Proteus Digital Health today announced that Barton Health, a Lake Tahoe, CA-based non-profit, rural health system has become the first US healthcare provider to prescribe patients ingestible sensors using the company's Proteus Discover solution. The deployment marks the first commercial implementation of the FDA-cleared technology in the United States after the completion of successful clinical trials.
Barton Health will utilize Proteus Discover to improve medication adherence for patients
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MedStar Launches “Ride with Uber” for Patient Appointments
Maryland-based healthcare system MedStar Health and on-demand car service provider Uber are partnering to give patients a new option for ensuring they can get to and from healthcare appointments. Through this partnership, a “Ride with Uber” button is now displayed on MedStarHealth.org for patients who miss appointments or have to reschedule at the last minute frequently cite transportation as a factor.
“Patients expect the same level of seamless integration in health care as they do in other
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AT&T Launches Foundry For Connected Health to Foster Digital Health Innovation
Telecom leader AT&T is set to open the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health in February 2016 at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute in Houston. The new foundry will focus on digital health innovations that benefit those in and out of the clinical care environment – helping caregivers and patients bridge the gap between a clinical setting and the home. The new opening marks the company's fifth foundry innovation center.
By leveraging Texas Medical Center’s campus, the the
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Guardant Health Nabs $100M for Biopsy-Free Cancer Genomic Testing
Guardant Health, a Redwood City, CA-based company revolutionizing cancer detection through biopsy-free tumor sequencing has raised $100M in Series D funding led by healthcare-investment firm OrbiMed. Existing Guardant Health investors Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pejman Mar, Formation 8, Heritage Group, and others also participated in the funding round.
Founded in 2012 by a team of serial entrepreneurs with expertise in next-generation sequencing, single-cell
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Massachusetts To Launch Digital Health Hub To Support Innovation
Today, Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and other Massachusetts business leaders are teaming up to launch an initiative to create a digital health hub. With support from the City of Boston, Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI), and MACP, the new digital health innovation hub will provide startups with coworking space, programming and industry network support. Programming through the hub will be managed and operated by
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Validic Unveils VitalSnap to Enable Real-Time Health Data Transfer from Non-Connected Devices
Digital health platform Validic today unveiled VitalSnap™, a new mobile technology that enables users to easily record health data from their in-home device via their smartphone's camera at CES 2016. The goal is to take vital information from non-connecting devices that may never be sent to or viewed by a provider and deliver this data seamlessly to healthcare organizations, helping overcome connectivity barriers that limit the overall care experience.
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A majority of medical
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Under Armour to Develop IBM Watson Powered Health & Fitness App
Under Armour and IBM are teaming up to create and provide meaningful data-backed health and fitness insights, powered by IBM Watson's cognitive computing technology. Under Armour's new UA Record™ combined with a Cognitive Coaching System will serve as a personal health consultant, fitness trainer and assistant by providing athletes with timely, evidence-based coaching around your sleep, fitness, activity and nutrition, including outcomes achieved based on others "like you."
As envisioned, a
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BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging
BlackBerry are teaming up with digital health and wellness engagement platform Sharecare to provide consumers with better and more secure insights into their health. As part of the partnership, Sharecare and BlackBerry will integrate Sharecare's proprietary fractal voice analysis into BlackBerry's secure messaging to increase consumer self-awareness, reduce stress and improve relationships, all while providing the gold-standard in consumer privacy.
Building on this, the companies will move
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Flatiron Health Raises $175M for Oncology Cloud Software
Cloud-based oncology software provider Flatiron Health has raised $175M in Series C funding led by Roche with participation from Allen & Company, Baillie Gifford and Casdin Capital. Founded in 2012, the NYC-based company organizes the world’s oncology information and makes it useful for patients, physicians, life science companies and researchers.
The company plans to utilize the capital to further invest in its cloud-based OncologyCloud software platform, which includes OncoAnalytics®,
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Accenture: Only 2% of Hospitals Engage Patients Using Mobile Apps
Mobile health app usage has grown increasingly over the past three years with 54 percent of health consumers willing to use their smartphones to engage with their healthcare providers, according to new research from Accenture. The report finds that despite the acceptance from consumers, healthcare providers are failing to meet consumer needs with consumers complaining about poor user experience with providers’ proprietary apps and mobile functionality that often fails to meet their individual
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