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Medfusion Raises $3M to Advance Mobile Strategy for Patient Engagement

by Jasmine Pennic 09/02/2015 Leave a Comment

Medfusion, Inc., a patient engagement platform dedicated to facilitating the relationship between doctors and patients has raised $3 million in funding from two Durham, N.C.-based venture capital firms. Medfusion has evolved from a patient portal business into a robust patient engagement platform, complete with a new portal interface, a patient-focused revenue cycle offering—Medfusion Pay—and the introduction of Medfusion’s first consumer mobile application, Medfusion Plus. This new mobile
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Glooko Launches Office Kiosk for In-Clinic Diabetes Care

by Jasmine Pennic 09/01/2015 Leave a Comment

Glooko Office Kiosk for Diabetes In-Care

Glooko Inc., a unified platform for diabetes management, today announced the official launch of its “Glooko Office Kiosk” package to redefine in-clinic diabetes care experience for patients with diabetes and healthcare professionals by bringing insights that drive teachable moments to patient-clinician interactions For the first time, Glooko Office Kiosk enables diabetes data from popular blood glucose meters, insulin pumps, and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) to be synced to an Android
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8 Recent Trends on How Millennials Shop for Healthcare

by Jasmine Pennic 08/31/2015 Leave a Comment

Millennials overtook Baby Boomers this year as the largest living generation; and while Baby Boomers may currently consume most healthcare resources, the move to value-based care and increased focus on prevention is driving healthcare providers to better understand and reach Millennial patients.  As part of its ongoing research on the changing practice of the art of medicine, Nuance Communications, Inc. today released new data on generational patient behaviors and the slideshare
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81% Of Healthcare Orgs Have Been Compromised By Cyber-Attacks In Past 2 Years

by Jasmine Pennic 08/28/2015 Leave a Comment

Security Breach

81 percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years, according to the 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey. In fact, only half feel that they are adequately prepared in preventing attacks.  In polling 223 chief information officers, chief technology officers, chief security officers and chief compliance officers at health care providers and health plans, KPMG found the
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3 Benefits of Telehealth Kiosks for Health Systems, Employers & Retailers

by Jasmine Pennic 08/27/2015 Leave a Comment

American Well Telehealth Kiosks

  Telehealth kiosks are rapidly becoming a key part of national employer healthcare programs, retail healthcare, and health system outreach strategies, according to telehealth provider American Well. In fact, consultancy IHS projects the U.S. market for healthcare kiosks will rise from roughly 10,000 kiosks in 2015 to over 36,000 annually by 2020[i]. With American Well’s telehealth kiosks – the industry’s only kiosks that offer walk-in, unscheduled visits – patients anywhere can get
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Health Wildcatters Unveils Third Class of 10 Health Tech Startups

by Jasmine Pennic 08/26/2015 Leave a Comment

healthwildcatters

Health Wildcatters, a mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator has unveiled 10 new health IT companies selected to participate in the 2015 accelerator program. With the addition of these 10 healthcare startups, which comprise Health Wildcatters’ third class, the program’s portfolio totals 32 companies spanning the healthcare spectrum. “We couldn’t be more excited to work with this group,” said Hubert Zajicek, Health Wildcatters CEO. “All the companies demonstrated viable solutions to some
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DynoSense Raises $9.4M for Tricorder-Size Health Scanner

by Jasmine Pennic 08/25/2015 Leave a Comment

DynoSense

DynoSense, developer of the world's first fully integrated multi-function health scanner has raised $9.4 million in Series A funding, with participation from WI Harper Group; JKOM Cloud Health Technology Co; Plug and Play Tech Center; Jinmao Capital; and Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati. The Sunnyvale, CA-based digital health innovator will use the capital to support U.S. regulatory clearance and commercialization of its patented medical grade quality Dyno health scanner.
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Capital BlueCross To Offer Telehealth Visits to Members via Amell

by Jasmine Pennic 08/25/2015 Leave a Comment

Capital BlueCross, a Harrisburg, Pa-based healthcare solutions and insurance company announced it will now offer telehealth visits its health plan members beginning Jan. 1, 2016. To deliver telehealth visits for its health plan members, Capital BlueCross has partnered with American Well to deliver Amwell, the nation's largest telehealth service, to members. Amwell's model contrasts with its competitors in that patients are connected face-to-face with a doctor in less than two minutes, instead of
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Google’s Alphabet Launches Life Sciences Company

by Jasmine Pennic 08/24/2015 Leave a Comment

7 Google Ventures Poised to Revolutionize Healthcare_Google's Alphabet Launches Life Sciences Company

After Google's announcement to restructure into Alphabet, Google has launched a Life Sciences company as the first new company under the Alphabet umbrella. "3 years ago we embarked on a project to put computing inside a contact lens -- an immensely challenging technical problem with an important application to health.  While I am delighted at the progress that project has made, I could not have imagined the potential of the initiative it has grown into -- a life sciences team with the mission to
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Intel Leverages IoT, Big Data with Open-Source Cancer Cloud

by Jasmine Pennic 08/21/2015 Leave a Comment

This week at the Intel Devleoper Forum, Intel announced a collaboration with Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University called the Collaborative Cancer Cloud that uses analytics to advance cancer care via genomics analysis and targeted treatment plans. The precision medicine analytics platform allows institutions to securely share patient genomic, imaging and clinical data for potentially lifesaving discoveries. It will also enable large amounts of data from sites all
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