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Biobeat Launches Wearable Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Device

by Fred Pennic 05/27/2021 Leave a Comment

Biobeat Launches Wearable Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Device

What You Should Know: - Biobeat announced the launch of its new wearable and continuous ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) device, currently the only cuffless ABPM solution in the world. - As blood (BP) measurement has shown to be crucial in the early detection and prevention of clinical disorders, Biobeat’s cuffless ABPM device can act as a decisive indicator of patient health, tracking patient cardiac data continuously in real-life settings outside of the physician’s office
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How the Pandemic is Accelerating the Shift to Alternative Care Delivery Models

by Mark Prather MD, MBA, CEO & Co-founder at DispatchHealth 03/24/2021 Leave a Comment

How the Pandemic is Accelerating the Shift to Alternative Care Delivery Models

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how we interact with one another, with businesses, and with the world around us. From social distancing to hand sanitation to remote working, its impact on society is immense. And among the various industries that are experiencing significant change as a result of the pandemic, healthcare tops the list. Supply chain disruptions, crowded ICUs and exhausted medical staff has taken a toll on hospitals and clinics — and they’ve had to pivot rapidly to new
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How NLP Can Uncover Social Determinants of Heart Disease

by David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs 03/23/2021 Leave a Comment

NLP is Raising the Bar on Accurate Detection of Adverse Drug Events

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Cardiovascular disease-related deaths—which occur every 36 seconds—cost our country about $219 billion each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People with poor cardiovascular health are also at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19, so the time to act is now. There’s no time like the present to look at major risk factors—from obesity and
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Ambulatory Considerations for Remote Patient Monitoring Technologies

by Jiang Li, CEO of VivaLNK 03/15/2021 Leave a Comment

Ambulatory Considerations for Remote Patient Monitoring Technologies

The use of healthcare technology solutions in clinical settings is a time-tested conventional practice, and it’s becoming more commonplace in remote patient monitoring (RPM) as supporting technologies drive more innovation. With the broad range of care encompassed by the term “RPM,” there are a number of factors that can impact the overall effectiveness of monitoring patient vitals and other physiological parameters in remote, non-clinical situations. When a patient transitions from a
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Reperio Health Raises $6M to Expand At-Home Wellness Kits to Employer Market

by Fred Pennic 03/05/2021 Leave a Comment

Reperio Health Raises $6M Expand At-Home Wellness Kits to Employer Market

What You Should Know: - Portland, Oregon-based Reperio Health announced it has raised $6M in seed funding co-led by Caduceus Capital Partners in Nashville, Tenn., and Rogue Venture Partnersin Portland, Ore., with additional investment from Liquid 2 Ventures and G Ventures, both out of the San Francisco Bay Area. - Reperio’s patent-pending at-home health assessment brings a broad range of screenings right to peoples’ doors.
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Untapping the Potential for Virtual Care in a Pandemic and Beyond

by Dr. Sonny Kohli, Practicing Physician in Internal Medicine and Critical Care and Faculty at SingularityU Canada 02/25/2021 Leave a Comment

Untapping the Potential for Virtual Care in a Pandemic and Beyond

Virtual care is everywhere and ubiquitous. But at a time when the world is amid a global pandemic, virtual care is also being underutilized. The technology exists today to help our healthcare system not only more effectively and efficiently manage care during COVID-19, but also exponentially scale capacity in the face of future outbreaks.  Virtual care defined Virtual care is a broad term. It encompasses all the ways healthcare practitioners provide for care remotely. This can mean
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Telehealth Helped Me Beat COVID-19, But It’s Just A Start

by Lisa Romano, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer at CipherHealth 02/05/2021 Leave a Comment

Telehealth Helped Me Beat COVID-19, But it’s Just A Start

I was the voice of social distancing, a proponent of mask-wearing from the very start. Still, after months of keeping distance from loved ones, the idea of a quick, safe, outdoor family gathering on a beautiful fall day, even if we weren’t going to be wearing masks, was too good to pass up.  A week later, I was sequestered in my bed, with a 103-degree-fever that didn’t break for 12 days, unrelenting migraines and aches, and what felt like an impossibly heavy weight on my chest, making
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Casana Raises $14M to Expand IoT Heart Health Toilet Seat

by Fred Pennic 02/03/2021 Leave a Comment

Casana Raises $14 Million for In-home Heart Health Monitoring Device

What You Should Know: - Casana raises $14M in Series A funding to pursue FDA clearance for its an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output. Casana, previously known as Heart Health Intelligence, Inc., a healthcare technology firm that is re-inventing in-home health monitoring, today announced that it has raised $14M in Series A funding, bringing the total capital raised to
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A Patient Engagement Strategy Needs to Deliver a Holistic Experience

by Chris Evanguelidi, Director, Enterprise Healthcare Market for Redpoint Global Inc. 02/03/2021 Leave a Comment

A Patient Engagement Strategy Needs to Deliver a Holistic Experience

Researchers from Johns Hopkins published a study in October on the impact of the pandemic on health care delivery. Among its findings, the data show a 21.4% decrease in primary care visits in Q2 of 2020, compared against the average volume of Q2 visits for the previous two years. By contrast, there was a sharp increase in telehealth engagements, accounting for 35.3% of all provider visits in Q2 this year, compared with 4.1% in Q1 and 1.1% in 2018-2019.  Despite the shifts in healthcare
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Challenges of Operationalizing Remote Patient Monitoring Data

by Roberto Martinez, President, Mexico, Encora 01/21/2021 Leave a Comment

Challenges of Operationalizing Remote Patient Monitoring Data

Among the many evolving technologies in the healthcare industry, there may be none more important or impactful than remote patient monitoring (RPM) hardware and software solutions. This technology is opening up new possibilities in extended healthcare – saving patients money, limiting visits to the doctor’s office, and providing healthcare professionals with powerful tools for diagnosing and treating patients. As these tools continue to mature, software and hardware developers are solving
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