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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MIT Startup Offers Free Data Science License to Cancer Moonshot Initiative
In January, President Obama announced the Cancer Moonshot Initiative with Vice President Joe Biden declaring that one of its greatest challenges the effort will face is the siloed nature of clinical data. That call — to unify science, data and research results across the scientific community — resonated with Tamr, as that’s exactly what the Boston-based startup does daily for large enterprise organizations across industries.
Tamr, Inc. announced that it will extend its
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Northwell Health Launches $100k Contest to Fund Next Medical Breakthrough
On Monday, Northwell Health launched a new contest in which public voting will decide which of three medical innovations developed by some of its 61,000+ employees will receive $100k in additional research support. Starting today through April 18th, voters can go to www.northwell.edu/vote to learn about each innovation and vote for their favorite idea in which they think Northwell Health should invest.
The three innovations are being explored by Northwell Ventures, which evaluates,
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First FDA-Approved Medicine Using 3D Printing Technology Now Available to Public
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals today announced that SPRITAM® (levetiracetam) tablets, for oral suspension, is now available as an adjunctive therapy in the treatment of partial onset seizures, myoclonic seizures and primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures. SPRITAM is the first prescription drug product approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that is manufactured using 3D printing technology. This innovative product disintegrates in the mouth with a sip of liquid and offers a new
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Telehealth Startup CirrusMD Nabs $1M for “Closed Loop” Virtual Care
Denver, CO-based telehealth startup CirrusMD has raised $1.05 million in funding led by New York Angels, Rockies Venture Club, Sand Hill Angels and Three Leaf Ventures, BusinessDen first reports. The funding will be utilize to expand their development and sales team.
Founded in 2012, CirrusMD’s HIPAA-compliant platform allows value-based healthcare organizations to offer secure text messaging, image sharing and telehealth video visits with patients via mobile devices and web browsers. The
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