Medable Inc., the leading app and analytics platform for healthcare, at SXSW HealthSpark announced INSIGHT, a blockchain powered platform that enables medical data exchange among patients, medical researchers, and biopharmaceutical companies.Since its launch in late 2016, Medable has seen rapid adoption of its platform with a customer base that cares for over 15 million patients and conducts over 6,000 clinical trials. Using mobile devices and 3rd party tools like Apple’s Researchkit, Medable
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Penn Medicine, Medable Unveil CareKit App for Bariatric Surgery Patients
Penn Medicine, today announced it is extending the use of mobile devices as a health tool to improve the patient experience and patient care by launching the Penn Life Gained app specifically for bariatric surgery patients at Penn Medicine, as part of the institution’s focus on mobile health and innovative research strategies. Developed by clinicians in the Bariatric Surgery Program and Penn’s Corporate Information Services team, in partnership with Medable, the app is built using the Apple
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Medable Launches Clinical Care App Platform Synapse to Track Health in Real-Time
Medable, a Palo Alto, CA-based app and analytics platform for healthcare has launched Synapse, a fully integrated clinical care app platform powered by CareKit. Synapse enables healthcare organizations to seamlessly launch CareKit apps for not only their patients but now for their care teams.Healthcare delivery occurs in isolated encounters, rather than being continuous and adaptive in real-time. Smart phone apps + technology have the capabilities to track and monitor health conditions, if built
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Medable Integrates with Redox’s EHR Integration Platform to Streamline Mobile Medical Research
Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform has formed a strategic partnership with Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations. The integration partnership will enable a fully-integrated medical research platform between smart phones and EHRs. By using Medable’s platform and Redox’s API services, clinical trial leaders and health researchers can integrate patient-generated health data into the electronic health record. With the
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Medable Launches Machine Learning Solution Specifically for Healthcare Apps
Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform has unveiled Cerebrum, the first cloud-based machine learning solution created specifically for healthcare apps. Cerebrum leverages data gathering smartphones with a first-of-its-kind machine learning engine, resulting in health events becoming more easily predicted, such as warning an elderly relative when he is at greatest risk of a fall, or preventing an asthmatic child from triggering a life threatening episode.The new
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Medable Launches Axon to Build ResearchKit Apps Without a Developer
Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform, today announced the launch of Axon, a SmartStudy system that enables health experts--researchers, physicians, and others--to build ResearchKit apps without a developer in a matter of hours. By leveraging ResearchKit's platform, Axon unlocks the potential of health professionals to directly collect patient data at massive scale through dedicated mobile apps reducing development time from six months to one day. While there are a lot
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Can a Healthcare App Seal of Approval Foster Innovation?
Editor’s Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD. In an effort to protect consumers, Apple has released guidelines for its health apps. In developer guidelines released this summer, it dictates: “If your app behaves in a way that risks physical harm, we may reject it.”Apple’s stance on health app safety will be regarded as the first significant industry step
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Why Digital Health Growth Will Come From Clinically-Tested, Consumer-Facing, Interoperable Products
Editor's Note: Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Ph.D., M.P.H. is an epidemiologist trained at Stanford. She is the VP of Strategy at Medable, a Palo Alto-based health platform start-up.A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that many health apps may be sharing patients’ health data without their knowledge. Four-fifths of 211 diabetes apps examined did not have privacy policies. And in January 2016, Fitbit was slapped with a class-action lawsuit alleging that its
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Dr. Leslie Saxon Talks USC’s Virtual Care Clinic
Can virtual healthcare close the care gaps? Dr. Leslie Saxon gives us a glimpse of what’s to come via the latest in telehealth technology. Virtual care is quickly becoming a tangible reality. All over the word, fingertips are tapping onto screens and into data streams, leaving digital footprints in their wake. But where is this trail of telecommunications leading us? According to Dr. Leslie Saxon, we are headed for real progress in creating access to healthcare by plugging deeper into its
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USC Launches Virtual Care Clinic to Deliver ‘Borderless’ Healthcare
The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Body Computing (CBC), the digital health innovation accelerator for the Keck Medicine of USC medical enterprise, today announced its eight foundational partners for its Virtual Care Clinic (VCC).
The disruptive digital health care model utilizes mobile apps, wearable sensors, virtual human health care providers, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), data collection, analytics and artificial intelligence using digital
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