- The Innovation Studio at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced the winners of its first-ever Digital Health Lab Demo Day. - Winning VR, AR, and gaming innovations will receive $20,000 each in seed grants and be piloted at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.The Innovation Studio at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced the winners of its first-ever Digital Health Lab Demo Day, the culmination of a six-month venture to develop, incubate and implement virtual reality (VR),
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Top Global Digital Health/Health IT VC Funding Categories in Q3 2019
Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health/health IT, including private equity and corporate venture capital, reached $2B in funding across 156 deals in Q3 2019, according to market research firm Mercom Capital Group. The 9M & Q3 2019 Digital Health (Healthcare IT) Funding and M&A Report reveals global venture capital reached $7.2B over 474 deals in the first nine months of 2019 compared to $8B in 556 deals in 9M 2018. In Q3 2019, Digital Health companies raised $2B in 156
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Valley Children’s Healthcare Launches Healthcare Innovation Lab
- Valley Children’s launches healthcare innovation lab named George’s Idea Lab to accelerate new digital health solutions that will transform pediatric healthcare. - Innovation program builds off Valley Children’s recent partnership with The Innovation Institute and will operate as part of The Innovation Lab.Valley Children’s Healthcare, one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation has announced today the launch of a new healthcare innovation program. The innovation program
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Human API Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to Accelerate Innovation
- Human API today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program.- Human API’s collaboration with Google Cloud will focus on accelerating healthcare innovation in digital health and life sciences. - Human API's platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace which ensures that customers running applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can integrate consumer data from across the healthcare ecosystem.Human API - a real-time consumer health data platform - today
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AdvaMed Launches Center for Digital Health to Advance Data-Driven Healthcare
- AdvaMed launches Center for Digital Health, an advocacy platform to drive data-driven healthcare- The Center for Digital Health includes a wide range of medical and digital technology companies that are leveraging health care data and technology innovation to enable new insights, support health and wellness, improve patient interventions and outcomes and enhance the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today announced the launch of
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UCSF Launches Center for Intelligent Imaging to Accelerate AI Adoption in Radiology
- UC San Francisco launches Center for Intelligent Imaging named ci2 to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology to improve patient diagnoses and care.
- ci2 researchers will work with NVIDIA Corp. to build infrastructure and tools focused on enabling the translation of AI in clinical practice.
- The center will serve as a hub for the multidisciplinary development of AI in imaging to meet unmet clinical needs and provide a platform to measure the impact and
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Integrated Behavioral Health: Expectations vs Realities?
When patients go to the doctor, they’re putting their trust in a highly-trained professional. They trust that professional to provide them with the necessary care and attention to improve or sustain their health.
However, some underlying health issues can’t be detected with a simple blood test or CAT scan. Behavioral health problems can impact every part of a person’s life. Some can develop as a result of physical problems, and vice versa.
This is why the integration of physical and behavioral
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UnitedHealthcare Launches On-Demand Virtual Visit App for Plan Members
- New mobile app gives 27 million Americans access to health information 24/7 to help encourage a more simplified and convenient health care experience- Integrated Virtual Visits offer on-demand access to health care professionals via a mobile device or computer - The new app – available on Android® and Apple® devices – will over time replace the existing Health4Me app for UnitedHealthcare plan participantsMillions of Americans now have on-demand access to telemedicine services 24/7 with
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Rimidi Adds Obesity View to EHR-Integrated Platform for Clinicians
- Rimidi adds Obesity disease view to its platform to preemptively identify and manage cardiometabolic diseases by combining data from multiple sources into disease ‘views’ that provide a holistic overview of a patient.- With the obesity view, clinicians are better equipped to identify and lower the potential health risks impacting patients- The addition of obesity to Rimidi’s platform addresses the evolving policies and care around obesity, as the chronic disease requires increased medical
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Canvas Medical Licenses Health Gorilla’s FHIR-based API to Streamline Lab Ordering
- Health Gorilla and Canvas Medical announce collaboration to enable data exchange capabilities within the Canvas health technology platform.- Canvas Medical is licensing Health Gorilla’s FHIR-based APIs to exchange data with our network of diagnostic vendors to support new workflows for their providers and power population health insights within their EMR platform.Health Gorilla, a provider of clinical data APIs, and Canvas Medical, the health IT partner that champions independent primary care
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