What You Should Know: - During a press preview event at CES last night, Withings unveiled, U-Scan, a miniaturized urine health lab that will change the way people and health professionals will monitor vitals from the comfort and privacy of their own bathroom. - U-Scan consists of a technologically advanced pebble-shaped urine analysis reader that sits within the toilet bowl. Its changeable cartridges are designed to assess specific biomarkers without the need for
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Verizon and Higi Extend Community Healthcare Access & Services
What You Should Know: - Wireless and communications leader Verizon and Higi - a consumer health engagement company announced their collaboration to provide digital health solutions and services that will extend care access for communities and help support preventative health, drive literacy, and identify high risk consumers eligible to be managed via home-based monitoring. The partnership will prioritize solution delivery in service of community
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HLTH22: NuraLogix Researchers Announce the Capability to Assess Type 2 Diabetes and Blood Biomarker Health Issues Using Any Video-Enabled Device
What You Should Know: - Researchers at NuraLogix, a global pioneer of contactless health monitoring through its patented Transdermal Optical Imaging (TOI™) technology, have announced that it is adding the ability to perform metabolic and blood biomarker health risk assessments for various chronic conditions to its AnuraTM platform. - As a first for video-based contactless health monitoring, the new capabilities add to the existing health and wellness measurements* Anura™ can assess from a
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Haleon and Microsoft Partner to Help Users Who Are Blind or Low Vision Lead More Independent Lives
What You Should Know: - Haleon, a global leader in consumer health, and Microsoft Corp. announced a new collaboration to make everyday health more accessible for people who are blind, have low vision or have difficulty reading product labels due to low literacy. - Together, the companies are expanding functionality in the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide consumers with more detailed labeling information for over 1,500 Haleon products across the U.S. and U.K. Seeing AI is a free mobile
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SDoH: Today’s Health Systems Are Ill-Equipped to Meet SDOH Demands
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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Upfront Acquires Patient Engagement Platform PatientBond
What You Should Know: - Upfront acquires PatientBond, a digital patient engagement platform creating a single enterprise technology solution to drive patient acquisition and loyalty. - The acquisition accelerates Upfront's delivery of their next-generation personalization platform. Combined with Upfront's omnichannel communications capabilities, PatientBond's robust consumer insights build and expand loyal patient-provider relationships to influence positive behavioral changes, resulting
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Analysis: 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review
Executive Summary Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation 2022 ushered in Act III of the market’s latest transitionary period: The Post-Inflation Era. Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. As the cost of capital went lower and lower during the decade, valuations steadily rose. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% annual growth rate, with no small share of the growth a result of expanding valuation
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How IoT Data Integration Helps Deliver Improved At-Home Healthcare in 2022
When it comes to your health and treatment, hospitals leverage a variety of sensors and instruments to collect the necessary information to monitor and diagnose your health status. With essential health data integrated into one platform, healthcare professionals are able to quickly and easily monitor critical care parameters, which allows them to make decisions and deliver the best possible patient care. Comprehensive big-picture insight into various health parameters, such as a patient’s
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7WireVentures Launches $150M Connected Consumer Health Fund
What You Should Know: - Digital health venture capital firm 7WireVentures today announced it has closed a $150M Connected Consumer Health Fund to invest in early-stage digital health businesses that empower an Informed Connected Healthcare Consumer. - In addition to the fund, 7WireVentures announced the addition of new healthcare organizations to the Connected Consumer Health Coalition, a partnership of top health plans, health systems, employers, and life science organizations. Select
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GetWellNetwork Acquires Consumer Engagement Platform Docent Health
What You Should Know: - GetWellNetwork is acquiring Docent Health, a digital health company. Docent provides a patient engagement platform used by healthcare organizations to coordinate personalized care at scale through AI-enabled communication technology. - The acquisition advances GetWellNetwork's mission to empower patients and families to be more active participants in their care, and extends important health programs for disadvantaged populations and those suffering health
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