NewYork-Presbyterian has announced an expansion of its telehealth efforts with the launch of NYP OnDemand, a new suite of digital health services designed to improve and expand patient care, while also extending access to the clinical expertise of NewYork-Presbyterian's physicians to their peers throughout the Hospital's vast healthcare network. The NYP OnDemand suite of services was developed by NewYork-Presbyterian's Innovation Center, launched in 2014 to deliver both clinician- and
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Brain Performance Monitoring Startup RC21X Joins StartUp Health Community
RC21X, a brain performance monitoring startup has been selected to join StartUp Health and its exclusive Academy for digital health entrepreneurs. StartUp Health’s global platform is focused on coaching and supporting the rapidly growing ecosystem of Finnish entrepreneurs. RC21X is a web-based, brain monitoring tool that allows users to track their neurocognitive and neuromotor performance in about 12 minutes. RC21XTM examines major components of human brain functioning. Sessions consist of a
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N-of-One Raises $7M for Precision Medicine Oncology Decision Support
N-of-One, a precision medicine oncology decision support company has raised $7 million in funding from Providence Ventures and Excel Venture Management. The latest round brings its total funding to $11M. Founded in 2008 by a team of PhD scientists and oncologists, N-of-One analyzes and interprets tumor molecular profiles to help physicians and patients identify diagnostic and treatment strategies from its proprietary database.Working with leading healthcare systems and large commercial labs,
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Study: Wearables Increased Referral Rate for Advanced Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease
Great Lakes NeuroTech has completed and published a clinical study validating that remote monitoring with wearable, objective sensors can lead to an increased referral rate for advanced therapies in Parkinson’s disease.Published in The Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, the protocol followed 40 patients with Parkinson’s disease randomized into two groups for one year. The control group received standard care for assessing Parkinson’s disease, while the other used wearable, objective sensors
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Is Wearable Technology the Future of Medicine?
Look down at your wrist. Are you wearing a FitBit, an Apple Watch, or some other type of fitness monitoring device, like a Jawbone or Garmin? If you do, you aren’t alone. More than 1 in 5 Americans own a wearable fitness tracker, and at least 1 in 10 wears the monitor every day. In fact, wearable fitness trackers are so popular that 2016 has been declared the “Year of the Wearable.” It’s not just fancy pedometers that are grabbing attention, though. Other devices, such as monitors for diabetics
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Launchpad Digital Health Accelerator Adds 6 New Startups to Portfolio
Launchpad Digital Health, a focused next generation accelerator has added six new startups to its 12-month accelerator program. Among the companies that closed the new seed capital financings are: Hint Health, Lab Sensor Solutions, Moving Analytics, SoberGrid and Wellbrain. These new rounds include co-investment from terrific investors including: Stanford University, Draper Associates, HealthX Ventures, Three Leaf Ventures, Stanford StartX, Healthfundr and Aspect Ventures.Each company accepted
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PULSE@MassChallenge Appoints Nick Dougherty New Program Director
MassChallenge announced that it will be opening applications on September 14 for PULSE@MassChallenge, the new innovation lab for digital health entrepreneurs. In addition to the announcement, PULSE@MassChallenge has appointed VerbalCare CEO Nick Dougherty as its Program Director. In his new role, Nick will be focused on facilitating active collaboration between high-impact startups and key stakeholders within the healthcare ecosystem, including leading providers, investors, corporates,
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Stanford University to Implement Virtual Reality Platform for Enhanced Patient Engagement
Stanford University, Department of Neurosurgery has announced it will implement Surgical Theater’s Virtual Reality (VR) medical visualization platform to help enhance patient engagement. Precision VR™, Surgical Theater’s VR medical visualization platform, combines leading-edge fighter jet flight simulation technology with the patient’s own anatomy scans, using medical imaging such as MRI and CT, to create a VR reconstruction of the individual patient anatomy and pathology. The technology builds
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Swedish Digital Health Startup Lifesum Nabs $10M from Nokia
Swedish digital health startup Lifesum has raised $10 million in funding led by global venture capital firm Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), with participation from Draper Esprit, Bauer Media Group and SparkLabs Global Ventures. The Stockholm-based company will utilize the funding to increase its talent base across multiple areas including engineering, product, design and marketing as it expands in Europe and the United States. Founded in 2008 by Henrik Torstensson, CEO, and Marcus Gners, COO,
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BYOD: Delivering On The Promise of Connected Health
With the proliferation of personal technologies, the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) concept is helping to lead the way toward a more integrated model of care delivery that puts the patient at the center and focuses on improved access and better outcomes. For HCPs and patients alike, we’re seeing BYOD on the rise as a “digitally native” generation comes of age and advanced connectivity becomes the norm. The infographic shown below created by Philips illustrates the rise of BYOD, the benefits of
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