Life sciences companies increasingly are seeking new models to connect expanding sets of disparate, non-identified patient-level data streams to better develop and commercialize next-generation medicines. The need for practical, evidence-based approaches is especially acute at a time when scientific advances, the growing need for new medicines, and constrained budgets for healthcare and other social services are colliding.According to a new QuintilesIMS Institute report, connected insights
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Cricket Health Launches to Deliver Value-Based Kidney Care for Patients
Cricket Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup has officially launched to provide technology-enabled products and services to modernize and transform how kidney care is delivered for people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease. The company has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Cricket Health has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, BoxGroup, Seven Peaks Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and NFX Guild.Founded in
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NewYork-Presbyertian Backs Telehealth Startup Avizia, Raises $6M
Avizia, an end to end telehealth solution provider has announced the completion of its Series A financing totaling $17 million. The company raised an additional $6 million to supplement the initial $11 million, which was announced in July 2016. HealthQuest Capital led the additional round which included investment from strategic partner NewYork-Presbyterian. The additional $6 million in funding from HealthQuest Capital and NewYork-Presbyterian will enable Avizia to further expand its telehealth
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Welkin Health, Serotonin-Plus Partner to Create “Coach in a Pocket” App for Weight Loss
Serotonin-Plus, a Virginia-based medical weight loss program structured around a patented serotonin formula, has partnered with Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in patient relationship management, to scale the most important component of their program: human coaching. Welkin's configurable technology will enable Serofit coaches to build relationships with patients and engage and support them in their weight loss goals, all at the patient's convenience.This
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BrainCheck Raises $3M for Neurocognitive Disorders Tracking App
BrainCheck, a mobile brain health tracking solution has raised $3 million in seed funding to expand team and add tools for dementia and other neurocognitive disorders. Founded in 2014 by renowned neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman, BrainCheck uses simple iPad or desktop screen games to measure, reaction time, visual processing, cognitive processing, coordination and memory in just a few minutes. Thousands of student athletes across multiple sports already use the app to establish their baseline
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Zimmer Biomet Acquires Telerehabilitation Startup RespondWell
RespondWell, a telerehabilitation technology startup designed to provide personalized, clinician-supervised post-surgical physical therapy in the comfort of a patient’s home, has been acquired by Zimmer Biomet, a global leader in muskuloskeletal healthcare. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The RespondWell acquisition strengthens the recently announced Zimmer Biomet Signature Solutions™ commercial offering by integrating a comprehensive, at-home telerehabilitation
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Cleveland Medical Hackathon Unveils 2016 Winners
This week, the 2016 Cleveland Medical Hackathon has announced the winners of this year’s competition and the winners of over $40k in prizes held in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit. Presented by Nesco Resource, the event brought together over 200 students, developers, designers, investors, engineers, programmers, clinicians, researchers, community members, patient advocates, and public health professionals from across the region, the country, and the world to
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3 Reasons Why The Clinical Trial Recruitment Model is Broken
Today’s clinical trial recruitment model efforts are missing the mark. Here’s how pharma can fix it, ePatientFinder’s Tom Dorsett explains.Drug development is risky business. It takes years and billions of dollars to jump through the phases of development before a physician gets to scribble down a script for a patient. That’s if the drug ever makes it that far; about 85 percent will fail in clinical trials. It doesn’t help that today’s current clinical trial system is deeply flawed, especially
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ViiMed Taps Redox’s API to Integrate EHRs for Interoperability
ViiMed, a telehealth software provider has partnered with Redox to integrate its platform with all major EHR providers like Epic, Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare, GE Healthcare, Meditech, Greenway Health, drchrono, and CPSI. The partnership will help healthcare organizations share, access, and connect the right data to make more informed decisions and provide higher-quality care. The cloud-based integration also helps healthcare organizations
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Duke Clinic, PatientsLikeMe Launches Virtual Clinical Trial for ALS Patients
Today, PatientsLikeMe has launched a virtual clinical trial with The Duke ALS Clinic that evaluates the potential of Lunasin, a soy peptide, to reverse symptoms in ALS patients. The Lunasin Virtual Trial is the first study of the supplement in ALS patients and follows a review analyzing its potential to reverse ALS in ALSUntangled, a website for clinicians, patients and researchers to explore alternative treatments. This launch marks one of the most unusual trials in the condition's history
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