Janssen Research & Development, LLC is teaming up with StartUp Health on a three-year collaboration program to connect its senior leaders more directly to digital health entrepreneurs, innovators and disruptors. As part of the three year deal, StartUp Health will provide Janssen’s leaders with ongoing insights on emerging technologies, business models and overarching trends in digital health. Additionally, it will create multiple pathways to help them more effectively collaborate with
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NantCare Unveils Solutions to Support CMS Oncology Care Model
NantCare, a member of the NantWorks will be providing community oncology practices with solutions and resources that will help these practices comply with the administrative and clinical requirements put forth by the CMS’ new Oncology Care Model (OCM). Typically only available at large cancer institutions, NantCare will provide access to clinical trials through facilitation of participation in Cancer MoonShot 2020’s QUILT Trials, eliminating the need for patients to travel to major cancer
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Peerwell Lands $2.1M for Surgery Prep App to Help Patients Recover Faster
PeerWell, a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup provider of a mobile platform that helps patients prepare both physically and mentally for surgery to recover faster has raised $2.1 million in seed funding led by XSeed Capital. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its PreHab platform by launching smartphone based tracking for key orthopedic outcomes including range-of-motion, sit/stand testing and six-minute walk tests. Additionally, it plans to accelerate the development
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Mount Sinai Launches RxUniverse for Physicians to Prescribe Health Apps to Patients
Mount Sinai researchers in the Sinai App Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine have developed RxUniverse, the first enterprise-wide digital medicine care delivery system that enables physicians to digitally prescribe evidence-based mobile health apps to patients at the point of care. With over 245,000 health apps in the Apple Store, it is hard for providers to select which ones to recommend to their patients.With RxUniverse, professionals can discover the right app from a curated, evidence-based
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Cohero Health Raises $9M to Expand Connected Respiratory Disease Solutions
Cohero Health, a NYC-based digital health company developing connected health tools and technologies to empower respiratory patients and improve care through smart mobile devices, has raised $9 million in Series A funding. The funding round is led by Three Leaf Ventures, an affiliate of the Broe Group, with continuing participation from Zaffre Investments, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and BioAdvance. To date, the company has raised $11 million in total
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HealthTap Launches HealthTap Cloud for Developers to Build Interoperable, Engaging, Smart Health Apps
HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to doctors and their knowledge via video, text, and voice has unveiled HealthTap Cloud™, a innovative development platform that enables health developers to build health apps more efficiently and cost effectively. HealthTap Cloud offers the best developers, large or small, a full suite of microservices through APIs and SDKs, any combination of which can be used to build/enhance features or power entire apps.HealthTap Cloud is
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OurCrowd Launches Israel’s First $50M Digital Health Fund
OurCrowd, an Jerusalem-based global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors has launched Israel's first $50 million fund to invest in digital health startups. The new fund called OurCrowd Qure will focus on digital health startups at seed and series A stages in Israel, the US and the Asia Pacific region. Allen Kamer and Dr. Yossi Bahagon has been appointed to lead the fund.OurCrowd Qure has established a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University to provide validation of value,
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drchrono Upgrades Mobile EHR Platform to Meet Large Medical Practice Needs
drchrono Inc., an mobile EHR provider of practice management, revenue cycle management (RCM) and medical API platform on iPad, iPhone and web, has upgraded its platform to meet the needs of larger medical practices and provider groups.The upgrade includes a built an RCM team with its own RCM platform, RCM Pro, optimizing the workflow of coders, billers, and billing managers making managing multiple practices more fluid. Almost all RCM companies are service organizations that don’t build any
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PediaQ Nabs $4.5M for On-Demand App for Nurse Triage, House Calls
PediaQ, a Dallas, TX-based company that has launched a mobile app platform for on-demand nurse triage and house calls has landed its first partnerships with Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston) and Baylor Scott&White Health (Dallas). In addition, the company has raised $4.5 million in funding which brings its total funding to date at $6.5M since its inception in late 2014. The funding will be utilized to expand the company’s growth in Dallas, Houston and Austin, and will also allow for
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Breg Taps Redox for EHR Integration, Patient Workflow
Breg, Inc., a provider of integrated solutions to help improve the quality and lower the cost of the orthopedic episode is integrating with Redox, an EHR integration platform, today announced a partnership. The integration enables Breg's Vision Cloud Connect software to connect quickly and easily to Epic, Cerner and all other EHRs using Redox's Application Program Interface (API) as a bridge between systems. Together, Breg and Redox integration will reduce the time needed to develop and
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