Telehealth provider Teladoc has announced it has secured a $50 million round of equity funding led by Palo Alto-based Jafco Ventures, a leading technology venture capital firm. This cash fusion will further reinforce Teladoc’s leadership position and support the acceleration of its robust growth strategy.
Teladoc will continue to pursue growth organically and through additional strategic partnerships and targeted acquisitions. The company is anticipating record-setting growth in January 2015
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TigerText Announces Secure Texting Integration with Major EHRs
TigerText, the leader in secure, real-‐time secure messaging for the enterprise, today announced integrations with major EHRs including Cerner and PointClickCare, making it the most widely integrated secure texting platform available. Health care providers are integrating TigerText into their EHR systems to extend the platform capabilities beyond the desktop and provide a secure vehicle for sharing patient information from the EHR to smartphones in a HIPAA-‐compliant way.
Prior to
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Cerner & Athenahealth Announces Integration with Apple’s HealthKit
EHR leaders Cerner and Athenahealth have announced plans to develop mobile health apps integrated with Apple's Healthkit platform, Reuters reports. Representatives from Cerner and Athenahealth both confirm the developed apps integrated with HealthKit will allow physicians to monitor patients with chronic diseases.
Cerner senior director Brian Carter said the company will work with smaller organizations allowing coordinated care teams e.g. (doctors, nurses, clinicians) to access data from
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Fitbit Hires Lobbyist Firm To Address Privacy Concerns
Fitbit has enlisted lobbying firm Heather Podesta + Partners to address its consumer and health privacy concerns after facing increasing scrutiny from Sen. Chuck Schumer and others in Congress, according to recently released public-disclosure records, NJ reports. Last month, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned Fitbit and other mobile health apps of a possible "privacy nightmare" waiting to happen for collecting sensitive data from its users that could potentially be sold to third parties. He is
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The Apple Watch & Digital Health: 3 Must-Ask Questions
So, the much-anticipated Apple Watch has arrived.
The tech world is still digesting Apple's big announcement. Some believe Apple's watch is the Second Coming. Others are disappointed that it does not look cooler. Left-handed people are up in arms that the device is not designed to be worn on the right hand.
My opinion: plenty of people will buy the Apple Watch and it will dramatically improve over time. Apple's great at getting people to desire its devices (remember what they said about
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Scripps Health Launches Pilot Study of AirStrip ONE
Scripps Health has launched a 60 day pilot study of AirStrip ONE®, a software system that securely delivers data from multiple hospital-based patient monitoring systems to mobile devices used by physicians both within and outside the hospital. The AirpStrip ONE will be used in Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla’s first-floor critical care unit on post-open heart surgery patients, trauma patients, surgical intensive care patients and others who are critically ill and require close
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MHRA To Develop Adverse Drug Reaction Mobile Health App
The UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced a new three year project known as 'WEB-RADR' to develop a mobile app for healthcare professionals and the public to report suspected adverse drug reactions (or ADRs) to national EU regulators. The project is launching in response to the increasing use of smartphones, apps, and social media for discussing issues with healthcare according to the MHRA. The project will be funded though the Innovative Medicines
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Global Mobile Health and Fitness Sensor Market Expected to Grow at a CAGR of 40.29%
The Global Mobile Health and Fitness Sensor market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 40.29 percent over the period 2013-2018, according to a new report by Infiniti Research-Limited. The Global Mobile Health and Fitness Sensor market covers the present scenario and the growth prospects for the period 2014-2018. To calculate market size, the report takes into account the unit shipments of health and fitness sensors used in wearable, implantable, and mobile health and fitness devices. Sensors help
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Geneia Partners with Covidien to Enter $21B Remote Patient Monitoring Market
Geneia today announced a multi-year, strategic partnership with Covidien to help improve the health of and reduce the costs for chronically ill patients. The partnership with Covidien has agreed to provide Geneia with rights to sell its ZephyrLIFE remote patient monitoring solutions in designated markets to monitor patients with heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses in the home setting.
Geneia’s @home product combines Covidien’s ZephyrLIFE remote monitoring technology with
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AirStrip and Dignity Health Launch Innovative Population Health and Telehealth Initiatives
AirStrip and Dignity Health announced that the next phase of their mobile interoperability plan will center on enabling population health and telehealth initiatives in Dignity Health’s Central Coast region of California.
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