What You Should Know:
- Ontrak acquires LifeDojo Inc, a San Francisco, CA-based
comprehensive, science-backed behavior change platform.
- The acquisition broadens Ontrak’s addressable market
and footprint to lower acuity populations enabling new interventions and remote
patient monitoring.
Ontrak, Inc., a
leading AI-powered
and telehealth-enabled,
virtualized healthcare company, today announced that it has acquired
LifeDojo Inc, a comprehensive, science-backed behavior change
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Mayo Clinic Launches Vocal Biomarker Study for Pulmonary Hypertension Detection
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic announced a collaboration with Vocalis
Health to to research and develop new voice-based tools for screening, detecting
and monitoring patient health, beginning with a study to identify vocal
biomarkers to detect pulmonary hypertension (PH).
- The clinical validation study will utilize Vocalis
Health’s proprietary software, which can operate on any connected voice
platform (mobile, computer, tablet, etc.) to analyze patients’ health based on
voice
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Fern Health Taps 10M Mass General De-Identified Patient Records for Pain Management
What You Should Know:
- Fern Health will reveal a
first-of-its-kind collaboration with Mass General Hospital where it will inform
existing and future digitally-delivered pain management programs through the
marriage of AI + predictive analytics with 10 million de-identified Mass
General patient records.
- MGH will validate emerging Fern Health products and pilot new products in clinical environments, setting the stage for Fern expansion into all aspects of non-invasive multimodal pain
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Fitbit Receives $2.5M Award from Army for COVID-19 Early Detection
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command selects Fitbit to advance the development of a wearable diagnostic capability for the early detection of COVID-19 infection.
- Fitbit plans to initiate a prospective
study with Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research to
validate its COVID-19 early detection algorithm.
Fitbit announced today it has been selected by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) to
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Intuitive Launches $100M Venture Fund to Accelerate Future of Minimally Invasive Care
What You Should Know:
- Technology leader Intuitive forms $100M
inaugural fund to invest in the future leaders of minimally invasive care.
- The venture fund will invest in innovative early-stage companies across digital, medical device, therapeutic, and diagnostic domains. that will support independent initiatives in the direct and adjacent fields of minimally invasive care.
Intuitive,
a Sunnyvale, CA-based technology leader in minimally invasive care and the
pioneer of
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XRHealth to Launch Virtual Reality Telehealth Clinic in Israel In November
What You Should Know:
- XRHealth announce it will launch a new virtual reality telehealth clinic in Israel, slated to open on November 1st.
- The VR-driven telehealth clinic treats patients in
Israel for symptoms related to Stress & Anxiety, ADHD, Motor &
Cognitive Rehabilitation, post-COVID-19, Parkinson’s, Brain Injury, and more.
XRHealth, a Boston, MA-based provider of extended reality therapeutic applications, today announced a new virtual reality
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Medidata Acquires Digital Biomarker Business of MC10 / Clinical Trials & Wearable Sensors
What You Should Know:
- Clinical trials technology company Medidata has
acquired the digital biomarker business of MC10.
- MC10’s offerings will bring novel clinical analytics
and biosensor capabilities to Medidata’s existing technology solutions,
enhancing Medidata’s capabilities to integrate data from wearable sensors –
including clinical grade metrics – in clinical trials.
- With this acquisition, Medidata’s integrated offering
will help provide life sciences companies and device
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COVID-19 Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…
This will be ugly and sad. Racism has cost this country $16 trillion over the last twenty years according to a recent Citigroup report. Much of this loss ($13 trillion) was attributed to discriminatory lending practices and the 6.1 million fewer jobs created as a result, while disparity in wages ($2.7 trillion) and discrimination in housing policies and lost income due to restricted access to higher education accounted for the balance. The report estimates that if these gaps were to be
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WHO, Wikipedia Expands Public Access to Trusted Info About COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia
Foundation forms collaboration to expand public access to reliable, trusted information
about COVID-19.
- The collaboration is part of a shared commitment from
both organizations to ensure everyone has access to critical public health
information surrounding the global coronavirus pandemic.
The World Health Organization
(WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers
Wikipedia,
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10 Google Search Terms Can Help Experts Predict COVID-19 Hot Spots
What You Should Know:
- New Mayo Clinic study reveals strong correlations were found between keyword searches on the internet search engine Google Trends and COVID-19 outbreaks in parts of the U.S.
- The Mayo Clinic study searched for 10 keywords that
were chosen based on how commonly they were used and emerging patterns on the
internet and in Google News at that time.
Strong correlations were found between keyword searches on
the internet search engine Google Trends and
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