSM, PMP is a healthcare executive with more than 15 years of healthcare technology implementations experience supporting business requirements for both HIS vendors and healthcare organizations globally.
“Awareness of a problem does not mean much, particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The term population health is how new medicine should be able to identify a population and predicting what
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IMS Health Launches Global Thought Leadership App
IMS Health has launched an IMS Health Insights app that delivers the company’s extensive thought leadership materials from 19 major countries directly to Apple and Android tablet devices. Addressing the growing demand for easily accessible, global insights on critical healthcare topics, the new app enables decision makers in life sciences and healthcare to instantly locate and download IMS Health research and white papers that are based on the company’s extensive global information assets,
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Navigating Cancer Raises $10M to Expand Patient Engagement Platform
Navigating Cancer, a web-based patient care and engagement solution for cancer programs has raised $10 million in funding led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund in syndicate with ORIX Healthcare Capital, including existing investor Rustic Canyon Partners. The capital will be utilized to expand its patient engagement platform and team.
Currently, Navigating Cancer partners with cancer programs nationwide and provides over a million cancer patients with a multi-faceted patient engagement
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Cerner, CoverMyMeds Integrate to Accelerate Electronic Prior Authorization Process
Cerner and CoverMyMeds are announcing this morning an agreement to integrate CoverMyMeds’ ePA within Cerner’s Millennium EHR. The advanced functionality will provide more than 350,000 e-prescribing end-users the ability to accelerate the prescription review process by removing manual processes and helping to reduce transaction costs. CoverMyMeds will provide Cerner physicians the capability to process requests electronically in seconds and receive notification of a patient’s authorization status
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Grand Rounds Nabs $55M for Connecting Patients to Expert Physicians
Grand Rounds, a care coordination startup that provides employees and their families expedited access to top physicians so they can achieve better health outcomes, has raised $55 million in Series C funding. The latest round includes global mutual fund investor, Greylock, Venrock, Harrison Metal and David Ebersman. The funding will be used to add additional staff, care team and accelerate its care coordination platform to improve hospitals’ contact with patients between visits.
Evidence-based
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Medsphere, Silver Hill Hospital Endorse Legislative Efforts to Improve Mental Health Care System
Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and flexible health IT platform solutions for mental health providers, and nationally recognized Silver Hill Hospital today voiced support for current efforts in Congress to overhaul America’s fractured mental health care system. Medsphere and Silver Hill see both the Mental Health Reform Act of 2015, recently introduced by Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and the companion Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act,
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