Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in digital patient relationship management has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital. The company plans to utilize the funding to continue expanding their team which includes talent from Google, Facebook and Microsoft, as well as Practice Fusion, Medtronic, Sutter Health and Medicaid. In addition, Welkin company plans to accelerate partnerships with patient-centered digital health, life science, and
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Memorial Sloan Kettering, Cota Partner to Advance Personalized Cancer Treatment
In 2011, Cota, a healthcare data and analytics company bridging precision medicine and population health, was founded by doctors for doctors. Over the past six years, the start-up has moved beyond precision medicine as a goal to a reality, and just this past year, have secured a multi-year collaboration with Novartis towards breast cancer and recruited top thought leaders in the space, like former Deputy Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson, Dr. Andrew Norden.Today, Cota announced their latest
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ResMed Integrates Remote Patient Monitoring Platform With AirMini CPAP Device
ResMed announced that it has added cloud-connectivity to the AirMini, the world's smallest, portable CPAP device- through its AirView platform. The connectivity between AirMini and AirView enables clinicians to see patients' nightly data, verify adherence, and spot therapy issues – giving them a great opportunity to educate and engage patients to reach the best possible health outcomes. AirMini is available in 15 countries across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, with more countries to
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SnapMD Expands Telehealth Platform with Spanish-Language Capabilities
SnapMD, a full-service telehealth technology innovator and solutions provider, announced new Spanish-language patient support services to its Virtual Care Management (VCM) telemedicine platform to extend and strenghten health system care capabilities. The patient support for Spanish-language needs increases patient access to care from the comfort of their own home through the user-friendly patient portal.As an enterprise-software telemedicine platform that reaches across the care continuum,
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Humana Launches Digital Health Records Innovation Challenge
Health insurer Humana Inc. is sponsoring a new innovation challenge focused on making digital health more useful to patients, physicians and others– specifically in the Medicare space. Traditionally, the health care industry has stored digital health records - medical claims, pharmacy claims, calls, letters, hospital stays, and health program participation - in disparate places across different systems. But with advanced data processing and analytics, it is now possible to assemble these data
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6 Reasons Why Healthcare Needs The Internet of Things (IoT)
Editor’s Note: Abhinav Shashank is the CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc., a datashop integrating complex data across multiple distributed sources to give healthcare organizations greater insights to provider better care.Technology can never replace humans because the ultimate decision-making authority always lies with the individual. He or she can, however, in the course of time, opt for technological solutions that simplify their work and bring about efficiency.Convenience. Efficiency.
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Twine Health Lands $1.5M to Expand AI-Powered Health Coaching Platform
Today, Twine Health, a four-year-old spinoff of the MIT Media Lab has raised $1.5 million in Series A1 funding led by Qiming Venture Partners USA. The company plans to used the latest round of funding to accelerate the development of its AI-powered health coaching platform, continued market expansion in the US, and early international sales, including in China. Twine has received a total of $8.3 million in venture funding to date including investment fromKhosla Ventures, Provenance Venture
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HealthPartners Taps AMC Health For Telemonitoring Hypertension Study
AMC Health, a provider of real-time virtual care solutions has been selected as the telemonitoring provider for HealthPartners Institute for its high blood pressure study, Hyperlink. Recently, HealthPartners was awarded $6 million to expand this study to determine if telemonitoring can improve a patient’s health and decrease blood pressure more than traditional clinic-based care. In the second phase of research, AMC Health and HealthPartners will work together to monitor patients’ blood
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LabCorp Forms Strategic Partnership with MC10 to Support Adoption of BioStamp Sensor
Global life sciences company LabCorp has formed a strategic collaboration with MC10, a digital health startup developing wearable sensor systems for seamless healthcare data collection. As part of the strategic partnership, LabCorp has also made an equity investment into MC10 to support adoption of it’s proprietary technology for use by LabCorp’s Covance Drug Development business in clinical trials and research studies, with the potential to be adapted over time for use in patient testing and
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Tempus, Sanford Health Collaborate on Personalized Medicine Initiative to Identify Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer Patients
Tempus, a Chicago-based health IT technology company focused on collecting and integrating molecular and clinical data has announced a collaboration with Sanford Health to identify targeted therapies and clinical trials for breast cancer patients. Founded in 2015, Tempus continues to expand its network of partners and is currently working with leading academic medical centers, NCI designated cancer centers, hospital networks and community oncologists across the United States. As part of the
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