What You Should Know:
- Fitbit has received 510(k) clearance from the
FDA, as well as CE marking in the European Union, for its ECG
app to assess heart rhythm for atrial fibrillation. The Fitbit ECG App is a
simple way people can take an on-the-spot reading of their heart rhythm at any
time, including whenever they notice any unusual cardiac symptoms.
- Fitbit Sense is the company’s first device compatible
with an ECG app that enables users to take a spot
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TruePill Raises $75M to Launch At-Home Lab Testing Network
What You Should Know:
- Truepill raises $75 million in Series C funding To expand platform services and launch an at-home lab diagnostics network.
- The company plans to use the funds to expand Truepill’s ecosystem of direct-to-patient capabilities, which includes the Truepill Health telehealth network, pharmacy fulfillment, a custom-built EMR, and more.
Truepill, a San Mateo, CA-based building world-class patient experiences through its API-connected healthcare infrastructure,
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How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management
The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry’s ability to innovate has been stunning. We have seen FDA emergency authorizations and relaxed regulatory guidelines enable the development of radical new ventilator ideas, accelerated timelines for vaccine development, and an extraordinary transition to telehealth services. Many of these actions were a response to the exposure of weak spots in our healthcare system, but even as those weaknesses have been shored up (in large part due to public
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How Can Health IT Address Socially Determined Risk amid COVID-19?
Many have argued that the COVID-19 pandemic is a “black swan”: a catastrophic event that can only be understood with the benefit of hindsight. While there is some appeal to this observation, the originator of the black swan theory, Naseem Taleb, strongly refutes this assertion. He counters that COVID-19 was a “white swan”—a predictable event with predictable consequences.
New federal data shows that Latinos and African Americans living in the US are three times as likely to become
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Biofourmis Lands $100M to Expand AI-Powered Digital Therapeutics Platform
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based digital therapeutics leader Biofourmis
just closed a $100 million Series C funding round led by SoftBank,
bringing its total funding to $145M.
- Biofourmis will be using the funding to develop, validate and commercialize several released and unreleased digital therapeutics solutions across cardiology, oncology, respiratory, and pain, with a focus on the United States and key Asian markets, including Asia Pacific, China, and
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FCC, HHS, and USDA Team Up for Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force
What You Should Know:
- Agencies sign a memorandum of understanding to establish an interagency Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force comprised of representatives from each agency to keep rural Americans connected to vital health services.
The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), and U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum
of Understanding to work together on the Rural Telehealth
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Validic Launches New Remote Patient Monitoring Solution, Requires No EHR Integration
What You Should Know:
- Validic launches the newest version of its remote
patient monitoring (RPM) offerings, Validic Impact: Rapid Deployment.
- This new standalone version of Validic Impact requires
no EHR integration and can be used as a fully standalone solution.
Validic, a Durham,
NC-based provider of health data platforms and solutions for scaling remote
patient monitoring (RPM), has announced the release of a major update to its
remote patient monitoring
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Multi-Vital Ambulatory Monitor for COVID-19 Patients Launches in the U.S.
What You Should Know:
- VivaLink launches a new multi-vital ambulatory monitoring solution for infectious respiratory diseases is being debuted in America and Western Europe. This monitoring solution is currently deployed in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East to help monitor COVID-19 patients.
- Built upon VivaLink’s proprietary ambulatory medical wearable sensor platform, the solution can easily be set up and scaled in hospitals, nursing homes, and remote environments. Even pop-up
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4 Ways Businesses Will Adapt Their Healthcare Landscape
The coronavirus pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives, from how we work to how we get our health care. The crisis has put the creativity of many small businesses to the test after being forced to move operations online once social distancing became the norm. As economies reopen, many aspects of our life that changed in response to the virus will likely return to the way they were.
However, we have the opportunity to emerge stronger from this crisis if the salient shortcomings from
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FDA, Syapse Expand Research to Generate Real-World Data Related to COVID-19 and Cancer
What You Should Know:
The FDA and Syapse announce research collaboration expansion
to address urgent public health challenges including supporting FDA’s goal of
rapid understanding of COVID-19.
As part of the research, Syapse is partnering with FDA’s
Oncology Center of Excellence to investigate methods to derive RWD from
multiple sources including electronic health records, registries and molecular
data
Syapse, a real-world
evidence company accelerating the delivery of precision
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