Attending physician Dr. Marina Reznik at Montefiore has received a new $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study kids’ asthma care management in primary care with the use of their EHR.The five-year research study aims to increase adherence to national asthma management guidelines and improve clinical outcomes for children with the chronic illness. The project will also assess whether a practical system change might help children and caregivers in urban areas adhere
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ImpediMed, Mayo Clinic Partner to Explore Body Fluid Status Monitoring Tech
ImpediMed Ltd, a Australia-based medical device startup has signed a three-year joint development agreement with Mayo Clinic to explore uses for body fluid status monitoring technology. ImpediMed employs bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) technologies for use in the non-invasive clinical assessment and monitoring of fluid status in patients. ImpediMed has the first medical device with FDA clearance in the U.S. to aid healthcare professionals to clinically assess secondary unilateral lymphedema of
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Medisafe App Launches Medisafe for Pharma to Address Non-adherence
Medisafe, a personalized medication management platform with nearly three million patient and caregiver users has launched Medisafe for Pharma. Medisafe's latest pharma offering will address all three major challenges attributed to non-adherence – patient quality of care (e.g. higher emergency and mortality rates), healthcare system costs (e.g. higher hospitalization rates) and lost revenues (e.g. fewer prescription refills). Pharma and pharmacies share the burden of lost revenues, estimated
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Sansoro Health Lands $1.5M for EMR Integration Solution
Sansoro Health, an EMR integration company has raised $1.2M in seed funding led by San Francisco-based investor Healthy Ventures, with additional funds coming from TreeHouse Health and angel investors. The company will use the investment to enhance its open API software, expand its team, and further develop its marketing and sales capabilities.Among U.S. hospital system chief information officers, 62% identify interoperability as their most important priority. Founded in 2014, Sansoro’s Emissary
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Brain Performance Monitoring Startup RC21X Joins StartUp Health Community
RC21X, a brain performance monitoring startup has been selected to join StartUp Health and its exclusive Academy for digital health entrepreneurs. StartUp Health’s global platform is focused on coaching and supporting the rapidly growing ecosystem of Finnish entrepreneurs. RC21X is a web-based, brain monitoring tool that allows users to track their neurocognitive and neuromotor performance in about 12 minutes. RC21XTM examines major components of human brain functioning. Sessions consist of a
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Why BYOD Is The Future of Clinical Trials — But Questions Remain
One of the biggest challenges for researchers conducting clinical trials is the collection of patient data. While patient-reported outcomes are a key part of the process, there are some drawbacks to the traditional method of using paper surveys. To help overcome challenges such as “parking lot syndrome,” in which patients complete their surveys from memory just before their doctor visits and the tendency to add extraneous information in the margins, many researchers are touting the benefits of
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Launchpad Digital Health Accelerator Adds 6 New Startups to Portfolio
Launchpad Digital Health, a focused next generation accelerator has added six new startups to its 12-month accelerator program. Among the companies that closed the new seed capital financings are: Hint Health, Lab Sensor Solutions, Moving Analytics, SoberGrid and Wellbrain. These new rounds include co-investment from terrific investors including: Stanford University, Draper Associates, HealthX Ventures, Three Leaf Ventures, Stanford StartX, Healthfundr and Aspect Ventures.Each company accepted
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Swedish Digital Health Startup Lifesum Nabs $10M from Nokia
Swedish digital health startup Lifesum has raised $10 million in funding led by global venture capital firm Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), with participation from Draper Esprit, Bauer Media Group and SparkLabs Global Ventures. The Stockholm-based company will utilize the funding to increase its talent base across multiple areas including engineering, product, design and marketing as it expands in Europe and the United States. Founded in 2008 by Henrik Torstensson, CEO, and Marcus Gners, COO,
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BYOD: Delivering On The Promise of Connected Health
With the proliferation of personal technologies, the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) concept is helping to lead the way toward a more integrated model of care delivery that puts the patient at the center and focuses on improved access and better outcomes. For HCPs and patients alike, we’re seeing BYOD on the rise as a “digitally native” generation comes of age and advanced connectivity becomes the norm. The infographic shown below created by Philips illustrates the rise of BYOD, the benefits of
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Loopback Analytics Unveils Geographic Dashboard to Help Hospitals Understand Post-Acute Care Providers
Loopback Analytics, a health care data integration and analytics company has unveiled its new Loopback Geographic Analysis Dashboard, an interactive analytics tool that allows hospitals to visually assess the quality of post-acute providers in their geographic region.The dashboard features simple ranking criteria, color-coded quality indicators and an interactive map allowing hospitals to see which skilled nursing and home health care providers in their local/regional networks and beyond deliver
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