On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the agency’s first mobile health app called DrugShortages that allows users to quickly identify current drug shortages, resolved shortages, and discontinuations of drug products. The app was developed as part of the FDA’s efforts outlined in the Strategic Plan for Preventing and Mitigating Drug Shortages to improve access to information about drug shortages.
“The FDA understands that health care professionals and pharmacists
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Fitbit Expands Platform with Acquisition of FitStar
Fitbit Inc., has confirmed it has agreed to acquire FitStar, one of the largest platforms for delivering personalized video-based exercise experiences on mobile devices. The integration will allow users to track their daily activity with leading Fitbit devices and then get a personalized exercise program designed specifically for them with handcrafted workouts from fitness authorities, including football legend, Tony Gonzalez and yoga expert, Tara Stiles.
With this acquisition, Fitbit
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Stanford, GE Ventures Launch Evidation Health to Validate Digital Health Tools
Today, GE Ventures and Stanford Health Care has announced the launch of Evidation Health, an independent digital health company focused on validating real-world clinical and economic evidence for digital health products and platforms.
According to digital health seed fund Rock Health, more than $4B was invested in over 250 digital health companies in 2014 alone. As this new breed of digital health tools and technologies enter the market, these new products have not been validated to provide
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Has For-Profit Healthcare Destroyed The Soul of Medicine?
The changes in medical care over the last five decades have been dramatic. Technological and scientific advances have given patients access to a level of medical diagnosis and care previously undreamed of.
During this time, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided more people with the opportunity to take advantage of that care. Yet despite all that extraordinary progress towards value based healthcare something is missing, states J. Joseph Marr, MD, a retired academic
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PQA, AllazoHealth Form Research Partnership to Study Med Adherence
Pharmacy Quality Alliance and AllazoHealth have formed a formal research partnership to study and improve the medication adherence metrics used industry-wide. PQA is the non-profit industry organization that develops and maintains medication use performance measures including Proportion of Days Covered (PDC) medication adherence metrics used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Part D Drug Benefit, the Health Insurance Market Quality Rating System (QRS), URAC, and other
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Deloitte, Cognitive Scale Partner to Boost Patient Engagement
Cognitive Scale today announced an agreement with Deloitte Consulting to deliver services and technology that will enable both companies to take a leadership position in transforming the delivery of healthcare to consumers and care providers through the application of cognitive cloud technology.
Partnership Details
Deloitte plans to leverage Cognitive Scale’s technology in a number of strategic initiatives, including the shift of the US healthcare system from volume to value and the
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Mayo Clinic, Gentag Partner to Develop Wearable Biosensors for Obesity and Diabetes
Mayo Clinic and Gentag, Inc. has signed a joint intellectual property (IP) agreement to develop the next generation of wearable biosensors designed to fight obesity and diabetes. Together, both parties plan to create a wireless, disposable wearable patch sensor about the size of a small bandage that communicates via a closed-loop diabetes management platform integrated with your smart phone. The integrated system will allow researchers to monitor movement and develop treatments for
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Kinsa Launches “Groups” for Parents to Monitor the Health of Their Child’s School
Kinsa, the company behind the world’s first FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer, has announced the launch of Kinsa Groups designed to help parents monitor and track the overall health at their child's schools. The Groups feature is currently available for public schools across the United States for its iOS and Android apps.The launch of the Groups feature brings Kinsa another step closer to its mission: to create the "health weather," a real-time understanding of the local
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Infographic: How Does Google Plan to Transform Healthcare?
CoverMyMeds Launches First-Ever ePA National Adoption Scorecard
CoverMyMeds, working with a broad group of influential industry stakeholders, today released the Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA) National Adoption Scorecard. The ePA National Adoption Scorecard is the first of its kind and highlights the current state of the ePA industry, including ePA adoption rates and implementation statuses of the industry’s largest participants.
Scorecard Overview
CoverMyMeds’ ePA National Adoption Scorecard highlights the current state of the ePA industry,
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