Today, Apple introduced its highly anticipated digital health tracking platform at WWDC named HealthKit. The Healthbook app simply called "Health" in iOS8 will be used as a central location on the device to track health data from apps and devices used for recording health and fitness data. The company also announced partnerships with Mayo Clinic, Epic Systems, Nike and other leading healthcare providers to enable seamless integration between clinicians and users.
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StartUp Health Adds 8 Digital Health Startups to its Portfolio
StartUp Health, a global startup platform accelerating innovation in health and wellness, today announced the addition of eight new companies to its portfolio, bringing the total to 71 companies. The announcement comes as StartUp Health is celebrating its third anniversary at Health Datapalooza in Washington, DC.
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Validic Expands Their Digital Health Ecosystem With New Clients & Integration Partners
Validic, the healthcare technology platform for accessing digital health data, announced today the addition of several new clients and integration partners, as they continue to expand and grow their global digital health marketplace.
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Global Physician Digital Health Engagement Opportunity Map
Manhattan Research surveyed over 7,000 doctors from 17 countries to understand their technology behaviors, information seeking preferences and ways they research pharma products to identify opportunities for physician digital health engagement. The Global Physician Digital Engagement Opportunity Map shown below identifies the top two pharma engagement opportunities by country.
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2 in 5 Physicians Believe Digital Health Will Improve Patient Outcomes
Two in five physicians agreed that using digital health technology to communicate with patients will improve patient outcomes, according to data from Manhattan Research's Taking the Pulse® U.S. 2014 study. The study found more than a third of physicians said that they had been evaluated or rewarded based on metrics measuring cost of treatment, patient outcomes or referrals over the past year. The Taking the Pulse® U.S. 2014 was fielded online among 3,066 U.S. practicing physicians in Q1 2014.
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Samsung Launches $50M Digital Health Initiative To Accelerate Innovation in Personal Health
Samsung just put the digital health space on notice with the announcement of their new Samsung Digital Health Initiative based on open hardware and software platforms designed to bring developers, healthcare professionals, academics and health enthusiasts together to create a healthier world.
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SAP Accelerates Genomic Data Research with Strategic Collaborations With Stanford School of Medicine and GA4GH
SAP AG today announced a strategic collaboration with Stanford School of Medicine to research the contribution of genetics, environmental exposures, behavior and other factors to disease susceptibility using the power of the SAP HANA® platform. The company also announced its participation in the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, a council of industry leaders working toward accelerating worldwide efforts to responsibly share and analyze large amounts of genomic and clinical data.
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Should Facebook Have Access To Our Medical Data?
Leslie Saxon, chief of cardiovascular at the Keck School, USC talks how companies such as Facebook wants to have access to our medical data and why at the recent Wired Health summit.
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Could Oculus Be A Game Changer for Telemedine?
Facebook is known for making waves with new acquisitions, and one of the latest is no exception: Oculus, a virtual reality gaming company Facebook acquired for $2 billion that includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook stock. Though Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Oculus will continue to focus on gaming in the short term, the deal is actually about staying ahead of the curve and embracing the next big computing platform shift.
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Rock Health V6 Startups Focuses on the Consumerization of Healthcare
Rock Health, a San Francisco-based full service seed fund for digital health startups today announced its sixth cycle of companies known as "Rock Health V6". Five out of the seven startups selected for this class are focused on the consumerization of healthcare ranging from a health insurance recommendation engine to a national virtual practice allowing patients to have a video visit with a board certified doctor.
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