Leidos, a health, national security and engineering solutions company is teaming up with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch OnPAR (Online Partnership to Accelerate Research) that will provide new funding opportunities for scientific projects. The Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR) was conceived to re-accelerate the biomedical research and development enterprise by seeking a larger return on NIH's peer review investment on research proposals evaluated
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Bivarus Nabs $2M for Patient-Centered Analytics Platform
Bivarus, a patient-centered analytics company working with healthcare organizations to measure and analyze the patient experience, announced it has raised $2 million in funding co-led by Hatteras Venture Partners and Excelerate Health Ventures. The oversubscribed round also included participation from NueCura Partners of Nashville, Tenn. and Boston Millennia Partners of Boston, Mass.
The Raleigh-Durham-based startup was born of their academic research around the patient experience, which
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Telehealth Startup CirrusMD Nabs $1M for “Closed Loop” Virtual Care
Denver, CO-based telehealth startup CirrusMD has raised $1.05 million in funding led by New York Angels, Rockies Venture Club, Sand Hill Angels and Three Leaf Ventures, BusinessDen first reports. The funding will be utilize to expand their development and sales team.
Founded in 2012, CirrusMD’s HIPAA-compliant platform allows value-based healthcare organizations to offer secure text messaging, image sharing and telehealth video visits with patients via mobile devices and web browsers. The
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Boston Scientific, Mayo Clinic Partner to Accelerate Medical Devices
Boston Scientific Corporation and Mayo Clinic are teaming up to share intellectual property to stimulate the rapid development of medical devices that addresses unmet clinical needs. The collaboration enables both parties to contribute ideas and intellectual property to solve pressing medical problems and builds upon the strengths of both parties.
As part of the collaboration, small and nimble teams of Boston Scientific engineers and Mayo Clinic physicians will work together to develop new
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UCSF Researchers Connect Prediabetes App Data from Yes Health to Aid Type 2 Diabetes Prevention
Diabetes Center at UCSF and Yes Health, an all-mobile program to prevent type 2 diabetes are teaming up on a precision medicine initiative to aid development of personalized type 2 diabetes prevention and treatment strategies. As part of the initiative, Yes Health will develop opt-in tools that provide its users the opportunity to share real-time behavioral data, such as diet, exercise, and sleep patterns for UCSF researchers
According to the American Diabetes Association, 86 million
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Constant Therapy Raises $2M for Customized Brain Rehab Apps
Constant Therapy, a Boston-based innovator of science-based, customized brain rehabilitation apps announced it has raised $2 million in Series A funding led by Golden Seeds. The round included participation from Kapor Capital, Launchpad Venture Group, Pond Capital and Community Health Network of Connecticut. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate the scientific research, data, marketing and development behind its product.
Constant Therapy provides victims of brain trauma —
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GE Centricity Named Official EMR Provider for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has selected the GE Centricity Practice Solution as the official EMR to be used by the medical teams of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The news marks the first time that all athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games will have their health interactions managed by an EMR.
Centricity PracticeEMR Solution will be used for managing data related to injuries and illness for athletes competing in the games as well as spectators, officials, athlete family
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Digital Health Startup Oncora Medical Raises $1.2M for Radiation Oncology Platform
Oncora Medical, a Philadelphia-based digital health startup developing software to transform the way physicians treat cancer with radiation has raised $1.2M in seed financing from San Francisco-based iSeed Ventures, Philadelphia-based BioAdvance, and well-known medical physicist and entrepreneur, Dr. Thomas “Rock” Mackie.
Proceeds from the financing will be used to build out their engineering team in Oncora’s Philadelphia headquarters and accelerate early product installations with leading
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Organizations Collaborate to Forge Healthcare Internet of Things
AllSeen Alliance, a cross-industry collaboration to advance the healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) through the AllJoyn® open source software is partnering with Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA), a membership association formed by Continua, mHealth Summit and HIMSS to transform healthcare through personalized, interoperable connected health solutions.
PCHA publishes the Continua Design Guidelines, an open implementation framework for interoperability of personal connected health
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Sage Bionetworks Releases ResearchKit Data from 9,500 Parkinson’s Patients for Researchers Worldwide
Last year’s release of Apple ResearchKit sent shock waves throughout the medical research community as a number of new smartphone apps launched to help doctors and scientists quickly gather data for their studies. SageBionetworks, the nonprofit research group that developed mPower (one of the first ResearchKit apps), today released data from more than 9,500 of its app users, making it available to researchers worldwide to accelerate understanding of Parkinson’s Disease. The dataset released
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