After Google's announcement to restructure into Alphabet, Google has launched a Life Sciences company as the first new company under the Alphabet umbrella. "3 years ago we embarked on a project to put computing inside a contact lens -- an immensely challenging technical problem with an important application to health. While I am delighted at the progress that project has made, I could not have imagined the potential of the initiative it has grown into -- a life sciences team with the mission to
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Bayer HealthCare Launches Digital Health Accelerator in Berlin
Bayer HealthCare has launched its own digital health accelerator program in Berlin, Germany called "Grants4Apps," selecting five digital health startups from around the globe that will advance their business ideas and technology in areas such as hormone tests, patient adherence, breathing patterns, clinical trials and vitamin deficiency. The selected five digital health startups will receive financial support of up to 50,000 Euro and will work out of the company's pharmaceutical division in
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How Samsung Is Enhancing Mobile Access to Personal Diabetes Data
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business.
Almost 30 million children and adults in the United States suffer from diabetes costing the healthcare industry more than $245 billion annually, according to the American Diabetes Association. Managing diabetes effectively requires daily ongoing management to keep blood sugar levels under control. People with diabetes interact with their insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system throughout the day and are looking for
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Intel Leverages IoT, Big Data with Open-Source Cancer Cloud
This week at the Intel Devleoper Forum, Intel announced a collaboration with Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University called the Collaborative Cancer Cloud that uses analytics to advance cancer care via genomics analysis and targeted treatment plans. The precision medicine analytics platform allows institutions to securely share patient genomic, imaging and clinical data for potentially lifesaving discoveries. It will also enable large amounts of data from sites all
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Report: Consumers Are Willing to Share Health Data for Insurance Discounts
Consumer willingness to share their personal health data in exchange for a health insurance discount varies by device used, ranging from 42% of digital pedometer owners to only 26% of those with a sleep-quality monitor, according to recent Digital health research from Parks Associates. Among smart watch owners, 35% are willing to share data from their device for a health insurance discount. Parks Associates report, Digitally Fit: Products and Services for Connected Consumers assesses consumer
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Accenture: Half of Digital Health Startups Fail Within 2 Years of Launch
While digital health and healthcare IT startup funding is accelerating at a record pace, more than half of digital health startups funded between 2008 and 2013 are not likely to survive longer than 20 months, according to a new report from Accenture. The report finds that the imminent rise of these "zombie digital health startups" will lead to larger healthcare companies acquiring these startups to help drive growth by infusing top talent, fueling innovation and
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Intersystems, Validic Partner to Integrate Patient Generated Data into Healthshare
InterSystems, a provider of interoperability and connected health solution has announced a partnership with Validic, a leading technology platform for accessing digital health patient data. As part of the partnership, Intersystems will use Validic's digital health platform to integrate user-generated data from clinical in home, wearable and mobile health devices and applications into the InterSystems HealthShare suite of products.
Intersystems, Validic Integration Details
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Singapore Hospital Pilots Use of Hospital Delivery Robots
Changi General Hospital (CGH) in Singapore is piloting the use of Panasonic autonomous hospital delivery robots called HOPSI to improve operational efficiency of a hospital. The pilot launched in February 2015 has been implemented over several phases and is the first hospital outside of Japan to utilize the HOSPI robot. As part of the hospital’s porter management system, the four HOSPI are able to deliver fragile and bulky medicine, medical specimens and patients’ case notes 24/7, easing
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Dave Schulte to Join McKesson Ventures as Managing Director
McKesson Ventures, the venture capital arm of McKesson Corporation, has appointed Dave Schulte as the new managing director, effective September 8, 2015. Schulte joins McKesson from Kaiser Permanente Ventures where he served as vice president and managing director. In his role at McKesson, Schulte will be responsible for co-leading the development and management of the McKesson Ventures portfolio alongside group leader Tom Rodgers.
McKesson Ventures, established in December 2014, has made
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Medical Crowdsourcing Saves Child’s Life from Deadly E. Coli Infection
SERMO, a global social network exclusively for doctors and the home of medical crowdsourcing, helped save a girl’s life through collaboration across borders. The infection she was diagnosed with had killed her brother just two weeks earlier. Because of SERMO’s recent expansion to the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand, doctors from around the world were able to pool their collective wisdom online to recommend options for follow up testing and treatment, saving the
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