Biomedical engineering has long been a driver of advances in healthcare. From new technologies to diagnose and treat some of the most complex disease to advances that improve quality of life for everyone, the work taking place in labs around the world right now is likely to change the face of healthcare in both the short- and long-term future. Although there are literally thousands of different projects taking place at this very moment, there are some definite trends taking place in biomedical
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Intermountain Healthcare to Implement Wound Tracking App Integrated with Cerner EHR
Intermountain Healthcare, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in US, announced that it will implement Tissue Analytics’ advanced imaging technology, integrated with its Cerner’s EHR system, across all of its hospitals, wound clinics, and home care group. The Tissue Analytics technology will be integrated into 22 hospitals, eight outpatient wound clinics, and the entire Intermountain Home Care group.Today, wound healing is measured manually with a ruler -- which introduces a 45%
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Cambia Health Solutions Integrates With Visa To Transform Reimbursement for Consumers
Cambia Health Solutions, a total health solutions company announced a new collaboration with Visa to help transform the reimbursement experience for consumers. As part of the collaboration, Cambia Health will integrate Visa Direct technology into its payment platform, allowing consumers to receive health care reimbursements directly to their eligible debit cards, speeding up the payment process.What Is Visa Direct?Visa Direct is a card-based platform that can deliver funds in near real-time to
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Mayo Clinic, Medibio Partner to Jointly Develop Digital Mental Health Platform
Mayo Clinic has signed a three year agreement with Melbourne, Australia-based Medibio to jointly develop new digital health solutions for mental illness. As part of the agreement, Mayo Clinic will utilize Medibio’s proprietary analytic platform that utilizes a patented panel of circadian, sleep and autonomic system biomarkers to objectively quantify and characterize mental illness. Mayo Clinic will work with Medibio’s team to provide clinical expertise to validate its platform in the
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Medullan to Offer Users Access to Harvard Health Publications for Consumer Health Insights
Medullan, a digital health firm that designs and builds powerful solutions that achieve high rates of adoption for payers, providers, life sciences, and pharma, announced a collaboration with Harvard Health Publications (HHP), a division of Harvard Medical School. This relationship will provide consumers access to Harvard’s consumer health information via the digital tools and mobile apps Medullan envisions, designs, and builds for its clients.HHP’s content covers thousands of health
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Livongo Launches New Direct-to-Consumer Diabetes Management Program
Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company focused on empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced partnerships with the American Diabetes Association, Beyond Type 1, Diabetes Hands Foundation, and JDRF to launch the Livongo Family Care Plan. The Family Care Plan is a comprehensive direct-to-consumer diabetes management program for people with diabetes and those who love them.The partnership also provides everyone who subscribes to the
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Northwestern, Tempus Expand Partnership to Accelerate Personalizing Care for Cancer Patients
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University is expanding its partnership with Tempus aimed at personalizing care for cancer patients. Tempus provides molecular sequencing and clinical analytic solutions for top academic centers, hospital systems, associations, and healthcare providers.As part of the expanded collaboration, Tempus will provide molecular sequencing and analysis for patient derived xenograft (PDX) models and patient derived organoid models, which will
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Microsoft HealthVault Insights Integrates With Validic for Access to Patient-Generated Health Data
Microsoft HealthVault Insights, a research-based project designed to transform patient engagement by generating new insights about patient health has announced integration with digital health integration platform Validic. The integration with Validic will enable HealthVault Insights to connect to as many as 400 clinical and consumer devices – enabling the data from these devices to drive meaningful insights for patients.Using machine learning and analytics, HealthVault Insights is designed to
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SERMO Launches Physician-to-Physician Prescription Drug Ratings Tool
SERMO, a NYC-based global social network for physicians has unveiled their new peer-to-peer “Drug Ratings” tool sourced exclusively from verified licensed physicians. Integrated into the SERMO social network, the Drug Ratings tool gives physicians a clinical decision support tool where they can research, rate, and share their direct experience on the efficacy, safety, tolerability, accessibility, and adherence of specific drugs in real time.SERMO built the tool after recognizing that the lack
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Sense.ly Integrates Mayo Clinic’s Triage Algorithms To Enhance Their Virtual Nurse App
Sense.ly, a San Francisco, CA-based virtual medical assistant application for patient engagement and chronic disease monitoring has announced an agreement with Mayo Clinic. As part of the agreement, Sensely will integrate Mayo Clinic's triage algorithms and clinical expertise with Sense.ly's proven, empathy first, patient engagement platform to support of optimal health outcomes for individuals.The Sense.ly virtual medical assistant app combines innovative avatar-based technology, advanced
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