The healthcare industry has been slowly adopting new technology solutions to improve efficiency and patient care, but it’s still largely known for paper-based processes, and for having massive amounts of data1. To make matters worse, it’s estimated that 80% of the data in the healthcare industry is unstructured, in the form of discharge summaries, medical images, and clinical notes.2 Even though the industry has started to adopt technology tools to get better insights and
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Digital Senior Care Navigator Fair Square Medicare Raises $15M
What You Should Know: - Digital senior care navigator Fair Square Medicare raises 15M in series A funding led by Define Ventures. The company, which is a YCombinator alum, has raised $19M to date. - With 10,000 people turning 65 every day, Fair Square Medicare helps seniors find the right Medicare coverage regardless of commission, and is building a full-service digital healthcare assistance platform for seniors. Care Navigator for Seniors Launched in 2020 out of YC, Fair Square
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Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Adds 10 New Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know: - Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, today announced its eighth accelerator class of ten new digital health startups. - From digital health mental health services to wearable devices to manage chronic asthma, these innovative healthcare-focused startups are working to transform health and healthcare delivery as part of the Los Angeles-based accelerator program. Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Overview During the three-month term, company representatives collaborate with
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Favor Teams Up with imaware to Offer Discrete At-Home STI Tests to Women and People Who Menstruate
What You Should Know: - Digital health solutions company imaware today announced its collaboration with Favor (formerly The Pill Club), the leading integrated digital healthcare platform, to offer at-home sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing for it’s more than 220K patients across the country. - This custom, one-of-a-kind test kit goes beyond existing at-home STI tests on the market to provide women and people who menstruate with a more comprehensive and accurate picture of their
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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better
Digital transformation has increased healthcare access, but quality and consistency are lagging behind. A human touch – and some innovative thinking – can get us where we need to be. We weren’t prepared. But can you blame us? The healthcare industry has gone digital faster than anyone could’ve expected. Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic. At some point, they would’ve naturally risen to prominence. COVID-19 forced us to stuff a
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Report: How Apple Is Advancing Digital Healthcare Transformation
What You Should Know: - Apple has shared a new report that offers a snapshot of the ways Apple products are empowering people to be at the centre of their health, and acting as an intelligent guardian for their health and safety. - The report covers Apple’s two-pronged approach to advance health: Apple’s focus on personal health and fitness features on Apple Watch and iPhone, and Apple’s work with the medical community to support research and care. Empowering Users on Their Personal
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Medable Partners with Withings Health Solutions to Integrate Health Devices in Decentralized Clinical Trials
What You Should Know: - Medable Inc., the leading SaaS platform provider for patient-centered clinical trials, today announced a new partnership with Withings Health Solutions, the business-to-business division of Withings, one of the global leaders in at-home connected health - Withings’ devices will seamlessly connect to Medable’s decentralized clinical trial platform, reducing the burden on sponsors and sites while empowering patients to participate in trials from home.
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League Launches Developer Program to Empower Healthcare Ecosystem
What You Should Know: - League, a healthcare platform technology provider announced the launch of their Developer program, giving the healthcare industry access to the underlying digital infrastructure that can connect its proliferation of point solutions (i.e. all the apps, websites, and software patients currently use to get care). - The Developer program will give customers, partners and third parties the ability to build on the League platform or embed components using SDKs and
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K Health, Mayo Clinic Platform Launches Personalized Hypertension Treatment Algorithm
What You Should Know: - Clinical AI-powered healthcare company K Health announced today a new collaboration with Mayo Clinic’s digital healthcare initiative, Mayo Clinic Platform, which harnesses new knowledge, solutions and technologies to improve patients' lives. - Primary Care clinicians practicing on K Health’s virtual platform are now able to use a predictive model based on real-time insights from Mayo Clinic’s de-identified medical data to treat hypertension more accurately and
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Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Will Transform Outcomes
You don’t need another story urging you to “get to the cloud.” That’s old news for healthcare executives, who’ve long understood the necessity of rebooting the way their organizations operate in the digital era. In a recent McKinsey study, 19 of the 22 healthcare leaders the company interviewed described digital healthcare solutions as “highly relevant” or “relevant” to their businesses. They get it. In fact, digital healthcare has already become the minimum table stakes: 93% of
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