Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have crowdsourced the annotation and analysis of a large number of gene expression profiles from the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). For the project, more than 70 volunteers from 25 countries helped Mount Sinai researchers analyze the data, enabling the identification of new associations between genes, diseases, and drugs – something that a smaller number of unaided researchers, or an
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Doctor Search Portal Practo Acquires Insta Health For $12M
After raising $90 million in Series C funding in August, India-based physician search portal Practo has acquired cloud-based hospital information management company Insta Health for $12 million (Rs 80 crore) in a cash and equity deal. Founded in 2008, Insta Health provides hospital information systems and EMR solutions to hospitals across South East Asia, Middle East, India, and Africa. The Insta Health acquisition marks the company's third acquisition in less than six months. The acquisition
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Oschner Health Pilots Apple Watch to Manage Chronic Diseases
After being the first Epic client to integrate with the Apple HealthKit, Ochsner Health System has announced it is now the first hospital in the nation to use the Apple Watch for managing patients suffering from chronic diseases. As part of the Ochsner Hypertension Digital Medicine Program pilot program, the New Orleans-based provider will utilize the Apple Watch to track several hundred patients who are struggling to control their blood pressure.
How It Works
Through wireless blood
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Mobile Application Spotlight: HP tests its new Mobile Health Monitoring Solution in Singapore
Link mobile health monitoring devices with cloud computing in the right way and you can change how we practice medicine. That's the vision behind HP's Mobile Health (mHealth) Monitoring Solution, a new, always-on, cloud-based healthcare offering that builds on research conducted at HP's Data Center Design for Cloud Computing Lab in Singapore.In a joint effort between HP in Singapore, telecommunications giant SingTel, medical device maker HealthSTATS and Singaporean health provider Frontier
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