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Massachusetts To Launch Digital Health Hub To Support Innovation

by Jasmine Pennic 01/07/2016 Leave a Comment

Massachusetts To Launch Digital Health Hub To Support Innovation

Today, Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and other Massachusetts business leaders are teaming up to launch an initiative to create a digital health hub. With support from the City of Boston, Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI), and MACP, the new digital health innovation hub will provide startups with coworking space, programming and industry network support. Programming through the hub will be managed and operated by
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BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging

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BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging

BlackBerry are teaming up with digital health and wellness engagement platform Sharecare to provide consumers with better and more secure insights into their health. As part of the partnership, Sharecare and BlackBerry will integrate Sharecare's proprietary fractal voice analysis into BlackBerry's secure messaging to increase consumer self-awareness, reduce stress and improve relationships, all while providing the gold-standard in consumer privacy. Building on this, the companies will move
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Withings Unveils Wi-Fi Connected Smart Sensor Thermometer

by Jasmine Pennic 01/06/2016 Leave a Comment

withings thermo

Withings, a leader in the connected health revolution, has extended its therapeutic areas of expertise with the unveiling of the FDA-approved Withings Thermo - a Wi-Fi-connected temporal artery thermometer with a revolutionary 16-sensor array that provides one of the fastest, most accurate, non-invasive temperature readings available.  Withings Thermo will be available in Q1 2016 for a MSRP of $99.95 and will be supported by a dedicated app for both iOS and Android devices.  Within the app
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Pathway Genomics Nabs $40M to Expand Precision Medicine via Genetic Testing

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Pathway Genomics

San Diego, CA-based Pathway Genomics, a clinical laboratory facilitating precision medicine through genetic testing and mobile healthcare applications has raised over $40 million in Series E funding. This brings the total investment into Pathway Genomics to over $130 million. Investors in this round of funding include IBM Watson, Pathway's partner in the development of a mobile health application using artificial intelligence to provide personalized health and wellness guidance. The capital will
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Jared Kesselheim Joins Leerink Capital Partners to Lead Health Tech Investments

by Jasmine Pennic 01/05/2016 Leave a Comment

Jared Kesselheim Joins Leerink Capital Partners to Lead Health Tech Investments

Leerink Capital Partners, a leading healthcare investment bank, announced that Jared Kesselheim joined the firm as a Managing Partner on January 1, 2016. Based in Boston, Dr. Kesselheim is co-managing Leerink Capital Partners’ healthcare technology and services and digital healthcare investment initiative. Kesselheim joins Todd Cozzens who recently came to Leerink Capital Partners from Sequoia Capital to lead LEERINK’s healthcare growth equity effort. Dr. Kesselheim brings to LEERINK over
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Mayo Clinic Unloads Data Center to Epic for $46M

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Mayo Clinic Study Reveals Patient Portals Had Little impact on Face to Face Visits

Nearly a year after selecting Epic for its single, integrated EHR and revenue cycle management (RCM) system, Mayo Clinic is selling its 62,000 square-foot data center located in Rochester, MN to Epic for $46M in a sale-leaseback deal, Finance & Commerce reports.  Leaseback, short for 'sale-and-leaseback,' is a financial transaction, where one sells an asset and leases it back for the long-term; therefore, one continues to be able to use the asset but no longer owns it. As part of the
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53% of Consumers Can’t Access Their Electronic Health Data

by Jasmine Pennic 12/23/2015 2 Comments

EHR Inteoperability

74% of consumers say easy electronic access to health data would improve their knowledge of their health and improve communication with their physicians, according to a recent survey. The October/November 2015 HealthMine survey of 502 U.S. consumers reveals 53% of consumers cannot access all of their health data from a computer. With higher deductibles and rising healthcare costs, Americans rolling into their 2016 health plans will assume more responsibility for both the cost and control of
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drchrono Launches First Fully Featured iPhone EHR

by Jasmine Pennic 12/17/2015 Leave a Comment

drchrono's PHR Integrates with Apple's HealthKit

drchrono, the mobile EHR on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and web for physicians and their patients, today announced the launch of its fully featured and clinical documentation iPhone EHR.  Before today, drchrono only allowed a physician to take all of their paper medical forms and put them onto iPad and web, to do rounds and document patient information. With full clinical documentation, a physician can now literally see patients with an iPhone and do his/her rounds.  Key features of the
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Chiron Health Nabs $2.3M to Get Physicians Fully Reimbursed for Telehealth Visits

by Jasmine Pennic 12/16/2015 Leave a Comment

Chiron Health

Telemedicine software and reimbursement services provider Chiron Health has $2.3 million in seed funding to bring a robust set of telemedicine tools to physician practices. Chiron Health is the only platform designed to get physician practices fully reimbursed for secure video visits covering both Medicare and Medicaid as well as private payers. Through their extensive knowledge of telemedicine regulation and reimbursement, the company guides practices through the complexities of telemedicine.
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BlueLight Launches Apple Watch App for Emergency Response

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BlueLight

Safety toolkit for the digital age provider BlueLight has launched a new Apple Watch app for 911 emergency response that allows users to contact emergency services and share their location with contacts in seconds.  70% of 911 Calls Comes from Mobile Phones Today, more than 70% of 911 calls come from mobile phones, but according to USA Today, 911 may have as low as a 10% chance of getting a fix on caller location ranges.  Between the margin of error and the high possibility of routing the call
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