Medinas Health , a data-driven marketplace startup helping healthcare organizations safely and securely buy and sell their surplus and short-date medical supplies and equipment – announced today that it has raised $1M in its oversubscribed seed round. The round was co-led by Ashton Kutcher & Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures and General Catalyst’s Rough Draft Ventures, additional investors included: Precursor Ventures, Trammell Ventures and Angels.With the seed round closed, Medinas Health plans
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Survey: Majority of Americans Have No Clue Where Their Medical Data is Stored
Majority of Americans have no knowledge as to where their medical data is stored and who has access to it, according to a new survey conducted by Australian start-up ScalaMed, a blockchain based mobile prescription system. The recent research of 800 patients reveals a number of key issues Americans face when it comes to managing their prescribed medication, while also highlighting how consumers know about where their medical records are stored and who has access to their health data.In fact,
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Four Use Cases to Apply Blockchain in Healthcare
There is a lot of buzz around Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency as a new kind of payment technology and how it can change our future. I am going to take a different spin on what is really interesting about cryptocurrency. There is much more behind cryptocurrency and Bitcoin than being a new way to make a payment. The technology that Bitcoin is built on is extremely interesting and has many other applications. The underlying tech that drives cryptocurrency is called blockchain which is a
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Cooper University Health Taps Bernoulli for Medical Device Integration into Epic EHR
Bernoulli Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform, announced today that Cooper University Health Care (NJ) has selected Bernoulli for enterprise-wide medical device integration into their Epic EHR.Cooper will leverage Bernoulli across all critical care units, emergency departments, perioperative suites, select telemetry and oncology units, and off-campus surgical centers, replacing an
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FDA Approves Medtronic Smart Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System for Diabetes
The FDA has just approved the Medtronic Guardian™ Connect Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system, the first smart CGM system to help people with diabetes outsmart high and low glucose events. The system uses the power of real-time sensor glucose data, advanced algorithms and customizable, predictive alerts to notify people when sensor glucose levels are predicted to go too high or low – up to 60 minutes in advance.Understanding Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)A CGM system provides
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Medable Unveils Blockchain for Healthcare Platform to Enable Medical Data Exchange
Medable Inc., the leading app and analytics platform for healthcare, at SXSW HealthSpark announced INSIGHT, a blockchain powered platform that enables medical data exchange among patients, medical researchers, and biopharmaceutical companies.Since its launch in late 2016, Medable has seen rapid adoption of its platform with a customer base that cares for over 15 million patients and conducts over 6,000 clinical trials. Using mobile devices and 3rd party tools like Apple’s Researchkit, Medable
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Cigna Launches “Answers by Cigna” on Amazon Alexa
Today, Cigna announced it will be the first global health service company to offer a skill aimed at personalizing and simplifying health benefits information with the launch of “Answers by Cigna,” a skill for Amazon Alexa. “Answers by Cigna” is designed to educate and engage people about health care by providing instant and easy-to-understand answers to more than 150 commonly-asked health care questions.Nearly half of Americans are utilizing voice enabled devices and has the potential to change
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Why Medicaid Needs to Lead the Charge in Remote Patient Monitoring
In a system that is straining under the pressure of an increasingly sick and aging population, the benefits of digital healthcare are indisputable. Technology has played a crucial role in the industry’s continued transition to value-based care, driving costs down while increasing access to personalized care.[1] But despite the rapid gains that technology has affected, policy-makers have been slow to catch up. Until recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enforced rules
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Using Telephonic Nurse Advice to Reduce Avoidable ED Visits
Delivering care in the right setting at the right time is a well-accepted tenet of value-based, population health management. Directing patients or members to the most clinically appropriate level of care promises not only to reduce costs but also to improve the member experience. Take, for instance, the emergency department (ED). While EDs are vitally needed facilities that save countless lives, the experience can be stressful for patients given that ED staff are often rushing to care for
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Report: Automated Patient Experiences Will Transform the Delivery of Care
World Business Research (WBR) and Conversa Health have released a new report, “Healthcare 2020: How Automated Patient Experiences Will Transform the Landscape”. Based on direct interviews and survey responses from 134 leading healthcare executives, the report explores how healthcare executives view automated healthcare technologies, their use cases and planned adoption.Survey respondents reported wide-ranging benefits related to automated healthcare, uses of patient generated health data, and an
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