Cleveland Clinic today released research that uses Propeller Health’s smart inhaler platform to show that digital medicines significantly reduced hospital visits for COPD patients. COPD is a term applied to a family of diseases that includes emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema due to alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. The research findings published in The Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare marks the first-ever research to assess the impact of a digital medicine on healthcare utilization
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UCSF, The Doctors Company Partner to Address Patient Safety Challenges in the Digital Health Era
The Doctors Company—the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer—and UC San Francisco (UCSF), today launched a new partnership at the intersection of digital medicine and patient safety. The Doctors Company’s commitment to advancing the practice of good medicine will be expanded through a $1 million collaboration that will enable leading UCSF researchers in evidence-based patient safety practices, safety, and information technology–related policy, and artificial intelligence
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Consumer Awareness of Personalized Medicine Has Only Grown by 1% YoY Since 2013
Consumer awareness of personalized medicine is up 4% from 2018, according to a new report from Dosis, an AI-powered personalized dosing platform. The 2019 Dosis Personalized and Digital Medicine Consumer Report surveyed more than 1,000 consumers, weighted for the U.S. population, to gain a better understanding of how big the disconnect is between the advances in personalized medicine approaches and general consumer awareness of its benefits.Consumer Awareness of Personalized Medicine Continues
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Sonde Health Nabs $16M to Commercialize Vocal Biomarker Device to Diagnose Diseases
Sonde Health, a Boston-based digital medicine company developing a vocal biomarker device to transform the way we monitor and diagnose our mental and physical health has raised $16 million in Series A funding. The round was led by M Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), with participation from MP Healthcare Venture Management, Inc. (the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation), Neoteny 4, LP, Canepa Healthcare, and founder
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5 Disruptive Technologies Driving The Future of Patient Monitoring Solutions
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The patient monitoring market is expected to be worth more than $350 billion by 2025, as the focus is likely to move beyond device
sales to solutions, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan's report.
The report, Patient
Monitoring Industry—Analysis of Investment and Trends outlines the
future of patient monitoring across the continuum of care, the shifts in the
market, and investment opportunities.
Evolution of
Patient Monitoring
Patient
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HIMSS19 Day 2 Announcements & Summary
Accenture: Millenials & Gen Z Are Shifting to Virtual, Retail, Clinic, Digital CareMillennial and Gen Z consumers in the U.S. are rapidly adopting non-traditional care models, such as retail clinics, virtual and digital services, according to results of an Accenture survey of 2,000 consumers.Key findings of the survey study include:- When considering traditional in-person care, millennials (ages 22 to 38 in 2019) were two to three times more likely than baby boomers (ages 55 to 73) to be
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Big Health, Castlight Health Partner to Offer Clinically-Proven Employee Mental Health Solution
Digital medicine company Big Health, today announced a new partnership with leading health navigation platform provider Castlight Health. Now through Castlight’s suite of digital health and wellness solutions, employers will be able to seamlessly deliver improved sleep and mental health to their employees with Big Health’s digital sleep improvement program Sleepio.Sleepio is clinically proven to help individuals overcome insomnia as well as improve anxiety and depression via a web and mobile
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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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Oschner Health Pilots Apple Watch to Manage Chronic Diseases
After being the first Epic client to integrate with the Apple HealthKit, Ochsner Health System has announced it is now the first hospital in the nation to use the Apple Watch for managing patients suffering from chronic diseases. As part of the Ochsner Hypertension Digital Medicine Program pilot program, the New Orleans-based provider will utilize the Apple Watch to track several hundred patients who are struggling to control their blood pressure.
How It Works
Through wireless blood
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