Activity tracker shipment totals is expected to top 87 million in 2021 as these devices, from players including Fitbit, Xiaomi, Jawbone, Misfit (Fossil), and many others, according to a recent report from ABI research. The report reveals activity tackers will continue to lead consumers into the emerging wearable wireless connected health and wellbeing market.
Despite the increasing popularity of activity trackers, the medical device market still awaits the shift to connected devices that has
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drchrono Delivers All-inclusive Mobile EHR Experience
Direct Urgent Care has implemented drchrono EHR to support its growing urgent care business and its new facility opening today in Mountain View, CA. Today, doctors are moving their practice to a more mobile environment and want to help their staff manage patient information directly from an iPad. Direct Urgent Care has embraced this vision and drchrono worked closely with them to design a unique mobile EHR solution that meets the needs of its growing urgent care medical facility network.
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Adventist HealthCare Selects Wellcentive for Population Health Management
Adventist HealthCare, a faith-based, not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system based has selected Wellcentive for population health management technology. As part of the agreement, Wellcentive will develop the ability to integrate privacy-sensitive aspects of social determinants of health into patient data, sharable throughout care teams as part of data aggregation and translation.
"For our patient population, and really for every patient population in America,
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IBM Watson Health to Acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6B
IBM Watson Health today announced plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights for $2.6 billion. The acquisition will boost IBM Watson Health to one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of health-related data, representing an aggregate of approximately 300 million patient lives acquired from three companies. Through the Watson Health Cloud, healthcare organizations will be able to take previously disparate data sets,
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PwC Launches DoubleJump Health to Accelerate Innovation in Consumer Health
PwC's Health Industries Group today launched DoubleJump Health, a consumer health accelerator that speeds the pace of innovation in person-centered health and brings medical and scientific breakthroughs to the market more quickly. The two-initiative will evolve our approach to medical research that includes 1) a new data sharing platform aimed at expediting medical discovery by breaking down health data barriers among the diverse array of healthcare industry players and 2) a digital
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GHX Names “Best 50” Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) has announced its annual list of the healthcare provider organizations being recognized as the 2015 GHX “Best 50” Supply Chains in North America for their work in improving operational performance and driving down costs through supply chain automation. The recipients will be honored at the 2016 GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, May 23-25, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
"Best 50" Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Selection Criteria
To select the Best 50, GHX
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Bloodbuy Lands $3.75M to Connect Hospitals, Blood Centers Nationwide
Bloodbuy, a health tech company that operates a cloud-based platform connecting hospitals and blood centers nationwide has raised $3.75M in strategic funding round led by Premier Supply Chain Improvement, Inc., an affiliate of Premier, Inc. and St. Joseph Health. The Dallas, TX-based company will utilize the capital to accelerate its integrated network of hospitals and blood centers. As part of the funding deal, Durral Gilbert, President of Premier Supply Chain Improvement, and Nita Stith, Vice
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Kaiser Permanente Ventures Pumps $5M in In-Home Care Startup Hometeam
Kaiser Permanente Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente, has invested $5 million in New York-based in-home care startup Hometeam, bringing its total funding to date to $38.5 million, Fortune first reports. Hometeam transforms the aging experience by providing families expert caregiver matching, custom iPads, and a care team to promote healthy & active days. The capital will be used to accelerate its medical and technology development as it continues to experience
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Aetna, Mount Sinai To Form Accountable Care Alliance
Aetna and Mount Sinai Health Partners – the clinically integrated network that includes the Mount Sinai Health System and a group of voluntary providers are teaming up to form the form an accountable care collaboration designed to enhance coordinated patient care and lower health care costs.
Accountable Care Alliance Details
Under the three-year agreement, members of Aetna commercial plans who receive care from Mount Sinai physicians will benefit from quality and cost efficiency improvements
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Protenus Raises $4M to Help Hospitals Protect Patient Privacy in EMR
Baltimore, MD-based Protenus, a provider of privacy protection solutions for EMRs has raised $4 million in Series A funding led by Arthur Ventures. The round also included particpation from LionBird Venture Capital, DreamIt Ventures, Cognosante, TEDCO, and the Baltimore Angels.
Protenus helps hospitals protect patient privacy in the EMR by using advanced analytics to detect HIPAA violations in real-time. The Protenus Privacy-as-a-Service platform consists of both a continuously-learning
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