India’s digital health startups are joining the table with a tried & trusted strategy – bridging the gap between providers and end-users. But these particular startups certainly face a unique set of challenges as the country embraces innovation.
A Country of Paradoxes
Interesting fact: Slum-dwellers have mobile phones but no clean water – over 930 million Indians have cell phones, but no access to clean water. There is no central regulatory authority for health services, as most Indians
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HealthTap Expands Its 24/7 Query-to-Cure Experience Globally
HealthTap, a digital health company that provides 24/7 query-to-cure individualized care with a network of more than 73k doctors, announced that its Health Operating SystemTM (HOPES)TM is now available for hospitals, clinics, and community-based programs worldwide. Designed to provide "always on" quality healthcare, HOPESTM service enables healthcare providers, large and small, to manage the care for patient populations efficiently and cost-effectively.
New Overseas
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Enlitic Raises $10M to Enhance Deep Learning Medical Imaging
Enlitic, a deep learning medical imaging company dedicated to revolutionizing diagnostic healthcare has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Capitol Health Limited, an Australian public company providing medical diagnostic imaging (DI) services. The two companies will partner to reach a landmark milestone for human health: for the first time, real patients will directly benefit from deep learning, at scale, and across a whole healthcare network in Australian and Asian
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Teladoc CEO Named 2015 Digital Healthcare Innovator of the Year
Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic has been named Digital Healthcare Innovator of the Year by Healthegy, an organization focused on improving and innovating healthcare and the host of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit in Boston.
The company is the first telehealth company to go public in July 2015 and recently completed its 1 millionth telehealth visit. To date, more than 12.5 million U.S. members are connected to Teladoc’s network of over 2,000 board-certified, state-licensed physicians and
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Healthcare Internet of Things Market to Reach $163B by 2020
The global healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to grow from $32 billion in 2015 to $163. billion by 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 38.1%, according to a new market report by MarketandMarkets. North America is expected to be the largest market on the basis of market size and digital health advancements.
Defining Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT)
The IoT in Healthcare terminology is used to define the implementation of the IoT-based technology solutions
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Rock Health: 18 Consumer Adoption Trends in Digital Health
This week, Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health released the findings from their national survey on the consumer adoption trends in digital health. The report, "Digital Health Consumer Adoption: 2015" produced by Teresa Wang and Malay Gandhi with help from Kati Dahl surveyed 4,000 consumers on their attitudes attitudes towards data privacy and sharing within the healthcare ecosystem.
The report identifies six overarching categories of digital health that
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StartUp Health:10 Trends Driving the Future of Aging Care
According to the American Medical Student Association, the population of individuals over the age of 65 will increase by 73 percent between 2010 and 2030, meaning 1 in 5 Americans will be a senior citizen. For the next 20 years, about 3 million baby boomers will hit retirement age yearly.
With the tsunami wave of boomers getting older and multiple chronic conditions is set to place a tremendous financial burden on the US healthcare system, especially as it related to Medicare. Census Bureau
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Hoarding Your DNA Data Could Stifle Extending Human Life
Google Ventures’s Bill Maris is determined to extend human life expectancy; however, public fears over privacy and the security of DNA data could be a major roadblock, Bloomberg reports. “If we each keep our genetic information secret, then we’re all going to die,” said Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures. Starting this year, the firm has placed a greater focus on investing in life science companies focused on slow aging, reverse disease and extending life. A key portion of these
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WEDI Launches Genomic Data Exchange Workgroup
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced the development of its newest Workgroup focused on Genomic Data Exchange. The goal of the workgroup is to further evaluate and create a common industry vision and roadmap on how to incorporate genomic data into the American healthcare system. Katherine Johansen Taber, Ph.D., director of the American Medical
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HomeHero Launches the Match.com for Senior Home Care
After 6 months of building and testing, senior home care startup HomeHero has launched a proprietary 15-point algorithm that matches clients in need of a caregiver with the perfect person to meet their needs -- like the Match.com for senior home care. The SoCal-based startup can now crunch millions of data points in seconds and deliver customized caregiver matches within only 10 minutes, compared to hours or even days for traditional home care agencies (HomeHero’s own manual matching process
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