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Report: The Digital Health Innovator’s Mini-Handbook

by HITC Staff 01/24/2016 Leave a Comment

Report: The Digital Health Innovator's Mini-Handbook

Enspektos, LLC, a New York-based innovation consultancy, has published The Digital Health Innovator's Mini-Handbook. This 40-page first-of-its-kind publication is designed to provide entrepreneurs, executives, medical professionals and others with strategies, insights and methods that can help them successfully develop, implement and scale digital innovations in health.  The mini-handbook features a number of resources, including: - The Ages of Digital Health: A unique framework that
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Akili Interactive Labs Nabs $30.5M for Digital Medicine Gamification

by HITC Staff 01/22/2016 Leave a Comment

Akili Interactive Labs

Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. ("Akili"), a company focused on developing clinically validated digital medicine for cognitive assessment and personalized treatment through gamification has raised $30.5 million in new equity funding. The investments will be used to support the potential FDA clearance of its digital medicine platform across a variety of patient populations, including pediatric attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder Participants in the round
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athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare, Surescripts First to Adopt Interoperability Framework

by HITC Staff 01/21/2016 Leave a Comment

athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare, Surescripts First to Adopt Interoperability Framework

Today,  The Sequoia Project, an independent advocate for nationwide health information exchange, announced that athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts are the first to adopt enhanced data sharing practices under the new Carequality Interoperability Framework. This big step is in alignment with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A
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BlackBerry Lands $20M VA Contract for Secure Enterprise Crisis Communication Network

by HITC Staff 01/21/2016 Leave a Comment

BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging

BlackBerry has been awarded a $20 million multi-year contract to support the VA's Notification System (VANS) and VA Personnel Accountability System (VA-PAS), courtesy of its subsidiary AtHoc. The recently acquired AtHoc networked crisis communication system will support 600,000 VA personnel as well as expanding scope and functionality of the system.  VA's Notification System (VANS) Overview The VANS system enables alerting across telephones, text, pagers, fax, desktops, smartphones, as
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Philips Unveils Mobile Medical Alert Service for Senior Emergency Care On-the-Go

by HITC Staff 01/21/2016 Leave a Comment

Philips Unveils Mobile Medical Alert System for Senior Emergency Care On-the-Go

This week, Royal Philips announced the availability of Philips Lifeline GoSafe, its mobile medical alert sthat is part of Philips suite of solutions that connect care across the health continuum. Featuring the power of up to six location technologies, GoSafe gives seniors the assurance to get up and go while being protected by the 24/7, Canada-based emergency call response centre which protects more seniors than any other medical alert service. “When seniors feel less confident, anxious or
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CHIME Launches $1M Initiative To Solve Patient Mismatching

by HITC Staff 01/19/2016 Leave a Comment

CHIME National Patient ID Challenge

  The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today launched the CHIME National Patient ID Challenge, a $1 million crowdsourcing competition aimed at incentivizing new, early-stage, and experienced innovators to accelerate the creation and adoption of a solution for ensuring 100 percent accuracy in identifying patients in the U.S. For the challenge, CHIME has teamed with HeroX, co-founded in 2013 by XPRIZE CEO Peter Diamandis, to run the year-long
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Captricity Raises $35M For Cloud-Native Data Capture Platform

by HITC Staff 01/19/2016 Leave a Comment

Captricity

Oakland-based startup Captricity Inc. that gives customers in regulated industries fast and easy access to customer data trapped in handwritten forms has raised $35 million in Series C funding led by White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD. Existing investors Social Capital and Accomplice also participated in the round. The latest round of funding brings Captricity's total funds raised to $49 million.  Captricity's cloud-native data capture platform captures data from any from all points of
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Welkin Health, Minnesota Children’s Hospital Partner to Deliver Better Diabetes Care to Children

by HITC Staff 01/19/2016 1 Comment

welkinhealth

Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in patient relationship management, has been chosen by Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota as a partner for a multi-year study aimed at improving care for children with type 1 diabetes. Children’s Minnesota is using the configurable Welkin software to improve its care team’s efficiency when communicating with patients and their families remotely.  Diabetes Study Details The Children’s study is designed to
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MTBC Unveils E-Prescribing App for Apple Watch

by HITC Staff 01/19/2016 Leave a Comment

Electronic Prescribing Smartwatch App

MTBC (Medical Transcription Billing, Corp), a leading provider of proprietary, healthcare information technology solutions has released its e-prescribing app for the Apple Watch now available to U.S. healthcare providers. Apple Watch App Features The app will extend key components of its existing e-prescribing app for iPhone users, known as MTBC iRx, to the Apple Watch. Users of the Apple Watch app can view patient refill request alerts and inbound patient communications on the watch and
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Latest Bionic Eye Developments Indicate Bright Future for Ocular Medical Devices

by HITC Staff 01/17/2016 Leave a Comment

Latest Bionic Eye Developments Indicate Bright Future for Ocular Medical Devices

The recent announcement by the Clinical Ophthalmology Research Group at the University of Oxford that two patients were able to achieve some restoration of vision following implantation of the Alpha IMS device puts maker Retina Implant AG ahead of the pack in the bionic eye space, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.  Shashank Settipalli, GlobalData’s Analyst covering Medical Devices, says: “These promising results, in conjunction with a string of positive
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