NHS England recently published clinical guidance for flash glucose monitors that outlines funding arrangements for patients with type 1 diabetes and the qualifying criteria to support local health groups. According to NHS England, an estimated 260,000 in England suffer from type 1 diabetes.Starting in April, the NHS will provide the technology for one in five of those with type 1 diabetes in England. Those who qualify include:- People with type 1 diabetes who need intensive monitoring (more than
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Hill-Rom Acquires Mobile Communication Platform Voalte for $180M
Mobile technology company Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., today announced it has acquired Voalte, a Sarasota, FL-based real-time, mobile healthcare communications for $180 million in cash and up to an additional $15 million in payments related to the achievement of certain commercial milestones. For the Hill-Rom, the acquisition will accelerate its capabilities in clinical communication. Founded in 2008, Voalte develops smartphone solutions that simplify caregiver communication. Ranked number-one and
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Rally Health Launches Next-Gen Consumer Digital Health Platform
The next-generation Rally consumer digital health platform offers a one-stop-shop for employee wellness benefits programs offered by an employer. Rally Health, Inc., today announced its next-generation consumer digital health platform that enables users to access and manage in a single, comprehensive experience their employee benefits, well-being programs. With more than 22 million registered users, Rally is the industry’s leading consumer digital health platform, offered by more than 200,000
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Israeli-based OurCrowd Launches $50M Medtech Fund
OurCrowd, an Israeli-based global investment platform has announced the launch of the $50 million OurCrowd Medtech Fund. The $50M fund will focus exclusively on investing in disruptive medical technologies and therapeutics with the potential to transform global healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. The announcement marks OurCrowd's first fund dedicated to the medical technology market. OurCrowd vets and selects companies invests its own capital and invites its accredited membership of
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Northwestern Medicine and Eko Launches AI Algorithms Heart Murmurs Study
Northwestern Medicine and Eko launches a new clinical study to validate algorithms that help providers more accurately screen for valvular heart disease with a digital stethoscopeToday Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and Eko have announced a partnership pioneering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for cardiac screening in a new study of Eko’s cardiac monitoring platform. The study aims to demonstrate that Eko’s digital stethoscopes and AI algorithms can interpret heart
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Fitbit Partners with Solera Health to Address Type 2 Diabetes
Fitbit, today announced its expanded partnership with Solera Health, an integrated benefit network to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by encouraging positive behavior changes, such as increased physical activity and weight loss.Type 2 diabetes affects more than 30 million American adults and costs the U.S. approximately $327 billion annually in direct medical expenses and lost productivity. Yet, the onset of disease can be delayed – or even prevented – among the 84 million U.S. adults at high
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Allina Health and PatientWisdom Partner to Improve Patient Engagement
Today, Allina Health announced a new partnership with PatientWisdom, Inc. to improve patient engagement through the use of the digital platform, PatientWisdom. The platform is integrated with electronic health record (EHR) systems and patient portals and allows patients to share personal/health details before their clinical encounter. PatientWisdom then distills the information into an at-a-glance inSIGHT summary which is sent to care teams before the visit to understand what matters to their
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Accenture Acquires Ireland-based Life Sciences Firm ESP
Accenture, today announced it is acquiring Enterprise System Partners (ESP), an Ireland-based consulting and manufacturing services provider for the life sciences industry. As part of the acquisition, ESP will join Accenture Industry X.0, which helps clients master the digital reinvention of industry, strengthening Accenture’s capabilities to transform manufacturing for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients globally.The combination of ESP’s digitally-enabled manufacturing services
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Microsoft Develops New Chatbot to Match Patients to Clinical Trials Easier
Microsoft has developed a clinical trials chatbot designed to optimize matching patients with appropriate clinical trials, Bloomberg first reports. By using AI-driven machine reading technology to ingest the selection criteria for each clinical trial, the chatbot uses this data to determine which questions to ask patients and matches their answers to suitable clinical trials. The chatbot initially started as a hackathon project at Microsoft’s Corp’s lab in Israel and is part of a larger
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CarynHealth Taps HSBlox’s Blockchain Solution to Power Small Employer Healthcare Marketplace
CarynHealth, the small business association health plan brand of Association Health Plans of America, LLC (“AHPA”), today announced that it has selected HSBSuite from HSBlox to power its “association in the box”, the next-generation approach to the small employer healthcare marketplace. AHPA was formed to meet the breakthrough opportunity provided by the Association Health Plan regulation recently put forth by the U.S. Department of Labor allowing small businesses to group together for health
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