Today’s clinical trial recruitment model efforts are missing the mark. Here’s how pharma can fix it, ePatientFinder’s Tom Dorsett explains.Drug development is risky business. It takes years and billions of dollars to jump through the phases of development before a physician gets to scribble down a script for a patient. That’s if the drug ever makes it that far; about 85 percent will fail in clinical trials. It doesn’t help that today’s current clinical trial system is deeply flawed, especially
Read More
Digital Health | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
ViiMed Taps Redox’s API to Integrate EHRs for Interoperability
ViiMed, a telehealth software provider has partnered with Redox to integrate its platform with all major EHR providers like Epic, Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare, GE Healthcare, Meditech, Greenway Health, drchrono, and CPSI. The partnership will help healthcare organizations share, access, and connect the right data to make more informed decisions and provide higher-quality care. The cloud-based integration also helps healthcare organizations
Read More
Duke Clinic, PatientsLikeMe Launches Virtual Clinical Trial for ALS Patients
Today, PatientsLikeMe has launched a virtual clinical trial with The Duke ALS Clinic that evaluates the potential of Lunasin, a soy peptide, to reverse symptoms in ALS patients. The Lunasin Virtual Trial is the first study of the supplement in ALS patients and follows a review analyzing its potential to reverse ALS in ALSUntangled, a website for clinicians, patients and researchers to explore alternative treatments. This launch marks one of the most unusual trials in the condition's history
Read More
Google Acquires Eye Tracking Startup Eyefluence for VR/AR Focus
Google has acquired Eyefluence, an eye-interaction technology for AR, VR, and MR devices which transforms intent into action through the eyes. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. To date, the company has raised $21.6 million from Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, with participation from NHN Investment, Dolby Family Ventures, and Jazz Venture Partners. Traditional eye-tracking companies have tried to translate eye movement into a method for control using the same principles
Read More
Salus Telehealth, Video Medicine Merge to Form Full Service Telehealth Company
Salus Telehealth and VideoMedicine have merged a to form a new end to end telehealth company – Salus Telehealth, Inc. The new full service telehealth company will offer comprehensive telemedicine device and software solutions, including a direct to consumer healthcare apps. As part of the merger, the new Board of Directors will be made up of an equal number of members from VideoMedicine and Salus Telehealth. Paula Guy has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the newly formed
Read More
Brigham and Women’s, Evidation Health Partner to Measure Impact of Digital Health Solutions
Brigham and Women’s Innovation Hub (iHub) and Evidation Health has announced a strategic partnership to measure the real life impact of digital health solutions on clinical and economic outcomes. As part of the partnership, Evidation Health will help Brigham and Women’s iHub accelerate clinical trials for digital health solutions across a wide range of therapeutic areas.The affiliation brings the clinical expertise and research capabilities of Brigham and Women’s Hospital together with Evidation
Read More
Cardiogram Raises $2M for Apple Watch Heart Rate, aFib Tracker
Digital health startup Cardiogram has raised $2 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz's new Bio Fund with participation from Halle Tecco (Rock Health Co-founder ), Jeff Hammerbacher (Assistant Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Kevin Scott (SVP Engineering of LinkedIn) and more. Cardiogram detects abnormal heart rhythms with the Apple Watch and displays those results into an app store-like interface, where consumers can pick a habit, “check off” their daily progress,
Read More
Propeller Health Lands $21.5M to Modernize Respiratory Disease Management
Propeller Health, a digital solution for respiratory medicine has raised $21.5 million in Series C funding from 3M Ventures, S.R. One, Limited, Hikma Ventures and existing investors Safeguard Scientifics and Social Capital. The round also includes participation from existing investors Safeguard Scientifics and Social Capital. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand Propeller’s FDA-cleared digitally-guided therapy platform. Despite an abundance of effective medications, the burden of
Read More
Medidata Launches AppConnect Partner Program to Build Apps For Clinical Trials
Medidata, a provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced the launch of its AppConnect Partner Program in support of mobile health (mHealth) innovation. The program combines Medidata’s cloud and mHealth technology with access to digital health firms that have extensive experience developing patient engagement tools for clinical development, such as mobile apps and remote patient research platforms.Boston Technology Corporation, LifeMap Solutions and
Read More
Sutter Health, Validic Launch Patient-Generated Health Data Pilot Project
Sutter Health and digital health integration platform Validic has teamed up to launch a new federal pilot project to demonstrate how patient-generated health data (PGHD) can best be delivered to clinicians and researchers to improve patient care and outcomes. The pilot will focus on providing remote care and interventions using digital health devices to better manage and engage a population of individuals suffering from Type II diabetes. Results of this work will inform government policy and
Read More
