Broadband and cable TV provider, Cox Communications and Cleveland Clinic have announce the formation of Vivre Health, a strategic alliance to bring world-class healthcare to the home through innovative telehealth and home health solutions.
The joint venture will help further increase Cox's market footprint by expanding into healthcare to provide remote patient monitoring, telehealth visits and other in-home monitoring and treatment services via broadband. The cable TV provider already
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Cigna-HealthSpring Partners with Telcare To Deliver Cellular-Enabled Monitoring
Cigna-HealthSpring has announced a partnership with Telcare to further expand health care services for its Texas Medicaid STAR+PLUS membership in an effort to improve the quality of life for its beneficiaries with diabetes. Under the new partnership, Telcare will deliver its cellular enabled remote monitoring and engagement services for select diabetic beneficiaries enrolled with Cigna-HealthSpring under the Texas Medicaid STAR+PLUS Program. Their first joint program has launched their first
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AirStrip Expands Mobile Health Solutions to Australia and New Zealand
AirStrip® and Life Monitor Pty Ltd. have announced the formation of a strategic partnership to sell AirStrip solutions in Australia and New Zealand. Both the AirStrip ONE mobile interoperability platform and the Sense4Baby wireless fetal/maternal monitoring system will be available as part of the agreement.
Life Monitor streamlines connectivity across the healthcare sector, providing the Ideal Life Operating platform and associate peripheral devices to enable clients to remotely manage
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4 Ways Under Armour Can Drive Value in Digital Health & Fitness
Last week, Under Armour held their "Connected Fitness Day" presentation hosted by the company's CEO Kevin Plank and Chief Financial Officer Brad Dickerson along with executives from the recently acquired MapMyFitness, Endomondo and MyFitnessPal, Yahoo Finance reports. The recent acquisitions have helped bolstered UA's position as one of the one of the world’s largest digital health and fitness communities in the world.
For Under Armour, 2015 is expected to be the year of investment and
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MedEx To Roll Out 10 Ambulances with Google Glass in Chicago
MedEx, a Chicago-based provider of ambulance and telemedicine services announced this week it is rolling out 10 ambulances equipped with Google Glass, ChicagoInno reports. Utilizing Pristine's EyeSight HIPAA compliant software, paramedics can now prepare emergency response for an incoming patient, document a call, or beam a remote specialist into the ambulance for a stroke consult in real time audio and video.
MedEx Ambulance is the first in the nation to implement Google Glass in EMS and has
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Stanford Launches App That Connects to Epic EHR & Healthkit
Stanford Health Care today announced its new iOS 8 MyHealth mobile health app for patients. Developed in-house by Stanford Health Care (SHC) engineers, MyHealth connects directly with Epic’s EHR, Apple’s HealthKit and cloud services for consumer health data monitoring.
The SHC MyHealth mobile app is designed to make it quick and simple for patients to manage their care right from their iPhones, including:
• Make appointments
• Get test results – your lab results are automatically made
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Can Mobile Health Streamline the Clinical Trial Workflow?
CliniOps Avik Pal explains why the time to revolutionize clinical trials has come.
While we tap away on our mobile devices, the healthcare industry continues to hone in on the untapped potential of connecting to the millions of users that hold them. The latest area calling for a mobile movement: clinical trials. The growing consensus: the time to clean up the clinical trial work flow has come— and mobile-driven solutions are the tools to get it done.
Despite the IT evolution in
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Garmin to Optimize Clinical Trials through Mobile Health
Garmin has announced a strategic partnership with Medidata, a provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research to integrate Garmin’s vívofit activity tracker with Medidata's Clinical Cloud platform. The integration will optimize clinical trials through mobile health enabling enhanced patient engagement, data quality and operational efficiencies in clinical trials.
Integration Details
Designed to be worn on a person’s wrist 24/7, Garmin’s vívofit water-resistant device measures steps
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Smart Glasses App Developer VitalMedicals Raises $925k
VitalMedicals, a San Francisco-based company developing smart software platform for surgical teams and hospitals, to improve operational efficiency and patient safety, has announced it has raised $925k in seed funding from professional angel investors and the Stanford-StartX Fund. The capital will allow the company to expand their technical team needed to continue building innovative smart glasses technologies for the hospital and beyond. Additionally, it will enable them to expand their pilot
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Entrada Releases iOS SDK for Integration with Health IT Solutions
Entrada, a provider of integrated mobile EHR solutions has announced the release of its iOS software development kit (SDK), enabling healthcare IT partners to integrate Entrada’s provider productivity and care collaboration capabilities within their own mobile applications. Partners developing with the Entrada SDK can enhance the value of their product solutions for new and existing clients, leveraging Entrada’s mobile documentation functionality and seamless EHR integration.
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