Medisafe, a personalized medication management platform has announced the launch of Medisafe Insights, a proprietary market research tool (HIPAA compliant and ISO secure) for pharma. Eclipsing 4 million users and 1 billion doses managed, Medisafe is turning its database of patient information, combining demographics, medication details, medical conditions and comorbidities, engagement with content and interventions, and other key information, into actionable insights for pharma. The launch of
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Libertana Home Health to Deploy Amazon Echo-based Digital Care Assistants for Patients
Libertana Home Health, a manager of California-based health and housing waivers is teaming up with Orbita to deploy a first-of-its-kind home care solution using Amazon Alexa voice assistant technology. Libertana is using Orbita Voice, an enterprise-grade software platform for creating and maintaining conversational voice apps for Alexa, to engage individuals in managing activities of daily living and self-care, and more effectively inform home care professionals in triaging care needs and
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Welltory Raises $1M to Expand Stress Management App
Welltory, a New York based digital health startup working on a stress & energy management app, has raised $1 million in seed funding from business angels. The company plans to utilize the funding from the seed round to launch the next version of their app.Founded in 2014 by co-founders Alexander Lyskovsky, Jane Smorodnikova and Pavel Pravdin, Welltory’s stress and energy management app let users see how lifestyle changes - morning meditation, working from home, or a diet change - affect
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Newtopia Secures Patent for Hyper-Personalized Disease Prevention Platform
Newtopia, a precision health company focused on building highly personalized disease prevention programs has been awarded a patent for its novel and hyper-personalized disease prevention platform. Newtopia partners with insurers, employers and brands to offer disease prevention and management programs to risk-assessed individuals that deliver proven sustainable outcomes, quantifiable cost savings and a substantive ROI. Newtopia’s patent, U.S. Patent 9,554,754, is a system, method and computer
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Buoy Health Lands $6.7M to Expand AI-Powered Symptom Checker to Providers, Payers
Buoy Health, a Boston, MA-based digital health startup has raised $6.7M in Series A funding led by F-Prime Capital Partners and an undisclosed strategic investor. The round also included participation from FundRx, Jack Connors, and other angel investors.Formed out of the Harvard Innovation Laboratory in 2014, Buoy Health’s artificial intelligence-powered online symptom and cure checker leverages an intelligent algorithm backed by medical data to diagnose patients. Designed to resemble an
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Groove Health Lands $1.5M to Improve Medication Adherence Using Predictive Analytics
Groove Health, a Chicago, IL-based digital health startup has raised $1.6 million to help expand its data-driven medication adherence platform for health insurance companies, hospital systems, and self-insured employers. Investors of the seed round were not disclosed.Founded in 2016, Groove Health partners with healthcare enterprises to provide value-added analytical insights and targeted outreach programs that increase medication adherence rates in chronically-ill populations. The company’s
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WellDoc, AADE Jointly Launch The Diabetes Digital Health Learning Network
WellDoc, a digital health company revolutionizing chronic disease management to help transform lives has announced the launch of ‘The Diabetes Digital Health Learning Network’ in collaboration with the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE). The Learning Network will support its members who are on the front lines of diabetes care and management by assisting diabetes educators in gaining next-generation skills in using digital health therapeutics to improve clinical care and outcomes
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4 Ways Augmented Reality Will Transform the Medical World
Looking to the near and distant future of medical technology, augmented reality (AR) will be central to innovation. The medical field will be enhanced dramatically via the rise of augmented reality products emerging in the market. In just a few years, the entire healthcare experience will look entirely different from the medical environment today. How so?By overlapping valuable medical information with the real world – whether it be making visible patient information, mapping an individual’s
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Fruit Street Health Lands $3M to Expand Telehealth Platform for Lifestyle & Obesity Medicine
Fruit Street Health, a NYC-based provider of HIPAA-Compliant telehealth software for lifestyle and obesity medicine has raised $3M in funding led by Dr. Jeremy Tucker, a senior emergency medicine physician who sits on the board of directors of Fruit Street, with participation from other physician investors. The latest round brings the total number of physicians who have invested in the company to over 200.Founded in 2014, Fruit Street provides telehealth software to healthcare providers allowing
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SERMO Launches Drug Ratings Search by FDA-Approved Indications for Physicians
SERMO, a global social network for physicians has added a new feature to its Drug Ratings platform that enables physicians to search for and research prescription drugs by FDA-approved indications. Developed by SERMO and SERMO physicians, Drug Ratings gives physicians a clinical decision support tool where they can research, rate, and share their direct experience on specific drugs. With this new feature, physicians can evaluate different classes of drugs against each other for treating specific
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