Spry Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring solutions has unveiled their new clinical-grade wearable Loop that delivers continuous vital sign monitoring. Loop enhances timely care to chronically ill patients, with individualized analytics to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalization and decrease spending by healthcare organizations.Incubated at Stanford-affiliated accelerator StartX in 2013, founders Pierre-Jean “PJ” Cobut and Elad Ferber started Spry Health
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Biotech Startup Lantern Pharma Raises $3.7M to Accelerate Cancer Drug Approval Process
Clinical-stage biotech company Lantern Pharma Inc. has raised $3.7 million in Series A funding led by BIOS Partners, GPG Ventures and other private investors. Using big data and artificial intelligence, Lantern Pharma focused exclusively on accelerating the cancer drug approval process.The startup plans to utilize the funding to continue development of its two lead drug candidates and further the advancement of its big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform. Lantern’s strategy focuses on
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WellDoc Founders Launch FDA-Cleared Mobile Insulin Titration App for Diabetes Management
The team that created the first FDA-cleared mobile app for diabetes management at WellDoc has launched a completely new digital health company, Amalgam Rx. The new company is focused on developing next-generation, evidence-based digital therapies that empower and engage patients with chronic diseases. Amalgam’s first product, iSage Rx is the first FDA 510(k)-cleared, prescription-only, mobile insulin titration app of all brands of basal insulin including Lantus, Levemir, Toujeo, Tresiba and
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MedPhoto Manager Launches Real-Time Medical Image Sharing App for Physicians
MedPhoto Manager, a healthcare technology firm improving physician and patient access to medical images has launched a MedPhoto Manager app that provides physicians with a secure real-time tool for taking, storing, and sharing patient photos. The app was developed by MedPhoto Manager Founder Dr. Michael Samuels, an optometrist based in Raleigh, North Carolina who saw the opportunity for a secure and reliable service that allows doctors to take and distribute medical photos. The app is currently
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Inaugural Medical Capital Innovation Competition Unveils Winners
The winners of the inaugural Medical Capital Innovation Competition have been announced this week. Competing teams represented a variety of big data healthcare categories including patient engagement and compliance, clinical trial optimization, EHR optimization, and decision support.The Innovation Competition attracted 180 applications from industry professionals and university students from across the world. The final participants included 27 teams – 22 Professional and 5 Collegiate– from 11
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Tactio Health app Integrates With Qardio’s Smart Health Monitoring Products to Transform the Patient Journey
Tactio Health Group, a provider helping innovative healthcare organizations make the patient experience connected has signed an integration partnership with Qardio, a provider of smart health monitoring products. Starting today, QardioArm, a FDA approved smart blood pressure monitor and QardioBase, a connected scale and body analyzer will be integrated onto Tactio Health Group’s mobile health tracking solutions, making our products available for its users and its healthcare partners around the
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ResApp Licenses New Algorithm to Improve Diagnostic Screening for Childhood Pneumonia
ResApp Health Limited, a digital health startup provider of smartphone apps for respiratory disease diagnosis and management has signed a licensing agreement with UniQuest, the main commercialization company of The University of Queensland. The licensing agreement includes an additional diagnostic toolset of machine-learning algorithms that use a combination of clinical features to screen for childhood pneumonia. Pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality for children below five years of age.
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Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center Launches Initiative to Improve & Personalize BRCA Mutations
Cancer experts at the Basser Center for BRCA in the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania have announced a new collaboration with Tempus to improve and personalize treatment for patients with heritable BRCA mutations. Tempus, a technology company focused on helping doctors personalize cancer treatment will analyze the molecular and clinical data of patients who were treated at the Basser Center and harbor a BRCA mutation using machine learning and advanced
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DarioHealth Expands Cloud-based Diabetes Monitoring Devices to U.K. Market
DarioHealth, a Israel-based provider of cloud-based diabetes monitoring devices has announced the launch of a direct-to-consumer channel in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the direct-to-consumer channels in the U.S. and Australia, DarioHealth will leverage its knowledge to provide new opportunities for the greater U.K. diabetes community to analyze and personalize their treatment.Until today, DarioHealth was only available through pharmacies and diabetes educators in the U.K. Now,
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Evidation Health Raises $10M to Enhance Development of New Digital Biomarkers
Evidation Health, a San Mateo, CA-based startup that helps healthcare companies quantify outcomes in the digital era, with real life data from connected patients has raised $10 million in funding led by Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures. The startup plans to utilize the latest round of funding to enhance its capabilities in large scale behavioral analytics, health outcomes measurement, and digital biomarker development using real life patient data from hundreds of applications and devices.Founded in
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