Human API, a San Mateo, CA-based health data network has raised $10 million funding from new investors Guardian Life Insurance Company and SCOR Life and Health Ventures, as well as returning backers BlueRun Ventures and Max Levchin's SciFi VC. The company plans to utilize the latest round of funding to accelerate product development and market expansion. Founded in 2013, Human API's data platform allows users to access, centralize and share their health data from a rapidly expanding network of
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CHIME Launches Innovation Center to Foster Health IT Innovation
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today launched CHIME Innovation to facilitate the creation and adoption of healthcare technology innovation and to improve health and care globally. The launch marks the completion of the buildout of the Intermountain and CHIME Innovation Center powered by Sirius Healthcare within the Kem C. Gardner Intermountain Transformation Center in Murray, Utah.CHIME Innovation Center OverviewCHIME Innovation will serve as an educational
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VA Tops 1 Million Video Telehealth Visits in FY2018
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has reached a telehealth milestone, achieving more than 1 million video telehealth visits in one fiscal year (FY18), a 19 percent increase in video telehealth visits over the prior year. From October 2017 through September 2018, Veterans received VA quality care during approximately 2.3 million episodes of telehealth care.- About half (1,074,400) were video telehealth encounters, which allows real-time interaction between VA care
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Francisco Partners Acquires Qualcomm Life, Renames as CapsuleTech
Francisco Partners ("FP"), a Silicon Valley-based technology-focused private equity (PE) firm, today announced it has acquired Qualcomm Life, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated that offers end-to-end medical device connectivity across the continuum of care. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Renames Qualcomm Life as CapsuleTechQualcomm Life will be separated from Qualcomm, be renamed as Capsule Technologies, Inc. ("CapsuleTech"), and continue operating
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Salesforce Brings Social Determinants of Health Data to Caregivers
Today at HIMSS, Salesforce announced it is expanding its healthcare offering, including new innovations that bring Social Determinants of Health data to caregivers on a single platform, tackling a key gap in modern healthcare.Salesforce Health Cloud can now easily capture SDoH data and consolidate it in a single view of a patient, allowing caregivers, home health providers, and payers to collaborate on a single platform. And with new updates to Marketing Cloud, care providers can improve
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Ride Share Lyft Expands Partnerships to Address Medicare Advantage Plans
Ride-sharing company Lyft, today announced its plans to expand its collaboration with Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Institute, as well as work with LogistiCare to encompass certain Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. CMS continues to update MA plan flexibility to allow for additional services that address holistic health, and one of the key social determinants of health is access to services and programs. Transportation is the key to unlocking that access, and Lyft is a cost-effective,
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Cognoa Awarded FDA Breakthrough Designations for Diagnostic and Digital Therapeutic Devices for Autism
Cognoa, a digital health company focused on behavioral health for children, today announced FDA Breakthrough designations for it's first diagnostic and therapeutic devices to identify and treat autism. This is the foundation for its AI-based digital precision health to support the developmental and behavioral health of children, combining diagnostics and therapeutics into one platform. This signifies a big step in the company’s expansion into therapeutics.FDA Breakthrough Devices Program
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Healthcare Blockchain Developer Embleema Nabs $3.7M to Develop Blockchain Apps for Patients
Healthcare-blockchain developer, Embleema has raised $3.7M in Series A funding round, led by strategic partner Pharmagest, a leading pharmacy software group in Europe, and Techstars. The funds will serve to accelerate the joint development of blockchain-based applications for patients and pharmacies, and further Embleema’s commercial deployment. CEO Robert Chu left his role as Senior Vice President, Global Technology Solutions at IMS Health to start Embleema in June 2017 and is supported by a
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Big Health Launches Digital Therapeutics App, Daylight to Improve Anxiety
Daylight is the first digital therapeutic to combine cognitive behavioral therapy, animation and the human voice to help people improve feelings of worry and anxiety. Digital therapeutics company Big Health today announced the launch of Daylight™, a scientifically rigorous yet approachable mobile app for reducing feelings of worry and anxiety. The Daylight app uses scientifically proven techniques based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to address feelings of worry and anxiety wherever and
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Premera Blue Cross & Cardinal Analytx Partner to AI-Driven Predictive Analytics
Cardinal Analytix, a predictive analytics company that leverages machine learning and AI technology to identify potential high-expense health plan enrollees, today announced a partnership with Premera Blue Cross, a health plan based in the Northwest. As part of the collaboration, Premera will utilize Cardinal's predictive analytics platform to identify and communicate with its plan members about potential health risks using predictive, or clinical, analytics based on advanced
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