Back in the day – the late 1960s, when social norms and the face of America was rapidly changing – a familiar public service announcement began preceding the nightly newscast. “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” Today, as the healthcare landscape changes rapidly with a seismic shift from the fee-for-service payment model to value-based care models, there’s a similar but new clarion call for quality healthcare: “It’s 2018. Do you know where your data is?”Compliance with the
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Health Navigator, Macadamian Partner to bring Health triage to Consumers with New Alexa Skill
Health Navigator, a company that delivers clinical content for digital health, telemedicine, and eHealth, has partnered with Macadamian, a healthcare-focused software design, and development consulting firm, to develop and demonstrate a proof-of-concept skill for voice-enabled digital assistants. The Alexa Skill lets people seek health information and care advice through their digital assistant anytime, anywhere.Recent surveys from the Pew Research Center show 80 percent of internet users
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DreaMed Diabetes Granted FDA Approval for Personalized Diabetes Decision Support Solution
DreaMed Diabetes, an Israeli-based developer of personalized diabetes management solutions, today announced that the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a De Novo request for DreaMed Advisor Pro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based diabetes treatment decision support software. Advisor Pro is indicated to assist healthcare providers in the management of people with type 1 diabetes who use insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).The announcement marks the second
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Why Did the Global Digital Health Market Strengthen During Q4 2017?
Healthcare innovation consultancy Enspektos, LLC, today released the latest edition of its quarterly study, digihealth impact trac. The report focuses on key Q4 2017 market themes and previews five digital health trends that will matter in 2018. The research reveals that telemedicine is having a far-reaching impact as adoption surges globally. Most importantly, telemedicine solutions are delivering economic benefits and re-shaping the patient-physician relationship, as clinicians learn what it
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Kinsa Closes $17M in Financing to Develop Additional Digital Health Products
Kinsa, the company behind the world’s first FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer has closed $17 million in additional financing from GSR Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, FirstMark Capital and others. The funds will be used to develop additional smart products and services to further Kinsa’s mission to better track and stop the spread of illness. Features such as wellness tips, real-time fever guidance, medication reminders, connection to physicians, local health information and
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NHS’ Salford Royal Trust, Validic Partner to Integrate Patient-Generated Health Data Into EHR
The Royal Salford Trust of the NHS and digital health integration platform Validic have announced a partnership centering around innovation with health data, research & remote care services. The partnership will enable the integration of patient-generated health data from in-home medical devices, wearables and consumer health apps into the EHR. The goal of this initiative is to identify how the integration of this data yields a measurable difference in patient care, outcomes and
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Philips Taps Onelife Health to Develop Digital Health Solutions In Mother and Child Care
Philips has announced a partnership agreement with German digital health company Onelife Health to jointly develop innovative connected health solutions around mother and child care. The partnership will initially focus on developing Onelife’s Femisphere pregnancy and first-year-of-life guidance app. As part of the agreement, Philips has acquired a minority interest in Onelife Health.Using Onelife’s Femisphere app, expectant mothers can track vital signs such as their weight and blood pressure,
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Black Book: 94% of Physicians Find Digital Health Data Overwhelming, Redundant
94 percent of physicians find all that digital health data overwhelming, redundant and unlikely to make a clinical difference, according to Black Book’s recent consumer survey. Conducted from September through December 2016, the survey asked 12,090 adult consumers to evaluate the technology they were exposed to, know of or interacted with as an active patient in the last twelve months.The report revealed that 94 percent of consumers with health or activity trackers said their physician informed
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Philips, N-of-One Partner to Speed Clinical Interpretation of Cancer Genomics
Royal Philips and N-of-One, Inc., a provider of clinical interpretation of molecular tests in oncology is teaming up to enhance the capabilities of Philips’ IntelliSpace Genomics solution. The two companies will collaborate on the clinical analysis, annotation and interpretation of oncology cases processed through Philips’ new precision medicine solution for oncology.This healthcare informatics solution integrates genomic information with full patient context to empower clinicians with
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OurCrowd Launches Israel’s First $50M Digital Health Fund
OurCrowd, an Jerusalem-based global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors has launched Israel's first $50 million fund to invest in digital health startups. The new fund called OurCrowd Qure will focus on digital health startups at seed and series A stages in Israel, the US and the Asia Pacific region. Allen Kamer and Dr. Yossi Bahagon has been appointed to lead the fund.OurCrowd Qure has established a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University to provide validation of value,
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