Aspire Health, a Nashville, TN-based palliative care company has raised $32 million in funding round that was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), the venture capital arm of tech giant Alphabet Inc. (Google's parent company). The company plans to utilize the funding to make better use of its data by developing more algorithms and natural language processing (NLP) search functions that would benefit home healthcare and create new programs for cancer patients. Co-founded by former Senate
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Eccrine Systems Lands $5.5M Advanced Sweat Sensors For Medicine
Eccrine Systems, a Cincinnati-based company developing advanced, wearable, sweat-sensing systems, has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding with participation and support from CincyTech Fund IV and other sources within the CincyTech local, regional and national investor community. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate the development of non-invasive, sweat-sensing systems for use in medicine, industry and sport. Founded in 2013 based on innovative research and intellectual
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Wolters Kluwer to Acquire Emmi for $175M
Wolters Kluwer Health announced it will acquire Emmi Solutions (Emmi), a providers of patient engagement solutions, for $170 million in cash to expand its market share in the patient engagement market. For Wolters Kluwer Health, Emmi’s offerings are a natural extension to its existing Clinical Solutions portfolio, in particular to UpToDate in decision support and Lexicomp and Medi-Span in drug information.Founded in 2002, Emmi offers an enterprise-wide, integrated and multi-media patient
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5 Ways Telemonitoring Can Transform Quality of Care
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. Providers and insurers have a financial stake in keeping patients out of the hospital. To do so, they need accurate, up-to-date patient information and the ability to quickly share that data with different members of their team. Not only does this take the right software, but also the right device.Half of all American adults — about 117 million people — suffer from one or more chronic health conditions such as hypertension or diabetes, many of
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HHS Awards $1.5M to Pilot Programs to Improve Flow of Health Info
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced seven recipients of two Cooperative Agreement programs to improve the flow of health information. The awardees of the High Impact Pilot (HIP) and Standards Exploration Award (SEA) will share a total of $1.5 million to create standards-based solutions that facilitate the exchange of health information. Awardees are expected to report results September 15, 2017.The
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Cigna Adds Virtual Consults from American Well to Health Plans for 2017
In 2017, Cigna announced it is expanding its telehealth coverage with the addition of virtual consults from American Well to its existing offerings of MDLIVE. The latest offering will support Cigna's employer-sponsored group health plans, as well as many of its individual health plans on and off public marketplace exchanges.Both services operate national networks of board-certified doctors that are able to treat minor medical conditions such as allergies, cold and flu and sinusitis via
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Medable Launches Axon to Build ResearchKit Apps Without a Developer
Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform, today announced the launch of Axon, a SmartStudy system that enables health experts--researchers, physicians, and others--to build ResearchKit apps without a developer in a matter of hours. By leveraging ResearchKit's platform, Axon unlocks the potential of health professionals to directly collect patient data at massive scale through dedicated mobile apps reducing development time from six months to one day. While there are a lot
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Mana Health Launches Health IT Sandbox to Test Digital Health Innovation
Mana Health, a technology provider for healthcare data access solutions has announced the availability of ManaCreate, a technology and support solution designed to enable faster and more cost effective commercialization of healthcare innovation. Targeted to innovation and IT groups within health systems and hospitals, ManaCreate supports the process for testing and integration of new applications to support a more agile innovation process.Bringing any new healthcare IT system to market generally
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StartUp Health Launches Digital Health Innovation Hub in Colorado
On Monday, StartUp Health announced the launch of StartUp Health Colorado, a digital health innovation hub on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora for health entrepreneurs, doctorpreneurs, investors and industry stakeholders. The innovation hub will also leverage StartUp Health's global platform to cross-pollinate health innovations with other regions around the world.Here are 5 things to know about the new innovation hub:1. StartUp Health Colorado innovation hub
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Philips, Emory Launch Australia’s First Remote Intensive Care Unit
Macquarie University has partnered with Philips and Emory Healthcare to launch Australia’s first remote intensive care unit (eICU) monitoring program to monitor patients around the clock. As part of the partnership, critical care nurses based onsite at Sydney’s Macquarie University’s MQ Health will utilize Philip’s eICU technology and Emory Healthcare’s intensivists to provide continuous critical care to patients back in the United States. How It WorksPhilips' eICU solution allows for near
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