Cricket Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup has officially launched to provide technology-enabled products and services to modernize and transform how kidney care is delivered for people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease. The company has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Cricket Health has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, BoxGroup, Seven Peaks Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and NFX Guild.Founded in
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BrainCheck Raises $3M for Neurocognitive Disorders Tracking App
BrainCheck, a mobile brain health tracking solution has raised $3 million in seed funding to expand team and add tools for dementia and other neurocognitive disorders. Founded in 2014 by renowned neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman, BrainCheck uses simple iPad or desktop screen games to measure, reaction time, visual processing, cognitive processing, coordination and memory in just a few minutes. Thousands of student athletes across multiple sports already use the app to establish their baseline
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Cleveland Medical Hackathon Unveils 2016 Winners
This week, the 2016 Cleveland Medical Hackathon has announced the winners of this year’s competition and the winners of over $40k in prizes held in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit. Presented by Nesco Resource, the event brought together over 200 students, developers, designers, investors, engineers, programmers, clinicians, researchers, community members, patient advocates, and public health professionals from across the region, the country, and the world to
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Google Acquires Eye Tracking Startup Eyefluence for VR/AR Focus
Google has acquired Eyefluence, an eye-interaction technology for AR, VR, and MR devices which transforms intent into action through the eyes. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. To date, the company has raised $21.6 million from Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, with participation from NHN Investment, Dolby Family Ventures, and Jazz Venture Partners. Traditional eye-tracking companies have tried to translate eye movement into a method for control using the same principles
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Middleware Shows Potential for Solving Health IT Interoperability Issues
One of the standards for meaningful use of electronic health data is the interoperability of that data; in other words, can the data be accessed and used by providers in any location, as long as they have the proper clearance. This interoperability was the cornerstone of the push for electronic health records, yet it’s proven to be more challenging than most expected. While hospitals and healthcare systems scramble to find solutions, one has risen to the top: Middleware, a type of software that
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Salus Telehealth, Video Medicine Merge to Form Full Service Telehealth Company
Salus Telehealth and VideoMedicine have merged a to form a new end to end telehealth company – Salus Telehealth, Inc. The new full service telehealth company will offer comprehensive telemedicine device and software solutions, including a direct to consumer healthcare apps. As part of the merger, the new Board of Directors will be made up of an equal number of members from VideoMedicine and Salus Telehealth. Paula Guy has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the newly formed
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Axial Healthcare Raises $16.5M for Data-Driven, Predictive Pain Management
Axial Healthcare, Inc., a pain care solutions company has raised $16.5 million in Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT, a venture growth-equity fund investing in healthcare services. 406 Ventures, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, and Sandbox Advantage Fund, also participated in this latest round of financing. The company will utilize the funding to further drive expansion of axial’s suite of pain management capabilities, including a cloud-based, provider decision-support platform for pain
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Brigham and Women’s, Evidation Health Partner to Measure Impact of Digital Health Solutions
Brigham and Women’s Innovation Hub (iHub) and Evidation Health has announced a strategic partnership to measure the real life impact of digital health solutions on clinical and economic outcomes. As part of the partnership, Evidation Health will help Brigham and Women’s iHub accelerate clinical trials for digital health solutions across a wide range of therapeutic areas.The affiliation brings the clinical expertise and research capabilities of Brigham and Women’s Hospital together with Evidation
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Kareo Integrates EHR with GoodRx to Reduce Prescription Drug Costs
Kareo, a cloud-based EHR provider for independent medical practices has launched Kareo Rx Saver, an integrated solution with GoodRx that seamlessly delivers prescription cost savings to patients of physicians. Prescription drug prices often vary significantly across pharmacies, making it difficult for a patient to select the least costly option. To address this problem, Kareo has integrated its clinical EHR with with prescription and drug savings provider GoodRx to present real-time cost
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Tandigm Health to Implement athenahealth’s Population Health Solution
Tandigm Health, LLC, a value-based healthcare company supporting primary care physicians has selected athenahealth to implement its population health management tool to help advance population health management among its network of over 440 primary care physicians. As part of the implementation, Tandigm will utilize athenahealth Population Health for care management as well as analytics, risk stratification, and quality management to help facilitate patient-centered, value-based care.
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