Starting today, doctors can now earn official Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for socially collaborating and learning from fellow clinicians while providing invaluable solutions for challenging patient cases for free through HealthTap's new Global RoundsTM platform. Global RoundsTM presents doctors with the latest peer-reviewed medical literature, readily available at their fingertips and relevant to a patient's question or condition.
Now, doctors can also add insights from
Read More
Mental Health App Joyable Raises $8M to Treat Anxiety, Depression
San-Francisco-based Joyable, an evidence-based, affordable mental health service provider has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by returning investors Thrive Capital and Harrison Metal. The funding will be used to develop the company's first-ever native mobile app to offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and expand its service to more of the 15 million Americans currently suffering from clinical social anxiety. The company previously raised $2M seed round.
Launched in March 2015,
Read More
Practo, Uber Partner to Help Patients Reach Doctors in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore
India-based physician search portal Practo is teaming up with on-demand transportation platform Uber to make it easier for consumers to reach doctors, so they never have to worry about running late for an appointment. Starting this week, patients in India, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines who book an appointment via Practo's app will be able to see the closest Uber available when they get a reminder alert for their appointments.
How It Works
Using the Practo app, patients can view
Read More
Merck to Produce Anti-Diabetes Meds in Algeria to Improve Care of Patients
Merck, a leading life sciences and technology company, today announced the commissioning of its anti-diabetes medicine production unit for the treatment of diabetes and high blood pressure. A joint venture project has subsequently been set up between the company and its partner, the Algerian laboratory Novapharm to produce 500 million tablets for the Algerian market.
The production unit located in Bou Ismail, a remote village 40 km west of Algiers, will help increase national production
Read More
Uber Teams with Voalte, SMH to Offer Patients Rides to Doctor’s Appointment
Sarasota, FL-based healthcare communication company Voalte is teaming up with Uber and Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, to create a new Voalte app that could make scheduling transportation easier for patients who need a ride to their doctors’ or medical appointments.
Pilot Program Details
The pilot program will integrate Voalte's app with Uber’s internet-enabled platform to give a group of Sarasota Memorial patients discharged from the hospital a convenient option to pre-arrange
Read More
Rally Health Launches Online Healthcare Shopping Experience, 20M Have Access at Launch
Consumer-centric digital health company Rally Health today launched Rally Connect, an online experience that enables people to shop for the right health care based on their personal needs. Rally Connect integrates with a person’s contracted health plan to offer a better understanding of both the quality and cost of the care they receive. The result is cost savings both for the consumer and for the health plan.
At launch, 20 million people enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans will have
Read More
Welltok Rolls Out Watson-Powered CafeWell Platform to IBM Employees
Welltok is offering a Watson-powered version of the CaféWell Health Optimization Platform™ to IBM employees, leveraging the power of cognitive computing to help revolutionize how IBM manages health resources and engages employees. For IBM employees, Welltok's CaféWell platform organizes IBM's 36 disparate partners, including five health insurance carriers, flexible spending accounts and retirement programs. The integration will allow employees the ability to access a single, engaging and
Read More
IBM Watson, Boston Children’s Partner to Help Clinicians Treat Rare Pediatric Diseases
1 in 10 Americans suffer from a rare disease, and half of these patients are children, according to the Global Genes Project. There are some 7,000 known rare disorders ranging from benign abnormalities to life-threatening disease. Many affected children pass away before a diagnosis can be made, leaving families to grieve without knowing what might have been done to help them, or how to avoid additional brothers or sisters being affected.
To help tackle this problem, IBM and Boston Children's
Read More
GE Healthcare Acquires Advisory Firm, The Camden Group
GE Healthcare has acquired healthcare & strategic advisory firm, The Camden Group that will act as the U.S. business unit of GE Healthcare’s global advisory firm, GE Healthcare Partners. The acquisition will enable the firm to deliver strategic and financial consulting to healthcare organizations, as well as advisory consulting on population health management, value-based care, clinical integration and care redesign across the continuum. Financial terms of the transaction were not
Read More
Google, Heart Association Launch $50M Research Innovation Project to Fight Heart Disease
Alphabet Inc.’s Google Life Sciences (GLS) unit and the American Heart Association have announced a five-year, $50 million research collaboration to uncover the drivers of heart disease. Both organizations will each invest $25 million over five years to support novel strategies to understand, prevent, and reverse coronary heart disease and its consequences, such as heart failure and sudden cardiac death. The research collaboration marks the largest one-time research investment in AHA’s
Read More
