Today’s youth understand the role SDoH plays in their health outcomes. But health systems are woefully ill-equipped to meet this growing demand. That needs to change. And with the right technology, it can.
A true social revolution began on August 1, 1981. That’s the day teens and tweens everywhere started telling their parents, “I want my MTV!”
Music Television (MTV)—streamed via satellite and a proprietary set-top box 14 years before the Internet was a glimmer in the consumer’s
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Favor Teams Up with imaware to Offer Discrete At-Home STI Tests to Women and People Who Menstruate
What You Should Know:
- Digital health solutions company imaware today announced its collaboration with Favor (formerly The Pill Club), the leading integrated digital healthcare platform, to offer at-home sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing for it’s more than 220K patients across the country.
- This custom, one-of-a-kind test kit goes beyond existing at-home STI tests on the market to provide women and people who menstruate with a more comprehensive and accurate picture of their
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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?
Digital twins are virtual representations of an object or system that spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time data, and use simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making (IBM). In most cases, this helps data scientists understand how products are operating in production environments and anticipate how they may behave overtime. But what happens when a digital twin is that of a human being?
By using digital twins to model a person, you can use technologies like
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Tribun Health, Mindpeak Partner on AI Diagnostic Tool for Breast Cancer for Pathologists
What You Should Know:
- Tribun Health, the European leader in software development for digital pathology, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Mindpeak, a global leader for pathology artificial intelligence (AI) software with world-class industry experts in the development of AI algorithms to provide precision and speed in clinical pathology.
- Together, Tribun Health and Mindpeak help pathologists analyze whole-slide-images (WSI) of immunohistochemically (IHC) stained human
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NeuroSense Therapeutics and NeuraLight Collaborate to Detect ALS Oculometric Biomarkers
What You Should Know:
- NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd., a company developing treatments for severe neurodegenerative diseases, and NeuraLight, a company developing objective and sensitive biomarkers for neurological disorders, today announced a collaboration to advance the science of digital biomarkers in the detection and monitoring of neurological diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
- This agreement marks NeuraLight’s first clinical trial and comes on the heels of
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UCLA Research Uses Saliva to Detect Cancer Biomarkers
What You Should Know:
- Spectrum Solutions, LLC announced the publishing of findings from their research collaboration with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Dr. David Wong, UCLA School of Dentistry that successfully demonstrated a superior ability to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from saliva.
- Specifically, amplified EGFR mutations associated with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using Spectrum’s saliva collection and preservation system with the Electric
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When It Comes to Digital Health, Experience Is Everything
Thanks to COVID-19 and numerous other factors, the adoption of digital health technologies used by patients in the home has skyrocketed. Accenture reported in 2021, for example, that remote patient monitoring technology adoption tripled among patients. Whether it is streaming video telehealth appointments with a provider, a remote patient monitoring platform, or a prescribed digital therapeutic to manage a chronic condition, the emphasis must be on the patient and caregiver
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Syapse and Pierian Partner to Power Precision Oncology
What You Should Know:
- Syapse, a real-world evidence company is teaming up with Pierian®, a provider of advanced clinical genomics technology on a new joint collaboration that will benefit patients of the AdventHealth Cancer Institute in Central Florida.
- The collaboration combines Syapse’s real-world evidence solutions designed to improve outcomes for patients with cancer, Pierian’s leading-edge clinical genomics workflow, and precision medicine services that provide the most relevant
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BestLife Holdings Raises $50M+ Portfolio Expansion with Cenegenics
What You Should Know:
- BestLife Holdings, a portfolio of personalized preventative healthcare and age management solutions, announces its formation with a combined equity round of over $50M. Notable investors have partnered with BestLife including PrimeTime Partners’ founders, Abby Levy, the co-founder of Thrive Global with Arianna Huffington, and Alan Patricof, founder of Greycroft Partners and Apax Partners, who also joined the board as an observer. Consumer and digital health
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Imagene Raises $21.5M to Expand Image-Based Biomarker Detection for Precision Medicine
What You Should Know:
- Imagene AI, an emerging leader in the field of AI-based precision medicine for cancer, today announced it raised $21.5 million, comprising $3M in seed funding led by Blumberg Capital and an $18.5M Series A round led by renowned technology-driven cancer medicine investors Larry Ellison, Dr. David Agus, and AI imaging space pioneer Eyal Gura.
- The use of AI-based molecular testing in cancer diagnostics is revolutionizing patient care by offering a new level of
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