Launchpad Digital Health, a focused next generation accelerator has added eight new startups to its 12-month accelerator program. These companies have now begun its twelve-month in-house immersion program.In addition, Launchpad Digital Health closed more follow-on investments in Stop Breathe & Think, Tueo Health and Amicomed.After first three years, 85% of the Launchpad Digital Health companies are successfully completing substantial follow-on venture rounds, corporate strategic investments
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PatientKeeper Launches Automated Charge-Note Reconciliation Platform
PatientKeeper, a provider of healthcare apps for physicians just launched Charge-Note Reconciliation to help healthcare organizations ensure that all physician services are accurately charged and documented. PatientKeeper’s new charge-note reconciliation tool is available immediately in the latest release of PatientKeeper Charge Capture.This automated tool allows organizations to extract clinical notes from a variety of systems, link note authors to users to identify which provider saw which
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Rock Health Report: Digital Health Funding Tops $4.7B YTD in Q3 2017
Digital health funding has reached $1.2B in Q3 2017, bringing the YTD total to $4.7B—surpassing the prior historic annual high of $4.6B in 2015, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. The report, Q3 2017 Digital Health Funding Update reveals that there have been 268 digital health funding deals across 261 companies. Comparatively, 240 digital health venture deals had closed by the end of Q3 in 2016.Other key findings/insights from the latest Rock
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WebPT Acquires Rehab Therapy Patient Relationship Platform Strive Labs
WebPT, a rehab therapy software platform has acquired StriveHub, a Boston, MA-based patient relationship management (PRM) platform specifically designed for rehab therapy providers. For WebPT, the acquisition of StriveHub will enable PTs to deepen relationships with patients and improve their practices' bottom line Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Developed by two physical therapists, StriveHub enables providers to develop automated email campaigns, collect and act upon
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4 Key Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation Growth Areas to Watch In Next 12 to 18 Months
The strategic importance of the healthcare supply chain means that supply chain leaders and teams are increasingly called upon to help tackle a variety of critical healthcare issues, including the shift to a value-based care model, improving clinical performance, reducing risk, and deriving maximum value from EHR integrations.This week, in concert with the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management’s (AHRMM) annual “National Healthcare Supply Chain Week,” October 1-7, 2017,
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Mayo Clinic Buys Israeli FDA-Approved Wearable Sleep Apnea Device
The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Mayo Clinic) has signed a purchase agreement with Israeli medical diagnostics company Itamar Medical for its FDA-approved sleep apnea device, nocamels first reports. The purchase agreement was signed for a duration of three years with automatic renewal possible for one-year periods. WatchPAT is an FDA-approved portable diagnostic device that uniquely uses finger based physiology and innovative technology to enable simple and accurate
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Sharecare Launches 3D Virtual Human Body Platform With Real-Time Medical Accuracy
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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