Penn Medicine, today announced it is extending the use of mobile devices as a health tool to improve the patient experience and patient care by launching the Penn Life Gained app specifically for bariatric surgery patients at Penn Medicine, as part of the institution’s focus on mobile health and innovative research strategies. Developed by clinicians in the Bariatric Surgery Program and Penn’s Corporate Information Services team, in partnership with Medable, the app is built using the Apple
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Biotech Startup Akouos Lands $7.5M To Restore & Preserve Hearing
Akouos, a Boston, MA-based new biotechnology startup focused on restoring and preserving hearing has raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by 5AM Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from Partners Innovation Fund. Spun out of Harvard Innovation Labs in 2017, Akouos is developing novel therapies and delivery systems to prevent hearing loss and restore hearing in genetically defined patient populations.In addition to the seed round of funding, Akouos has entered into
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Health Engagement Startup Revel Lands $17M to Expand Into New Target Markets
Revel, a data-driven health company formerly known as Healthtel has raised $17 million in growth equity from TT Capital Partners ("TTCP") to accelerate Revel's expansion into new target markets and advance the innovation and technology development of its health engagement platform. Revel health engagement platform, Revel Connect engages health insurance members in their own healthcare, enabling the healthcare system to support the individual, deliver better health outcomes and reduce unnecessary
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Tahoe Hospital Goes Live on Epic EHR for Single Unified Patient Record
Tahoe Forest Health System (TFHS), working in partnership with Mercy Technology Services, has announced the go-live of its new Epic EHR system. The new Epic EHR system provides a new single unified patient record for the district hospital serving two rural counties across 3,500 square miles in California and Nevada. Mercy Technology Services (MTS), the IT pillar of Mercy provides and manages technology solutions for Mercy, the nation’s first health care provider accredited by Epic to offer a
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GE Launches Startup Drawbridge Health To Transform Blood Collection
GE Ventures has announced the launch of Drawbridge Health, a personal diagnostic testing startup developing proprietary technology designed to integrate blood draw, collection and sample stabilization into a single device. The Drawbridge solution is being designed to offer a way for healthcare providers and diagnostic testing companies to better engage their patient-consumers and help enable them to manage their own health — driving a shift from reacting to tracking.Healthcare providers using
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FDA Clears AliveCor’s KardiaBand for Apple Watch, Records Medical-Grade EKG in 30 Seconds
AliveCor, a FDA-cleared personal electrocardiogram (EKG) technology, today announced FDA clearance of KardiaBand in the U.S., allowing Apple Watch users to discreetly capture their EKG anytime, anywhere in order to quickly detect normal sinus heart rhythms and atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common heart arrhythmia. The announcement marks first FDA-cleared medical device accessory for the Apple Watch, KardiaBand can record an EKG in 30 seconds with just a touch of its integrated sensor.
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Empiric Health Raises $3M to Expand Evidence-based Care Delivery Platform
Empiric Health, a health IT startup that activates evidence-based healthcare delivery to improve both clinical outcomes and operational efficiency has raised $3M in seed funding from Intermountain Helathcare. The company plans to use the seed funding to to commercialize and expand the company's service offering and workflow optimization tools, which will help health systems uncover and address variations in procedures and improve outcomes.Formed by Intermountain Healthcare and Oxeon earlier this
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Optum Launches $250M Innovation Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Digital Health Startups
UnitedHealth Group’s healtcare service business has announced the launch of Optum Ventures,a $250 million healthcare innovation fund dedicated to investing in early-stage digital health starutps. Funded by Optum, Optum Ventures will focus in investing in digital health startups that use data and insights to help improve consumers’ access to health care services and how care is delivered and paid for, and that make the health care system more reliable and easier to navigate.By leveraging Optum’s
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TigerText Launches Clinical Communication Platform, TigerFlow Enterprise
TigerText has launched TigerFlow Enterprise, a new clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) platform that allows allow care organizations to solve for specific outcomes centered around resource optimization, faster transitions of care, fewer medical errors, and higher patient and provider satisfaction.The capabilities in TigerFlow Enterprise allow care organizations to solve for specific outcomes centered around resource optimization, faster transitions of care, fewer medical errors,
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NTT DATA, MD.ai Partner to Accelerate Adoption of AI for Medical Imaging
NTT DATA Services today announced a partnership with MD.ai, an emerging company in imaging research and artificial intelligence (AI) delivery for the clinical imaging space. Through this partnership, NTT DATA clients now have the ability to dive deeper into their imaging data with algorithms and automation tools that will improve workflow and provide better patient care.MD.ai brings a unique combination of semi-automated tools for imaging research, collaborative data annotation software, as well
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