Intermountain Healthcare has invested $12 million in strategic funding with Zebra Medical Vision, an Israeli medical company. The partnership will accelerate the creation of Zebra’s imaging analytics engine and create neural networks that will use Zebra’s vast imaging dataset to assist radiologists with automated diagnostic algorithms. In addition to Intermountain, Zebra's existing investors include Khosla Ventures and Marc Benioff. Founded in 2014 by Co-Founders Eyal Toledano, Eyal Gura, and
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CareFirst Shells Out $3M to Deliver Telemedicine to Underserved Communities
According to a company statement, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) plans to shell out nearly $3 million dollars for regional telemedicine programs to 10 health care organizations in Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. The telemedicine programs will focus on expanding healthcare to underserved communities. Last year, CareFirst issued a request for proposals from public health entities and nonprofit organizations aiming to use telemedicine programs to remove common barriers
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Sensifree Lands $5M for Contactless Biometric Monitoring Sensors
Sensifree, an Israeli digital health startup provider of low power, contact free, electromagnetic sensors that accurately collect a range of continuous biometric data without the need to touch the human body, today announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by TransLink Capital with participation from existing and new investors, including UMC Capital, a subsidiary of United Microelectronics Corp. and an undisclosed strategic investor.The latest round adds to seed
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Practice Fusion Founder Launches Heart Monitoring Smartwatch – iBeat Life Monitor
After stepping down as the CEO of cloud-based EHR platform Practice Fusion in mid-2015, founder Ryan Howard is back with a new digital health startup focused on a life-saving Wearable-as-a-Service. The startup is currently developing its first product, iBeat Life Monitor, a heart monitoring smartwatch wearable that perpetually monitors and detects cardiac arrest, heart attack, and atrial fibrillation. Similar to your average medical alert system for seniors, in the case of a life-threatening
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Propeller, Health Vectura Partner To Develop Connected Dry-Powder Inhaler
Digital health company Propeller Health is teaming up with respiratory pharmaceutical company Vectura to develop digitally connected dry powder inhaler (“DPI”) technology inhalers integrated with Propeller's FDA-cleared digital health platform. The partnership will bring a new connected dry-powder inhaler device onto the Propeller platform. Vectura provides a range of pre-metered foil blister-based dry powder inhalers developed to meet patients’ needs in inhalation therapy. The initial focus of
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Clinical Grade Wearables Will Accelerate Growth Opportunities for Internet of Medical Things
The global healthcare wearable devices market earned $5.1 billion and is expected to reach $18.9 billion in 2020, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.9%, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. Additionally, consumer health wearables are expected to grow at a CAGR of 27.8%, and medical and clinical-grade wearables are expected to grow at a CAGR of 32.9%.The report finds wearables dedicated to chronic disease monitoring and other clinical applications are expected to
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BaseHealth, TriVita to Launch Personalized Wellness Program
BaseHealth, a healthcare-focused predictive analytics company has teamed up with health and wellness company TriVita to launch a new personalized wellness program at scale for consumers. Through the partnership, BaseHealth’s comprehensive assessments will power TriVita Shield, a new personalized wellness program. BaseHealth claims this marks the first time that predictive analytics for healthcare is available to consumers at scale. Wellness Program OverviewThe TriVita Shield wellness program
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Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform Integrates with Salesforce Health Cloud
Accenture has teamed up with Salesforce to integrate its Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform with Salesforce Health Cloud, giving life science and healthcare providers the ability to deliver a personalized patient experience. The Salesforce Health Cloud integration gives life sciences companies and healthcare providers the ability to support more informed patient decisions, help increase patient engagement across their caregiver networks, and more efficiently manage patient data.The Accenture
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Canary Health Acquires Mobile Stress Management Company bLife
Digital health self management company Canary Health(formerly DPS Health), announced it has acquired mobile stress management company, bLife, to round out its self-management suite that includes a CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and the chronic disease online workshops from Stanford University's Patient Education Research Center. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, bLife co-founder Paul Campbell has joined the senior management team
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Accenture: Top 5 Digital Health Trends Show the Power of People
Every year, the Technology Vision team partners with Accenture Research to pinpoint the emerging IT developments that will have the greatest impact on companies, government agencies and other organizations in the next three to five years.The research process began during 2015 with gathering inputs from the Technology Vision External Advisory Board, a group comprising more than two dozen experienced individuals from the public and private sectors, academia, venture capital and entrepreneurial
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