H1, a company helping healthcare organizations with live data insights to help fight diseases, today launched a new Strategy as a Service offering designed to help clients accelerate the market research phase of drug development.The company’s new DaVinci service begins at $10,000, which can help clients cut time-to-market in half, spans:- Market Landscape: Validate your strategy against an up-to-date, comprehensive picture of products and patient needs in your market.- Competitive
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Fitbit Launches New Connected Health Platform for Employers, Health Plans and Health Systems
Global wearables provider Fitbit, today launched Fitbit Care, a connected health platform for employers, health plans and health systems that combines health coaching and virtual care through the new Fitbit Plus™ app, Fitbit’s innovative wearable devices, and self-tracking and personalized digital interventions to help improve wellness, disease management, and prevention.With the introduction of Fitbit Care, Fitbit is delivering on its commitments to expand the company’s healthcare offerings and
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Inova Personalized Health Accelerator Invests in Cyrano Therapeutic
Inova Personalized Health Accelerator (IPHA), announced it has invested in a new therapy company Cyrano Therapeutics that is developing a solution to address a major unmet need in patients with olfactory impairment. Sense of smell can often be taken for granted until it is lost. This occurs most commonly by sino-nasal disease and upper respiratory infection, and in many cases, by head trauma.Cyrano Therapeutics understands the profound impact these senses can have on the quality of life and is
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SnapMD Raises $7.1M to Expand Virtual Care Management Platform
SnapMD, a Los Angeles, CA-based full-service enterprise telehealth technology innovator, and solutions provider, today announced it has raised $7.1 million in Series B funding. This brings the LA-based startup’s total capital raised to date to $16.3 million. Participating investors included the original syndicate. The company will use the latest funding to further advance its telemedicine platform and accelerate its sales and marketing efforts.SnapMD Virtual Care Management Platform
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GE Healthcare, DiA Analysis Launches AI-Powered Ejection Fraction App for Mobile Ultrasound
GE Healthcare and DiA Analysis offer first-ever AI-powered ejection fraction app for a mobile ultrasound. DiA Imaging Analysis Ltd. (DiA), a provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ultrasound analysis tools, today announced that its LVivo EF cardiac decision-support software is now available for purchase for GE’s new Vscan Extend™ handheld, pocket-sized ultrasound. Ejection fraction (EF) evaluation is a key diagnostic criterion driving various treatment strategies in point-of-care
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The Impact of Digitization on Patient Experience is Here
Hospitals, and medical clinics in general, have complex and ever-changing environments. However, one thing that never changes is the overall commitment to put patients first and ensure that they’re provided with the best possible experience. First and foremost, that experience is about health and making sure patients are treated as quickly as possible with no complications. To that end, everything from bedside manner to wait times are closely monitored in an effort to provide patients with the
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VisualDx Launches AI-Driven Smart Symptom Checker App for Skin Conditions
Aysa is a first of its kind AI-driven app set to revolutionize the way consumers to educate themselves and make more informed decisions about their personal skin conditions. Aysa is trained through the VisualDx platform which combines clinical search and medical knowledge from experts with a database of more than 120,000 of the best medical images in the world.But what does that really mean? With the power of machine learning, Aysa enables people with no medical background to use the app to
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Livongo Launches Cellular-Enabled Blood Pressure Monitoring System
Digital health startup Livongo, today announced the first cellular-enabled blood pressure monitoring system in the U.S. that allows for easy checking and reporting from home, eliminating the so-called ‘White Coat’ syndrome that leads to unnecessary prescriptions for high blood pressure, and it also enables real-time insights and Health Nudges delivered when it is most effective. The cellular-enabled monitoring system allows blood pressure data to transfer seamlessly from ‘Cuff to Cloud’TM.
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Accenture, Merck, Amazon Team Up to Launch Cloud-based Informatics Platform for Life Sciences
In the Life Sciences research space, there has been a tendency to underinvest in technology. As a result, much of the current infrastructure is outdated, fragmented and unable to keep up with breakthroughs in modern science and technology.To help solve this technology challenge, Accenture, Merck and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are announcing a new, pre-competitive collaboration to launch a cloud-based informatics platform that will allow Life Sciences companies improve productivity, efficiency,
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MedTech Startup Endotronix Lands $45M for Heart Failure System
Endotronix, Inc., a digital health, MedTech company dedicated to advancing the treatment of heart failure, today announced it has raised $45 million in Series D funding led by LSP, investing from its LSP Health Economics Fund 2. The round also included participation from Aperture Venture Partners, BioVentures Investors, Lumira Ventures, OSF Ventures, Seroba Life Sciences, SV Health Investors, Wanxiang Healthcare Investments, and an unnamed corporate strategic investor.The medtech startups plans
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