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- Lumen, the metabolic health company behind the first handheld device to measure your metabolism through the breath, today announced that it has raised $62M in a series B funding round led by Pitango Venture Capital.
- Participating investors include Hanwha Group, Resolute Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, Unorthodox Ventures, Almeda Capital, and Disruptive VC.
World’s Largest Platform For Measuring Metabolism To Expand Business Growth and Research
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5 Factors to Consider When Developing a Health Data Platform
The conversation around whether a healthcare startup should build a data platform or buy one isn’t anything new. In fact, this has been a debate since cloud-based technologies rose to popularity—we’re just now seeing more startups enter the space and opt to build their platforms internally.
Startups choose to build their data platforms for several compelling reasons. For example, it could give them greater control over their data security and architecture or they feel they know their data
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What The Failure of Microsoft’s HealthVault Means for the Future of EHRs
Microsoft recently announced that it is officially shutting down HealthVault at the end of this year. HealthVault was Microsoft’s attempt at a web-based personal health record system. You probably never used it -- it suffered low adoption. But while HealthVault will shut down, mobile apps that collect and store your personal health information and share it with your healthcare team are poised to revolutionize medicine and wellness practice.
The downfalls of HealthVault included its focus on
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Deloitte Integrates Patient Engagement Solution with Apple to Improve Adherence to Treatment Plans
Deloitte, today announced it has integrated its ConvergeHEALTH Patient Connect product with Apple HealthKit, CareKit and ResearchKit frameworks, enabling patients to improve adherence to treatment plans while supporting connectivity to clinical research. This is the latest in a series of innovative additions to the ConvergeHEALTH product portfolio. ConvergeHEALTH is a group of products engineered and built by Deloitte to enable life sciences clients to respond to the shift to
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Apple Opens Health Records API to Developers and Researchers to Create Personalized Apps for Consumers
On Monday, Apple released a new Health Records API for developers and researchers that will empower consumers to better manage medications, nutrition plans, diagnosed diseases and more directly from their iPhone. The new API integration with third-party developers will allow patients of more than 500 hospitals and clinics to access medical information from various institutions organized into one view on their iPhone. Consumers will now be able to share their encrypted health records data from
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Memo to Apple: Convenience is Key to Fixing US Healthcare
Millions of Americans have uncorrected vision impairment, costing billions and increasing other health risks. We have everything we need to help them – if we can just get them into the eye care systemThe news that Apple is forming its own network of health clinics to serve its employees set off a frenzy of speculation about how the world’s most valuable company might disrupt the archaic healthcare system. The excitement is certainly justified. Apple has a sterling track record of revolutionizing
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Report: Apple Developing Sensors to Monitor Blood Sugar for Apple Watch Integration
Apple has hired a team of biomedical engineers to develop sensors that can noninvasively and continuously monitor blood sugar levels to better treat diabetes, according to CNBC. The initiative was initially envisioned by Steve Jobs before his death and has been in development for at least the past five years, with about 30 people working on the project and reports to Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies. Some of the engineers have been working with the Apple team
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Medable Launches Machine Learning Solution Specifically for Healthcare Apps
Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform has unveiled Cerebrum, the first cloud-based machine learning solution created specifically for healthcare apps. Cerebrum leverages data gathering smartphones with a first-of-its-kind machine learning engine, resulting in health events becoming more easily predicted, such as warning an elderly relative when he is at greatest risk of a fall, or preventing an asthmatic child from triggering a life threatening episode.The new
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Why We Shouldn’t Call Apple ResearchKit and CareKit ‘Platforms’
Editor’s Note: Ryan Rossier is VP of Platform Solutions at Medullan, a digital healthcare consulting firm.It’s no secret that getting people to engage in their health is one of our generation’s biggest challenges.Digital health engagement, especially, is often discussed as “a huge opportunity,” but the reality is that while people are interested in their health, it’s still incredibly difficult to get them to use digital tools consistently. Enacting behavior change is still a mostly elusive
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Apple CareKit: Are Consumers Ready for Tech-Enabled Home Health?
Deloitte’s Harry Greenspun talks about what research is revealing when it comes to consumers and caregivers plugging into tech-enabled home health.What about the doctor-patient relationship? This is the question that many whisper yet few ask directly as technology gives greater rise to remote treatment methods. Take CareKit, released from Apple, Inc. in March, which allows users to collect medical data and share with physicians. Will what’s achievable on screen disrupt the crucial care that
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