Enspektos, LLC, a healthcare innovation consultancy, today released a first-of-its-kind research about how patients with addiction use digital health tools, where voice-enabled technologies are currently being deployed in health and more.Four Q2 2018 digital health trends & themes revealed in the report are:1. Patients with addiction feel positive about the role digital technologies can play in their treatment. Many, including those with opioid and alcohol addiction, prefer to use social
Read More
Biotech Startup uBiome Raises $83M to Expand World’s Largest Human Microbiome Database
uBiome, a microbial genetics company leveraging artificial intelligence to develop wellness products, clinical tests, and therapeutics based on the microbiome, today announced it has raised $83 million in Series C funding. The round was led by OS Fund, with participation from 8VC, Y Combinator, Dentsu Ventures, and additional new and existing investors. Now, uBiome is mining its database (the world's largest human microbiome database) to discover new therapeutic targets, with an initial focus on
Read More
Cedar Unveils Next Evolution of Patient Payment Platform to Optimize Revenue Cycle
Cedar, a patient payment and engagement platform, announced the next evolution of its flagship solution, Cedar Pay. The enhancements now allow providers to offer a truly unified patient billing experience and simple checkout options.Healthcare executives still struggle to help patients understand and pay healthcare bills, with 50 percent of provider executives reporting the need to improve the patient billing and payment experience, according to a recent Cedar study. The next evolution of
Read More
Teladoc Launches New Virtual Care Offering, Teladoc Global Care Services
Virtual care provider Teladoc Health, today announced the launch of Teladoc Global Care, a virtual care offering designed to meet the needs of globally mobile individuals in need of general medical care. The goal of Teladoc Global Care services will enable multinational organizations to provide expats and travelers with a single solution for convenient and easy-to-navigate access to quality care, regardless of geographic location. Teladoc Global Care is now commercially available for large
Read More
Spectrum Health & Human Services to Implement Cerner’s Community Behavioral Health Cloud
Spectrum Health & Human Services, a Western New York-based provider of behavioral health services has selected Cerner to implement the Cerner Integrated – Community Behavioral Health deployment model designed to meet the unique needs of organizations that treat psychological disorders.The implementation will help support Spectrum’s work to improve the mental well-being of the people it serves throughout its health and human services agency in Western New York. Spectrum will receive a
Read More
Zynx Health Launches ZynxPeds Order Sets and Care Plans for Pediatric Patients
Zynx Health, a provider of evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, announced the launch of ZynxPeds, a suite of pediatric-specific and pediatric-appropriate order set and care plan content developed to address the unique care requirements of pediatric patients. ZynxPeds was developed in partnership with the acclaimed Akron Children’s Hospital, one of the country’s top-ranked children’s hospitals.ZynxPeds OverviewClinicians from Akron Children’s initially developed the
Read More
Fitbit Launches New Connected Health Platform for Employers, Health Plans and Health Systems
Global wearables provider Fitbit, today launched Fitbit Care, a connected health platform for employers, health plans and health systems that combines health coaching and virtual care through the new Fitbit Plus™ app, Fitbit’s innovative wearable devices, and self-tracking and personalized digital interventions to help improve wellness, disease management, and prevention.With the introduction of Fitbit Care, Fitbit is delivering on its commitments to expand the company’s healthcare offerings and
Read More
Dignity Health, OODA Health Partner to Offer Real-Time Consumer Payment Model
Dignity Health today announced that it will streamline payments between payors and providers to improve the patient experience through a strategic technology partnership with OODA Health. The OODA Health digital platform will help address historic and technological barriers between payors and providers by enabling real-time claims payments. The instantaneous nature of this technology will alleviate the administrative back and forth that ties up physicians’ time and causes patients undue worries
Read More
Inova Personalized Health Accelerator Invests in Cyrano Therapeutic
Inova Personalized Health Accelerator (IPHA), announced it has invested in a new therapy company Cyrano Therapeutics that is developing a solution to address a major unmet need in patients with olfactory impairment. Sense of smell can often be taken for granted until it is lost. This occurs most commonly by sino-nasal disease and upper respiratory infection, and in many cases, by head trauma.Cyrano Therapeutics understands the profound impact these senses can have on the quality of life and is
Read More
Meditech Launches New App Development Environment with API, FHIR Support
EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced the launch of their new app development, MEDITECH Greenfield. Greenfield lays the groundwork for visionaries and innovators to create a better future for providers, patients, and consumers, with technology that connects communities and enables better care.MEDITECH Greenfield OverviewSupported by RESTful APIs, including FHIR, Greenfield is an open space for MEDITECH customers and third-party developers to cultivate homegrown applications. MEDITECH's API
Read More
