Editor's Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD.
Medical science is now producing gene-editing technology, implantables, and pills with digestible microchips. The plethora of technologies will sense our body signals and can help predict and prevent illness. Increasingly, humans are becoming machines. We already have wearables, but we will soon have a
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Smart Toothbrush Beam Adds Gamfication That Gets Kids to Brush Their Teeth
Beam, the smarter dental insurance company, launched “Boulders and Band-Aids” within the Beam app, adding a gamification layer on top of the brushing behavior data already collected via the Beam Brush.
The new game allows anyone who brushes their teeth while using the connected Beam Brush or the Beam app’s manual timer to earn lives to play the game, which encourages users to brush more often, for longer. The Beam app is available for free from the App Store and Google Play.
A vast majority
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WellDoc Pulls In $22M To Accelerate Mobile Prescription Therapy Adoption
Digital health technology company WellDoc today announced $22 million in Series B funding led by Samsung Ventures and Merck Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund serving as co-lead. Other participants in the round include Adage Capital Management, Excel Venture Management, Alexandria Venture Investments and Hudson River Capital Partners LLC.
Welldoc plans to utilize the funding to continue commercialization and accelerate adoption of its flagship product, BlueStar, a FDA cleared mobile
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Chilmark: Connected Health Market Bright, Yet Remains Immature
The US healthcare system’s shift towards value-based care has ignited an interest in new models of virtual, connected healthcare. As defined by Chilmark Research in their latest report, Migration to Connected Health: Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), ‘Connected Health’ is the application of technology to connect and extend healthcare delivery system (people, tools, facilities, and so on) in an ongoing, virtual, semi-automated manner across a patient
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47% of UK Adults Prefer Telehealth Visits Over Face to Face Visits
Almost half (47%) of UK adults would be happy to see their doctor virtually via telehealth visits rather than face-to-face with a doctor, according to Aviva’s latest Health Check UK report. The report reveals a growing appetite for digital health technology (including wearable health monitors, health advice mobile apps and video consultations with doctors) among UK adults. Digital health has the potential to remove the need for some doctor appointments and alleviate pressure on stretched
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NYU Langone Researchers Use ResearchKit App to Track Concussions
This week, Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center unveiled the NYU Langone Concussion Tracker app for iPhone and Apple Watch that can track concussions during the critical six week following their diagnosis. Created by clinicians and IT experts at NYU Langone, the app offers a new way to engage patients in studies that use digital tools to shape clinical care.
The NYU Langone Concussion Tracker app will be used to track patient-reported symptoms during the six-week recovery period.
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Chiron Health Nabs $2.3M to Get Physicians Fully Reimbursed for Telehealth Visits
Telemedicine software and reimbursement services provider Chiron Health has $2.3 million in seed funding to bring a robust set of telemedicine tools to physician practices. Chiron Health is the only platform designed to get physician practices fully reimbursed for secure video visits covering both Medicare and Medicaid as well as private payers. Through their extensive knowledge of telemedicine regulation and reimbursement, the company guides practices through the complexities of telemedicine.
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49% of Consumers Prefer Doctors to Use Their Health Apps Data for Care
Expectations that smartphones and apps will change how people manage their health have risen to 69%, according to recent results of Apigee Institute’s 2015 Digital Impact Survey. Since Apigee’s first Digital Impact Survey in 2013, more than 42 million additional Americans now report that smartphones and apps have changed the way they manage their health and wellness, representing a 70 percent increase in adoption.
According to the survey, 60 percent of adult smartphone owners in the U.S. -
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BlueLight Launches Apple Watch App for Emergency Response
Safety toolkit for the digital age provider BlueLight has launched a new Apple Watch app for 911 emergency response that allows users to contact emergency services and share their location with contacts in seconds.
70% of 911 Calls Comes from Mobile Phones
Today, more than 70% of 911 calls come from mobile phones, but according to USA Today, 911 may have as low as a 10% chance of getting a fix on caller location ranges. Between the margin of error and the high possibility of routing the call
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Castlight Health Talks Where Predictive Analytics Is Heading in 2016
It’s been hailed as the next “big thing” in healthcare. Predictive analytics promises to aid in every aspect, from creating administrative efficiencies to improving outcomes. But beyond the algorithmic buzz, predictive analytics isn’t just going to help providers make better decisions, according to Castlight Health’s Chief R& D Officer, Jonathan Rende.
Turns out, predictive analytics has the potential to reveal a lot more for patients, including the competitive costs of procedures and how
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