Walgreens mobile pill reminder feature and its activity tracking digital health solutions has improved medication adherence among pharmacy patients, according to two recent company studies. Recent Walgreens research has shown that consumers over 50 years of age who track activities through its Balance® Rewards for healthy choices (BRhc) program, which awards loyalty points for healthy behaviors and activities, are more adherent to their medication therapies. A separate Walgreens study found that
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ExplORer Surgical Nabs $1M for Real-Time Mobile Surgical Playbook
ExplORer Surgical, a Chicago-based startup has raised $1 million in seed funding for its real-time mobile-based surgical playbook that promotes optimal teamwork in the operating room. Investors in the seed round include CJM Ventures, M25 Group, SymphonyAlpha Ventures, The University of Chicago Innovation Fund, Wasson Enterprise, along with several prominent healthcare and technology angel investors. Inefficiency and Errors in the OR RoomImproper room preparation, mid-case handoffs, inexperienced
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Google’s Verily, Sanofi Launch $500M Diabetes Joint Venture Onduo
French pharma company Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences LLC, (formerly Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company are teaming up on a $500M joint venture named Onduo to develop a comprehensive diabetes platform. Based in Kendall Square in Cambridge, the Onduo joint venture will combine devices, software, medicine and professional care to enable simple and intelligence disease management for patients. Joshua Riff, M.D., M.B.A will serve as Onduo’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer. As part
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Mayo Clinic, iSpecimen Collaborate on Cancer/Normal Serum Biobank
Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine has selected iSpecimen, a customized human biospecimen collections company to serve as the exclusive channel partner for the Mayo Clinic Cancer/Normal Serum Biobank, connecting biomedical researchers with the samples and associated data for their studies. Mayo Clinic Cancer/Normal Serum Biobank OverviewBased in Rochester, Minnesota, the Cancer/Normal Serum Biobank has approximately 130,000 frozen vials of serum from about 17,000 unique, consented
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5 Best Practices for Human-Centered Design in Healthcare
Editor's Note: Brian Garcia is the SVP, Chief Technology Officer and Product Officer at Welltok, developers of the CaféWell Health Optimization Platform that guides and incentivizes consumers. Garcia most recently served as the chief technology officer for Healthagen, a subsidiary of Aetna, where he led technology strategy across multiple business units in both growth and start-up phases. Designing a product is a complicated undertaking. Designing a product for the healthcare industry, which is
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HMicro Nabs $10.2M for “System-on-a-Chip” Biosensor Platform
HMicro Inc., a Fremont, CA-based startup has raised $10.2 million in Series C funding to expand and commercialize its "system-on-a-chip" biosensor platform technology for medical device manufacturers. The latest round included strategic investor partners that plan to commercialize HMicro's healthcare products throughout various healthcare markets. Starting in 2008, HMicro started manufacturing a new generation silicon-based wireless sensing platform and associated subsystem products for medical
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UT Diabetes Project Granted $3M to Develop Diabetes Management Apps
The University of Texas System’s Project Diabetes and Obesity Control (DOC) recently received $3 million from the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation to expand its innovative diabetes management apps in the lower Rio Grande Valley. The Board of Regents approved $15 million this week to continuing funding the project to develop apps that enable patients and physicians to improve the control of diabetes and patient care.Project DOC OverviewWith Project DOC (Diabetes Obesity Control), The UT System’s
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HealthTap Launches Digital Healthcare Network in United Kingdom
HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to top doctors and their knowledge via video, text, or voice is expanding its digital health network to the UK. The new London-based company named HealthTap UK will features new apps and website specifically for British doctors and patients to supplement and complement the care already provided to citizens by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS).HealthTap UK Network OverviewUsers can access HealthTap UK through
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Phoenix Children’s Hospital Taps NantHealth for Precision Cancer Care
Phoenix Children’s Hospital has entered into a commercial licensing agreement with NantHealth to adopt GPS Cancer, a comprehensive molecular testing platform for personalized cancer therapy for its patients and self-insured employee population. As part of the licensing agreement, Phoenix will deploy the GPS Cancer in two key ways:1. Its network of oncologists will be able to order GPS Cancer, enabling them to gain critical insights to inform personalized treatment strategies including guided
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Techfields Taps Medidata to Power Mobile Health Stroke Study
Techfields Pharma, a China-based pharmaceutical company has selected Medidata Clinical Cloud, a provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research to power a Phase II Ischemic mobile health stroke study. Through the collaboration, Medidata and Techfields will leverage Medidata’s cloud technology platform to optimize trial processes and gather new insights on treatment efficacy and patients’ quality of life. “Cloud and mobile health technologies offer new channels for maximizing the value
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