Google Inc.’s life sciences group has developed a health-tracking wristband that can be used for clinical trial research and drug tests. Developed by Google's X research division, the wristband can measure pulse, heart rhythm, skin temperature, light exposure and noise levels to giving researchers minute-by-minute patient data. The device is designed to become a medical device instead of a consumer device.
“Our intended use is for this to become a medical device that’s prescribed to
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New Social Media App Offers Real-Time View of Patient Pulse
Treato, a source for consumer healthcare insights has launched a new social media app that offers an expanded view of the patient pulse. The new app named Treato IQ applies Treato's advanced big data infrastructure to broad social sentiment for a top line view into today's health consumer, expanding Treato's offering of patient intelligence tools to provide healthcare companies with an end-to-end solution.
Treato IQ will allow business customers to understand the social media landscape
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The Impact of Creating Emotion in Healthcare Design
Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology.
Interfacing with the healthcare system is a journey fraught with emotion. Feelings like fear, embarrassment, and hope all play a role in how people perceive their experiences. During the course of designing medical and digital health products over 30 years, we’ve begun to understand the role that
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Crowdfunding Effort Targets Patients Seeking Genome Sequencing
Rare Genomics Institute (RG) is launching a 30-day crowdfunding bootcamp to help rare disease patients raise funds for high-end exome sequencing to pinpoint the cause of their disease and map possible treatments. The training session is an integral part of Amplify Hope, a new RG program that navigates patients and their families through the emerging fundraising opportunities. The project, funded by the Templeton Foundation, is free for the participants.
By providing an expert network and
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Doximity, Society of Hospital Medicine Partner to Better Connect Hospitalists
Doximity, an online medical network with over half of all US doctors as members, and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the medical society representing the fastest growing specialty in healthcare, announced today a partnership to better serve the population of US hospitalists. By combining their clinical and digital strengths, SHM and Doximity will provide hospitalists better tools to collaborate and care for their patients.
Hospitalists are in the unique position of coordinating
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CVS Health Opens Digital Health Innovation Lab in Boston
CVS Health today announced the official opening of its Digital Innovation Lab in Boston, a facility that is focused on developing cutting-edge digital services and personalized capabilities that offer an accessible and integrated personal pharmacy and health experience. The Lab will serve as a vital hub for the rapidly growing digital team at CVS Health, which will remain headquartered in Woonsocket, R.I.
"At CVS Health, everything we do is to help people on their path to better health, and
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Tute Genomics Raises $3.9M to Enable Genome-guided Medicine
Tute Genomics, a cloud-based platform that can rapidly analyze and annotate personal genomes has raised over $3.9 million in Series A funding from a strategic group of investors, including internationally recognized Intermountain Healthcare, an integrated network of 22 hospitals and 185 physician clinics. Other major investors include Healthbox, a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare, and China-based Tencent, one of the largest Internet companies in the world.
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FDA To Use Patient-Reported Data From PatientsLikeMe for Drug Safety Insights
PatientsLikeMe and the FDA have signed a research collaboration agreement to determine how patient-reported data can give new insights into drug safety. Under the collaboration, PatientsLikeMe and the FDA will systematically explore the potential of patient-generated data to inform regulatory review activities related to risk assessment and risk management.
The cornerstone of the FDA’s post-approval drug safety surveillance is a spontaneous reporting system consisting of individual case safety
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HHS’s Ebola Detection Kit Could Provide Diagnosis in 20 Mins
To assist doctors in diagnosing Ebola virus disease quickly, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) will pursue development of an Ebola virus diagnostic test for use in a doctor’s office, hospital, clinic, or field setting that will provide results within twenty minutes.
Diagnosing Ebola virus infections quickly in resource-poor areas would enable health care providers to isolate and provide
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Doctor Evidence to Supply IBM Watson Health with Cancer Research Data
Clinical health research provider Doctor Evidence has announced a content partnership with IBM Watson Health to supply clinical cancer research data to Watson’s oncology solutions & developer ecosystem. As part of its new Watson Health unit, the solution has already ingested nearly 15 pages of medical content, including over 200 medical textbooks and 300 medical journals.
Content Partnership Details
Doctor Evidence will contribute 2 million additional data points from highly
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