AbleTo, Inc., a provider of virtual behavioral healthcare proven to improve clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs has acquired Joyable, an app-based digital therapy innovator. The acquisition strengthens AbleTo's high-quality virtual behavioral healthcare with a digital platform that delivers clinically-based therapies supported by coaches to help individuals overcome depression, generalized anxiety, and social anxiety.Founded in 2014, Joyable offers users expert-designed digital
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FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to Step Down
Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has announced his resignation, effective in about a month. Dr. Gottlieb, a 46-year-old physician, former venture capitalist and drug consultant currently residing in Westport, Conn with his wife and three children stated he missed his family due to his weekly commute to Washington. D.C. Dr. Gottlieb had been subject to increasing pressure from some Republicans in Congress and others in the conservative moment for his strong stance against youth vaping
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MedStar Heart Disease Study Uses AI Nurse to Monitor Heart Failure Patients
ObEN Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) company creating Personal AI (PAI) technology to revolutionize digital interactions announce it is working with MedStar Health Research Institute for a study on the use of Personal AI (PAI) healthcare assistants for patients suffering from heart failure. For the study, ObEN has created a medical health assistant app, called PAI Care, to help monitor patients of heart failure.MedStar Health Heart Disease Study OverviewUnder the direction of the
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Solve.Care, Lyft Integrate for Blockchain-Enabled Medical Transportation
Solve.Care, Estonia-based healthcare IT startup that’s developed a blockchain platform for coordination, administration, and payments of healthcare, announced integration with ridesharing provider Lyft. The integration will give patients and providers more options and control over non-emergency medical transportation through their Care.Wallet app.Care.Wallet App Integration with LyftCare.Wallet users will be able to schedule their own Lyft rides to doctors’ offices, hospitals, and pharmacies,
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Bits In Glass Launches IoT-Driven Smart Home Health Platform
Bits In Glass (BIG), a software consulting firm serving clients across North America is announcing the launch of Manage My Care, a smart home health platform built on Appian. The platform acts as a central portal for health information and supports IoT device integration with off the shelf devices such as blood pressure cuffs. These integrations allow patients to take physiological readings from home and have the data automatically synced to the platform, giving care providers access to
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Mount Sinai Researchers Develop AI Platform to Detect Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mount Sinai researchers have developed an artificial intelligence platform to detect a range of neurodegenerative disease in human brain tissue samples, including Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in the Nature medical journal Laboratory Investigation. Their discovery will help scientists develop targeted biomarkers and therapeutics, resulting in a more accurate diagnosis of
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AHIMA, Artifact Health Team Up for Standardized Physician Query Templates
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is teaming up with Artifact Health to provide and maintain a comprehensive library of compliant physician query templates. The physician query templates will be utilized within Artifact’s HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform. Time Consuming Query Process for PhysiciansTypically, the query process is onerous and time-consuming for physicians. With Artifact Health’s mobile platform, physicians respond to a query compliantly in
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UVA Health Pilots New Telehealth Programs to Treat Diabetes, Heart Disease
The University of Virginia Health System announced it is expanding and piloting new telehealth initiatives to prevent or manage chronic diseases including diabetes, prediabetes, and heart disease. Delivered through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the virtual care initiatives are supported by a $750k grant from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Virginia Department of Health.Here is a list of the telehealth initiatives:· Remote blood sugar monitoring for type 2 diabetes
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Nutrimedy Named Winner of Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge
Boston-based Nutrimedy has been named the winner of the fourth annual Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge held by Boston Scientific at Google’s office in Cambridge, MA. The challenge invites innovators from around the world to submit concepts through an online platform where they can receive feedback throughout the fall and early winter until six finalists are selected for a live pitch-off event.This year’s theme, digital health solutions for chronic care, netted some of our most
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Livongo Taps Amazon Lex to Power Voice-Enabled Hypertension System
Livongo unveils new voice-enabled cellular blood pressure monitoring system powered by Amazon Lex and Amazon PollyApplied health signals company Livongo Health, today unveiled their new voice-enabled hypertension system powered by Amazon during their invitation-only conference SIGNUM 2019 in San Francisco, CA. As voice increasingly becomes one of the preferred ways people interact with technology, Livongo will leverage Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly to power its voice-enabled cellular blood
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