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- Accenture announced Ellipsis Health as the “Innovation Champion” of its fifth annual Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge-North America, a competition that supports new and novel solutions from startups to improve the way people access, manage and finance healthcare in North America.
- Based in San Francisco, CA, Ellipsis Health was named this year’s Innovation Champion for pioneering an artificial intelligence-powered, speech-based vital sign to
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Fitbit to Provide Onduo Members with Fitbit Devices/Services to Help Manage Holistic Health
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- Today, Onduo and Fitbit announced a collaboration to provide Onduo members with Fitbit devices and services to help take a more proactive approach to managing their holistic health.
- By offering the Fitbit experience alongside Onduo’s multi-condition platform, that supports people managing one or more chronic health conditions like diabetes, hypertension or mental health conditions, members will have access to a more comprehensive view of how all
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UltraSight, GE Healthcare Partner to Bring Wireless Cardiac Point of Care Ultrasound
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- Today UltraSight, a digital health pioneer, announced a new partnership with GE Healthcare that will bring AI-assisted wireless, cardiac ultrasound to space. They will conduct a study aboard the upcoming Axiom ‘Rakia’ space mission and record images of an astronaut’s heart in microgravity, using UltraSight’s real-time AI guidance software and GE Healthcare’s handheld GE Vscan AirTM.
- The goal of this study is to prove how easy it is to acquire accurate
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AlleyCorp Launches $100M Healthcare Venture Fund for NYC Early-Stage Digital Health Startups
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- AlleyCorp, a NYC firm dedicated to founding, funding, and building transformative companies across industries today announced the launch of the AlleyCorp Healthcare Fund, an $100M early-stage venture capital healthcare fund and incubator. The physician-led healthcare fund builds on AlleyCorp’s momentum in digital health and responds to the growing need and opportunity, made all the more urgent by the pandemic, to enable higher-quality, lower-cost healthcare for
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3 Ways Digital Health is Transforming Decentralized Clinical Trials
Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs) have been gaining steam over the last decade, but it was the COVID-19 pandemic that cast its advantages into the limelight. Sponsors benefit by creating efficiencies virtually throughout drug discovery, research, and treatment phases. However, the greatest long-term benefactors will ultimately be the patients.
Many aspects of traditional clinical trials are inconvenient for potential candidates, including the commute distance to trial sites, time
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Membersy Raises $66M for Dental Subscription Management/Billing Platform
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- membersy, the digital health company democratizing access to quality dental care through subscription-based dentistry, today announced it has raised $66 million from Spectrum Equity. The growth-investment coincides with several board member additions that will help guide the company as it reorients the dental industry's existing payment methodologies, empowering DSOs to engage and support their communities with subscription-based payment options and competitive pricing
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Inaugural AWS Healthcare Accelerator Finalists Announced
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- Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced the ten finalists and participants for the first ever AWS Healthcare Accelerator. The ten companies were selected from 427 applications from 31 countries around the world by a panel from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and KidsX. The AWS Healthcare Accelerator is a four-week technical, business, and mentorship accelerator opportunity open to U.S.-based healthcare startups or international healthcare startups that have
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TRIPP Launches First Augmented Reality Experience On 5G-Powered Glasses
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- TRIPP, a Los Angeles, CA-based XR wellness and digital psychedelic platform, today announced its continued expansion beyond virtual reality into augmented reality (AR), launching on Nreal’s mixed reality glasses in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany and Spain. TRIPP was also selected as one of six companies to join T-Mobile’s Wellness Accelerator Program, working directly with technologists and business leaders at T-Mobile to build other 5G-powered experiences that
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How Machine Learning Is Helping Consumers Take Action on Their Health
For years machine learning (ML) has been touted as a way for health plans to leverage the mounds of data they collect on their members, but practical use cases remain relatively uncommon. For some, the perception may be that ML is a futuristic and somewhat impersonal way to operate, but the exact opposite is true — ML is already being used and is here to stay, and when deployed correctly it actually creates a more personalized experience for members.
The first thought might be that ML and
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Matternet Launches World’s First City-Wide Medical Drone Delivery Network in Abu Dhabi
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- Today, Matternet announced the launch of the world's first city-wide drone delivery network for the rapid transport of medical goods in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) and logistics company Skygo. The network will significantly increase the connectivity of the Emirate’s health ecosystem and position it as a global leader in advanced air mobility. The DoH shared news of the project yesterday (press release).
- To bring
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