Can virtual healthcare close the care gaps? Dr. Leslie Saxon gives us a glimpse of what’s to come via the latest in telehealth technology. Virtual care is quickly becoming a tangible reality. All over the word, fingertips are tapping onto screens and into data streams, leaving digital footprints in their wake. But where is this trail of telecommunications leading us? According to Dr. Leslie Saxon, we are headed for real progress in creating access to healthcare by plugging deeper into its
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Report: Virtual Healthcare Market to Reach $3.5B by 2022
The virtual healthcare market is expected to reach revenues over $3.5 billion by 2022 with a CAGR of 49.8 percent during the forecast period, according to a recent report by Verify Markets. The report represent revenues generated by companies operating in the U.S. virtual healthcare market by mode of consultation (online visits to physicians through various modes of communication such as audio, video and kiosks). Core Virtual Healthcare Market SegmentsGrowth in the virtual healthcare market is
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Ask the Doctor Launches Virtual Doctor Visits for Employers in Canada
Ask The Doctor, the world's most popular medical question and answer platform has selected Ontario to launch its Virtual Healthcare Platform for Employers, ATD Works. Starting today, Ontario employers can provide their employees with the benefit of immediate virtual access to a physician through email, SMS, phone or video chat on the Ask The Doctor App. Employees will not only have access to medical advice, they can also receive prescriptions conveniently filled at their nearest pharmacy. The
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How Close Are We To AI-Automated Healthcare?
Editor's Note: Alex Meshkin is the CEO of Flow Health. Flow Health provides longitudinal care plan coordination and chronic care management services built on top of its platform, which is The Operating System for Value-Based CareSM. Follow him on Twitter at @AlexMeshkinWe have seen incredible progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years, especially through the application of deep learning algorithms. AI systems will get even better as more data is
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Report: 59% of Digital Health Users Have Chronic Condition, Only 7% Use Management Tool
Fifty-nine percent of consumers who use digital health apps and tools suffer from a chronic condition, according to a March HealthMine survey of 500 insured consumers. Fifty-two percent of these individuals are enrolled in a wellness program and 33% received their health device/app from their wellness program. However, only 7% of these individuals are using a disease management tool. The survey reveals that consumers use of health applications and devices has doubled in the past two years, but
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Report: Precision Medicine Market to Reach $88B by 2022
The global precision market is expected to reach to $88 billion by 2022 at an estimated CAGR of 12.60% from 2015 to 2022 with North America and Europe emerging as leaders, according to Global Precision Medicine Market -- Estimation & Forecast (2015-2022) report. This is led by President Obama's recent announcement to request $1B for fund the Cancer 'Moonshot' initiative for researchers to accelerate the development of new cancer detection and treatments. Presently, the main focus of the
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Dr. Soon-Shiong of NantWorks Talks Cancer Moonshots in Healthcare
In a recent StartUp Health Now podcast, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, surgeon, medical researcher, businessman, philanthropist and professor, sits down with StartUp Health CMO, Dr. Howard Krein, to discuss his ambitious undertakings in reforming cancer treatments through immunotherapy, whole genome sequencing and the new cancer initiative, “Cancer Moonshot 2020.”
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Honor HomeCare Lands Partnership to License American Cancer Society’s Proprietary Care Guidance
Honor, a home care focused digital health startup has landed a partnership with the American Cancer Society to license it's proprietary care guidance. As part of the partnership, Honor Care Pros will be equipped with the American Cancer Society's information detailing how to deliver that care to their clients at home through the Honor Care Pro App. Launched in spring 2015, Honor is the home-care solution that helps older adults continue to live and age in their own homes with greater joy,
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Bivarus Nabs $2M for Patient-Centered Analytics Platform
Bivarus, a patient-centered analytics company working with healthcare organizations to measure and analyze the patient experience, announced it has raised $2 million in funding co-led by Hatteras Venture Partners and Excelerate Health Ventures. The oversubscribed round also included participation from NueCura Partners of Nashville, Tenn. and Boston Millennia Partners of Boston, Mass.
The Raleigh-Durham-based startup was born of their academic research around the patient experience, which
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Boehringer Ingelheim to Fund Commercialization of Propeller’s Digital Platform for Ashma, COPD
Propeller Health, a digital health solution for respiratory medicine, and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., a global pharmaceutical company and leading provider of inhaled medications for serious respiratory diseases, today announced a first-of-its-kind commercial partnership that aims to use digital health tools and services to help people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma better manage their disease. This partnership further validates Propeller's
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