Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC) has announced a pilot program to offer a virtual National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) platform to 66k New Yorkers. The program will deploy mobile coaching platform Noom to provide a user-centric, mobile coaching experience that engages and empowers individuals achieve their health goals and effortlessly monitor their progress in real time via their smartphone.With more than five million people in New York with prediabetes, Jamaica sought out a
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Iggbo Nabs $13M to Scale On-Demand Blood Draw Service
Iggbo, a digital health startup focused on bringing personalized medicine to more people through on-demand blood draws and medical testing has raised $13M in Series A funding led by Heritage Group. Founded by Dr. Shaiv Kapadia, Nuno Valentine, and Mark Van Roekel, Iggbo is currently operating in over 120 cities with a workforce of over 8,000 blood draw professionals. The company plans to utilize the funding to offer on-demand blood collection services to diagnostic laboratories, health systems,
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StartUp Health, Aurora Health Calls for Startups to Create a Personalized Population Health Platform
StartUp Health, global entrepreneurship development company investing in the world’s largest community of healthcare transformers, and Aurora Health Care, a leading not-for-profit health care system has announced an innovation for digital health startups to integrate into a personalized population health platform. The population health platform is intended to provide targeted care to Aurora’s patient population and the surrounding community, and could be applied to patients using the Medicaid
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IBM Forms Watson Health Medical Imaging Collaborative
IBM has formed a Watson Health medical imaging collaborative, a global initiative comprised of more than fifteen leading health systems, academic medical centers, ambulatory radiology providers and imaging technology companies. The goal of the collaborative is to bring cognitive imaging into daily practice to help doctors address breast, lung, and other cancers; diabetes; eye health; brain disease; and heart disease and related conditions, such as stroke.Collaboration DetailsEach member of the
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Reflexion Health Lands $18M for FDA-Cleared Tele-Rehab Platform
Reflexion Health, a digital health startup dedicated to transforming traditional medicine and delivering meaningful, patient-centered care has raised $18 million in Series B funding. The company plans to utilize the funds to complete clinico-economic evaluation of its first FDA cleared product VERA™. Why Tele-Rehabilitation?Tele-rehab drives patient engagement, enhances continuity of care, and delivers a concierge rehab experience in the comfort of the patient's home. Vera System
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Study: Remote Patient Monitoring Saves $8K Per Patient Annually
Remote patient monitoring yielded a savings of $8,375 per patient annually, which, for a typical one-million-member health plan could translate into about $1.1 million saved each year. The results stem from a year-long remote patient monitoring pilot from Geneia,an analytics and technology leader in transforming healthcare delivery. @Home Pilot Study OverviewThe @Home pilot study compared the experience of Capital BlueCross members diagnosed with heart failure (HF), who enrolled and actively
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Fitbit Rolls Out New, Personalized Sleep Schedule Feature
Wearable fitness leader, Fitbit, today unveiled a new, personalized sleep schedule feature to help millions of Fitbit users around the world improve their sleep consistency and overall health. Available now, Sleep Schedule features on the Fitbit app will help you meet your sleep goals and maintain a more consistent pattern of sleep through these tools:- Sleep Goal: Based on your sleep data from your Fitbit tracker, you can follow the app’s personalized recommendations or set your target number
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Philips Acquires Northern Irish Digital Pathology Startup PathXL
Today, Philips announced it has acquired PathXL, Northern Ireland-based leader in digital pathology image analysis, workflow software and educational tools to complement its IntelliSite Pathology Solution. With this move, Philips seeks to accelerate its drive to support medical institutions around the world as they move from microscopy-driven workflows to digitized pathology workflows. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Belfast, Northern
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Home Care Startup Honor Inks Deal with National Parkinson Foundation
Honor, a home care focused digital health startup has landed a partnership with the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) to license it’s proprietary care guidance. This partnership gives Honor a unique advantage to train its Care Professionals using NPF care expertise—and to provide superior personalized non-medical care to clients with Parkinson’s.Additionally, Honor Care Pros will be equipped with the Honor Care Pro App , containing the Foundation’s content and detailed recommendations for how
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How Public Perceptions Are Shaping the Future of Digital Health
Digital health care may be all the rage, but is it making a difference in the lives of consumers? Newly released research from APCO Insight, a full-service public opinion research team, shows that digital health may not be as transformative as we think. Conducted in October 2015, Digital health tools are viewed positively, especially for having an impact on managing personal health and establishing efficient access to health providers. Tools tracking personal health metrics are viewed as having
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