Wearable sports technology provider Polar, today announced its partnership with digital integration platform Validic. Through the integration of its wearables with Validic's platform, Polar will bring its trusted heart rate technology and activity tracking devices to a variety of corporate wellness and remote monitoring programs.Polar products make it easy for organizations to implement corporate and preventative wellness programs that reward employees for their efforts in leading a physically
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Digital Health at Scale in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Novartis Foundation is gathering experts across the public and private sectors to discuss digital health as an enabler to improve the quality of healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and how to bring impactful digital health programs to scale.The two-day dialogue event, “Wired for impact: digital health at scale in low- and middle-income countries” is taking place in Accra, Ghana and is co-hosted by the Novartis Foundation and the Ghana Ministry of Health with the Ghana
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Solera Health Partners with AI Coaching Platform Noom
Solera Health, a technology-enabled personalized preventive health network, and Noom, Inc., a mobile health leader whose coaching platform delivers structured programs to address the underlying behaviors that cause the most pressing pre-chronic & chronic conditions, have joined forces to launch a multi-platform lifestyle program that will give millions of Americans access to the tools they need to successfully fight the diabetes epidemic.Together, the two companies will offer a unique
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NIH Awards Mayo Clinic $142M to Create Biobank for Precision Medicine Initiative
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Mayo Clinic $142 million over five years as part of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative to create the world’s largest biobank for the PMI Cohort Program. Mayo Clinic will use the funding to support the collection, storage and distribution for research use of biological samples known as biospecimens. Laboratory analyses of the biospecimens, including chemical and genetic tests, will be a key component of the core PMI Cohort Program
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StartUp Health Finland Unveils First 5 Digital Health Startups
StartUp Health, a global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, announced the first five digital health startups to join the StartUp Health Academy as part of StartUp Health Finland. StartUp Health Finland is the company’s first Regional Affiliate that connects directly into StartUp Health’s global platform and is focused on coaching and supporting the rapidly growing ecosystem of Finnish entrepreneurs. StartUp Health Finland will provide selected entrepreneurs access
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Medtronic, Qualcomm Team Up to Develop Next-Gen Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Medtronic and Qualcomm has signed a global, multi-year collaboration to jointly develop future generation continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems that aim to improve health outcomes for people with diabetes. Both companies want to enable more informed care, by giving insights to doctors and people with type 2 diabetes concerning glucose levels specifically for those who do not have control of their diabetes today.Collaboration DetailsThe initial focus of the collaboration would be to develop
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6 Recent Digital Health Innovations to Watch
At HIT Consultant, we are always thinking about how digital innovation is impacting healthcare. As a result, we’ve compiled a list of innovations that have the potential to create greater change when it comes to the application and practice of healthcare in our series: HIT Consultant’s Selected Six Digital Health Innovations.Take a look at what we’ve chosen for May’s selected six, including a genomic search engine with fishy inspiration, a smartwatch that turns your skin into a touchscreen, and
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Intermountain Healthcare Pumps $12M into Machine Learning Startup Zebra Medical
Intermountain Healthcare has invested $12 million in strategic funding with Zebra Medical Vision, an Israeli medical company. The partnership will accelerate the creation of Zebra’s imaging analytics engine and create neural networks that will use Zebra’s vast imaging dataset to assist radiologists with automated diagnostic algorithms. In addition to Intermountain, Zebra's existing investors include Khosla Ventures and Marc Benioff. Founded in 2014 by Co-Founders Eyal Toledano, Eyal Gura, and
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CareFirst Shells Out $3M to Deliver Telemedicine to Underserved Communities
According to a company statement, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) plans to shell out nearly $3 million dollars for regional telemedicine programs to 10 health care organizations in Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. The telemedicine programs will focus on expanding healthcare to underserved communities. Last year, CareFirst issued a request for proposals from public health entities and nonprofit organizations aiming to use telemedicine programs to remove common barriers
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Sensifree Lands $5M for Contactless Biometric Monitoring Sensors
Sensifree, an Israeli digital health startup provider of low power, contact free, electromagnetic sensors that accurately collect a range of continuous biometric data without the need to touch the human body, today announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by TransLink Capital with participation from existing and new investors, including UMC Capital, a subsidiary of United Microelectronics Corp. and an undisclosed strategic investor.The latest round adds to seed
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