Sharecare, the digital health company helping people manage all their health in one place, today announced the launch of YOU, its proprietary software platform that gives healthcare providers, educators, students and patients unprecedented visual context to discuss and accurately simulate healthy organ and system function, as well as disease, and therapy. Available starting today on Viveport, the HTC VIVE™’s global VR app store, Sharecare founders Jeff Arnold and Mehmet Oz, MD announced the
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Samsung, TigerText Partner to Offer Mobile Clinical Collaboration Solution for Care Teams
Samsung and TigerText today announced a new strategic partnership and joint offering to improve communication and coordination efforts among care teams, offering CNOs and CNIOs a top of the line, enterprise-grade smartphone that meets the consumer-expectations of staff. Improvements in efficiency allows clinicians to streamline continuity of care and spend more time caring for patients and less time tracking down colleagues or completing redundant administrative tasks. The new all-in-one
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Imprivata Integrates With Just Associates to Eliminate Duplicate Medical Records
Health IT security company Imprivata is integrating with health information management company Just Associate to help healthcare organization eliminate duplicate medical records. The integration will improve patient identification and enhance data integrity for healthcare organizations. The Imprivata and Just Associates solutions are now available to all Imprivata PatientSecure clients. By retroactively cleaning up patient data and proactively eliminating the creation of duplicate and overlaid
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Qualcomm Unveils New Line of Medical-Grade Biometric Patches
Qualcomm Life has unveiled new product line of cost-effective medical-grade biometric patches that enables continuous monitoring of patients across the care continuum. The cost-effective patches can support a multitude of intelligent care models, from perioperative care to assessing the impact of therapeutic interventions. The innovative, cost-effective patches were developed on Qualcomm Life’s 2net™ Design platform, a reference design platform for electronics modules which power connected
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Backed by Premera Blue Cross, Cardinal Analytx Raises $6.1M for Predictive Analytics Platform
Cardinal Analytx, a Palo Alto, CA-based digital health startup using machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve care and reduce healthcare costs for patients has raised $6.1 million in Series A funding. Spun out of Stanford University, Cardinal Analtyx Solutions was founded by Stanford professors Drs. Arnie Milstein and Nigam Shah, who created the company with lead investor Cardinal Partners. Other investors include the Stanford-StartX Fund and Premera Blue Cross, which also
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Caresyntax Lands $11.9M for EHR-Integrated Surgical Analytics Platform
Caresyntax Inc., a Boston, MA-based surgical analytics and integration services company has raised $11.9 million in funding led by Norgine Ventures. The company plans to utilize the funding to establish its first full-time U.S. operations and headquarters in downtown Boston in October with plans to add more than 10 employees by the end of 2017.Partnering with GE, Medtronic and Siemens in the U.S., caresyntax is a sister company of Berlin-based S-CAPE GmbH, a global operating room integration
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Health2047 Partners With Celgene to Enhance Data Liquidity in Healthcare
Health2047, a Silicon Valley-based healthcare innovation enterprise has announced a partnership with Celgene Corporation to develop a new data transfer protocol for healthcare that will be secure, trusted and connected. Given Celgene's deep history and expertise in developing and commercializing life-changing medicines for cancers and inflammatory diseases, Health2047 is excited about collaborating with Celgene as it builds a new data transfer protocol tuned for healthcare.Working together,
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DispatchHealth Raises $30.8M for On-Demand Urgent Care App
DispatchHealth (formerly known as True North Health Navigation), a Denver, CO-based provider of on-demand urgent care has raised $30.8M in funding co-led by Alta Partners and Questa Capital with the participation of strategic partner US Acute Care Solutions and existing investors. The company plans to use the funding to accelerate its mobile app-enabled on-demand healthcare delivery platform.Founded in 2013 by two mobile health executives, DispatchHealth’s team of board-certified caregivers
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Generali Global Assistance Acquires Senior Caregiver Marketplace App CareLinx
Generali Global Assistance announced it has acquired CareLinx, a Silicon Valley-based nationwide, tech-enabled caregiver marketplace improving access to affordable, quality home care for families, large health systems, and insurance companies. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The company has raised a total of $5 million in funding to date. Founded in 2011, CareLinx professional caregivers leverage proprietary digital care plans to better assist the elderly, individuals
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Philips Unveils New OB/GYN Ultrasound Innovations Featuring Anatomical Intelligence
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, this week announced new OB/GYN innovations, aBiometry AssistA.I, TouchVue and Tilt, as well as the eL18-4 transducer available on Philips EPIQ 7 and 5 and Affiniti 70 ultrasound systems. Philips' OB/GYN ultrasound solutions are designed to give clinicians more information earlier in pregnancy, making it easier to provide a confident diagnosis and overcome diagnostic challenges.The new OB/GYN solutions feature innovations such as anatomical
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