Kura MD, a Roseville, CA-based developer of telehealth solutions for healthcare, announced it has raised $1.5 million in series A financing from Moneta Ventures to expand its physician network and telemedicine platform. Combined with its physician network, Kura MD's telemedicine platform enables convenient, secure, HIPAA compliant telehealth appointments between physicians and patients through a computer, smart phone or tablet 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The company plans to utilize
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14 Top Hospitals Are Piloting Apple’s HealthKit Platform
Fourteen of the top major U.S. hospitals are piloting their own trails of Apple's HealthKit platform, Reuters reports. Apple's HealthKit platform serves as an serve as an integrative hub for patient-generated health information like blood pressure, weight, heart rate, calorie burn or sleep activity with third party apps. Users can decide what information is placed in HealthKit and which apps can access their data through the Health app. Apple's rivals, Google and Samsung which have released
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Report: 40M Smartphone Owners Use at Least 1 Fitness, Wellness App
More than 40 million smartphone owners are active users of at least one wellness or fitness app, according to recent Parks Associates research. The report, Mobile Carriers and Wireless Healthcare Opportunities examines market opportunities and challenges in the wireless healthcare market from the mobile operator’s perspective.
Findings
The report finds about one in four heads of household in broadband households use a mobile app to track their fitness progress or calorie intake, and the
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Telenatal to Distribute AirStrip’s Sense4Baby Fetal/Maternal Monitoring in Europe
AirStrip and Telenatal have announced their partnership to begin distributing AirStrip's Sense4Baby wireless fetal/maternal monitoring system in 13 European countries. Sense4Baby is used to perform remote maternal and fetal monitoring including for high-risk pregnancies. The monitoring system received a CE mark from the European Commission in 2013 for commercialization in remote settings including self-administration. Established in 2007, Telenatal aims to provide additional care choices to
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Survey: Data Privacy Biggest Barrier to mHealth Adoption
51 percent of healthcare executives find data privacy is the biggest barrier to mHealth adoption, according to a survey of 144 executives and managers in the healthcare industry in 23 countries published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Privacy Concerns
The report, Power to the patient: How mobile technology is transforming healthcare , sponsored by SAP, reveals the path to mHealth adoption will not be smooth. 49 percent of EIU survey respondents think consumer wariness about privacy
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Yale New Haven Health System to Implement Mobile Hearbeat CURE App
Mobile Heartbeat, a provider of smartphone clinical communications has inked an enterprise agreement with Yale New Haven Health System to rollout their Mobile Heartbeat CURE (Clinical Urgent Response) smartphone application to clinicians in all facilities in the provider’s network, which include Yale-New Haven Hospital, Bridgeport Hospital, Greenwich Hospital and the YNHHS Saint Raphael campus. Mobile Heartbeat has recently completed pilot implementations which helped YNHHS to realize
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Obama Unveils $215M Precision Medicine Initiative
President Obama is asking Congress for $215 million to fund the Precision Medicine Initiative, a new patient centered research effort that aims to to accelerate biomedical discoveries and provide clinicians with new tools, knowledge, and therapies to select which treatments will work best for which patients. The Obama administration hopes to launch the new initiative with a $215 million investment in the President's 2016 budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
“You can match a blood
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3 Facts Proving The Future of Google Glass in Healthcare is Brighter Than Ever
There have been tons of recent reports and op-eds following recent announcements from Google about the changes to the Glass program. Unfortunately, much of the reporting has been misleading. Let's start by getting the facts straight, then consider what's next for Glass.
Facts:
1) Glass is “graduating” from Google[x], the company’s research division, and becoming a full-fledged business unit within Google proper.
2) The new business unit will be overseen by Tony Fadell, who led the iPod
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Roche and Qualcomm Partner to Innovate Remote Patient Monitoring
Qualcomm today announced that Qualcomm’s subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., and Roche, a leader in point-of-care diagnostics, have entered into a strategic partnership to improve remote patient monitoring and management of chronic disease patients. Together, the companies aim to advance chronic care management using connected therapy to further improve therapy quality, increase convenience and drive patient engagement in managing their health.
Partnership Details
Roche will utilize Qualcomm
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Home Health App Delivers Access to Clinical Notes on the Go
Better care coordination is fundamental to improving both patient health and the healthcare system as a whole— and in the long run will save the health care system billions. Medicare’s recent decision to pay physicians to better coordinate care for vulnerable seniors is a significant step toward reducing costs and bettering care by starting with the details that often go overlooked. A recent study found that comprehensive care coordination can reduce hospital readmissions by nearly 25%— over
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