The Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded a $500k grant funded by Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Independent Medical Education (IME). The grant focuses on accelerating the development and adoption of evidence-based approaches to improve the safety and effectiveness of patients with the diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) as they move from one care setting to another.
The $500k, 24
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ONC Releases 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory
On Tuesday, the ONC released the 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA)—a catalog of existing and emerging standards and implementation specifications developed and used to meet specific interoperability needs.
The overall purpose of the 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory is:
1) To provide the industry with a single, public list of the standards and implementation specifications that can best be used to fulfill specific clinical health information interoperability needs.
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Mobile Spirometer Provider Cohero Health Raises $2M
Cohero Health, an NYC-based digital health company focused on developing connected health tools and technologies to improve respiratory care, has raised $2 million in seed funding. Key investors in the seed round include Zaffre Investments, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Three Leaf Ventures an affiliate of the Broe Group, Bioadvance, Swanhill Capital and StartUp Health. The company plans to use the funding to scale production of its devices to support large
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Bayer, CRISPR Partner to Develop Gene Editing Apps for Patients
Bayer and gene editing company CRISPR Therapeutics are teaming up to develop new breakthrough therapeutics to cure blood disorders, blindness, and congenital heart disease. CRISPR Therapeutics will contribute its proprietary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology and intellectual property, while Bayer will make available its protein engineering expertise and relevant disease know-how.
It is the first long-term strategic partnership of its kind to make a substantial investment in the
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Assurex Health Nabs $15M for Precision Medicine for Behavioral Health
Assurex Health, Inc., a commercial-stage, informatics-based precision medicine company providing treatment decision support to healthcare providers for behavioral health and chronic pain conditions, has secured an additional $15 million in equity funding.
Assurex Health’s proprietary technology is based on pharmacogenomics— the study of the genetic factors that influence an individual’s response to drug treatments—as well as evidence-based medicine and clinical pharmacology. The GeneSight
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Meridian Health to Offer Virtual Physician Visits via Teladoc
Telehealth provider Teladoc, Inc., announced it has been selected by Meridian Health, a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, for telehealth services that will be offered to the residents Meridian serves. Meridian is planning its telehealth launch for first quarter 2016, which will include 24/7 access to Teladoc's quality network of licensed physicians via phone, mobile device or secure online video.
Rated among the top performing health systems in New Jersey for
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OrbiMed Launches $950M VC Fund
OrbiMed, a leading investment firm focused on the healthcare sector, announced the closing of its next venture capital fund, OrbiMed Private Investments VI, LP, with $950 million in limited partner commitments. Investors in the fund include some of the preeminent medical research institutions globally, along with leading endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds.
Consistent with its predecessor funds, the new fund will invest in all stages and sectors of the healthcare industry, with
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Smart Toothbrush Beam Adds Gamfication That Gets Kids to Brush Their Teeth
Beam, the smarter dental insurance company, launched “Boulders and Band-Aids” within the Beam app, adding a gamification layer on top of the brushing behavior data already collected via the Beam Brush.
The new game allows anyone who brushes their teeth while using the connected Beam Brush or the Beam app’s manual timer to earn lives to play the game, which encourages users to brush more often, for longer. The Beam app is available for free from the App Store and Google Play.
A vast majority
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WellDoc Pulls In $22M To Accelerate Mobile Prescription Therapy Adoption
Digital health technology company WellDoc today announced $22 million in Series B funding led by Samsung Ventures and Merck Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund serving as co-lead. Other participants in the round include Adage Capital Management, Excel Venture Management, Alexandria Venture Investments and Hudson River Capital Partners LLC.
Welldoc plans to utilize the funding to continue commercialization and accelerate adoption of its flagship product, BlueStar, a FDA cleared mobile
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Chilmark: Connected Health Market Bright, Yet Remains Immature
The US healthcare system’s shift towards value-based care has ignited an interest in new models of virtual, connected healthcare. As defined by Chilmark Research in their latest report, Migration to Connected Health: Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), ‘Connected Health’ is the application of technology to connect and extend healthcare delivery system (people, tools, facilities, and so on) in an ongoing, virtual, semi-automated manner across a patient
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