Under Armour and IBM are teaming up to create and provide meaningful data-backed health and fitness insights, powered by IBM Watson's cognitive computing technology. Under Armour's new UA Record™ combined with a Cognitive Coaching System will serve as a personal health consultant, fitness trainer and assistant by providing athletes with timely, evidence-based coaching around your sleep, fitness, activity and nutrition, including outcomes achieved based on others "like you."
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BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging
BlackBerry are teaming up with digital health and wellness engagement platform Sharecare to provide consumers with better and more secure insights into their health. As part of the partnership, Sharecare and BlackBerry will integrate Sharecare's proprietary fractal voice analysis into BlackBerry's secure messaging to increase consumer self-awareness, reduce stress and improve relationships, all while providing the gold-standard in consumer privacy.
Building on this, the companies will move
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Flatiron Health Raises $175M for Oncology Cloud Software
Cloud-based oncology software provider Flatiron Health has raised $175M in Series C funding led by Roche with participation from Allen & Company, Baillie Gifford and Casdin Capital. Founded in 2012, the NYC-based company organizes the world’s oncology information and makes it useful for patients, physicians, life science companies and researchers.
The company plans to utilize the capital to further invest in its cloud-based OncologyCloud software platform, which includes OncoAnalytics®,
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Accenture: Only 2% of Hospitals Engage Patients Using Mobile Apps
Mobile health app usage has grown increasingly over the past three years with 54 percent of health consumers willing to use their smartphones to engage with their healthcare providers, according to new research from Accenture. The report finds that despite the acceptance from consumers, healthcare providers are failing to meet consumer needs with consumers complaining about poor user experience with providers’ proprietary apps and mobile functionality that often fails to meet their individual
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A&D Medical Unveils BLE Wireless Blood Pressure Monitors
Connected health and biometric measurement devices and services provider A&D Medical is unveiling their new line of LifeSource UltraConnect Wireless upper arm and wrist blood pressure monitors.With a sleek, streamlined profile, the new wrist and upper arm wireless blood pressure monitors represent the launch of the first products in a new line of connected health devices that will expand the company's family of medical-grade and consumer health monitoring devices.
LifeSource UltraConnect
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Withings Unveils Wi-Fi Connected Smart Sensor Thermometer
Withings, a leader in the connected health revolution, has extended its therapeutic areas of expertise with the unveiling of the FDA-approved Withings Thermo - a Wi-Fi-connected temporal artery thermometer with a revolutionary 16-sensor array that provides one of the fastest, most accurate, non-invasive temperature readings available.
Withings Thermo will be available in Q1 2016 for a MSRP of $99.95 and will be supported by a dedicated app for both iOS and Android devices. Within the app
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Pathway Genomics Nabs $40M to Expand Precision Medicine via Genetic Testing
San Diego, CA-based Pathway Genomics, a clinical laboratory facilitating precision medicine through genetic testing and mobile healthcare applications has raised over $40 million in Series E funding. This brings the total investment into Pathway Genomics to over $130 million. Investors in this round of funding include IBM Watson, Pathway's partner in the development of a mobile health application using artificial intelligence to provide personalized health and wellness guidance. The capital will
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Philips Unveils HealthSuite Digital Platform
During Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016, Royal Philips will showcase their Philips HealthSuite digital platform, the company’s cloud-based innovation platform, to help consumers and their healthcare providers obtain a complete picture of their health as well as take the right steps to remain healthy at every stage of life.
Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform Overview
The Philips HealthSuite digital platform is an open, cloud-based platform of services, capabilities and tools that allows
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Fitbit Unveils New Smart Fitness Watch, Fitbit Blaze
Connected health and fitness market provider Fitbit, today unveiled the Fitbit Blaze™ smart fitness watch, its smartest, most stylish, most motivating fitness tracker yet at CES 2016. The latest addition to Fitbit’s award-winning line of innovative devices, Fitbit Blaze is available today for presale with global retail availability starting in March 2016. Fitbit Blaze is a smart fitness watch built to help you make the most of your workouts, with a versatile design to fit your personal style,
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drchrono, ZocDoc Partner to Integrate EHRs, Calendars
drchrono, a mobile EHR platform on the iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and web, announced today that it has partnered with digital health marketplace ZocDoc. The new integration will give medical professionals using the two digital health platforms a more seamless experience by syncing their calendars and EHRs directly with ZocDoc’s patient-facing platform.
Both drchrono and ZocDoc have been credited with innovative and forward-thinking approaches to improving healthcare – ZocDoc, from the
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