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Powered by Amazon Echo, Frontive Launches Smart Personal Health Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 09/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Powered by Amazon Echo, Frontive Launches Smart Personal Health Platform

- Powered by Amazon Echo, Frontive launches smart personal health platform to securely give patients and family caregivers highly personalized and relevant healthcare instructions.- Relieves patients and family members from time-consuming manual data entry and maintenance by automatically extracting and updating select items directly from patients' personal health records.- Pilot with Lowell General Hospital reveals positive patient and clinician experienceFrontive, a digital health company,
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Healthy.io Nabs $60M for FDA-cleared Smartphone-Based Urinalysis for Chronic Kidney Disease

by Jasmine Pennic 09/12/2019 Leave a Comment

Healthy.io Nabs $60M for FDA-cleared Smartphone-Based Urinalysis for Chronic Kidney Disease

- Healthy.io raises $60M led by Corner Ventures for its FDA 510(k) cleared smartphone-based ACR test to be used in the aid of diagnosing chronic kidney disease (CKD). - The funding round will be used to accelerate Healthy.io’s global expansion and product development. - Healthy.io’s solution allows immediate electronic medical record (EMR) connectivity through the automated smartphone scan.  Healthy.io, the fast-growing Israeli digital health company that has turned the
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Mercy Virtual Integrates With AI Health Monitoring Platform Myia Health

by Fred Pennic 09/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Mercy Virtual Integrates With AI Health Monitoring Platform Myia Health

- Mercy Virtual integrates with intelligent health monitoring platform Myia Health to accelerate the adoption of new patient care and at-risk reimbursement models. - Myia is a digital health platform that collects biometric data from curated sensors, including best in the market and over the counter, Apple and Fitbit. - Mercy Ventures, Mercy’s corporate venture capital group leads $10M Series A funding investment in Myia to further strengthen the partnership. Myia Health,
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The Drought is Over: It’s Raining Health IT IPOs

by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) 08/30/2019 Leave a Comment

The Drought is Over: It’s Raining Health IT IPOs

Three venture-backed health IT companies completed IPOs in July, ending an almost three-year drought of health IT IPOs.  Share prices soared following each IPO, indicative of the enthusiastic response and a desire to see more health IT companies make their way toward public debuts. Composition of revenue, gross margin, and growth are key differentiators between these and all companies and key drivers of valuation.  Given the enthusiastic shareholder response to these listings, we
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Fitbit Launches Premium Subscription Service to Deliver Personalized, Actionable Guidance

by Jasmine Pennic 08/28/2019 Leave a Comment

Fitbit Launches Premium Subscription Service to Deliver Personalized, Actionable Guidance

Fitbit, today announced the launch of Fitbit Premium, a paid subscription service in the Fitbit app that uses your unique data to deliver a personalized experience with actionable guidance and coaching. Premium leverages insights from 10+ years of Fitbit data as well as academic and medical expertise to help you move more, sleep better and eat well with customized programs, advanced sleep features, personal insights, thousands of workouts, new challenges, health reports and more – all in one
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Telehealth Adoption: Convenience & Cost Drive Adoption For Consumers

by Fred Pennic 08/27/2019 Leave a Comment

Telehealth Adoption: Convenience & Cost Drive Adoption For Consumers

Convenience and cost are the key drivers of telehealth adoption for American consumers, but lack of awareness is an issue, according to recent findings from American Well’s Telehealth Index: 2019 Consumer Survey. Telehealth leader American Well commissioned Harris Poll to conduct an online study among over 2,000 adults to measure usage and sentiment toward telehealth. The results are weighted to be representative of the American adult population across standard demographics.Majority of Consumers
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New Bariatric Surgical Risk/Benefit Calculator Can Predict Patient’s Risk of Postoperative Complications

by Fred Pennic 08/26/2019 Leave a Comment

New Bariatric Surgical Risk/Benefit Calculator Can Predict Patient’s Risk of Postoperative Complications

The Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) has announced the launch of a new surgical risk/benefit calculator that will provide metabolic and bariatric surgeons and their patients with accurate, patient-specific information to guide surgical decision making and informed consent. Risk calculator has the ability to predict a patient’s possibility of postoperative remission at one year for up to five different weight-related comorbiditiesBariatric
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Singapore, Fitbit Collaborate on Population-Based Public Health Initiative

by Fred Pennic 08/21/2019 Leave a Comment

Singapore, Fitbit Collaborate on Population-Based Public Health Initiative

Fitbit collaborates with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) on population-based public health Initiative in Singapore to drive better health outcomes at scale Fitbit, today announced a new collaboration with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) on a healthy population health project in support of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative.  The HPB is Singapore’s government agency that implements policy and programs to improve the nation’s health. The collaboration marks the first
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MyHealthTeams Lands $9.44M to Expand Social Networks for Chronic Condition Communities

by Jasmine Pennic 08/15/2019 Leave a Comment

MyHealthTeams Raises $9.44 Million

MyHealthTeams, a San Francisco, CA-based creator of the largest and fastest-growing social networks for people facing chronic health conditions raised $9.44 million in a Series B financing round led by strategic investor UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company. This financing brings total investment in MyHealthTeams to $26.84M, building on the company's Seed and Series A1, A2 and A3 rounds. Existing investors including Adams Street Partners, Qiming US Ventures, CVS Health, The Westly Group,
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CVS Uses Analytics to Expand Transform Diabetes Care Program

by Fred Pennic 07/31/2019 Leave a Comment

CVS Uses Analytics to Expand Transform Diabetes Care Program

More than two years since its launch, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) CVS Caremark’s Transform Diabetes Care program has helped PBM members better control their diabetes through a combination of highly personalized member support and coaching focused on improving medication adherence and better control of HbA1c. In fact, more than 50 percent of members with uncontrolled diabetes who enrolled in the program have moved to a controlled status and, on average, members have improved HbA1c by 1.2
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