One of the stories that is gaining traction in the health wearables space is the reality that sensors are becoming less expensive and increasingly commoditized. It’s no longer enough for health wearables makers to leverage better sensors to attract consumer interest. Instead, they must develop more holistic offerings with software that makes wearables smarter and more useful.This is one reason why wearables makers in the United States, India and other parts of the world are focusing increasingly
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Roche Acquires Mobile Diabetes Management Platform mySugr
Roche has acquired mobile diabetes management platform mySugr to form a leading open platform for digital diabetes management. For Roche, the acquisition will allow the company to expand its position in the diabetes management market.As part of the acquisition, mySugr will remain as a separate legal entity with an open platform for all diabetes devices and services. Users will continue to have the ability to automatically upload blood glucose data from their preferred device into the mySugr
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Babyscripts Lands $5.7M to Expand Virtual Prenatal Care Platform for Expecting Mothers
Babyscripts, a Washington, DC-based digital health startup has raised $5.7 million in funding led by Ysios Capital. The funding round also included participation from Chemo Group, CG Health Ventures, Aurora Health Care Ventures, and P5 Health Ventures.Founded in 2013, Babyscripts is a virtual care platform for obstetrics that allows OBGYNs to deliver a new model of prenatal care. Babyscripts end-to-end solution embeds evidence-based care plans, approved by the patient’s own Provider, into
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Mediktor Launches AI App to Identify A Patient’s Symptoms in Real-Time
Digital health startup Meditkor, which initially launched in Europe at the Health 2.0 conference in Barcelona in May, today announced the launch the U.S. availability of the first scientifically validated health checker based on artificial intelligence (AI). Mediktor is the first pre-diagnosis tool that uses AI to identify a patient's symptoms in real-time and suggests next steps based on medical needs including recommendations for a specialist or doctor.Mediktor combines artificial
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Women’s Care Florida to Deploy eClinicalWorks Healow Mom App to 273 Providers Across 62 Locations
Women’s Care Florida, an independent, fully integrated OB/GYN groups has selected eClinicalWorks to deploy the company’s Healow Mom mobile app for its 273 providers across 62 locations.Once live, the Healow Mom App will provide enhanced communication and encouraged patient engagement Once live, healow Mom app provides Women’s Care Florida with access to the healow app health tracker which is integrated with the eClinicalWorks EHR to give their providers up-to-date information on blood pressure,
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Glooko Raises $35M to Expand Diabetes Data Platform Internationally
Glooko, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of diabetes data management has rasied $35 million in Series C funding led by Georgian Partners with participation from Insulet Corporation, Mayo Clinic, Canaan Partners, Social Capital, Medtronic and Samsung NEXT. The company plans to use the funding to expand its’ commercialization efforts in France, Germany, the U.K., Asia and the Middle East, and further development efforts in data analytics and artificial intelligence to provide personalized
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Apple Is Reportedly Working with Health Gorilla to Add Diagnostic Data to iPhone
Apple is reportedly working with digital health startup Health Gorilla to add diagnostic data such as blood work to integrate with hospitals, labs, and imaging centers, CNBC’s Christina Farr first reports.Founded in 2011, Health Gorilla is a Clinical Network that offers clinicians and patients a secure clinical collaboration platform to place clinical orders and exchange data through secure Health Gorilla clinical profiles. Health Gorilla processes millions of transactions to aggregate clinical
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UK Telehealth Startup Now Healthcare Group Lands £4M to Develop Artificial Intelligence Solutions
Now Healthcare Group, a UK-based telehealth provider has secured a £4 million ($5M USD) investment from leading health cash plan provider Medicash. The investment from Medicash will enable the NHG to further develop its artificial intelligence and machine learning offering through its mobile app products and its online pharmacy, enabling the faster development of auto diagnoses and medicine adherence solutions.Founded in 2015 by Lee Dentith, NHG provides digital healthcare services through its
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Spry Health Lands $5.5M to Fund Commercialization of Clinical-Grade Wearable
Spry Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring solutions has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Grove Ventures with participation from the Stanford-StartX Fund. The company plans to use the round to fuel the commercialization of its clinical-grade wearable Loop that delivers continuous vital sign monitoring. Loop enhances timely care to chronically ill patients, with individualized analytics to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalization and decrease
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Figure 1 Lands $10M to Expand “Instagram for Doctors” App
Figure 1, a Toronto-based digital health startup known as the “Instagram of Doctors” app has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Kensington Capital Partners. The round included participation from Samsung and insurance conglomerate John Hancock/Manulife, it included Hedgewood and WTI.Founded in 2012, Figure 1’s HIPAA-compliant app, health-care professionals can share high-quality medical images organized by anatomy and specialty including X-Rays, MRIs, CAT scans, ECGs, and EKGs for
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