What You Should Know:
- Nanopath, a molecular diagnostics company enabling high-quality molecular testing in minutes raises $10M in Series A funding, co-led by co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Medtech Convergence Fund, to develop a point-of-care diagnostics platform for women’s health screenings.
- The company plans to use the latest round of funding to support development and commercialization of Nanopath's biosensing platform that aims to transform how women's pelvic and
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respiratory disease
Respira Labs Secures $2.8M to Expand Clinical-Grade Respiratory Health Wearable
What You Should Know:
- Respira Labs, a Latina-led medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, today announces it has closed $2.8M to continue to develop and produce its clinical-grade respiratoryhealth wearable that uses acoustic resonance to assess lung function and identify changes in lung air volume, which is especially critical for COPD, COVID-19 and asthma patients.
- Respira Labs raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Zentynel Frontier Investments with
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Aptar Pharma Acquires the Assets of Respiratory Startup Cohero Health
What You Should Know:
- Apstar Pharma acquires the assets of respiratory health company Cohero Health to expands its digital portfolio with a focus on respiratory disease management.
- Cohero Health develops digital tools and technologies to improve respiratory care, reduce avoidable costs, and optimize medication utilization.
AptarGroup, Inc., a global leader in consumer dispensing, active packaging, drug delivery solutions, and services, announces that it has acquired all operating
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Innovative Technologies Are the Future of Respiratory Care and Treatment
Breath measuring algorithms, smart inhalers, and wearable analytics are at the forefront of respiratory care technology. Lung cancers, including mesothelioma and asthma, account for 70% of the country’s breathing issues. Technological advancements are making it easier for specialists to diagnose and patients to administer self-care.
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages forward, the advancement of pulmonary technology has gotten a boost. There is no way for the medical field to prepare for the
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FCC, HHS, and USDA Team Up for Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force
What You Should Know:
- Agencies sign a memorandum of understanding to establish an interagency Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force comprised of representatives from each agency to keep rural Americans connected to vital health services.
The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), and U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum
of Understanding to work together on the Rural Telehealth
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How Parkland’s COVID-19 Vulnerability Index Identifies Dallas Hot Spots by Zip Code
PCCI’s Vulnerability Index: Uncovering and capturing factors in Dallas' COVID-19 risk
Taking the fight to COVID-19
Management of pandemic spread (e.g., COVID-19) has tested the healthcare, political, and social fabric of communities around the world. For all, the term “flatten the curve” has come to represent how specific measures, such as social distancing, can slow the spread of the virus, which in turn can help to mitigate the tidal surge that would overwhelm the capacity of the
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Evidation Health and HHS to Develop Predictive Algorithm for COVID-19 Detection
What You Should Know:
- HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is partnering with Evidation Health on research to develop a predictive algorithm for symptoms of COVID-19 by monitoring first responders to understand susceptibility to infection.
- The research will use de-indentifed data self-reported from survey participants and collected from wearable devices to track symptoms of COVID-19 in high-risk individuals.
- The goal is to better understand their
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El Camino Health Offers Personalized Chatbot to Patients with COPD
- El Camino Health is now offering personalized virtual health assistant to patients suffering from COPD via Conversa Health partnership designed to improve respiratory care coordination and patient experience.
- Innovative 2 BREATHE (Be Resilient EAch Time after a Hospital Event) chat program leverages Conversa’s patient engagement platform assigns patients with a respiratory therapist and a pulmonary nurse practitioner for personalized treatment to help patients breathe easier.
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Research: Connected Inhalers Link Ozone Exposure to Asthma Symptoms
- Today, UCSF, CommonSpirit Health, UC Berkeley and Propeller announced research that uses data from connected inhalers to show that exposure to ozone in the air leads to more frequent asthma symptoms.
- This is the first study to use a digital health platform to study the impact of ozone on respiratory disease. By attaching sensors to the inhalers of 287 people with asthma in California, researchers were able to track their medication use.
- When ozone concentrations in the air
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ResApp Awarded CE Mark for Smartphone-based Diagnostic Test for Adult Respiratory Disease
- ResApp awarded second CE mark for its first smartphone-based diagnostic test for respiratory disease.- CE Mark certification indicates that ResAppDx-EU version 2 meets the essential requirements of all the applicable European regulations as a class IIa medical device and allows for its sale throughout the European Economic Area.- ResAppDx-EU version 2 is a software-only solution that runs on a smartphone and does not require any additional hardware or accessories.ResApp Health Ltd., the
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