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Creative England Launches £1million Digital Health Fund in UK

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Creative England has announced a new £1million fund to stimulate creative and digital health innovation in UK healthcare for regional based SMEs. The first of four programmes to open as part of this fund is the West Midlands Interactive Healthcare Fund, in partnership with Nominet Trust and the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. The fund aims to encourage small creative and digital businesses in the North, Midlands and South West regions to develop innovative concepts or prototypes using
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Number of eVisits Expected to Top 100 Million Globally in 2014

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The number of eVisits is expected to reach 100 million globally potentially saving over $5 billion when compared to the cost of in-person doctor visits, according to a recent report from Deloitte. The report findings show that as eVisits are proven and adopted globally, they are increasingly likely to offer affordable primary medical and diagnostic care to large populations that do not have access today. eVisits are defined in the report as a subset of the telehealth market, which is estimated
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40% of Patients Are Unaware of Patient Portal Options

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40 percent of patients are unaware of their patient portal options provided by their primary care physician, according to recent study by TechnologyAdvice. In an effort to learn more about how patients wish to communicate with their doctors, Technology Advice surveyed a random sample of 430 patients who had seen their primary care physician within the last year.
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Validic Raises $5M to Accelerate Health Data Interoperability

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With the emergence of patient devices, wearables and healthcare apps, insightful healthcare data is now overflowing in abundance. However, the ability to extract and deliver that data more readily to healthcare organizations is still a real challenge— until now. Validic, a pioneer in accessing digital and mobile health data announced it has closed $5 million in Series A funding co-led by Greycroft Partners and SJF Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate its leading healthcare technology
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Plastic Surgeon Uses Google Glass To Help Perform Facial Reconstructive Surgeries

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  Kansas City plastic surgeon uses Google Glass to avoid looking at monitors in OR Dr. Jeff Colyer, a plastic surgeon and Kansas Lt. Governor is now using Google Glass to perform facial reconstructive surgeries at a North Kansas City Hospital, Fox 4 of Kansas City reports. By uploading the patient's x-rays to Google Glass, the surgeon avoids looking at the monitor in the operating room. 
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American Heart Association Launches Chicago Open Innovation Challenge

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Today, the American Heart Association has launched the Chicago Open Innovation Challenge, a crowdfunding competition to uncover new innovative digital health tools to prevent or manage heart disease and stroke. The top three finalists will receive grants from the American Heart Association totaling $25,000 and a chance to present at the Heart Innovation Forum in Chicago on November 14, 2014. Each award winner will be featured on healthcare crowdfunding platform MedStartr.
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Smart Toothbrush Startup Beam Technologies Raises $5M in Series A Funding

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Beam Technologies -- a Louisville, KY based data-driven oral digital health startup and creator of the first connected smart toothbrush -- announced today that it has received $5 million in Series A financing from Drive Capital. The funding will be used to accelerate product development and expand the team including moving its headquarters to Columbus, Ohio. The company plans to still maintain their current office in Louisville, KY. 
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