Spry Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring solutions has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Grove Ventures with participation from the Stanford-StartX Fund. The company plans to use the round to fuel the commercialization of its clinical-grade wearable Loop that delivers continuous vital sign monitoring. Loop enhances timely care to chronically ill patients, with individualized analytics to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalization and decrease
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Tactio Health app Integrates With Qardio’s Smart Health Monitoring Products to Transform the Patient Journey
Tactio Health Group, a provider helping innovative healthcare organizations make the patient experience connected has signed an integration partnership with Qardio, a provider of smart health monitoring products. Starting today, QardioArm, a FDA approved smart blood pressure monitor and QardioBase, a connected scale and body analyzer will be integrated onto Tactio Health Group’s mobile health tracking solutions, making our products available for its users and its healthcare partners around the
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Biotricity Files for Final FDA 510(k) Clearance for Remote Cardiac Monitoring Wearable
biotricity, a Redwood City, CA-based healthcare technology company has filed for a second and final 510(k) for the hardware portion of its remote cardiac monitoring software and device, Bioflux solution with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The announcement follows a previous milestone where Biotricity received FDA approval for the software portion of its remote cardiac monitoring wearable.This 510(k) is the final regulatory requirement needed for Biotricity to bring its Bioflux
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Catalytic Health Partners Integrates With Life365 to Provide Remote Patient Monitoring for Arizona Patients
Catalytic Health Partners, a Phoenix, AZ-based population health management company has announced a partnership with digital health startup Life365 to provide remote patient monitoring and data delivery for their members with chronic conditions located throughout Arizona. Catalytic Health Partners,provides enhanced care to high cost Medicare and Medicaid populations in order to improve outcomes while reducing total cost of care. The Life365 solution allows the Catalytic Health care staff to
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Philips, Emory Launch Australia’s First Remote Intensive Care Unit
Macquarie University has partnered with Philips and Emory Healthcare to launch Australia’s first remote intensive care unit (eICU) monitoring program to monitor patients around the clock. As part of the partnership, critical care nurses based onsite at Sydney’s Macquarie University’s MQ Health will utilize Philip’s eICU technology and Emory Healthcare’s intensivists to provide continuous critical care to patients back in the United States. How It WorksPhilips' eICU solution allows for near
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CRF Health Acquires Remote Patient Monitoring Startup Entra Health
CRF Health, a provider of electronic clinical outcomes assessment (eCOA)solutions for the life sciences industry, has acquired remote patient monitoring-focused startup Entra Health. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. For CRF Health, the acquisition will help the company expand its footprint in wireless medical and wellness devices market. Additionally, it will help strengthen its integration with its eCOA technologies to establish a complete network of solutions to
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Study: Remote Patient Monitoring Saves $8K Per Patient Annually
Remote patient monitoring yielded a savings of $8,375 per patient annually, which, for a typical one-million-member health plan could translate into about $1.1 million saved each year. The results stem from a year-long remote patient monitoring pilot from Geneia,an analytics and technology leader in transforming healthcare delivery. @Home Pilot Study OverviewThe @Home pilot study compared the experience of Capital BlueCross members diagnosed with heart failure (HF), who enrolled and actively
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Report: Value-based Care Driving Remote Patient Monitoring Adoption
The healthcare industry's transition to value-based care and the regulatory penalties associated with readmissions are driving the adoption of remote patient monitoring. According to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan, remote patient monitoring is increasingly becoming a critical tool to support the new value-based care environment. As a result, the remote patient monitoring market is expected to grow at a rate of 13.2 percent through 2020.
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Validic, higi Integrate to Advance Remote Patient Monitoring
Digital health platform Validic and higi, a community-based consumer health and wellness platform have announced a strategic collaboration to provide healthcare organizations with richer, more diverse and more actionable health data to improve healthcare treatments and outcomes. The integration of platforms will provide comprehensive health data access for healthcare organizations seeking to develop innovative treatments with the addition of real-time biometric data
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20 Promising Canadian Digital Health Companies to Watch
“A company’s odds of success are better the closer they can get to their market,” argues Stephen Hurwitz, a thought leader in the Canadian venture capital industry, recognizing that the proximity to a VC-tech hub can help the success rate of Canadian startups.
A socialized healthcare system, Canada’s market is fragmented by province and type of care – most primary and emergency care is free for residents whereas specialty care, prescription drugs, long-term and in-home care amongst others,
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