On July 30, Ochsner Health System, GE Healthcare and The Idea Village launched the “Wear Your Health” challenge that seeks to identify wearable technology concepts and mobile application solutions that can transform healthcare outcomes by addressing behavior management in patients with chronic disease. Chronic diseases account for 7 out of every 10 deaths in the U.S. Totaling more than 80 percent of total healthcare costs, the existing U.S. care delivery model is poorly constructed to help
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CVS To Leverage IBM Watson Health To Predict Patients at Risk for Declining Health
CVS Health has announced it will leverage IBM Watson Health's predictive analytics and cognitive computing to transform care management services for patients with chronic disease. The partnership will enable health care practitioners, including those across the CVS Health enterprise, to use Watson to advance care management beyond programs and services typically available today. IBM did not disclose the financial terms of the partnership.
CVS Health/IBM Watson Health Partnership
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5 Steps to Launch A Successful Digital Health Strategy
Digital health devices are quickly becoming a part of our everyday culture as mobile fitness trackers and connected clinical devices become common as smartphone. This healthcare revolution represents an enormous opportunity for healthcare providers to extend their reach and connect to their patient populations. Care is moving beyond the four walls of the hospital and physician's office, and provider organizations are beginning to invest in the necessary infrastructure and programs to help launch
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Livongo Health Uses Big Data to Advance Diabetes Care
Liaison Technologies, an industry-recognized leader in cloud-based integration and data management offerings, today announced that its ALLOY Health™ platform has been chosen by Livongo Health™ to speed adoption of Livongo’s chronic condition health management program. Liaison’s ALLOY Health platform will help integrate and normalize the exchange of patient information between Livongo and client health systems, making implementation easier and faster.
Livongo Health is a consumer digital
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Survey: 59% of Healthcare Orgs Lack Digital Health Strategy
59% of healthcare organizations are either behind schedule with their digital health strategy or have no digital health strategy currently in place. The remaining 41% of healthcare organizations state they are on schedule with implementing and executing their digital health strategy, according to a recent global survey conducted by digital health platform provider Validic. For the survey, Validic reached out to more than 450 healthcare organizations to gain better insights into the current state
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MedGenome Raises $20M to Unlock the Valuable Genomic Variants
India-based startup MedGenome, a developer of genomic diagnostics in India and a leading provider of genomics research services globally, announced it has received a $20 million investment from Sequoia Capital in a Series B funding round. With this funding, MedGenome will further invest in building its cutting-edge bioinformatics infrastructure, enhance its sequencing facilities in India and the US, and expand its research and scientific teams.
MedGonome Overview
MedGenome operates the
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FDA Clears 2 Propeller Health Inhaler Devices for Asthma, COPD
Propeller Health, the FDA-cleared digital health solution for chronic respiratory disease, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance to market its Propeller platform in association with medications using GlaxoSmithKline’s Diskus® dry powder inhaler (DPI) device for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This new clearance follows 510(k) clearance to market the Propeller platform in association with medications using Boehringer Ingelheim’s Respimat®
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Bright.md Raises $3.5M to Support Expansion of Virtual Healthcare
Portland, Oregon-based Bright.md, a developer of a virtual care solution to improve efficiencies and reduce costs in the delivery of care for non-acute conditions has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round. Co-founded in 2014 by Ray Costantini and Mark Swinth, Bright.md connects you to your provider from your home or on the go, using your home computer or mobile device. In under an hour, and for less than the cost of a co-payment, you can get treatment from the provider you know and
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Medidata, Validic Partner to Transform Clinical Trials Using Patient-Generated Data
Medidata, a global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, and Validic, the healthcare industry's leading digital health platform, today announced a partnership to propel connectivity and innovation in clinical research by expanding access to patient-generated data from a broad range of consumer and medical grade mobile health (mHealth) devices and apps.
Medidata, Validic Integration Details
By integrating Validic’s digital health platform with the
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Blueprint Health Launches Its 8th Class of Digital Health Startups
Blueprint Health, a NYC based mentor-focused health technology accelerator has revealed its Summer 2015 Accelerator class (eight class) of eight digital health startups to its portfolio. Blueprint is a member of TechStars’ Global Accelerator Network. Today’s addition of eight companies brings the accelerator’s total to 68 digital health with more than 140 entrepreneurs in Blueprint’s alumni community.
To date, 87% of Blueprint’s companies are still in operation and 85% of those companies are
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