HealthTap, the world’s first Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to doctors via video, text or voice has extended its free assistance to the victims of Hurricane Matthew from the United States to Haiti and other countries impacted by the storm. Natural disasters, including severe hurricanes like Matthew, often prevent people from accessing care, and healthcare resources are often overstretched or otherwise unavailable during such events. In response to Hurricane Matthew,
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Seniorlink Raises $7.5M for Collaboration Platform for Caregivers
Seniorlink, a Boston, MA-based provider of a coaching and collaboration platform for caregivers has raised $7.5m in funding led by NewSpring Capital. The company plans to utilize the latest funding round expand development of its coaching and collaboration platform, Vela. Founded in 2000, Seniorlink supports family caregivers by expanding the choices available for those in need of care and support. In 2005, the Company introduced Caregiver Homes, an in-home care model that empowers and
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Kindly Care, the Uber for Caregivers, Launches With $3.1M in Funding
Digital health startup Kindly Care has officially launched today with $3.1 million in seed funding to expand its self-service care management platform, which provides private employers with the tools and services that are typically reserved for agencies and hospitals. The funding was led by MHS Capital, with participation from Floodgate and Jackson Square Ventures. Kindly Care will use the funds to grow its unique suite of tools and services that empower families to be more in charge of the
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Chinese Search Engine Launches AI-Powered Bot for Doctors & Patients
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc., today launched Melody the Medical Assistant, an AI-powered conversational bot that helps doctors gather information from patients about their medical conditions. Baidu Melody is designed to save doctors and patients time in online discussions and provide relevant, contextual information to doctors to assist with recommendations and treatment options. The announcement was made at a Baidu Health and AI Workshop held today in Beijing. Melody is available
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Mount Sinai Selects Kaigo Health for Digital Personal Care Assistants
Mount Sinai hospital System in New York has selected healthcare assistant startup Kaigo Health to improve hospital experiences for patients. As part of the partnership, Kaigo Health will work closely with care teams to ensure optimal results for patients in New York City and the surrounding boroughs.Kaigo Health takes the complexities out of the healthcare experience and helps users reach their health goals with a detailed action plan, handcrafted by a crack team of health professionals. For
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How Millennials Lead the Way to Healthcare Innovation
Editor's Note: Mark Haddad is VP of Consulting for the Microsoft group at SADA Systems, a full-service cloud migration and IT consulting services company, offering cloud solutions, managed services, technical services. Statisticians, researchers and workplace experts love to talk about how different Millennials are than the rest of us as workers and consumers. There have been numerous studies about the potential impact of this group on the healthcare industry, since healthcare defies nearly
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Mount Sinai Researchers Crowdsource Gene Expression Data for Drug & Target Discovery
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have crowdsourced the annotation and analysis of a large number of gene expression profiles from the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). For the project, more than 70 volunteers from 25 countries helped Mount Sinai researchers analyze the data, enabling the identification of new associations between genes, diseases, and drugs – something that a smaller number of unaided researchers, or an
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Recent Health IT/Digital Health Hires
Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare appoints Bill Evan as new managing Director. Bill has spent the past 13 years working at Genentech and Roche Diagnostics in informatics and product development leadership roles. During his time at Genetech, Bill has worked with several of Rock Health's portfolio companies.Harry Greenspun, MD has joined Korn Ferry as new chief medical officer and managing director of its KF Health Solutions business.
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AAP, Kognito Launch Expanded Version of Childhood Obesity App
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight and Kognito (a client of The Drapin Group LLC) has teamed up again to launch an expanded version of its free Change Talk: Childhood Obesity app. Developed using Kognito's Conversation Platform, Change Talk: Childhood Obesity™ uses motivational interviewing techniques to evoke “change talk” to prepare pediatricians and other health care professionals to lead real-life conversations with children and their parents about
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AMA Unveils MACRA Payment Model Evaluator for Physicians
With physicians facing the most notable changes in Medicare in a generation, the American Medical Association (AMA) has unveiled several online tools to help physicians through pending Medicare payment and delivery changes and to improve their opportunity for success under the new program that will go into effect in 2017.These new tools were designed to build on earlier, significant AMA efforts to ensure that physicians and their practices are prepared for MACRA: The MACRA webpage on the AMA’s
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