What You Should Know: Highmark BlueCross Blue Shield Delaware partners with Wellinks to deliver virtual COPD care to underserved populations in Delaware starting on July 1.With Wellinks, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware members will be able to access empowering and effective COPD care solutions from the comfort of their own homes. Reduce Access Barriers Through Virtual COPD Care Today, COPD care in the U.S. is extremely fragmented, though the disease is the nation’s third
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Desert Oasis Healthcare Partners with Rimidi, Teva to Improve Asthma Management
What You Should Know: - Rimidi, a clinical management platform today announced that Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC), a regional medical group has implemented Rimidi’s new Respiratory Module. - Designed to give providers a more complete view of the patient in order to guide treatment decisions for those with respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, the Respiratory Module is enhanced by a collaboration with Teva Pharmaceuticals. - Data from
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Aluna Raises $15.3M for Lung Health Management Platform
What You Should Know: - Aluna, the award-winning lung health management platform, recently announced it has completed a $15.3 million Series B round of financing to continue growing its solution among doctors and patients managing asthma, cystic fibrosis and COPD. - Aluna’s AI-enabled respiratory management platform allows patients to transmit data to their doctor by blowing into their innovative spirometer daily. The patient-facing app gives patients an easy way to collect symptoms,
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Sonde Health Secures $19.25M for Voice-Based Health Monitoring
What You Should Know: - Sonde Health, a Boston, MA-based health technology company committed to bringing accessible health monitoring to everyone raises $19.25 million in a Series B investment round led by Partners Investment, with participation from NEOM Company, KT Corporation, and existing investors, including co-founder PureTech Health and M Ventures. - The AI vocal biomarker company will use the funding to accelerate its commercial growth, expand its platform into new health
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HLTH22: Rimidi Launches New Respiratory Module to Deliver Better Treatment
What You Should Know: - Rimidi launches its new Respiratory Module through integration with Teva Pharmaceuticals’ digital inhalers that be integrated into healthcare provider workflows, enhancing respiratory care and population health management. - This new module allows providers to comprehend the full picture of the patient's disease status both in the clinic and at home – giving clinical teams the tools they need to make personalized, predictive care decisions and improve
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Survey: People Living with COPD Want Innovation in Care Delivery
What You Should Know: - People living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are enthusiastic about the promise of care innovation, according to a survey released by Wellinks, a digital healthcare company offering the first-ever integrated, virtual COPD management solution, in collaboration with the COPD Foundation. - The research assessed patient perspectives on COPD care in the United States and findings suggest the status quo is failing people living with the
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HCA Makes Strategic Investment in Cardiac Monitoring Wearable VitalConnect
What You Should Know: - VitalConnect®, Inc., a leader in remote and in-hospital wearable biosensor technology, has just announced the completion of an investment funded by Health Insight Capital, the investment arm of HCA Healthcare Inc., (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. - The investment will go toward further accelerating VitalConnect’s rapidly growing cardiac monitoring business segment while advancing key Remote Patient Monitoring of individuals who
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Challenges and Opportunities for At-Home COPD Management
There are an estimated 16 million Americans who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Patients with COPD are frequently prescribed respiratory medication and given at-home treatment strategies designed to improve general wellness and improve airflow. These strategies may include smoking cessation, air quality control, exercise, and stress management. Unfortunately, despite the use of medication and widespread adoption of lifestyle strategies, COPD continues to represent a
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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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Personalize the Healthcare Experience for Improved Outcomes, Happier Patients
A consumer desire for a personalized experience is converging with the healthcare consumerism trend to alter patient expectations for their relationships with caregivers. Wearable devices, IoT data, and healthcare apps that track sleep, diet, and exercise give consumers more insight and control of their overall health, and they increasingly view PCPs and healthcare professionals (HPs) as simply part of an overall healthcare journey. An important part, to be sure, but more like partners pursuing
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