What You Should Know:
- Dario Health enters strategic partnership with Williams
Medical marking its expansion into the UK remote patient monitoring market across
the UK and Ireland.
- Williams Medical is the leading provider of medical
goods and services to primary care in the UK, and this agreement supports both
companies' commitment to drive growth and deliver innovative solutions to
frontline healthcare.
DarioHealth Corp., a
pioneer in the global digital therapeutics market,
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Patient Monitoring
Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR to Empower Health Teams
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft released the public preview of Azure IoT
Connector for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), the latest
update to the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
- The Azure IoT Connector for FHIR makes it easy for
health developers to set up a pipeline to manage protected health information
(PHI) from IoT devices and enable care teams to view patient data in context
with clinical records in FHIR.
This week, Microsoft released the preview of
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Noteworth Lands $5M to Expand All-in-One Care Delivery Platform
What You Should Know:
- Noteworth, a first-of-its-kind Digital Healthcare
platform for modernizing Digital Medicine delivery operations, secured a $5
million oversubscribed seed funding round led by Laconia Capital Group
- With this investment, the company will continue to
build upon the delivery of Noteworth’s first-of-its-kind Digital Healthcare
platform.
Noteworth,
a Hoboken, NJ-based all-in-one-care delivery platform for modernizing digital medicine
delivery
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Philips and BioIntelliSense Integrate to Enhance Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Philips integrates the BioIntelliSense FDA-cleared
BioSticker™ sensor as part of its remote patient monitoring solutions for
patients outside the hospital.
- Multi-parameter sensors aid monitoring across multiple chronic conditions with medical-grade vital signs for physicians to remotely track core symptoms, including COVID-19.
- Healthcare Highways is the first to leverage the BioSticker sensor as a part of Philips’ RPM program in the U.S.
Philips,
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VA, Philips to Create World’s Largest Tele-Critical Care System for Veterans
What You Should Know:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selects Philips to create the world’s largest tele-critical care system, further integrating tele-health and delivering quality care for veterans.
- The ten-year contract, which enables
VA to invest up to $100 million with Philips for
tele-critical care technology and services, leverages Philips history of innovation, including research into
technologies that can better support veterans, telehealth,
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Lenovo Launches Virtual Care Solution with Voice Activated Digital Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Today, Lenovo launches Virtual Care solution to help healthcare
provider organizations remotely monitor, engage with and educate patients with
many of these chronic health conditions, including diabetes, COPD, congestive
heart failure (CHF), and hypertension.
- Easy to use, patients take the kit home, plug it in and
can immediately begin interacting with their care team. Patients are guided
through an individual daily care plan aided by biometric devices and
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SynsorMed, Charles Barkley Foundation Partner to Combat Health Disparities for Black Americans Impacted by COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Charles Barkley Foundation forms a partnership with health IT company SynsoMed to combat health disparities for Black Americans impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Launches Save Our Selves (S.O.S) Council, comprised of Black influencers, technologists, healthcare professionals, and policymakers concerned about the health of Black Americans.
SynsorMed, a Birmingham, AL-based provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM)
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Philips Unveils Fetal and Maternal Pod and Patch for Continuous, Non-Invasive Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Philips unveils Avalon CL Fetal and Maternal Pod and Patch aim to reduce unnecessary physical interactions between clinicians and patients, which is of particular importance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Fetal and Maternal Pod and Patch allow for continuous, non-invasive monitoring of maternal heart rate, fetal heart rate, and uterine activity with a single-use, 48-hour, disposable electrode patch placed on the mother’s abdomen.
Royal Philips,
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FCC Surpasses $100M in Approved COVID-19 Telehealth Program Applications
What You Should Know:
- FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 305 healthcare providers in 42 states plus Washington, D.C. for a total of $105M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 67 funding applications
for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare
providers in both urban and rural areas of the country will use this $16.87M in
funding to
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Welldoc Awarded 8th FDA Clearance for Bluestar Medical Device for Diabetes
What You Should Know:
Marks 8th FDA clearance for BlueStar, the only
reimbursable software as a medical device for diabetes that integrates with all
of a patient's existing devices.
Welldoc, revolutionizing digital health with the first FDA-cleared Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) for diabetes, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an additional feature for the digital health product BlueStar Rx which supports individuals using long-acting
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