After 6 months of building and testing, senior home care startup HomeHero has launched a proprietary 15-point algorithm that matches clients in need of a caregiver with the perfect person to meet their needs -- like the Match.com for senior home care. The SoCal-based startup can now crunch millions of data points in seconds and deliver customized caregiver matches within only 10 minutes, compared to hours or even days for traditional home care agencies (HomeHero’s own manual matching process
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Cedars-Sinai, Techstars to Launch LA-Based Digital Health Accelerator
Cedars-Sinai is teaming up with Techstars to launch an LA-based digital health accelerator focused on developing innovative approaches to medicine and science that not only further enhance the quality of the care but ensure it is provided in a patient-centered, cost-effective manner. Together, the digital health accelerator will offer startups $120k in funding, 3 months of mentorship and guidance from senior leadership at Cedars-Sinai and the Techstars network of more than 7,000 founders,
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Amino Pulls In $19.4M to Match Patients with the Right Doctor
After spending more than two years in stealth mode developing a database that includes nearly every practicing doctor in America and experiences from more than 188 million people, digital health startup Amino has launched its consumer healthcare search platform designed to help consumers make confident health care decisions, starting with the doctors they choose. Amino’s new personalized service allows people to find and book an appointment with doctors based on their experience with specific
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Accenture: Digital Health Solutions Could Save Primary Care $10B Annually
Digital health solutions could save primary care $10 billion annually, according to a new report released by Accenture at the U.S. News & World Report’s Hospital of Tomorrow Forum. The Accenture report highlights the economic value of applying digital health solutions to three care scenarios: annual patient visit; ongoing patient management; and self-care.
For an annual patient visit, applying digital health solutions – such as biometric devices, analytic diagnostic engine and a virtual
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23andMe Scores $115M to Maximize Its Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests
Genetics startup 23andMe, Inc., has raised $115 million in Series E funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company to expand its FDA-approved direct-to-consumer genetic tests. New investors in the round include Casdin Capital, WuXi Healthcare Ventures and Xfund, as well as existing investors including Illumina (ILMN), New Enterprise Associates, MPM Capital, and Google Ventures. The latest funding round brings its total funding to date at $241 million, Forbes now values the company at
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10 Ways Artificial Intelligence Could Make Me a Better Doctor
Editor's Note: Bertalan Mesko, MD, PhD is a medical futurist who envisions the next trends for companies and governments in order to make sure a mutually positive relation between the human touch and innovative technologies will rule the future of healthcare. He is an international speaker, consultant, geek physician with PhD in genomics, and founder of Webicina.com. He is the author of the recent book, "The Guide to the Future of Medicine”.
I was watching the movie Her for the second
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Why I’ve Tried Every Wearable and Abandoned 99% of Them
Editor's Note: Tasso Roumeliotis is the CEO and Founder of Location Labs by AVG, a global pioneer in mobile security for humans and is an expert in mobility. Prior to Location Labs, Tasso was a Vice President at Claridge, a $3 billion fund with wireless and media assets.
In the past 5 years, I’ve tried more than 2 dozen wearable devices. Some for less than a week, some only once, but very few have become part of my lifestyle.
Now, I’m not necessarily your average user. You could say
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AWS, Philips Strengthens Partnership to Unleash Digital Health IoT
Royal Philips today announced that it is strengthening its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of its strategy to enable a digital health IoT for new types of connected and personalized devices. AWS IoT, a new platform that makes it easy for devices to connect to AWS services, will expand the connectivity, capabilities and services of Philips' HealthSuite digital platform, an open IT infrastructure that supports the secure management of data related to a person's
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Will the Home Become the Healthcare Center of the Future?
Editor's Note: Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology. This is an essay adapted from a talk he will give at the 2015 USC Body Computing Conference on October 9, 2015.
Our design firm has been studying how the future of medicine is becoming “invisible”—powerful, ubiquitous, and intuitive. In most cases, technology has outpaced design. In its
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Datu Health Raises $10M to Drive Personalized Healthcare through Behavioral Data
Chesterfield, CO-based digital health company Datu Health has raised $10 million in Series B equity funding from St. Joseph Health (SJH) to drive personalized healthcare powered by behavioral health data. Traditional healthcare touch points fail to reach the everyday lives and behaviors of people where 40% of health outcomes are shaped. To reduce population risk, decrease low-value care, increase procedure and appointment effectiveness, and avoid penalties, health care must penetrate patient's
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