GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an agreement to acquire Novartis’ consumer healthcare joint venture for $13 billion. The acquisition will enable GSK’s shareholders to capture the full value of GSK’s Consumer Healthcare growth and is well positioned to deliver sales growth, operating margin improvements and attractive returns.Upon terms of the agreement, India remains a priority market for GSK investment and growth. The Consumer Healthcare business will continue to invest in growth
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New Study Uses Fitbit Devices to Assess Impact of Sleep Tracker Data on Patient-Provider Communication
A new study from the National Sleep Foundation and Merck, in collaboration with the Regenstrief Institute, will use Fitbit devices to examine whether using sleep tracker data might improve patient-provider communication, and ultimately, patient satisfaction with that communication.Study participants will use Fitbit Charge2 devices to help collect real-time sleep data and securely deliver this information to the NSF’s SleepLife secure interface, accessible to both the patient and their physician.
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Western Maryland Health Taps Artifact Health to Streamline Physician Query Process
Western Maryland Health System has selected Artifact Health, a mobile platform that streamlines the physician query process to make it fast and easy for physicians to answer queries that improve the quality of patient records, ensure full reimbursement for services, and increase collaboration between clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and coding staff.With the implementation of Artifact Health’s mobile query platform, WMHS physicians can respond to a query compliantly in under a minute
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Pitt Launches Innovation Center for Advanced Surgical Technologies
The University of Pittsburgh opened a unique high-tech research, training and innovation center yesterday for industry partners focused on advancing surgical techniques.Called Pittsburgh CREATES, or Collaborative Research Education and Technology Enhancement in Surgery, the center will work directly with companies to address their challenges and advance minimally invasive approaches to surgery across disciplines. Leveraging its ties to both the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Pittsburgh
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NTT DATA Partners with DataFirst to Expand Clinical AI Capabilities
NTT DATA Services has announced its partnership with DataFirst, Inc. to allow for seamless patient data sharing between platforms, which will expand its Imaging Insights service and clinical artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This partnership creates valuable opportunities during and following data migration in live care situations to better use clinical imaging data for quality of diagnoses and insights on patient health. DataFirst’s suite of interoperability solutions allows patient
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LetsGetChecked Raises $12M to Expand At Home Health Testing Platform
LetsGetChecked, a Dublin, Ireland-based medical health testing platform that allows customers to access regulated laboratory testing and self-test from the comfort of home, announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding to fuel US expansion. Led by Optum Ventures, the independent venture fund of health services leader Optum, and Qiming Venture Partners, a leading Chinese venture capital firm, the funding will be used to scale the company, fuel development of the technology platform
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Report: EHR Integration Is the Biggest Cost Driver for Mobile Health App Development
Today the average mobile health app costs $425,000 to develop until launch including internal and external development costs as well as marketing costs, according to a recent Research2Guidance report. The report, “mHealth Economics – How mHealth App Publishers Are Monetizing Their Apps” reveals the cost of developing mobile health apps has significantly increased over the last few years with the typical project size ranging from $30k-40k to now ballooning up to several million for top apps. In
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Babyscripts Launches Care Navigator Module to Support Underserved Expecting Mothers
Washington D.C.-based digital health startup Babyscripts, the first mobile, clinical tool to allow OB/GYNs to remotely monitor their pregnant patients’ progress and health, has launched the Care Navigator module to extend its offering to underserved expecting moms. The new module adds additional features to cater to women who have poor access to care, and/or deal with external challenges, which threaten their ability to access care. The new module is a slight departure from Babyscripts’ other
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DarioHealth Awarded FDA (510K) Clearance for iPhone Smart Glucose Meter App
DarioHealth, an Israli-based global digital health company with mobile healthand big data solutions, announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Pre-market Notification (510(k)) clearance for the Company's Lightning®-enabled version of the acclaimed Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System which enables the use of the Dario app on iPhone 7, 8 and X smart mobile devices (SMD). Consumers in the U.S. market will be able to receive the same quality user
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Sheba Medical Center Declares Israel’s “City of Health”, Inks $350M Deal
Sheba Medical Center, just signed a $350 million deal with Israel’s Ministries of Finance and Health to transform Sheba Medical Center into a groundbreaking “City of Health.” With Israel’s Independence Day quickly approaching on April 18th, this is the perfect time for this exciting partnership to launch that will change the future of medicine around the world. This collaboration truly exemplifies the magnificent parallel growth between Sheba and the State of Israel, both created in 1948. Just
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