Spry Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring solutions has unveiled their new clinical-grade wearable Loop that delivers continuous vital sign monitoring. Loop enhances timely care to chronically ill patients, with individualized analytics to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalization and decrease spending by healthcare organizations.Incubated at Stanford-affiliated accelerator StartX in 2013, founders Pierre-Jean “PJ” Cobut and Elad Ferber started Spry Health
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MedConcepts Integrates with Revenue Cycle Startup MedPilot to Improve Patient Financial Experience
MedConcepts, a patient services company, and revenue cycle startup MedPilot have completed an integration partnership to provide superior patient solutions to healthcare providers, RCM companies, and Practice Management Systems. The integration partnership will help expand MedConcepts' robust service offerings, while MedPilot is able to gain nationwide traction.The partnership began when MedConcepts and MedPilot took on a joint client with CarePoint Health. MedConcepts' patient services use
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ResApp Licenses New Algorithm to Improve Diagnostic Screening for Childhood Pneumonia
ResApp Health Limited, a digital health startup provider of smartphone apps for respiratory disease diagnosis and management has signed a licensing agreement with UniQuest, the main commercialization company of The University of Queensland. The licensing agreement includes an additional diagnostic toolset of machine-learning algorithms that use a combination of clinical features to screen for childhood pneumonia. Pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality for children below five years of age.
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Evidation Health Raises $10M to Enhance Development of New Digital Biomarkers
Evidation Health, a San Mateo, CA-based startup that helps healthcare companies quantify outcomes in the digital era, with real life data from connected patients has raised $10 million in funding led by Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures. The startup plans to utilize the latest round of funding to enhance its capabilities in large scale behavioral analytics, health outcomes measurement, and digital biomarker development using real life patient data from hundreds of applications and devices.Founded in
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HealthVerity Raises $10M for Cloud-based Platform to Explore & Acquire Healthcare Data
HealthVerity, a cloud-based platform to discover, license, and link HIPAA compliant and de-identified healthcare data has raised $10 million in Series B financing led by Flare Capital Partners and Greycroft Partners. The funding includes participation from Foresite Capital and additional strategic healthcare investors. The Philadelphia, PA-based startup plans to utilize the funding to expand its healthcare data ecosystem, advanced privacy solutions and proven data interoperability
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MPIRICA Health Raises $4.6M for Scientific Hospital and Surgeon Scoring Platform
Mpirica Health, Inc., a Bellevue, Washington-based healthcare quality transparency company.has raised $4.6M in funding led by OurCrowd with participation from a private Seattle-based equity fund. The startup plans to utilize the funding to accelerate its national roll-outs to customers in the Medicare Advantage and employer benefits space, and to scale its cognitive technology platform.Founded in 2014 by Shakil Haroon, Founder and CEO, MPIRICA has developed a patent-pending scoring system that
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Medable Integrates with Redox’s EHR Integration Platform to Streamline Mobile Medical Research
Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform has formed a strategic partnership with Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations. The integration partnership will enable a fully-integrated medical research platform between smart phones and EHRs. By using Medable’s platform and Redox’s API services, clinical trial leaders and health researchers can integrate patient-generated health data into the electronic health record. With the
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New Digital Health Device Can Wirelessly Record & Transmit Patient Tremors in Real-Time
On Monday, digital healthcare innovation lab Klick Labs unveiled a digital health device that that wirelessly records and transmits patient tremors in real time. The proof of concept device named SymPulseTM Tele-Empathy Device was designed to help foster clinical empathy and better care for the more than 40 million people living with movement disorders in the U.S. alone.According to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, of the 10 million people living with the disease around the world, about
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DiagnosisAI Launches Amazon Alexa App to Provide Personalized Answers to Medical Questions
DiagnosisAI, a healthcare technology company that focuses on using artificial intelligence to empower patients has unveiled a new voice-based medical reference app named “Alexa, Ask Doctor Dex” (DexMD).Traditionally, most people look up their symptoms through sites such as WebMD and end up self-diagnosing themselves incorrectly (i.e.-cancer). DexMD uses artificial intelligence and machine learning on Amazon Alexa to provide specific, personalized, and directed answers to medical questions with
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Researchers Find Most Mobile Health Apps for Cancer Survivors Fail to Deliver Value
Developers of mobile health apps for cancer survivors lack the research needed to determine safety and effectiveness, according to new research conducted at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC). The research e-published in the March 24, 2017 issue of the Journal of Cancer Survivorship found basic developmental and incremental testing steps may be skipped in the interest of getting the health app to market quickly.Researchers revealed that most developers only evaluated the app
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