Scientists at Cedars-Sinai and Boston-based digital health startup Emulate are pioneering a Patient-on-a-Chip program to help predict which disease treatments would be most effective based on a patient's genetic makeup and disease variant—a new approach to advance precision medicine.Researchers know that people respond differently to foods, drugs, and chemicals. For example, a medication may be effective in one individual, while it makes another even more ill. Until now, we’ve had no way to test
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DarioHealth Launches Blood Glucose Monitoring System on Amazon Prime
DarioHealth, a digital health company with mobile health and big data solutions has announced the launch and first sales of its Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System on Amazon. The distribution on Amazon will strengthen DarioHealth's online retail presence, as it provides its users and potential clients with additional purchasing and shipping options, including shipping via Amazon Prime, as all fulfillment is being managed by Amazon. With over 300 million users, Amazon is one of the largest
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Hashed Health, ODH Partner to Develop Healthcare Blockchain to Support Value-based Care
ODH, Inc., a health technology company providing data aggregation and analytics solutions, has teamed up with Hashed Health to develop blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for payers and providers with the goal of improving patient care. Hashed Health is a healthcare blockchain innovation company focused on building the new digital infrastructure for healthcare to develop new solutions to better secure patient data and enable greater payment efficiency for healthcare organizations and
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Hitch Health, Lyft Partner to Provide Non-Emergency Medical Transportation to Patients
Hitch Health, a Minneapolis, MN-based healthcare technology company focused on innovative ways to improve patient health, today announced the launch of their partnership with ridesharing company Lyft. The announcement comes off the heels of a successful six-month pilot phase focused on at-risk populations served by Minnesota’s Hennepin Healthcare, which operates Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, as well as primary care clinics in Minneapolis and suburban communities. Early
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Healthbox Opens Applications for the 2018 Healthbox Studio
Healthbox, a Chicago-based healthcare innovation services firm, today announce that we are now accepting applications for their 2018 Healthbox Studio. The five-day program is dedicated to advancing digital health solutions through peer-to-peer collaboration, speaker sessions, and fostering relationships with the Healthbox team as well as healthcare leaders, investors, and industry partners. Although Healthbox no longer hosts traditional accelerator programs, we are committed to supporting
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Roche Acquires Oncology EHR Startup Flatiron Health for $1.9B
Roche has reached an agreement to acquire Flatiron Health, a NYC-based oncology EHR startup focused on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care for $1.9B. Under terms of the acquisition, Flatiron Health will continue its current business model, network of partnerships and overall objectives. The integrity of segregated patient protected health information will be preserved, as will dedicated sales and marketing, provider-facing and life science business activities. In addition,
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Sacramento Kings Selects Connexion Health for Health & Fitness Walk-In Kiosk
Connexion Health announced the National Basketball Association’s Sacramento Kings as the first sports team to announce its plans to utilize Connexion, an AI-powered health and fitness technology platform. Connexion is a walk-in kiosk that fuses multiple powerful sensors with AI for touchless, automated health assessments, coupled with an extensive app marketplace capable of enabling countless health and fitness apps.The Sacramento Kings will use Connexion to measure and analyze their players’
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Fitbit Acquires Health Coaching Platform Twine Health
Fitbit, today announced it has acquired Twine Health, a HIPAA-compliant health coaching platform that delivers a user-friendly experience to help people manage chronic conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, and to support lifestyle interventions, such as weight loss and smoking cessation.Twine Health’s proven coaching platform is a strong foundation upon which Fitbit plans to expand its offerings to self-insured employers, health plans and health systems. Through the acquisition, Fitbit
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StayWell Acquires Digital Health Startup Provata Health, Expands Capabilities in Population Health
StayWell, a health empowerment company has acquired Provata Health, a Portland, Ore.-based digital health startup that delivers scientifically proven population health programs to employers, health plans, and hospital systems. Provata Health's native iOS and Android mobile apps, cutting-edge technology and innovative platform will be integrated with StayWell features to streamline the user experience and help deliver even greater physical and mental health benefits.Terms of the
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Varian Acquires Radiation Oncology Solution Mobius Medical Systems
Varian, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of cancer care solutions has acquired Mobius Medical Systems, a provider of radiation oncology Quality Assurance (QA) software. The acquisition will expand Varian's leadership in radiation medicine, by increasing its portfolio of patient treatment plan QA and machine QA technologies, and enables the company to potentially impact more patients around the globe with software solutions designed to assure the quality of treatments.The Mobius QA software is in
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