What You Should Know:
- TytoCare, a global all-in-one modular device and examination platform for AI-powered, on-demand, remote medical exams, announced today its partnership with Al-Futtaim Electronic-Techserve, a group company of Al-Futtaim. The partnership with TytoCare will enable Al-Futtaim to broaden its reach across the healthcare spectrum, covering all touchpoints, from specialists to local clinics.
- Al-Futtaim Group is a large
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Implementing Responsible AI to Drive Innovation in Clinical Research & Precision Medicine
Researchers might be skeptical and, with people’s lives at stake, that’s understandable. Here’s how to take advantage of the advances while ensuring safeguards are in place.
As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning drive innovation and disruption in clinical trials and precision medicine, questions around the responsible use of AI have moved to the forefront of debates among healthcare stakeholders – patients, providers, regulatory authorities, payors and sponsors. To what extent,
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Casana Raises $30M for Effortless Home Health Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Casana, a healthcare technology firm that is reinventing in-home health monitoring announced it has raised $30M in Series B funding, bringing the total capital raised to $46 million led by Morningside with participation from Matrix Partners, as well as Series A investors General Catalyst and Outsiders Fund.
- The Series B funding will allow Casana to accelerate FDA submission of the Heart Seat with the goal to obtain FDA approval and bring this important new device
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Capital Rx, Independa, and LG TV Partner to Bring Discount Prescription Meds to Older Adults
What You Should Know:
- Capital Rx is partnering with Independa, a telehealth engagement platform for seniors, to bring its prescription savings card to the older adult population via LG TVs.
- Independa, a provider of TV-based remote engagement, education and care, and LG Electronics, a global leader in TV manufacturing, together launched the Independa Health Hub™ Ecosystem of Healthy Offerings on LG TVs at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show. In introducing the Capital Rx Advantage
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Alphabet’s Verily + L’Oréal Partner to Advance Precision Skin Health
What You Should Know:
- Today, Alphabet’s Verily, a world leader in personalized medicine, and L’Oréal, the world leader in beauty, joined forces to lead a new era of precision skin health.
- The first-of-its-kind partnership in the beauty industry aims to break down barriers to dermatology care and bring new insights to dermatologists that can help improve health outcomes for the nearly two billion people worldwide with skin issues.
Strategic Partnership Addresses Unmet Need in
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DarioHealth Acquires Physimax, AI-Powered Musculoskeletal Self-Assessment and Optimization Platform
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- Global digital therapeutics (DTx) company DarioHealth Corp. (Nasdaq: DRIO), a leader in the market (the Company), announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase all of the right, title and interest in certain assets of Physimax Technologies Ltd. ("Physimax"), a leading provider of computer vision (CV) technology for Musculoskeletal (MSK) functional screening and predictive risk of injury assessment.
- This acquisition complements DarioHealth’s existing MSK
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Theranica Publishes Largest Ever Real-World Study of a Migraine Device
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- Theranica, a prescribed digital therapeutics company developing advanced electroceuticals for migraine and other pain conditions, announced today the publication of a new peer-reviewed study analyzing the efficacy, safety and sustainability of remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) as a standalone, and medication adjunct, treatment of migraine.
- The real-world evidence study published in Frontiers in Pain Research Journal concludes that REN, administered by
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Syapse, Pfizer Extends Collaboration to Generate Real-World Evidence in Breast Cancer
What You Should Know:
- Syapse, a real-world evidence company that informs cancer care, announced that it will extend its collaboration with Pfizer to generate real-world evidence in breast cancer.
- This is the third phase of the collaboration, which was first announced in 2019 and renewed in 2021.
Generate Real-World Evidence in Breast Cancer
As part of the next phase of the collaboration, Syapse will provide insights and services to Pfizer, using the Syapse Learning Health Network
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Blue Shield of California Adds Ginger to Expand Mental Health Support
What You Should Know:
- Blue Shield of California today announced that its health plan members who are enrolled in the Wellvolution program now have access to Headspace Health's Ginger on-demand, personalized mental health support that can be accessed on their smartphone.
- Ginger is an on-demand mental health platform that can help individuals manage anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and other mental health challenges. The service provides eligible Blue Shield members easy access to
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Platform Launches to Help Eliminate Biases in Decentralized Trials
What You Should Know:
- Obviohealth, a decentralized clinical trial platform, has launched a new AI-assisted clinical raters platform to eliminate biases from trials.
The platform Augmented ePRO (electronic patient-reported outcomes), has been designed to assist clinical raters to better score patient outcomes, without biases.
Why It Matters
As more trials take place virtually or decentralized, clinical researchers are at the mercy of the quality of the information provided by the
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