What You Should Know:
Marks 8th FDA clearance for BlueStar, the only
reimbursable software as a medical device for diabetes that integrates with all
of a patient's existing devices.
Welldoc, revolutionizing digital health with the first FDA-cleared Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) for diabetes, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an additional feature for the digital health product BlueStar Rx which supports individuals using long-acting
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Fitbit Unveils FDA-Approved Low-Cost Emergency Ventilator to Address COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Today, Fitbit announced that it has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA for a new emergency ventilator named Fitbit Flow to help respond to the COVID-19 global health crisis.
- Fitbit plans to make the design available via open-source software to promote further collaboration and reach more people across the globe.
- Fitbit’s R&D, engineering and design teams worked quickly to apply their collective expertise in advanced sensor
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Maven Acquires Bright Parenting App to Close Gaps in Care
What You Should Know:- Women’s and family health-focused digital health company Maven acquires Bright Parenting, the leading app that helps parents of children ages 2-10 learn and use proven behavioral health techniques and skills that contribute to strong parent-child relationships.- Maven is moving beyond the typical scope of telemedicine with this integration of personalized care, content and community within its virtual clinic. Through this expansion, Maven will close the gaps in care
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Adobe, Change Healthcare and Microsoft Launch Consumer Healthcare Platform
What You Should Know:
- Collaboration with Adobe and Microsoft creates a unique, scalable, and more secure consumer solution to address rising demand for more transparent and streamlined healthcare experience.
- The Connected Consumer Health™ suite is delivered in a software-as-a-service model, with speedy deployment, no hardware to procure, and minimal IT resources required for customers to access and use the platform.
Today Change Healthcare unveiled the
Connected Consumer Health
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Telehealth Claim Lines Increase 4,347% Nationally from March 2019 to March 2020
What You Should Know:
- Telehealth claim lines increased 4,347 percent
nationally from 0.17 percent of medical claim lines in March 2019 to 7.52
percent in March 2020, according to new data from FAIR Health's Monthly
Telehealth Regional Tracker.
- The data represent the privately insured population,
excluding Medicare and Medicaid. In an indication that the growth was related
to the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase was even greater in the Northeast, where
the pandemic hit
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Intravacc, EpiVax Team Up in Development of COVID-19 Emerging Vaccine
What You Should Know:
- Combines Intravacc's unique OMV delivery platform with
synthetically produced COVID-19 epitopes from EpiVax' immunoinformatics toolbox
- Goal is to generate safe and effective adaptive
immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and related coronaviruses
- Clinical studies anticipated to start in Q4 2020
Intravacc, one
of the world's leading translational research and development vaccine
institutes, with an extensive track record in developing viral and
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Upstate NY County Deploys COVID-19 Remote Monitoring & Support for Over 1K Patients
What You Should Know:
With New York suffering the brunt of the ongoing
pandemic, the Datos COVID-19 solution is providing remote care for
patients suspected of having or diagnosed with coronavirus, by monitoring their
recovery progression while under home quarantine.
The solution simultaneously helps prevent the spread of disease while ensuring that emergency rooms do not become overwhelmed, by improving communication with and remote care for home hospitalized patients through
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Oncologists Believe Social Determinants of Health Impacts Outcomes for Cancer Patients
What You Should Know:
- Oncologists state social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly impact outcomes for cancer patients, according to new research from Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions.
- The findings illustrate certain disconnects between physician perceptions and the increasing body of evidence on the significance of SDOH.
- Appropriately, 91 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that SDOH directly impact cancer treatment outcomes.
More than 90% of
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Benchling Raises $50M to Scale Life Sciences R&D Platform & Fuel Biotech Innovations
What You Should Know:
- Today, life sciences R&D cloud platform Benchling announced a $50M Series D raise led by Alkeon and joined by new investors Spark Capital, Lux Capital and ICONIQ Partners, as well as existing investors Thrive Capital and Benchmark.
- This funding will help Benchling expand its product suite, providing vital collaboration tools for life science researchers to help embrace the complexity of biology and find breakthroughs faster.
Benchling, the leading
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Care Automation Platform Bright.md Closes $16.7M Series C Round
What You Should Know:
Bright.md closes oversubscribed $16.7 million Series C
funding, co-led by B Capital, Seven Peaks Ventures and Concord Health Partners bringing
in strategic investors including Philips Health Technology Ventures, UnityPoint
Health Ventures and Concord Health Partners.
Bright.md will use the funds to accelerate market and
technology expansion of its suite of care-automation solutions, including
SmartExam.
Bright.md,
the leading healthcare automation company,
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