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- Rendever, the company pioneering the future of aging through VR acquires AARP’s Alcove, a popular consumer VR platform publicly available to families at home through their own VR headsets.
- The Rendever team has been co-developing Alcove with AARP since 2020. By bringing Alcove in-house, Rendever is amplifying its reach through an integrated ecosystem of products that enable a better aging experience for seniors worldwide, regardless of where they live.
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NuraLogix Unveils Telehealth Platform Performing Continuous Health/Vital Signs During Video Calls
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- NuraLogix, global pioneers of contactless health monitoring whose technology can take over 30 medical-grade health vitals using any video-enabled device, unveils Anura™ Telehealth, a platform that performs continuous health and vital sign measurements while on a video call.
- This is the latest addition to its AnuraTM platform that uses conventional video cameras to extract facial blood flow information to accurately calculate a host of medical vitals and health
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C2i Genomics & AstraZeneca Partner to Advance Cancer Therapy
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- C2i Genomics, a cancer intelligence company, today announced a strategic collaboration with AstraZeneca, a global life sciences and pharmaceutical leader.
- The two companies have collaborated to evaluate the potential of whole-genome minimal residual disease (MRD) testing across solid cancers.
- Expanding on a completion of AstraZeneca’s accelerator BeyondBio SCALE program for start-ups and successful technology validation, C2i Genomics and AstraZeneca
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The Patient Journey Tech Stack: 10 Pharma Predictions for 2023
The complexity of demands on Market Access teams has increased in recent years, between introducing innovative therapies targeting smaller populations and higher bars from Payers and PBMs.
Now, drug manufacturers are bucking up. According to the IQVIA Institute, the prescription abandonment rate has reached 27 percent, or $76 billion annually, in specialty drugs alone. This squandered revenue has led manufacturers to increase their focus on the complex, nuanced patient journey.
As a
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Withings Unveils Mini At-Home Urine Analysis Platform for Clinical Trials & RPM
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- During a press preview event at CES last night, Withings unveiled, U-Scan, a miniaturized urine health lab that will change the way people and health professionals will monitor vitals from the comfort and privacy of their own bathroom.
- U-Scan consists of a technologically advanced pebble-shaped urine analysis reader that sits within the toilet bowl. Its changeable cartridges are designed to assess specific biomarkers without the need for
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Valencell Unveils Calibration-Free, Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor
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- Valencell, the company whose optical heart rate technology enabled the ability of wearables to accurately measure cardiovascular vitals during exercise, today announced plans to launch its own branded product line in the digital health sector as it concentrates efforts to bring solutions to market to manage chronic diseases.
- The company’s first product candidate being showcased at CES is focused on helping people monitor and manage hypertension by combining
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The Evolution from Hearing Aids to Wellness Devices
Here’s what we know from decades of research: Hearing loss affects health and well-being, but people with hearing loss are often reluctant to wear hearing aids. Of course, they’re doing themselves no favors. But when they do finally opt for hearing assistance (on average, about seven years after they learn they need it), we also now know that the longer people wear hearing aids — throughout the day, for instance, rather than just in certain situations — the healthier they tend to be. Better
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Real-World Study Uses AI to Identify Undiagnosed Dementia in Primary Care
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- Rising to meet the formidable challenge of the timely diagnosis of dementia, research scientists from Regenstrief Institute, IUPUI and the medical schools of Indiana University and the University of Miami are conducting the Digital Detection of Dementia study, a real-world evaluation of the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool they developed for early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in primary care, the setting where most adults
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Why The Future of Lateral Flow Testing is Digital
Lateral flow immunoassay tests (or LFTs, for short) have been in use for decades, becoming an indispensable tool within diagnostics’ (Dx) practice, as well as a growing range of applications outside healthcare. LFT's capacity for delivering fast turnaround—rapid detection in less than 20 minutes—from sample to result has made LFTs central to the shift moving triage and primary care closer to the patient at point-of-care (POC) and point-of-need (PON).
Being intuitive for the user,
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Kahun Taps MediOrbis to Offer AI-Powered Digital Intake and Triage Services
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- MediOrbis, a multi-specialty telehealth company today announces a strategic partnership with Kahun, the clinical reasoning tool that performs dynamic clinical assessments at scale.
- The strategic partnership will enable MediOrbis to offer Kahun’s proprietary AI-driven digital intake tool as a part of its comprehensive telehealth platform.
- By offering Kahun’s proprietary AI-driven digital intake tool as a part of its comprehensive
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