Diabetes Center at UCSF and Yes Health, an all-mobile program to prevent type 2 diabetes are teaming up on a precision medicine initiative to aid development of personalized type 2 diabetes prevention and treatment strategies. As part of the initiative, Yes Health will develop opt-in tools that provide its users the opportunity to share real-time behavioral data, such as diet, exercise, and sleep patterns for UCSF researchers
According to the American Diabetes Association, 86 million
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Medisafe, Nestlé Health Science Integrate to Improve Patient Health
Medisafe®, the personalized mHealth platform for medication management, announced today a new collaboration with Nestlé Health Science, a health science company that is advancing the role of nutritional therapy to improve patient health. The partnership aims to realize the proven benefits of compliance to the proper regimen ofIMPACT ADVANCED RECOVERY Specialized Nutrition Drink to address the unique nutritional needs of major elective surgery patients at risk of infection.
The companies will
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Why EHR Integration is Crucial for Digital Health Innovation
Catalyze’s Travis Good talks about why there’s more to EHR integration than the API
Last year digital health funding reached $5.8 billion, leaving no question that the potential is aplenty for ambitious health-tech innovators. Still, it takes more than seed funding to bear fruit in this market. While innovating in digital health may truly be something, integrating in digital health—well, that’s everything.
According to Catalyze’s cofounder and CEO Dr. Travis Good, establishing
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Report: Patients Are Increasingly Using Digital Health to Supplement Doctor Visits
Consumers are increasingly leveraging online resources to both prepare for appointments and validate physician recommendations – moving beyond diagnosis to become more active in the treatment decision, according to new findings released from the Sixth Annual Makovsky/Kelton “Pulse of Online Search” Survey. Fielded to 1,035 nationally representative Americans ages 18 and older, data further reveal that while the doctor-patient relationship remains integral to the healthcare equation,
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Early Detection: The New Cancer Paradigm
Editor's Note: Amit Kumar, Ph.D, is an expert in cancer diagnostics with over 20 years of experience in cancer research. He is the Vice Chairman of ITUS Corporation and Executive Chairman of Anixa Diagnostics Corporation, which is developing a blood test (Cchek ™), for the early detection of tumor-based cancers. This article first appeared in The Journal of Antibody Drug Conjugates and has been republished with permission.
A seemingly healthy patient walks into the doctor’s office for a
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Constant Therapy Raises $2M for Customized Brain Rehab Apps
Constant Therapy, a Boston-based innovator of science-based, customized brain rehabilitation apps announced it has raised $2 million in Series A funding led by Golden Seeds. The round included participation from Kapor Capital, Launchpad Venture Group, Pond Capital and Community Health Network of Connecticut. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate the scientific research, data, marketing and development behind its product.
Constant Therapy provides victims of brain trauma —
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Reflexion Health Appoints Dr. Joseph M. Smith CEO
Reflexion Health, a digital health and telemedicine company dedicated to bringing personalized healthcare into patients' homes has announced the appointment of Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, as the company's new CEO. Dr. Smith has been serving as interim CEO since December 2015 and has been a member of Reflexion Health's board since October 2012.
The San Diego-based company recently secured 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the Vera™ system, an innovative
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New Predictive Dashboard Hopes to Create Quiet Hospitals, Healing Environment
Quietyme Inc., a venture-backed sensor technology company, has unveiled a new solutions dashboard and reporting suite designed to help nurses and hospital administrators reduce patient noise disturbances in hospitals. The new predictive analytics solution is a proprietary technology platform built on the real-time streaming data of the company's decibel sensor network currently used in dozens of hospitals, hotels and residential buildings.
In 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
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Digital Health Startup Oncora Medical Raises $1.2M for Radiation Oncology Platform
Oncora Medical, a Philadelphia-based digital health startup developing software to transform the way physicians treat cancer with radiation has raised $1.2M in seed financing from San Francisco-based iSeed Ventures, Philadelphia-based BioAdvance, and well-known medical physicist and entrepreneur, Dr. Thomas “Rock” Mackie.
Proceeds from the financing will be used to build out their engineering team in Oncora’s Philadelphia headquarters and accelerate early product installations with leading
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Welkin Health, Face It TOGETHER Partner to Use Real-Time Data to Transform Addiction Care
Face It TOGETHER and Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in patient relationship management, have partnered to improve the care and management of drug and alcohol addiction. The partners will apply evidence-based digital support tools to recovery coaching with the goal of improving outcomes and reducing costs so that more people suffering from addiction can get well and stay well.
The collaboration will focus its efforts initially at Face It TOGETHER’S
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