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Guardant Health Nabs $100M for Biopsy-Free Cancer Genomic Testing

by HITC Staff 01/08/2016 Leave a Comment

Guardant Health

Guardant Health, a Redwood City, CA-based company revolutionizing cancer detection through biopsy-free tumor sequencing has raised $100M in Series D funding led by healthcare-investment firm OrbiMed. Existing Guardant Health investors Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pejman Mar, Formation 8, Heritage Group, and others also participated in the funding round. Founded in 2012 by a team of serial entrepreneurs with expertise in next-generation sequencing, single-cell
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Massachusetts To Launch Digital Health Hub To Support Innovation

by Jasmine Pennic 01/07/2016 Leave a Comment

Massachusetts To Launch Digital Health Hub To Support Innovation

Today, Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and other Massachusetts business leaders are teaming up to launch an initiative to create a digital health hub. With support from the City of Boston, Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI), and MACP, the new digital health innovation hub will provide startups with coworking space, programming and industry network support. Programming through the hub will be managed and operated by
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Validic Unveils VitalSnap to Enable Real-Time Health Data Transfer from Non-Connected Devices

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Validic Vital Snap

Digital health platform Validic today unveiled VitalSnap™, a new mobile technology that enables users to easily record health data from their in-home device via their smartphone's camera at CES 2016. The goal is to take vital information from non-connecting devices that may never be sent to or viewed by a provider and  deliver this data seamlessly to healthcare organizations, helping overcome connectivity barriers that limit the overall care experience.  How It Works  A majority of medical
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Under Armour to Develop IBM Watson Powered Health & Fitness App

by HITC Staff 01/07/2016 1 Comment

Under Armour IBM Watson

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." As envisioned, a
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BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging

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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

by HITC Staff 01/07/2016 Leave a Comment

Flatiron Health

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

by Fred Pennic 01/06/2016 Leave a Comment

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

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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

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withings thermo

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

by Jasmine Pennic 01/06/2016 Leave a Comment

Pathway Genomics

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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