The healthcare industry is facing numerous global challenges in 2018, with ballooning costs, changing payment models and new legislation that routinely changes the relationship between patients, regulators, health care providers and health insurance carriers. With an aging global population and worldwide healthcare spending expected to grow from $7.1 trillion to $8.7 trillion by 2020, new technologies, products, and services in the healthcare space must demonstrate cost-effectiveness while
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Indie Health Integrates Digital Health Devices into Life365’s Telehealth Platform
Indie Health highlighted positive market response for its collaboration with Life365 during the Connected Health conference today, delivering Indie’s highly optimized, standardized and easy-to-integrate Bluetooth Smart digital health devices to Life365's telehealth customers. For 18 months, Indie Health has been the preferred provider of digital health devices for Life365's remote monitoring platform under a preferred partnership.As the founder of MedApps, Dicks pioneered the development of
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DexCom Integrates Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data with Validic Data Connectivity Platform
DexCom, Inc., a provider of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) solutions, announced a partnership with data integration platform Validic. As part of the partnership, DexCom will integrate CGM data from Dexcom’s cloud API is integrated into the Validic’s connectivity platform to establish a multi-measure platform to stream in-home clinical data directly into clinical workflows and systems. This partnership is part of a larger effort to improve the interoperability of clinical systems and provide
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Infographic: Connecting the Dots in the Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT)
Healthcare will benefit massively from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which could help to optimize care, give patients more tailored treatment, and reduce readmission rates, but there are significant barriers to its adoption that have yet to be resolved. This infographic created by PodM2M sets out how to illustrate how IoT connectivity could benefit the healthcare sector and explores the issues that stand in the way of full adoption.
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Medisafe Integrates with Apple Health Records to Prevent Drug-to-Drug Interactions
Medisafe's new life-saving integration with Apple Health Records, which just became available to consumers. Medisafe is a medication management app that helps prevent deadly drug-to-drug interactions as well as fending off thousands of health risks and preventable hospitalizations. With Health Records, Medisafe can surface medications from multiple providers, and people will have even more access to their medication records and knowledge of potential DDIs.DDIs cause nearly 74,000 emergency room
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HealthXCapital Launches $25M Early-Stage Digital Health VC Fund in SE Asia and India
Singapore-based venture capital firm HealthXCapital today announced the launch of its US$25 million digital health venture capital (VC) fund focused on emerging markets in South East Asia and India. The fund was backed by Apollo Hospitals, Jungle Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures (the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited), and other undisclosed private investors.HealthXCapital will focus on addressing: Access & Affordability — by investing in innovative healthcare
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Lyft Partners with Luna Physical Therapists to Provide up to $500 in Travel Credits
Ridesharing company Lyft today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Luna, a Bay Area-based organization that's re-imagining the patient and physical therapist experience by providing state of the art, on-demand care to patients in need. This partnership enables physical therapists in urban areas to focus solely on patient care, at the patient’s home, by exclusively leveraging Lyft’s rideshare service.“Imagine a world where the physical therapist completes their patient visit, walks out
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Ada to Become the First AI-based Medical App to be Offered in Swahili
Ada will become the first health guidance app to feature Swahili language integration, making its health assessment technology available to more than 100 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ada, an AI-powered health platform that helps individuals understand their health and navigate to appropriate care, announced the launch of its Global Health Initiative (GHI) through partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Foundation Botnar. GHI is a series of major projects focused on
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4 Reasons Why Secure Messaging Apps Are The Best Option for Boosting Patient Engagement & Health Outcomes
Patient engagement is now a critical component of healthcare, as organizations utilize both traditional and modern communications methods to differentiate their businesses, deliver superior patient care and reduce costs.Today, 74 percent of healthcare executives would like to automate patient engagement, according to a recent study by Conversa Health and World Business Research. Unfortunately, many of these same executives don’t know how or where to begin to do so. From automating
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Health2047 Spin Out Launches with $2M to Build Platform for People Living with Prediabetes
Health2047 Inc., an American Medical Association-backed company that develops and commercializes solutions to transform healthcare at the system level, today announced the spin out of First Mile Care. With $2M in seed funding, First Mile Care is a preventive chronic care startup that is building an affordable, scalable and sustainable platform to improve the lives of people who have prediabetes. Development is already underway for First Mile Care’s initial platform offering is based on the
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