Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. Unbeknownst to all, the healthcare industry is in possession of vast amounts of valuable data, while also being the most at-risk and easy to breach. Using outdated, interconnected electronic systems without a strong security plan contributes to this problem. According to Symantec’s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report, healthcare was the most targeted sector in 2015. To help ease the pain of this huge wound, Samsung and Booz Allen Hamilton
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Peerwell Lands $2.1M for Surgery Prep App to Help Patients Recover Faster
PeerWell, a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup provider of a mobile platform that helps patients prepare both physically and mentally for surgery to recover faster has raised $2.1 million in seed funding led by XSeed Capital. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its PreHab platform by launching smartphone based tracking for key orthopedic outcomes including range-of-motion, sit/stand testing and six-minute walk tests. Additionally, it plans to accelerate the development
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HealthTap Launches HealthTap Cloud for Developers to Build Interoperable, Engaging, Smart Health Apps
HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to doctors and their knowledge via video, text, and voice has unveiled HealthTap Cloud™, a innovative development platform that enables health developers to build health apps more efficiently and cost effectively. HealthTap Cloud offers the best developers, large or small, a full suite of microservices through APIs and SDKs, any combination of which can be used to build/enhance features or power entire apps.HealthTap Cloud is
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Get Real Health Integrates with Validic’s Patient Generated Platform
Get Real Health, a Rockville, MD-based digital health company is partnering with Validic to integrate patient-generated data from digital health apps, clinical devices and wearables into its patient engagement products, InstantPHR® and CHBase. As part of the integration, Get Real Health will leverage Validic's digital health platform to provide healthcare organizations will be able to access actionable patient data through one easy connection that offers the 360-degree view essential for
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Report: Security, Care Team Coordination Tops CIO Priority Lists
Data security and care team coordination are the two top considerations for CIOs in healthcare today, according to a recent Spok survey. The report administered by CHIME surveyed more than 100 CIOs, who responded to questions about their big-picture goals, the use-cases driving their mobile app selections, and which common workflows they are focused on improving. When asked which business goals CIOs are focused on for the next 18 months, an overwhelming majority (81 percent) cited
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PrecisionBI Integrates With VitreosHealth for Population Health Analytics
PrecisionBI, a provider of healthcare analytics, business intelligence and clinical and financial decision has announced a strategic relationship with VitreosHealth, a provider of predictive and prescriptive health insights for population health management.As part of the partnership, PrecisionBI will leveraging VitreosHealth to bring customized care insights to its clients through interactive visualizations and quality metrics that will optimize performance across financial and clinical
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Zimmer Biomet Acquires Telerehabilitation Startup RespondWell
RespondWell, a telerehabilitation technology startup designed to provide personalized, clinician-supervised post-surgical physical therapy in the comfort of a patient’s home, has been acquired by Zimmer Biomet, a global leader in muskuloskeletal healthcare. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The RespondWell acquisition strengthens the recently announced Zimmer Biomet Signature Solutions™ commercial offering by integrating a comprehensive, at-home telerehabilitation
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ViiMed Taps Redox’s API to Integrate EHRs for Interoperability
ViiMed, a telehealth software provider has partnered with Redox to integrate its platform with all major EHR providers like Epic, Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare, GE Healthcare, Meditech, Greenway Health, drchrono, and CPSI. The partnership will help healthcare organizations share, access, and connect the right data to make more informed decisions and provide higher-quality care. The cloud-based integration also helps healthcare organizations
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Duke Clinic, PatientsLikeMe Launches Virtual Clinical Trial for ALS Patients
Today, PatientsLikeMe has launched a virtual clinical trial with The Duke ALS Clinic that evaluates the potential of Lunasin, a soy peptide, to reverse symptoms in ALS patients. The Lunasin Virtual Trial is the first study of the supplement in ALS patients and follows a review analyzing its potential to reverse ALS in ALSUntangled, a website for clinicians, patients and researchers to explore alternative treatments. This launch marks one of the most unusual trials in the condition's history
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Infographic: Protecting Patient Records – the Risks and Costs of Data Loss
As National Cyber Security Awareness Month comes to a close, security software provider Safetica wants to remind healthcare professionals of the growing risks they face when handling a patient’s personal and financial records. Whether intentional or not, more than 200 data breaches involving individual records of at least 500 patients each—a total of approximately 100,000 records—took place last year in the U.S. Consider that the average cost to handle a data breach is $407 per compromised
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