One of the stories that is gaining traction in the health wearables space is the reality that sensors are becoming less expensive and increasingly commoditized. It’s no longer enough for health wearables makers to leverage better sensors to attract consumer interest. Instead, they must develop more holistic offerings with software that makes wearables smarter and more useful.This is one reason why wearables makers in the United States, India and other parts of the world are focusing increasingly
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Why Applied Artificial Intelligence Is Here to Replace Healthcare Analytics
Editor's Note: Gurjeet Singh, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Ayasdi, an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform lets you create intelligent business applications and make fundamental discoveries with big data. The combination of electronic medical records, financial data, clinical data, and advanced analytics promised to revolutionize healthcare. It hasn’t happened. The common excuse is that healthcare wasn’t really prepared for the enormity and complexity of the data challenge and that,
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Stanford Researchers Develop Algorithm to Diagnose Heart Arrhythmias
Stanford researchers from the Machine Learning Group have developed an algorithm that is able to outperform cardiologists in arrhythmia detection, according to research published on arXiv. The new deep learning algorithm can diagnose 14 types of heart rhythm defects, called arrhythmias and has the ability to sort through data from rural locations where people do not have routine access to cardiologists. Traditionally, patients suspected to have an arrhythmia will often get an electrocardiogram
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StartUp Health: Digital Health Funding Reaches $6.5B in First Half of 2017
Digital health funding reached $6.5 billion over 306 digital health deals in the first half of 2017, according to the recent StartUp Health Insights Funding Rankings 2017 Midyear Report. The report reveals 2017 has already surpassed previous years in overall funding and the number of new and unique investors focused on digital health. In Q2 2017 digital health funding reach a total of $3.8B, which marks it as the biggest quarter for digital health funding ever.The Startup Health insights tracks
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Telehealth Monitoring Provider VRI Acquires Healthcom
Valued Relationships, Inc.(VRI), a provider of telehealth monitoring solutions to seniors has acquired Sullivan, Illinois-based Healthcom to expand its footprint in senior care market. Founded in 1992 by CEO Ralph Kirk, Healthcom partners with healthcare providers to provide services that enhance the standard of care.From medical alert services and medication management to telehealth solutions and care transitions, Healthcom offers an integrated service to help reduce readmissions, improve
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Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Nantworks Acquires Majority Stake in St. Vincent & 5 Other California Hospitals
Billion physician Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong announced that his company NantWorks, LLC, has acquired a majority stake in Integrity Healthcare, LLC, Verity Health System’s management company. Verity Health is a nonprofit healthcare system employing more than 6,000 staff statewide. For Nantworks, acquiring a majority stake creates a unique opportunity for collaboration to make Verity Health a leader in innovative healthcare delivery, including personalized patient-centered healthcare solutions for
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New AI Device for Diabetes Eye Screening to Complete FDA Clinical Trial
IDx, an early-stage medical device company focused on developing software-based algorithms that can identify disease in medical images is currently conducting an FDA clinical trial to obtain clearance for its first product, IDx-DR by the end of summer 2017. IDx-DR is a screening solution for diabetic retinopathy. IDx also has algorithms in development for the detection of macular degeneration, glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, and stroke risk. “I’ve worked on this for so
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University of California San Diego, Tempus Partner on Personalized Medicine Initiative
Tempus, a technology company focused on helping doctors personalize cancer care by collecting, sorting and analyzing clinical and molecular data, will provide Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health with molecular sequencing, analysis and decision support tools to enable further research on immune checkpoint inhibitors across cancer types. Tempus provides molecular sequencing and clinical analytic solutions to top academic centers, hospital systems, associations, and healthcare
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Nightingale Health Obtains CE Mark for Blood Analysis Platform
Finnish biomedical startup Nightingale Health has obtained CE marking for its blood biomarker analysis platform. The CE mark enables the clinical use of the analysis service and the analysed measures of creatinine and glucose in the EU region.Nightingale Health's blood biomarker analysis platform is based on NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy. It captures over 228 metabolic biomarkers from a single blood sample, transforming the possibility to understand molecular mechanisms and
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Roche Acquires Mobile Diabetes Management Platform mySugr
Roche has acquired mobile diabetes management platform mySugr to form a leading open platform for digital diabetes management. For Roche, the acquisition will allow the company to expand its position in the diabetes management market.As part of the acquisition, mySugr will remain as a separate legal entity with an open platform for all diabetes devices and services. Users will continue to have the ability to automatically upload blood glucose data from their preferred device into the mySugr
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