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Disruptors or Interrupters? How Apple Is Faring In Their Healthcare Initiatives

by D'Arcy Gue, Director of Industry Relations at Medsphere Systems Corporation 11/07/2019 Leave a Comment

Disruptors or Interrupters? How Apple Is Faring In Their Healthcare Initiatives

Key Highlights - Part one of our new in-depth series on Apple, Google, and Amazon's latest healthcare efforts since our last report in April 2019.  - A look at Apple's recent healthcare developments, as well as an analysis of what goes beyond the news.  Over the last few decades the “digital age” has enabled many garage-based startups to transform into sustained successes by targeting problems that begged to be solved digitally.  Sometimes their leaders identified and resolved
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Primary Care Doctors Use Autonomous AI to Instantly Detect Eye Disease

by Fred Pennic 11/06/2019 Leave a Comment

Primary Care Doctors Use Autonomous AI to Instantly Detect Eye Disease

- A Georgia Primary Care Clinic is now using an autonomous AI system called IDx-DR to test patients for diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. - IDx-DR is cleared by the FDA to make an assessment without the need for a clinician to also interpret the image or results, making it usable by healthcare providers who may not normally be involved in eye care. - The exam typically takes 5-10 minutes. Nurses use an automated fundus camera to take pictures of the patient’s retinas –
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Scanwell Health Launches Smartphone-Enabled At-Home Test & Treatment for UTIs, Raises $3.5M

by Jasmine Pennic 11/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Nationwide launch of Scanwell Health's at-home test & treatment service for UTIs

- Scanwell Health announces the nationwide launch of smartphone-enabled test and treatment service for urinary tract infections via partnership with Lemonaid Health. - Company also announces $3.5 million in seed financing from investors including Founders Fund, Mayfield, DCM, Version One, Y Combinator, and Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures.Scanwell Health, a Los Angeles, CA-based modern diagnostics company dedicated to making healthcare more convenient and accessible, announced that its at-home
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Is The Handheld Ultrasound The Fitbit of Clinical Care?

by Erica Garvin 11/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Is The Handheld Ultrasound The Fitbit of Clinical Care?

- GE Healthcare’s James Hurley explains how innovations like the handheld ultrasound are inspiring the next digital breed of smarter, smaller, and seamless clinical care tools. Wearables—once innovations that only lived in inspired minds and science fiction novels are now nearly ubiquitous. You can’t shake a stick, or a hand for that matter, without an adorning Fitbit or Apple Watch attached to it. Yet, what started as a consumer fad is now evolving well beyond it and out disrupt U.S.
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3 Digital Solutions Driving The Primary Care Practice for the 21st Century

by Jasmine Pennic 11/01/2019 Leave a Comment

3 Solutions Driving The Primary Care Practice for the 21st Century

- Latest Chilmark report evaluates new patient-facing AI tools, remote care platforms and telehealth solutions for impact to primary care infrastructures.- The 33-page report covers in-depth primary care tech such as chatbots, AI assistants and symptom checkers as well as behavioral health platforms.- Report includes 11 short profiles of major and promising vendors, with three to four vendors identified per solution type that includes product differentiators and vendor-specific impact on access,
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Study Reveals First-Ever Predictive Model for Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Related to Social Determinants

by Jasmine Pennic 10/30/2019 Leave a Comment

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- Landmark study released from Stanford Medical School reveals a first-ever predictive model for uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus related to social determinants of health. - Peer-reviewed study released August issue of Medical Care that sheds light on an important aspect of T2DM causality, and addressing them has the potential to save the US Healthcare system billionsDr. Sanjay Basu and Dr. Rajiv Narayanaswamy, in conjunction with Stanford Medical School recently released an article in an
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DaVita Health Solutions Rebrands as Vively Health, Integrates with Cerner EHR & Population Health Platform

by Fred Pennic 10/29/2019 Leave a Comment

DaVita Health Solutions Rebrands as Vively Health, Integrates with Cerner EHR & Population Health Platform

- Vively Health, a risk-based provider delivering home-based primary care announces an agreement with Cerner to improve the lives of patient with multiple chronic conditions.- Vively Health will integrate the Cerner Millennium EHR and HealtheIntent population health platform into its home-based primary care offerings, as well as utilize Cerner’s consumer framework technology to support its care teams to better address patient needs.- Vively Health, formerly DaVita Health Solutions, is the new
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Livongo Teams Up with MDLIVE & Doctor On Demand to Offer Telehealth Services

by Jasmine Pennic 10/28/2019 Leave a Comment

State of Connecticut Launches of Livongo for Diabetes Management Program through State Health Plan

- Livongo announced a partnership with telehealth companies MDLIVE and Doctor On Demand to enable access to virtual acute and primary care services for people living with chronic conditions. - Livongo will begin by offering telehealth within the Livongo for Behavioral Health solution in January 2020 and will soon expand to additional use cases including medication management for diabetes, hypertension, and other opportunities to effectively close gaps in care. Livongo Health, an Applied Health
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Cognoa Launches Pivotal Study of Diagnostic Aid for Autism

by Fred Pennic 10/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Cognoa Awarded FDA Breakthrough Designations for Diagnostic and Digital Therapeutic Devices for Autism

- Cognoa launches a pivotal study to demonstrate the effectiveness of its diagnostic aid for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).- The results of this pivotal study will be the basis for the submission to the FDA in 2020.  - The Cognoa digital diagnostic aid has the potential to become the first cleared medical device to help diagnose autism intended to be used by pediatricians and primary care physicians.Cognoa, a Palo Alto, CA-based pediatric behavioral health company developing digital medicines,
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How Value-Based Care is Changing the Way You Build Digital Health Companies

by Sean Walker, Partner at The Bowdoin Group, Josh Gottlieb (Managing Director, Digital Health) at The Bowdoin Group, and Michelle Mattson-Hamilton, Associate Principal at ST Advisors 10/24/2019 Leave a Comment

After years of talk, fee-for-service payment models are finally being challenged in a real way. With value-based care, providers are reimbursed based on patient health outcomes rather than the number of patients they see, which has begun to pass the burden of cost from insurers and employers to providers and patients. Fundamentally, value-based care requires vendors as well as providers to operate differently, but new revenue models and a new approach to hiring deserve special consideration. In
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