Today, CVS Health is introducing a suite of new digital health pharmacy tools by CVS Health that will help customers manage their health with more ease and efficiency. Since the opening of the CVS Health Digital Innovation Lab in June, the company has been focused on developing digital services and personalized capabilities. The company is already seeing the impact of its digital strategy on other parts of the business in five short months.
Research Shows Digitally Engaged Patients have
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Practo, Uber Partner to Help Patients Reach Doctors in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore
India-based physician search portal Practo is teaming up with on-demand transportation platform Uber to make it easier for consumers to reach doctors, so they never have to worry about running late for an appointment. Starting this week, patients in India, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines who book an appointment via Practo's app will be able to see the closest Uber available when they get a reminder alert for their appointments.
How It Works
Using the Practo app, patients can view
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Merck to Produce Anti-Diabetes Meds in Algeria to Improve Care of Patients
Merck, a leading life sciences and technology company, today announced the commissioning of its anti-diabetes medicine production unit for the treatment of diabetes and high blood pressure. A joint venture project has subsequently been set up between the company and its partner, the Algerian laboratory Novapharm to produce 500 million tablets for the Algerian market.
The production unit located in Bou Ismail, a remote village 40 km west of Algiers, will help increase national production
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AIA, Konica Minolta Launch Digital Health Accelerator in Singapore
AIA Group Limited and Konica Minolta, Inc. are teaming up to launch the 'AIA - Konica Minolta Digital Health Accelerator' in Singapore. The 12 week program supports entrepreneurs and businesses to deliver innovative solutions through integrating data to healthcare delivery.
The Singaporean Government's spend on Healthcare in Singapore is expected to double to SG$8 billion by the end of 2015, from SG$4 billion in 2011. 'Digital Health' solutions present one of the most promising growth
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Robotic Surgery Is the Future of Medicine
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.
The human body is a rather untidy place where your organs, bones, flesh, muscles, arteries
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Rally Health Launches Online Healthcare Shopping Experience, 20M Have Access at Launch
Consumer-centric digital health company Rally Health today launched Rally Connect, an online experience that enables people to shop for the right health care based on their personal needs. Rally Connect integrates with a person’s contracted health plan to offer a better understanding of both the quality and cost of the care they receive. The result is cost savings both for the consumer and for the health plan.
At launch, 20 million people enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans will have
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Ask The Doctor Acquires UK’s Largest Telehealth Services Provider
Toronto-based Ask The Doctor, a health platform that connects users to doctors to receive immediate help has acquired Patients Connected Ltd., one of the largest telehealth services in the United Kingdom. Patients using the telehealth platform can easily connect to thousands of licensed physicians in the UK. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Integration Details
As part of the acquisition, Ask The Doctor will take over the Patients Connected London office at the end of
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Startups CirrusMD, Wellpepper Named 2015 Venture+ Forum Pitch Winners
Digital health startups CirrusMD Inc., and Wellpepper have been named the winners of the 2015 Venture+ Forum Pitch competition for startups during the 2015 mHealth Summit. The selected startups were among four final companies selected to deliver live pitch presentations during the 'final four' competition Tuesday evening. The finalists were selected from a field of 11 digital health startups who presented during the first round of live competition held on Sunday at the Summit.
This year's
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Stanford Engineers Test Tricorder-Like Detector for Tumors
Science fiction such as Star Trek popularized the tricorder, a handheld detector that can gather readings from the environment or even diagnose disease. Today, Stanford engineers is currently testing a tricorder device that might be able to spot fast-growing tumors detailed in Applied Physics Letters and presented at the International Ultrasonics Symposium in Taipei, Taiwan. The new touchless ultrasound technology could possibly provide a new way to detect early stage cancers in the
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IBM Watson, Boston Children’s Partner to Help Clinicians Treat Rare Pediatric Diseases
1 in 10 Americans suffer from a rare disease, and half of these patients are children, according to the Global Genes Project. There are some 7,000 known rare disorders ranging from benign abnormalities to life-threatening disease. Many affected children pass away before a diagnosis can be made, leaving families to grieve without knowing what might have been done to help them, or how to avoid additional brothers or sisters being affected.
To help tackle this problem, IBM and Boston Children's
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