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- Houston Methodist joins the Ion as its first healthcare-centric partner in its growing innovation hub.
- The hospital will build out a space at the Ion modeled after Houston Methodist’s Center for Innovation Technology Hub located at its flagship hospital in the Texas Medical Center to showcase the latest in healthcare innovation.
Opening a New Window Into the Future of Healthcare
The Ion anchors a 16-acre innovation district, the epicenter for
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Favor Teams Up with imaware to Offer Discrete At-Home STI Tests to Women and People Who Menstruate
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- Digital health solutions company imaware today announced its collaboration with Favor (formerly The Pill Club), the leading integrated digital healthcare platform, to offer at-home sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing for it’s more than 220K patients across the country.
- This custom, one-of-a-kind test kit goes beyond existing at-home STI tests on the market to provide women and people who menstruate with a more comprehensive and accurate picture of their
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Caregility and Eko Integrate to Address Gap in Telehealth
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- Caregility, an enterprise telehealth platform company, and Eko, the market leader in stethoscopes for telehealth, today announced an integration partnership.
- Caregility’s cloud platform now seamlessly integrates with Eko’s smart stethoscopes and software, enabling users of Caregility’s iConsult application to perform high-quality auscultation (heart, lung, and other body sounds) on patients during a virtual physical exam.
Addressing Virtual Care Gaps to Improve
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Preventative Health Programs Need to Address 3 Key Components
Combination of genetic testing, custom nutrition/exercise/mental wellbeing planning, and personal coaching thwarts chronic metabolic diseases through habit change.
The most effective approach to treating chronic disease today focuses on behavior change and prevention. Condition management is yesterday’s innovation; the real key is keeping healthy people healthy in the first place. Smart preventative treatment involves highly personalized experiences informed by behavioral genetic
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Rethinking Custom RTLS: Indoor Positioning Simplified as a Service
For healthcare facilities, real-time location services (RTLS) were initially established on premise for patient safety to later become a priority in mainstreaming operations, improving patient care and experience and employee satisfaction.
Originally introduced to the industry as a security-centric measure to protect newborns, and prevent infant abduction, RTLS was a simple solution that has been effective, and facilities began to see a number of additional benefits. But it required a
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Intelerad Acquires PenRad Technologies
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- Today, Intelerad, a leading global provider of enterprise medical imaging solutions, announced its acquisition of PenRad, a software provider for enhancing productivity for breast imaging and lung screening.
- The acquisition expands Intelerad’s product offerings for mammography and lung analytics, ensuring radiologists, technologists and other healthcare professionals can drive greater productivity and meet higher oncology screening demand, while improving patient
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Philips Appoints New CEO Amid Respiratory Device Recall
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- Philips today announced that Roy Jakobs is proposed to succeed Frans van Houten as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective October 15, 2022.
- The Supervisory Board and current Philips CEO Frans van Houten have agreed that with the end of his third term in sight, the time is right for the change in leadership. After a comprehensive evaluation of external and internal candidates, the Supervisory Board has unanimously decided to propose Roy Jakobs as the
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Maven Launches Menopause Care Product
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- Maven Clinic, the world's largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, today announced that it has expanded its full-spectrum reproductive health platform to include a dedicated program for Menopause and Ongoing Care.
Maven’s Menopause and Ongoing Care program, which already spans nearly 1 million lives across 40 employers, employers can now offer their employees a dedicated program that provides holistic and specialized support throughout every phase of
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Bicycle Health, Tele911 Partner to Bring OUD Care to Emergency Patients
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- Bicycle Health, a provider of virtual opioid addiction treatment, and Tele911, a telemedicine company specializing in reducing medically unnecessary ambulance transports of stable 911 patients to hospital ERs, today announced a partnership to increase access to opioid use disorder care for patients in emergency situations.
- The partnership between the two organizations will ensure that patients experiencing health crises stemming from or in addition to opioid use
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Naborforce Raises $9M to Connect Older Adults to On-Demand Support & Engagement
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- Naborforce, a high-growth elder tech company that connects older adults to a network of trusted "Nabors" for on-demand support and social engagement, announced the closing of a $9 million Series A financing round led by Translink Capital.
- Translink Capital, a global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, is joined by existing investors Claritas Capital The Artemis Fund, and TechStars. Naborforce will use the financing to further invest in its
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