US funding for on-demand healthcare companies – those providing location-based offerings with near-real-time and 24/7 services – will quadruple from over $200 million in 2014 to $1 billion by the end of 2017, according to new research from Accenture. Since 2000, the top 230 on-demand companies have raised more than $12.5 billion, distributed across six main sectors: auto and transportation (76 percent); food and drink (10 percent); health (6 percent); household chores (3 percent); logistics (3
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Connected Health Business Models for Smart Home Platform Players
Editor's Note: Harry Wang is the Director of Health & Mobile Product Research at Parks Associates. He is also the founder and lead analyst of Parks Associates’ digital health research program since its inception in 2006.
The smart home industry focuses on consumer use cases that charge a recurring monthly fee as the default revenue model for service providers. Equipment manufacturers usually earn revenues from product sales. Smart home platform providers can offer a
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Only 27% of Heart Patients Use Activity Trackers to Manage Their Heart Condition
Only 27% of consumers with known heart disease and/or risk are using an activity trackers with 16% say they are using their tracker to specifically manage their heart condition/risk. Yet 74% of those who do use an activity tracker report the device is helping them cope with their heart condition, according to January HealthMine survey of 501 consumers with known heart disease and/or risk.
Overall, HealthMine found that 31% of those with a heart condition/risk are using some type of mobile
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AHA, IBM Watson Health, Welltok Partner to Transform Heart Health
The American Heart Association is teaming up with IBM Watson Health and Welltok to develop a first of its kind workplace health solution that leverages the cognitive computing power of IBM Watson. Powered by IBM Watson, AHA, IBM, and Welltok will create a new offering that combines AHA's science-based metrics and health assessments with cognitive analytics, delivered on Welltok's health optimization platform. The effort is intended to help alleviate the burden of cardiovascular diseases, which
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Specialty Pharmacy Launches Care Management App Powered by Patient IO
Diplomat, the nation's largest independent specialty pharmacy launches AllMetRx, a new care management app powered by Patient IO. With AllMetRx™, real-time treatment data is captured by caregivers and patients to monitor adherence, side effects, and other pertinent clinical data which is shared with providers and stakeholders.
The care coordination solution that can be integrated with any healthcare software system, including electronic health records and population health management
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Accenture, Boston Scientific Launch Data-Driven Digital Health Solution for Hospitals
Boston Scientific Corporation and Accenture have developed a cloud-based, data-driven digital health solution for hospitals that will help improve patient outcomes and reduce costs to treat patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases.. The solution, ADVANTICS™ Care Pathway Transformation enables providers to make more proactive and informed decisions based on insights into the patient population, ultimately improving the care a patient experiences from hospital stay through post-discharge care
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Texas Medical Center Accelerator Unveils Second Class of Digital Health Startups
This week, the Texas Medical Center’s accelerator, TMCx, unveiled its second class of 13 digital health startups. Startups selected in the five month program starting from January to June 2016 will focus on digital health followed by a third class focused on medical devices running from July through December 2016.
“We believe the potential synergy of bringing 13 companies together, each of them focused on different aspects of digital health care innovation, will lead to unpredictable
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USC Launches Virtual Care Clinic to Deliver ‘Borderless’ Healthcare
The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Body Computing (CBC), the digital health innovation accelerator for the Keck Medicine of USC medical enterprise, today announced its eight foundational partners for its Virtual Care Clinic (VCC).
The disruptive digital health care model utilizes mobile apps, wearable sensors, virtual human health care providers, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), data collection, analytics and artificial intelligence using digital
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Teladoc Inks Deal to Provide Telehealth Services for Mississippi Volunteer Firefighters
Teladoc has inked a contract with the Mississippi Insurance Department to provide telehealth services statewide to the 13,000 Mississippi Volunteer Firefighters and their dependents. By offering telehealth consults to its volunteer firefighters, the Mississippi Insurance Department expects the Teladoc program to be used as a recruiting incentive as demographic changes decrease the pool of available firefighters.
The program with Teladoc will also benefit the state by increasing the
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New York Digital Health Accelerator Showcases 6 Startups at Demo Day
On Friday, the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) – a five month program showcased six early and growth-stage digital health startups for healthcare providers and patients in the areas of care coordination, patient engagement, and workflow improvement. Each startup received $100k in up-front funding per company from a syndicate of leading venture capital and strategic investors.
14 New Pilot Programs Anticipated to Result from Program
Since entering the accelerator program, the
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