AARP is launching a new digital health initiative called Project Catalyst that provides developers of popular and emerging products insight into how Americans 50-plus use technology in order to identify ways to improve the devices for mature consumers. The first study will be focused on popular activity and sleep trackers performed in conjunction with UnitedHealthcare and Pfizer Inc. It will serve as the first of several technology studies that AARP will conduct with the goal of accelerating
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Livongo Health Nabs $20M to Expand Diabetes Management Program
Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company that is empowering people with chronic diseases to live better has raised $20 million in Series B funding from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), DFJ and previous investor General Catalyst.
The capital will enable the company to further develop its chronic disease management ecosystem and accelerate the adoption of the company's digital diabetes management program, Livongo for Diabetes, among self-insured
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Consumer Health Engagement Platform Novu Raises $20M
Novu, a consumer health engagement platform that focuses on individual wellness and employee well-being through a daily lifestyle practice has raised $20M in funding from SSM Partners and Noro-Moseley Partners. The company will use the capital to further establish its leadership position and propel its technology and product roadmap to support existing and new market opportunities.
Through Novu, insurers, health care providers and employers can engage consumers to create
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MEDITECH Selects Validic To Integrate Patient-Generated Data
Validic, a leading interoperability platform for aggregating digital health data, announced an alignment with MEDITECH to integrate clinical, fitness, and wellness data to help deliver more efficient remote patient monitoring, home care, patient discharge management and wellness initiatives.
"Today's healthcare environment is value-based and outcome-driven, which means healthcare providers need to evaluate every aspect of their patients' health, not just those factors that contributed to their
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Rock Health’s Halle Tecco Talks Why Gender Diversity Matters in Healthcare
Are women workers valued in the healthcare? Not enough, apparently. Rock Health’s latest report: The State of Women in Healthcare points to some sobering, and perhaps, surprising statistics about women working in today’s healthcare industry.
The report, which surveyed more than 400 women across the healthcare sector (including entrepreneurs, investors, industry executives, and healthcare professionals), revealed that women make 80 percent of the personal health decisions for their families,
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HHS Awards BioCyst $12M for Experimental Ebola Drug Development
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has awarded $12 million to Durham, NC-based BioCryst Pharmaceuticals for experimental Ebola drug development. The development also includes preparing for large-scale manufacturing of the drug and conducting related studies.
The initial work will be undertaken over the next 18 months with support from ASPR’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
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Google To Create Robotic-Assisted Surgical Platform with J&J
Google is partnering with Ethicon, a medical device company within Johnson & Johnson to create an innovative robotic-assisted surgical platform with the goal of improving health care delivery in the operating room. Under the strategic collaboration, Ethicon will work with Google's Life Sciences team known as Google X led by Andrew Conrad on advancing surgical robotics to benefit surgeons, patients and health care systems.
Robotic-assisted surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery
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Ochsner Health Launches Innovation Accelerator to Revolutionize Patient Centered Care
On Thursday at the Health Innovation Summit at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), Ochsner Health System announced the launch of an innovation accelerator called iO designed to support and partner with companies working to revolutionize patient-centered care, NOLA first reports. Through the accelerator, patient-centered care solutions for both patients and providers can be tested, validated, funded and launched.
The new accelerator will focus on developing entirely new ways for providers
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Google Granted Patent for Smart Contact Lens for Diabetes
On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office granted Google a patent for a "smart contact lens having an uneven embedded substrate and method of manufacture." Many believe the smart contact lens patent could be used to monitor a wearer’s blood sugar levels.
Last year, Google teamed up with European drug maker Novartis to develop a smart contact lens prototype that uses miniature sensors and a micro-thin radio antenna to track glucose levels that can then be uploaded to a mobile device
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Samsung, TeleHealth Services Unveil Smart TV Patient Engagement Solution
Today, TeleHealth Services, a provider of hospital televisions and interactive patient engagement solutions, announced through their partnership with Samsung, the completion of a new patient engagement solution called SmarTigr. The solution utilizes the Smart TV functionality of the Samsung healthcare televisions combined with the clinical features of TeleHealth’s iTigr patient engagement solution. With the upcoming announcement of the meaningful use stage 3 criteria, innovative hospitals are
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