StartUp Health, a platform where health transformers, partners, customers, investors, patients, and caregivers connect and accelerate the progress of the health moonshots announced it has added six new companies to its army of Healthcare Transformers.Every quarter, StartUp Health coaches its army of Health Transformers on how to create value, amplify their story, and ultimately achieve their Health Moonshot. Each company is supported for the entire journey of their business, through multiple
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Joe Kvedar, MD Elected Next President of American Telemedicine Association
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) today announced the election of Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, as President-Elect. Beginning in April 2020, Dr. Kvedar will become President for a year-long term, succeeding John Glaser, Ph.D., Executive Senior Advisor, Cerner, who will become Immediate Past President.
Dr. Kvedar Background
Dr. Kvedar is Vice President of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare, and Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kvedar previously served as President of
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Pfizer, Syapse Partner on Oncology Precision Medicine Using Real-World Evidence (RWE)
Syapse, a San Francisco, CA-based precision medicine company, today announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Pfizer to advance cancer outcomes research using real-world evidence (RWE) toward the ultimate goal of improving patient health. This collaboration will initially focus on the molecular testing and therapy choices on precision oncology journeys in the healthcare system setting.Syapse NetworkThe Syapse Network enables health systems and their providers to learn
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Pack Health, Glooko Partner to Integrate Real-Time Blood Glucose Monitoring
Digital health coaching platform Pack Health has announced a partnership with diabetes data management provider Glooko to integrate blood glucose monitoring. The integration will augment diabetes health coaching and care coordination services with remote real-time data for blood glucose control.Pack Health & Glooko Integration DetailsIntegrating data from Glooko's diabetes management app into Pack Health's coaching platform for chronic care management and monitoring will enable Health
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Konica Minolta to Accelerate Commercialization of Dynamic Digital Radiography in US Market
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a provider of medical imaging systems and healthcare IT, along with Shimadzu Medical Systems USA announced a collaborative agreement that will accelerate the commercialization of Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) in the US healthcare market. Konica Minolta, Inc. and Shimadzu Corporation collaborated on the development of DDR incorporating Konica Minolta's new advanced image processing and Shimadzu's RADspeed Pro radiographic imaging system.
The
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3 Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence is bringing about major innovations in healthcare in a number of different ways. While so much regarding artificial intelligence involves the future, but within healthcare, it is not just plans or intentions, but AI is already a concrete reality in the field.
It has all been set in motion by advances in machine learning and fueled by the increasing availability of healthcare data. AI aims to simulate human cognitive functions. It can replace human judgment in
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Depression App UpLift Raises $1M to Help People Fight Depression
UpLift is the first mobile consumer app for depression to be based on a complete course of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The new round of funding will be used to accelerate UpLift’s development and improve core technology, while also building out newly requested features like an enhanced gamification system, the ability to connect with a coach, and more evidence-based and personalized activities to improve users’ mood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Approach to DepressionUpLift
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UCLA Spin Out DEARhealth Lands $6M for AI-Powered Pathways for Chronic Care
DEARhealth, a health IT spin-out
from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has raised $6.8 million
in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered pathway platform for chronic care.
Participants in the Series A funding round include Philips Health Technology
Ventures, Vesalius Biocapital III and Health Innovations.
DEARhealth was founded in
2011 by Daniel Hommes as a research project when a team of UCLA specialists
designed a value-based care program for the management of chronic
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Yale, Mayo Clinic, Biofourmis Launches Research to Detect Heart Failure Using Wearable Biosensor Data
Biofourmis has entered a research partnership with the Yale University-Mayo Clinic Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI). Biofourmis' mobile platform BiovitalsHFTM will be leveraged in a study of patients with heart failure to monitor functional capacity and quality of life to see if greater emphasis should be placed on these measures in the drug approval process.Impact of Heart FailureHeart failure afflicts approximately 6.5 million patients in the United States and
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Notable Nabs $40M to Expand Drug Discovery Platform for Personalized Oncology
Notable, a San Francisco, CA-based company redefining cancer treatment with a clinically validated platform that rapidly advances cancer drug development has raised $40M in Series B funding. The Series B round is co-led by B Capital Group and LifeForce Capital. LifeForce is a returning investor, joined by new investors B Capital and Industry Ventures. This latest round brings Notable’s total funding to over $55M.Notable was founded in 2017 by Matt De Silva after helping his own father Marc, who
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