No bubble bursting here, as digital health continues to smash market records. Rock Health’s Halle Tecco explains why the digital health market will continue to flourish in 2016.
In 2014, billions were poured into the digital health market, and the predictions for digital health’s growth in 2015 did not disappoint. In fact, when it comes to the charisma and cash flow of digital health, its cup runneth over. But can digital health maintain that kind of prospective prestige and promise as it
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5 Secure Messaging Trends to Watch for in 2016
TelmedIQ’s CEO Ben Moore shares his insights on what’s trending in secure messaging as the data exchange evolution in healthcare continues.
The popularity and proliferation of health information technology (HIT) has led to the following quandary: how do we keep all that vital, personal information safe, secure and HIPAA compliant? It’s a question that has stopped some providers in their technical tracks, propelling innovators to come up with viable, secure message solutions— like the kind
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Mobile Spirometer Provider Cohero Health Raises $2M
Cohero Health, an NYC-based digital health company focused on developing connected health tools and technologies to improve respiratory care, has raised $2 million in seed funding. Key investors in the seed round include Zaffre Investments, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Three Leaf Ventures an affiliate of the Broe Group, Bioadvance, Swanhill Capital and StartUp Health. The company plans to use the funding to scale production of its devices to support large
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Bayer, CRISPR Partner to Develop Gene Editing Apps for Patients
Bayer and gene editing company CRISPR Therapeutics are teaming up to develop new breakthrough therapeutics to cure blood disorders, blindness, and congenital heart disease. CRISPR Therapeutics will contribute its proprietary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology and intellectual property, while Bayer will make available its protein engineering expertise and relevant disease know-how.
It is the first long-term strategic partnership of its kind to make a substantial investment in the
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Meridian Health to Offer Virtual Physician Visits via Teladoc
Telehealth provider Teladoc, Inc., announced it has been selected by Meridian Health, a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, for telehealth services that will be offered to the residents Meridian serves. Meridian is planning its telehealth launch for first quarter 2016, which will include 24/7 access to Teladoc's quality network of licensed physicians via phone, mobile device or secure online video.
Rated among the top performing health systems in New Jersey for
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‘Moneyball’ Comes to Medicine: Data Guru Paul DePodesta Joins Scripps
After leading a data revolution in Major League Baseball, data guru Paul DePodesta is joining the faculty of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) where he will apply his skills and insight to the emerging field of digital medicine.
STSI is a National Institutes of Health sponsored consortium led by Scripps Health in collaboration with The Scripps Research Institute. Through this innovative research partnership, Scripps is leading the effort to translate wireless and genetic
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“Data as a Drug” Will Define The Next Decade of Medicine
Editor's Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD.
Medical science is now producing gene-editing technology, implantables, and pills with digestible microchips. The plethora of technologies will sense our body signals and can help predict and prevent illness. Increasingly, humans are becoming machines. We already have wearables, but we will soon have a
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Smart Toothbrush Beam Adds Gamfication That Gets Kids to Brush Their Teeth
Beam, the smarter dental insurance company, launched “Boulders and Band-Aids” within the Beam app, adding a gamification layer on top of the brushing behavior data already collected via the Beam Brush.
The new game allows anyone who brushes their teeth while using the connected Beam Brush or the Beam app’s manual timer to earn lives to play the game, which encourages users to brush more often, for longer. The Beam app is available for free from the App Store and Google Play.
A vast majority
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WellDoc Pulls In $22M To Accelerate Mobile Prescription Therapy Adoption
Digital health technology company WellDoc today announced $22 million in Series B funding led by Samsung Ventures and Merck Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund serving as co-lead. Other participants in the round include Adage Capital Management, Excel Venture Management, Alexandria Venture Investments and Hudson River Capital Partners LLC.
Welldoc plans to utilize the funding to continue commercialization and accelerate adoption of its flagship product, BlueStar, a FDA cleared mobile
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Chilmark: Connected Health Market Bright, Yet Remains Immature
The US healthcare system’s shift towards value-based care has ignited an interest in new models of virtual, connected healthcare. As defined by Chilmark Research in their latest report, Migration to Connected Health: Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), ‘Connected Health’ is the application of technology to connect and extend healthcare delivery system (people, tools, facilities, and so on) in an ongoing, virtual, semi-automated manner across a patient
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