Rite Aid is announcing the first-ever healthcare Innovation Challenge, a nationwide search for original product ideas that will improve the health and well-being of Rite Aid customers. Rite Aid’s Innovation Challenge is being conducted in partnership with Edison Nation Medical, a leader in medical and healthcare innovation. Edison Nation Medical will work to design, develop and patent the chosen health and wellness products that will be sold exclusively at Rite Aid stores and . The challenge is
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Walgreens Adds Patient-Reported Data from PatientsLikeMe Members
PatientsLikeMe is now working with Walgreens to help make it easier for people to understand how the medications they take may affect them. Now, anyone researching a medication or filling a prescription on Walgreens.com can access a newly enhanched dashboard that shows how their prescribed medication has impacted other patients on the therapy, including medication side effects for more than 5,000 medications , as reported by PatientsLikeMe members.
PatientsLikeMe is a
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Advisory Board Acquires Clinovations for Undisclosed Sum
Health IT consulting firm Clinovations announce that the company has been acquired by global consulting firm The Advisory Board Co. for an undisclosed sum. Taking a clinically-oriented approach, Clinovations serves more than 50 clients helping them derive value from their EHR investments and other health care technology systems. The company also works with life sciences and federal provider agencies providing strategic guidance and tactical support on how to leverage health information
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ePatientFinder Raises $2.6M to Connect Patients with Clinical Trials
52% of patients want to learn about advanced treatment opportunities from their own doctor—not the Internet. To help doctors learn about new, life-changing treatments for their patients, ePatientFinder has developed advanced algorithms to match physicians with treatments that are relevant to their patients, based on their existing EHR data.
This week, the Austin-based health technology announced it has raised $2.58 million in Series A equity financing led by Parsons & Whittemore alongside
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Imagine Health Raises $21M to Expand Benefits Model for Self-Insured Employers
Imagine Health, a provider of independent provider of high-performance provider teams has raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Trident Capitaland HLM Venture Partners. The capital will be used to expand its transformative approach to healthcare into new markets, including immediate development activities in Phoenix,San Francisco and Atlanta. Imagine Health currently has high-performing hospital and physician teams—known as SmartCare™—in Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque
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Google Partners with Mayo Clinic to Improve Health-Related Search Content
59% of U.S. adults say they use the Internet to research and gather health information with approximately 35% of those adults end up using the information they find to diagnose themselves, according to the Pew Research Center. To improve the quality of health-related search content, Google is introducing structured, curated, and verified health information information into its Knowledge Graph smart search algorithm. To ensure consumers receive accurate information, Google has partnered with the
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Emory, WellStar In Talks To Create “Unified Health System”
On Monday, Emory University and WellStar Health System announced formal discussions to combine Emory Healthcare, an entity owned by Emory University, and WellStar Health System into a new, unified health system. The unified health system could create a new, innovative healthcare system combined with the best of community-based care and academic medicine.
Both Board of Trustees have each approved a resolution to continue discussions for the next 45 days to weigh the options of
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Garmin to Optimize Clinical Trials through Mobile Health
Garmin has announced a strategic partnership with Medidata, a provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research to integrate Garmin’s vívofit activity tracker with Medidata's Clinical Cloud platform. The integration will optimize clinical trials through mobile health enabling enhanced patient engagement, data quality and operational efficiencies in clinical trials.
Integration Details
Designed to be worn on a person’s wrist 24/7, Garmin’s vívofit water-resistant device measures steps
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Entrada Releases iOS SDK for Integration with Health IT Solutions
Entrada, a provider of integrated mobile EHR solutions has announced the release of its iOS software development kit (SDK), enabling healthcare IT partners to integrate Entrada’s provider productivity and care collaboration capabilities within their own mobile applications. Partners developing with the Entrada SDK can enhance the value of their product solutions for new and existing clients, leveraging Entrada’s mobile documentation functionality and seamless EHR integration.
Software
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14 Top Hospitals Are Piloting Apple’s HealthKit Platform
Fourteen of the top major U.S. hospitals are piloting their own trails of Apple's HealthKit platform, Reuters reports. Apple's HealthKit platform serves as an serve as an integrative hub for patient-generated health information like blood pressure, weight, heart rate, calorie burn or sleep activity with third party apps. Users can decide what information is placed in HealthKit and which apps can access their data through the Health app. Apple's rivals, Google and Samsung which have released
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