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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Teladoc Rolls Out Expanded Virtual Care Capabilities for Health Systems
Virtual care platform Teladoc Health, today announced new capabilities that enable health systems to deliver a broader spectrum of virtual care services and to streamline diagnostic testing orders. The new Clinical WorkScope and Diagnostic Testing capabilities are now available to all current and future users of the Teladoc Health SaaS-based licensed platform.Here is a look at Teladoc's expanded capabilities: - Clinical WorkScope – Enabling Unlimited Virtual Use Cases with Unprecedented
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PerfectServe Acquires AI Patient Scheduling Solution Lightning Bolt and CareWire
After 16 years of bootstrapped success, Lightning Bolt is being acquired by PerfectServe, a provider of cloud-based clinical communication and collaboration solutions. Lightning Bolt’s AI technology enables healthcare organizations to build smarter physician shift schedules that give doctors balanced hours, safer shifts, and more flexibility to take time off, all while still improving patient access.Founded in 2002 and based in San Francisco, California, Lightning Bolt is an AI-enabled solution
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Do You Make House Calls? How Connected Health is Extending Personalized Care
People of a certain age speak wistfully of a time when doctors made house calls. The in-home visit had advantages for patient and physician alike.“House calls” eliminated the need for ill patients to get to the doctor’s office—along with the risks of coming into contact with other health-compromised people. For doctors, it was a break in routine, an opportunity to observe patients in their own home environment—and, sometimes, to gain insight beyond what was possible during an office exam,
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Konica Minolta Deploys AI Robots to Support Patient Care at Hospital in Italy
Konica Minolta announced a collaboration with the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy to better develop artificial intelligence (AI) in robots to assist in both urgent and non-urgent patient care. Specifically, the team wants to study the employment of robots to assist patients and support the work of nurses and doctors by conducting basic monitoring activities. The announcement follows the recent establishment of Konica Minolta’s latest research center
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HIMSS Report: 4 Trends Driving the Rise of Consumer-Driven Reformation
Less than two weeks ahead of the annual HIMSS19 conference, HIMSS announced the availability of a new annual report, “2019 Healthcare Trends Forecast: The Beginning of a Consumer-Driven Reformation.” The white paper details what the industry can expect in 2019, including how digital health innovators and policymakers will be held accountable now that the hype cycle has peaked, why consumer pressures will drive healthcare toward a value-based model, new care delivery methods spurred by growing
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Livongo Acquires Digital Behavioral Health Solution myStrength
Livongo Health, an Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced that it has acquired Denver-based myStrength, Inc., a provider of digital behavioral health solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition enables Livongo to more fully address the health of the whole person by integrating behavioral health conditions including depression, anxiety, stress, substance use disorder,
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Prenetics Group Acquires ‘Psychologist in a Pocket’ Kelaa App
Prenetics, a Southeast Asia-based global genetics, and digital health company announced it has acquired Kelaa App, the core product of Soma Analytics and associated assets. Founded in Germany in 2013, the Kelaa’ smartphone app available on Apple and Android devices provides tailored recommendations on how to deal with day-to-day stresses through bite-sized personalized daily sessions for employees and businesses. Used by a number of Britain’s leading medium to large enterprises, including
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