What You Should Know: - Casana raises $14M in Series A funding to pursue FDA clearance for its an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output. Casana, previously known as Heart Health Intelligence, Inc., a healthcare technology firm that is re-inventing in-home health monitoring, today announced that it has raised $14M in Series A funding, bringing the total capital raised to
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EarlySense Sells Contact-Free Monitoring IP to Hilrom for $30M
What You Should Know: - Today, health AI/predictive analytics company EarlySense announced that it has sold its proprietary contact-free continuous monitoring technology intellectual property (IP) to Hillrom for a cash consideration of $30 million, potential payments based on the achievement of certain commercial milestones, and a portion of Hillrom’s equity investment in EarlySense. - As part of the agreement, EarlySense will receive licensing for
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Humana Taps DispatchHealth to Power Hospital-Level Care in the Home
What You Should Know: - Humana Inc. and DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home medical care, today announced an agreement to provide Humana members with access to an advanced level of care in the home – to help enhance patients’ experience and health outcomes. The Dispatch-Humana agreement is believed to be the country’s first program to provide hospital-level care involving a national payer. - The agreement will provide members living with multiple chronic conditions – such as cellulitis,
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The Combination of 5G and AI Will Transform Healthcare in 2021
Not many will disagree that the global pandemic has accelerated the use of technology in healthcare. With a healthcare system stressed to a breaking point, medical professionals have had to prioritize critical cases and increasingly turn to technology tools such as telemedicine and remote patient monitoring to manage the needs of their non-COVID patients. As we begin to look beyond the pandemic, we will not only have the lessons of this time but improved tools to support the delivery of
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Cedars Sinai Launches COVID-19 Recovery Program
What You Should Know: - Patients in the Cedars-Sinai COVID-19 Recovery Program
receive a comprehensive in-person evaluation with an expert in infectious
diseases or pulmonary medicine who can refer them to a network of specialists. Cedars-Sinai,
today announce the launch of the COVID-19 Recovery Program to meet the needs of a
growing number of COVID-19 patients who experience lingering symptoms weeks and
even months after physicians say they are virus-free. COVID-19
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Challenges of Operationalizing Remote Patient Monitoring Data
Among the many evolving technologies in the healthcare industry, there may be none more important or impactful than remote patient monitoring (RPM) hardware and software solutions. This technology is opening up new possibilities in extended healthcare – saving patients money, limiting visits to the doctor’s office, and providing healthcare professionals with powerful tools for diagnosing and treating patients. As these tools continue to mature, software and hardware developers are solving
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Tyto Care Launches FDA-Cleared Fingertip Pulse Oximeter Medical Device
What You Should Know: - Tyto Care announces the launch of its fingertip Pulse
Oximeter device, allowing users to measure their own blood oxygen saturation
level and heart rate from the comfort and safety of home. - Expanding its clinic-quality remote capabilities, TytoCare users will be able to perform a remote blood oxygen exam, allowing clinicians to better monitor patients with COVID-19 and chronic lung or heart conditions. Tyto Care, a New York City-based all-in-one modular
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Biobeat Launches Home-Based Remote Patient Monitoring Kit
What
You Should Know: - Today, Biobeat, developer of AI-powered remote patient monitoring solutions, announced the launch of its home patient monitoring kit. - The kit, which includes chest-monitors, compatible adhesive units, and a user-friendly manual, allows healthcare providers to bring hospital-level care to patient homes by empowering health staff and patients with proven wearable AI-powered remote patient monitoring technology. Biobeat, an Israeli-based continuous remote
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To Beat COVID-19, We Need A Modern Approach to Public Health Data
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken 270,000 American lives to date, has shined a light on another crisis — the U.S. currently has no standardized system for reporting public health data. Health departments all over the country resort to using paper, fax, phone, and email to transmit and receive critical information, and essential healthcare workers are spending precious time retyping data into systems from printed reports and PDFs. At the heart of this lack of a centralized infrastructure
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FCC Unveils 14 Initial Projects Selected for $100M Connected Care Pilot Program
What You Should Know: - FCC announces initial 14 pilot project selected for $100M Connected Care Pilot Program that will support connected care service across the country and focus on low-income and veteran patients. The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) today announced an initial set of 14 pilot projects with
over 150 treatment sites in 11 states that have been selected for the Connected
Care Pilot Program. A total of $26.6 million will be awarded to these
applicants for
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