SafeKeeping, an Evansville, Indiana-based integrated care dashboard for long-term care providers that utilizes facilities' electronic medical record (EMR) data to improve health outcomes for caregivers, family members and residents announced it has raised $330k in seed funding led by Solidea Capital. The company plans to use the seed funding to expand offerings, support additional long-term care facilities and meet urgent industry demands for an engagement channel that puts facility efficiency
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Lilly Launches Innovation Challenge to Transform IBD Care Through Digital Health
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) is launching an open innovation challenge to encourage individuals and teams across the U.S. to identify and submit pioneering digital health solutions aimed at transforming inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) care. The challenge, "Transforming IBD Care: Better disease monitoring, management, and care for people with inflammatory bowel disease" focuses on innovation in IBD monitoring, condition management or care enhancements.Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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DrFirst Integrates With Imprivata to Enable Single Sign-On Secure Messaging
DrFirst announced today their collaboration to deliver single sign-on (SSO) access to HIPAA compliant messaging. Using DrFirst Backline and Imprivata Mobile Device Access, users can now securely communicate in real-time across care team members and patients without the burden of manual logins to access Backline.Impact of Single Sign-On for CliniciansResearchers have found that single sign-on improves productivity among providers, increases HIPAA compliance, decreases errors, and significantly
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XLerateHealth Unveils 2019 Louisville Cohort of 9 Digital Health Startups
XLerateHealth, a Louisville, KY-based healthcare accelerator announced it has selected nine digital health startups to participate in its 2019 Louisville accelerator cohort. This is the 8th cohort to be selected into the bootcamp program since XLH’s launch in 2013.XLerateHealth (XLH) Accelerator Program OverviewThe accelerator’s 12-week intensive program will help the early-stage healthcare companies build out their commercialization strategy, which includes their intersection with Payers,
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Google Nest to Provide Up to 100k Google Home Minis to People Living With Paralysis
In celebration of the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Christopher & Dana Reeve
Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving quality of life for people
living with paralysis, announced a partnership with Google
Nest to improve independence for the greater paralysis community. As part
of the partnership, Google Nest is providing up to 100,000 free Google
Home Minis through the Reeve Foundation for individuals and families
impacted by paralysis, to enhance
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StartUp Health Adds 6 New Healthcare Transformers to its Portfolio
StartUp Health, a platform where health transformers, partners, customers, investors, patients, and caregivers connect and accelerate the progress of the health moonshots announced it has added six new companies to its army of Healthcare Transformers.Every quarter, StartUp Health coaches its army of Health Transformers on how to create value, amplify their story, and ultimately achieve their Health Moonshot. Each company is supported for the entire journey of their business, through multiple
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Reducing Preventable Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events
Dr. Chris Hobson, MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer at Orion Health
Using a Health Information Exchange (HIE), clinicians across multidisciplinary care teams can access a patient’s medications, reconcile the list and monitor their progress, thereby reducing medication errors and future costs from preventable hospital admissions.
Multiple factors combine to make the prescribing, supplying and taking of medications a perilous and costly issue for patients and the healthcare sector. Prescription
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UCLA Spin Out DEARhealth Lands $6M for AI-Powered Pathways for Chronic Care
DEARhealth, a health IT spin-out
from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has raised $6.8 million
in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered pathway platform for chronic care.
Participants in the Series A funding round include Philips Health Technology
Ventures, Vesalius Biocapital III and Health Innovations.
DEARhealth was founded in
2011 by Daniel Hommes as a research project when a team of UCLA specialists
designed a value-based care program for the management of chronic
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Healium Partners with XRHealth to Power VR With Emotions
XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, a provider of extended reality and therapeutic applications announced it is opening their platform to third-party developers to create robust VR healthcare experiences. A noteworthy partnership created through the open platform is Healium that enables patients to “see” and power VR technology through their emotions.Healium: Powering VR With EmotionsApproximately 75% to 90% of all doctor visits are due to stress-related issues. Healium developed a
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Blockchain Solve.Care Integrates With Uber Health to Deliver Non-Emergency Medical Transportation for Patients
Solve.Care, a global healthcare platform which uses blockchain technology for the administration, coordination, and payments of healthcare benefits, has announced a partnership with Uber Health, allowing healthcare organizations to provide accessible and affordable rides to patients and caregivers. Integration Details & BenefitsEvery day, 10,000 patients miss or delay care due to a transportation barrier. The partnership will result in the integration of Uber Health’s transportation
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