Philips announced this week the results of the first published study to demonstrate that absolute oxygen saturation of arterial blood (SpO2), a vital sign that is commonly monitored in hospitalized and other patients, can be accurately measured across multiple patients using contactless technology. The study, published in the June issue of the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, used Philips proprietary camera-based monitoring technology to measure the light reflected off the foreheads of 41
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8 Digital Health Jobs of the Future to Watch
Editor’s Note: Richard van Hooijdonk is a futurist and international keynote speaker on future technologies and disruption and how these technologies change our everyday lives. Van Hooijdonk and his international team research ‘mega trends’ on digital health, robotic surgery,drones, the internet-of-things, 3D/4D printing, Big Data and other how new technologies affects many industries. With people living increasingly longer lives, medical care from surgeons, physicians, pharmacists and dentists
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Metamason Nabs $3M for World’s First 3D Printed CPAP Masks
Metamason, a healthcare-focused 3D scanning and 3D printing company has raised $3M in seed funding led by 3P Equity Partners, a manufacturing-focused private equity firm located in San Jose, CA; and Tsing Capital, known as China’s foremost cleantech venture capital firm. The round also included a collection of individual angel investors throughout the country. Metamason plans to utilize the funding to complete FDA regulatory clearance and run initial clinical trials for its patent-pending
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New Pain Diversion Technology Helps Ease Patient Discomfort
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. A new case study has been released in conjunction with Southern Hills Hospital, Samsung and AccendoWave, creator of a patient satisfaction platform that provides feedback on a patient’s pain level and distress. With the help of Samsung’s mobile devices, AccendoWave partnered with Southern Hills in a six-month pilot program to test the pain diversion technology in an effort to understand and help ease patient discomfort and create better patient
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TigerText Integrates with Honeywell for Quick Access to EMR Data
Secure messaging provider TigerText has teamed up with Honeywell to combine TigerText's app with Honeywell’s new Dolphin CT50h clinical smartphone to streamline care coordination and provide a better experience for patients. The customized app includes a secure, encrypted bot technology designed to enable care providers to scan a patient’s barcode and retrieve critical, up-to-date information about the patient’s medications, care team and recent procedures directly from their EMR.“We’re excited
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Moving Analytics Nabs $1.1M for Reimbursable, Home-based Cardiac Rehab
San Francisco-based Moving Analytics, a company focused on digital solutions for patient rehab programs has raised $1.1 million in funding, led by Launchpad Digital Health and including HealthX Ventures. The startup plans to utilize the funding to expand its home-based cardiac rehab solution and further develop home-based COPD product to complement their existing offerings.Rehabilitation programs are time consuming and often inconvenient for patients. To solve this, Moving Analytics helps
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Israeli Digital Health Startup EarlySense Lands $25M for Contact-Free Monitoring
Israeli digital health startup, EarlySense, a contact-free continuous monitoring solutions provider, announced today that it has raised $25 million in funding, led by Israel’s largest bank, Bank Hapoalim. Pitango Venture Capital, JK&B Capital and other previous investors also participated in the round.The latest round brings the company's total funding to $100M including strategic investments from Samsung, Welch Allyn and Mitsui. The company will utilize the funding to scale its product
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MUSC Integrates Telehealth Visits with Epic EHR Via Vidyo
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has simplified access to high quality remote consultations between clinicians and patients by deploying Epic’s telehealth and virtual care workflows tightly integrated with Vidyo’s real-time video communication platform. This solution creates a seamless workflow that makes it easier for doctors and patients to schedule, conduct video consults, record and access health information securely within the Epic portal. Virtual visits are the latest addition
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Polar Wearables Integrates with Validic To Enhance Corporate Wellness Programs
Wearable sports technology provider Polar, today announced its partnership with digital integration platform Validic. Through the integration of its wearables with Validic's platform, Polar will bring its trusted heart rate technology and activity tracking devices to a variety of corporate wellness and remote monitoring programs.Polar products make it easy for organizations to implement corporate and preventative wellness programs that reward employees for their efforts in leading a physically
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Digital Health at Scale in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Novartis Foundation is gathering experts across the public and private sectors to discuss digital health as an enabler to improve the quality of healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and how to bring impactful digital health programs to scale.The two-day dialogue event, “Wired for impact: digital health at scale in low- and middle-income countries” is taking place in Accra, Ghana and is co-hosted by the Novartis Foundation and the Ghana Ministry of Health with the Ghana
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