Digital Health
The industry is better off viewing the the floundering deals between Onduo and Sanofi, Proteus and Otsuka, and Pear and Sandoz as a learning opportunity. December 13, 2019 Share It has been a tumultuous week in the realm of digital health partnerships. It started with word of Proteus Digital Health’s floundering business and failed investment round , which reports say was partially driven by cooling relations between the digital pill maker …
Globus Medical Announces Board of Director Addition and Departure | BioSpace | 12/14/2019
… respiratory disorders and improve care in out-of-hospital settings. Mr. Douglas has been a leader at ResMed for over 18 years and has extensive experience managing large international markets. “Rob’s knowledge of the digital health industry and global markets is well suited to support Globus’ mission and our continued expansion in medical device technology,” said Dave Demski, CEO. Mr. Douglas will replace Kurt Wheeler who departed the Globus Board …
… The health system will transition its EHR to Google Cloud, but all data will be kept securely within the system. Here, Mr. Ross discusses patient data management, security and what’s ahead for Mayo Clinic’s digital health initiatives. Question: Over the past few years, Mayo Clinic has made great strides in gathering patient feedback and becoming more efficient with automation in the rounding process. How do you track return on investment …
What success in 2020 means for 5 CIOs | Becker’s Hospital Review | 12/14/2019
As 2019 comes to a close, hospital and health system CIOs are evaluating what they’ve accomplished in the past year and what comes next in supporting their organizations’ overall missions of delivering quality care. In some cases, that means EHR transition or enhancements; other CIOs are exploring virtual visits, data analytics capabilities and ways to boost the patient experience through digital health. Some leaders anticipate partnerships with big tech companies …
Awesome exploration of Global Digital Health Goods at #GDH… | Flickr | 12/14/2019
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(USA-MA-Beverly) Sales and Client Success Manager | 12/14/2019
Job Information Sharecare, Inc. Sales and Client Success Manager in Beverly , Massachusetts Sharecare is the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place. The Sharecare platform provides each person – no matter where they are in their health journey – with a comprehensive and personalized health profile, where they can dynamically and easily connect to the information, evidence-based programs and health professionals they need to live …
Model May Predict Barrett Esophagus Diagnosis in GERD Patients | 12/14/2019
Model May Predict Barrett Esophagus Diagnosis in GERD Patients A diagnostic model can help predict diagnosis of Barrett esophagus in patients with symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux disease, according to a study published online Dec. 5 in The Lancet Digital Health . Model validated for prediction of Barrett esophagus, with eight features showing diagnostic value A diagnostic model can help predict diagnosis of Barrett esophagus in patients with symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux disease, according …
PointNurse Reaches Milestone on Path to Digital Health Provider Leadership | 12/14/2019
Machine Learning , News Leave a comment 41 Views Nurse Practitioner Led Organization to Improve Access and Reduce Cost of Healthcare PointNurse , a digital health care provider community, has announced reaching a critical mass of providers in the United States to address a variety of health care problems with digital solutions at scale. The Nurse Practitioner led network community includes registered nurses, physicians, pharmacists, nutritionists, social workers, and allied health professionals …
Print Managers and dispatchers at Henry Ford Hospital use Novatrack’s indoor tracking system to keep tabs on patient transport staff in real time. About five years ago, Dr. Daniel Siegal, a musculoskeletal radiologist at Henry Ford Health System, found himself waiting for a patient to arrive for a procedure. He sat tight, thinking the patient transfer would be a quick, maybe 15-minute process, he recalls. But the patient didn’t …
Judy Faulkner, founder of Epic, one of the largest providers of electronic medical health records, warned that a proposed rule on information sharing could create a Cambridge Analytica-type situation, where the data of a patients’ friends and family is shared without their consent. A federal rule on digital health-sharing now under review “has good things to it but there are some bad things that have to be fixed …
An exterior look of the Express Scripts mail-in pharmacy warehouse, Tuesday, July 10, 2018, in Florence, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) More Express Scripts ( CI ) announced a new electronic heath formulary this week, potentially transforming the way digital health solutions will be paid for in the near future. Back in May, the pharmacy benefits company — which is owned by Cigna — first announced its intention to create the digital list …
Chronolife Announces Commercial Availability of Biometric Nexkin™ T-Shirt; Closes New Round of Funding News provided by Dec 12, 2019, 19:24 ET Share this article SAN DIEGO , Dec. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – Chronolife , an artificial intelligence company specializing in digital health, today announced the commercial launch of Nexkin ™ , a groundbreaking washable smart T-shirt that monitors six key physiological parameters to enable prevention, risk reduction, and remote monitoring. The announcement follows …
Wearable Health Tech Breakthroughs: EmbracePlus | 12/13/2019
… why they spend hours deciding which smartwatch–and which features–to embrace. But even hard-core athletes can find surprises in their smart technology. When Rosalind Picard, co-founder and chief scientist for the digital health dynamo Empatica, emailed me with her company’s latest news, I wanted a watch. The marketplace for health tech wearables has been slow to find universal adoption, and current players don’t have the technology chops …
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they're published on Business Insider, click here. California-based Notable announced it's bringing its voice-powered note-taking tool to doctors at CommonSpirit, a massive 142 hospital health system across 21 states, per Healthcare Dive. Business Insider Intelligence …
… to join Google’s AI team. 9. Penn State Health selected Cletis Earle to serve as senior vice president and CIO for the Hershey, Pa.-based health system and Penn State College of Medicine. 10. Digital health startup Everlywell welcomed several hospital and health system leaders to its scientific advisory board. The additions include Betsy Nabel, MD, Martin Chavez, MD, Naglaa Rizk, MD, and Marie McDonnell, MD . 11. Tampa, Fla.-based …
… younger than 6 rose from 3.6% to 5.3% between 2016 and 2018, the report by the university’s Center for Children and Families showed. (Munz, 12/12) Boston Globe: Partners HealthCare Is Launching A $100 Million Digital Health Initiative Boston-based Partners HealthCare is spending at least $100 million on a broad new digital health initiative designed to improve the patient experience and make care more efficient, part of a growing movement …
Senate confirms Trump appointee Stephen Hahn to lead FDA | Healthcare IT News | 12/13/2019
… for Hahn to lead an agency grappling with a series of serious health issues ranging from the opioid crisis to flavored tobacco products and e-cigarettes. FDA also plays a major role in regulating digital health startups, clinical decision support, medical devices and artificial intelligence applications. Hahn the chief medical executive at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, a post he has held since 2018, and had served as head …
Boston-based Partners HealthCare—now known as Mass General Brigham—plans to spend more than $100 million on a five-year initiative to boost digital innovation and improve the patient experience. The digital health initiative announced on Thursday supports the health system’s recently announced five-year strategic plan and rebranding effort, Partners HealthCare executives said in a press release. The health system—the largest in Massachusetts—announced Nov. 27 a …
Senate Confirms Trump Nominee Stephen Hahn as Next FDA Commissioner | Fortune | 12/13/2019
… National Cancer Institute before taking over at the agency). Read on for the day’s news. Sy Mukherjee [email protected] @the_sy_guy DIGITAL HEALTH \n Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts is shacking up with digital health companies. Express Scripts appears to be throwing a bit of a lifeline to digital health firms, creating a new formulary that would benefit companies like Livongo, Omada, Propeller Health, and others. The so-called …
This appeared last week from your favourite spinners.Media release - Improving digital health literacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people6 December 2019: The Australian Digital Health Agency met with representatives from state and territory Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services on 4 December to support improvements in digital health literacy.The national partnership of Affiliates meets quarterly to progress strategic digital health priorities that contribute to Closing The Gap.This meeting …
Telehealth
… telehealth platform. The full-stack software solution enables healthcare providers to engage their patients via a comprehensive, secure, HIPAA/HITECH/COPPA compliant, cloud-based telemedicine platform with powerful back-end systems to manage the digital health care continuum. SnapMD offers the software and services that healthcare providers need to improve access to convenient and effective care. SnapMD’s robust, scalable, private-label VCM platform is designed to handle multiple service-lines …
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Remote Monitoring
PointNurse Reaches Milestone on Path to Digital Health Provider Leadership | 12/14/2019
… News Leave a comment 41 Views Nurse Practitioner Led Organization to Improve Access and Reduce Cost of Healthcare PointNurse , a digital health care provider community, has announced reaching a critical mass of providers in the … wearable companies, and insurers seeking direct primary care, behavior management, remote monitoring and response, medical record and data curation, and care coordination. PointNurse is re-imagining health care leveraging mobile phone, video, peer-to-peer …
Chronolife Announces Commercial Availability of Biometric Nexkin™ T-Shirt; Closes New Round of Funding News provided by Dec 12, 2019, 19:24 ET Share this article SAN DIEGO , Dec. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – Chronolife , an artificial intelligence company specializing in digital health, today announced the commercial launch of Nexkin ™ , a groundbreaking washable smart T-shirt that monitors six key physiological parameters to enable prevention, risk reduction, and remote monitoring. The announcement follows …
Clinical Research
… healthcare space. “We are extremely thrilled to join the VirTrial team and drive the evolution of telemedicine platforms in the clinical research industry,” said David Skibinski, CEO of SnapMD. “This transaction will enable SnapMD to … telemedicine platform with powerful back-end systems to manage the digital health care continuum. SnapMD offers the software and services that healthcare providers need to improve access to convenient and effective care. SnapMD’s robust, scalable …
Get plugged into the latest AI and analytics in health at Rewired | 12/13/2019
… Digital Health Rewired 2020. The application of AI, machine learning and analytics to big data in health offers huge potential benefits to patient care and safety and clinical research. But it also comes with ethical challenges and poses difficult questions for society on consent, privacy, governance and IP. How can you safely introduce new AI techniques and tools into clinical practice? And how can analytics be used to identify at …
Population Health
VisionHealth2024: Roadmap of Healthy, Happy and Empowered India | 12/13/2019
… insurers, integrate service delivery vertically and horizontally, empower citizens to become better buyers of health, and harness the power of digital health. Dr Shuchin Bajaj, Founder Director, Ujala Cygnus Hospitals says “Our contribution to inclusive … the NHS. Experts believe the Government’s objective is to manage population health in better manner leveraging analytics platform like Big Data and AI with Machine Learning. As per reports, unique health identification cards (IDs) would …
… turning to tech companies to facilitate this transformation in care delivery and lower health expenditures. The potential for tech-led digital health initiatives to help healthcare providers and insurers deliver safer, more efficient, and cost … in data storage and analytics to become the leader in population health. Amazon is leaning on its experience as a distribution platform for medical supplies, and developing its AI-assistant Alexa as an in-home …
Medical Research
VisionHealth2024: Roadmap of Healthy, Happy and Empowered India | 12/13/2019
… insurers, integrate service delivery vertically and horizontally, empower citizens to become better buyers of health, and harness the power of digital health. Dr Shuchin Bajaj, Founder Director, Ujala Cygnus Hospitals says “Our contribution to inclusive … his healthcare experience.” SINGLE REGULATOR FOR MEDICAL DEVICE INDUSTRY AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH HOLD KEY The Indian medical devices market is currently valued at approximately at $10 billion and growing at an average annual pace of …
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they're published on Business Insider … done well to establish the Apple Watch as a promising medical research platform. But Apple appears to be sitting on the sidelines when it comes to voice, while its competitors race to snag their piece …
Medicare
… for controlled substances, the AMA said in a letter to Walmart. Webinar Today Curating a Higher Level of Personalized Care: Digital Health + Mom A long-term digital health strategy is needed to respond to the … or e-prescriptions for controlled substances, according to USA Today. Medicare Part D will require controlled substances prescriptions to be submitted electronically starting in January 2021. In the letter to Walmart, Madara urged Walmart to …
Print Proteus Digital Health’s CEO once confidently proclaimed that in a couple of decades, “every medicine will have a chip in it.” At a time when many companies are trying to break into the airy … seen anything to suggest they’re slowing down. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is behind the FDA in that regard. They have not put in the amount of thinking, have not engaged stakeholders in …
Virtual Care
… to SnapMD’s telemedicine platform and technical expertise. In addition, the relationship enables integration of additional features and capabilities into VirTrial’s Virtual Care Management (VCM) platform to further establish VirTrial as the dominant global decentralized clinical … telemedicine platform with powerful back-end systems to manage the digital health care continuum. SnapMD offers the software and services that healthcare providers need to improve access to convenient and effective care. SnapMD’s robust, scalable …
Patient Satisfaction
Scottsdale Institute CNIO and CMIO Summits Explore Care Standardization | 12/12/2019
… some of healthcare’s biggest challenges, including optimizing processes for maximal quality, safety, value and access, as well as provider and patient satisfaction. Attendees identified several key focus areas for the future, including continued venues for … technology implementation and performance improvement services. Our comprehensive suite of digital health, clinical optimization and revenue cycle services spans the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue …
… some of healthcare’s biggest challenges, including optimizing processes for maximal quality, safety, value and access, as well as provider and patient satisfaction. Attendees identified several key focus areas for the future, including continued venues for … technology implementation and performance improvement services. Our comprehensive suite of digital health, clinical optimization and revenue cycle services spans the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue …
Mental Health
Pharma’s Future in Virtual Healthcare | 12/6/2019
By: Robin Robinson From: pharmavoice.com With virtual health transforming the entire healthcare landscape, pharma is leveraging digital health tools to improve its processes. As healthcare is swept up in the extensive development of health management … that the trial is personally designed for them.” In the mental health space, another technology advancement, virtual reality (VR), has proven its effectiveness in helping treat patients living with mental health conditions. According to Georgia …
Top Tech Trends To Look Out For at CES 2020 | 12/6/2019
Category: Innovation , Product Development , Trends Tags: CES , CES2020 , Consumer Electronics Show , Digital Health , Digital Privacy , Hyper Personalization , Sensory Wellness , Tactile Tech , Tech Trends Top Tech Trends To Look Out For at CES 2020 In the … Add the prevalence of acute stress and a deepening global mental health crisis, and people are seeking new ways to fend off feelings of worry, anxiety, and isolation. This sensory onslaught has created a prime …
Patient Monitoring
HealthSnap launches new remote patient monitoring functionality | 12/6/2019
… leading digital and lifestyle health platform, today announced the launch of its new Lifestyle Data Analytics platform that uses remote patient monitoring functionality to allow healthcare providers to more easily connect with patients, access data … our hospital and health system clients now have a new digital health solution for remote patient monitoring, messaging, and coaching to optimize chronic condition management while also enhancing overall patient engagement.” With the addition of …
… leading digital and lifestyle health platform, today announced the launch of its new Lifestyle Data Analytics platform that uses remote patient monitoring functionality to allow healthcare providers to more easily connect with patients, access data … our hospital and health system clients now have a new digital health solution for remote patient monitoring, messaging, and coaching to optimize chronic condition management while also enhancing overall patient engagement.” With the addition of …
McKesson
Biggest Challenges for Marketers in 2020 and How to Surmount Them – PM360 | 12/12/2019
… business partners to support them along the continuum of care. They want opportunities to serve patients, but at the same time operate a viable business, so that they can ultimately keep patients healthy. McKesson has strong partnerships across these different types of customer channels that serve patients—retail pharmacies, health systems, specialty providers, and biopharma and life sciences companies. We remove customer roadblocks and enable them to improve care in …
… end users for patient engagement platforms, rising aging population in the US, and Canada’s efforts to enhance healthcare delivery and digital health measures in Canada. We can help with your specific research requirement for this … health measures in Canada. Leading market players and strategies adopted McKesson Corporation (US), Allscripts (US), IBM (US), athenahealth (US), Cerner Corporation (US), Orion Health (New Zealand), Getwellnetwork (US), Lincor Solutions (Ireland), Yourcareuniverse (US), Welvu (US …
CVS Health
… push by healthcare companies to gain more control over how healthcare gets paid for and provided to patients. In 2018, CVS Health closed its $70 billion deal with the health insurer Aetna , which combined a … providing a good service, the reimbursement follows,” Barela said. Featured Digital Health Articles …
Express Scripts creates digital health formulary: 5 things to know Andrea Park - Print Email Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts announced Dec. 12 the creation of a formulary to increase provider trust in and patient access … pharmacy that will deliver better access, affordability and health.” 5. CVS Health launched a similar program earlier this year, though the CVS Caremark PBM currently offers clients access to just one digital health tool: Sleepio …
AppliedVR
Print Proteus Digital Health’s CEO once confidently proclaimed that in a couple of decades, “every medicine will have a chip in it.” At a time when many companies are trying to break into the airy … Crosland for his take. He’s now SVP of commercial for AppliedVR, which markets virtual reality technology to hospitals for use in helping patients cope with pain and anxiety. He spoke with MM&M about what …
Also Sandit’s barcode scanning SDK will integrate with Epic’s Rover app. November 08, 2019 Share Virtual reality treatment startup AppliedVR announced a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute that aims to explore whether or not the immersive technology can reduce anxiety among patients with terminal cancer. The phase 1 study will enroll patients from the institute’s designated cancer centers, and could yield a follow-up phase …
Cara Care
Sanofi Personalizing IBS Treatment With Digital Therapy | 12/9/2019
Sanofi Personalizing IBS Treatment With Digital Therapy 09 Dec 2019 Tom Gallen @tomgalllenOTC Executive Summary Sanofi Consumer Healthcare has teamed up with digital health player Cara Care to offer an innovative treatment for IBS which goes beyond the pill and helps sufferers access personalized support for their illness. You may also be interested in… Sanofi Strikes Deal To Develop Respiratory Health App Sanofi Consumer Healthcare is working with digital …
… have been trying to follow all the news from CB Insights: Technology Market Intelligence. They have extremely rich information on digital health. Here is a sample or intro: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/ The most promising 150 … Diagnostics: Pathology Akili Interactive Labs Digital Therapeutics Biofourmis Digital Therapeutics Cara Care Digital Therapeutics Click Therapeutics Digital Therapeutics CureApp Digital Therapeutics Glooko Digital Therapeutics Kaia Health Digital Therapeutics Lark Health Digital Therapeutics Neurotrack Technologies Digital …
Zipongo
… Zipongo, a digital health company focused on making it easier to eat well. Samuel was responsible for all things culinary within Zipongo, from working with enterprise clients to teaching cooking classes and developing recipes that are both healthy and taste amazing. “I’ve long admired Rouxbe and what they’ve been able to achieve—providing unparalleled access to culinary training in a way that is accessible to anyone, anywhere,” said Samuel. “I …
Apple Health
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 07 December, 2019. | 12/7/2019
… the university’s news service . By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) – A doctor armed with your Apple Watch might be able to tell if you’re suffering from a heart attack, researchers … get a sense of where these companies were headed within digital health activity. Researchers found that 70% of respondents said that their companies were working to introduce digital add-on services and 38% standalone digital …
6 Smart Digital Health & Fitness Solutions | 12/7/2019
… to help you better survive the holiday revelry, shed those stubborn pounds, tone those muscles and increase your endurance easier, more effectively and with increased sustainability. Tonal Intelligent Home Gym Created by former Apple, Nest and GoPro engineers and designers, Tonal is the world’s first machine learning-powered strength training system. This intelligent home gym pairs on-demand workouts and personal coaching with a first-of-its-kind, at-home …
UnitedHealth Group
Mayo Clinic calls up physician from the farm for ‘platform’ project | Star Tribune | 12/7/2019
… to technology as a child. … All of my adult career has been working at the intersection of care delivery and digital health. Q: What is health care getting right with technology and what is health … natural lives. Christopher Snowbeck covers health insurers, including Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group, and the business of running hospitals and clinics …
Sverige Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, leading health economist and communicator, and HealthMine CMO, Nicole Althaus, to Present “The Evolution of Digital Health for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries” at the AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum Attendees will … a patient and passionate consumer advocate. Nicole’s professional experience includes UnitedHealth Group, VigiLanz, Surescripts, LifeCore Biomedical, and Nonin Medical. She holds a B.A. in Communication Studies/Broadcast Journalism from the University of Iowa . About HealthMine …
Propeller Health
… geriatric population, changing lifestyle, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, superior clinical results of new drugs and biologics, increasing trend of digital health, the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, increasing awareness in the developed … Polar Electro Oy Preventice Inc. Prescribewellness Llc Prizm Medical Inc. Propeller Health Proteus Digital Health Inc. Proteostasis Therapeutics Qardio Rehab-Robotics (A Member Of Vincent Medical Holdings) Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Roche Sage Therapeutics Sanofi Sarepta Therapeutics …
… Propeller Health; Proteus Digital Health, Inc.; Adherium Limited; BIOCORP; and Merck KGaA. To request a sample copy or view summary of this report, click the link below: www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/connected-drug-delivery-devices-market/request/rs4 Further key findings from the study suggest: The connected sensors segment led the market in terms of revenue share in 2017. Cost-effectiveness and easy availability of these sensors were the major factors …
Fitbit
Radar trends to watch: December 2019 | 12/5/2019
… Fitbit , clearly to compete with Apple (and to keep Wear OS relevant). The purchase itself isn’t as important as the return of interest in digital health. Google’s alliance with Ascension Health (which may just be moving Ascension to the cloud, but appears to be more about making data available for research) is generating a lot of suspicion. That suspicion may be deserved, but one of the biggest problems hampering health …
Senators push CMS, commercial payers on bias in algorithms | 12/4/2019
… healthcare. The agency is developing a pre-certification pilot for software whose high-profile participants include Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Fitbit. The senators are shining a spotlight on the potential for bias in algorithms used … In April, a group of more than 30 tech giants, digital health companies, trade associations and healthcare organizations, including AdvaMed, Google and Fitbit, joined forces to work toward developing standards and best practices for AI …
HealthMine
Sverige Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, leading health economist and communicator, and HealthMine CMO, Nicole Althaus, to Present “The Evolution of Digital Health for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries” at the AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum Attendees will learn how to accelerate Baby Boomers into the digital health world, motivating them to take health actions; The session is December 10th at the AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum from 1:55-2:40pm at the Swissotel …
Seven Peaks Ventures
… Digital Health” report, a Gartner Cool Vendor in Healthcare, a Vendor to Watch by Chilmark Research, and is the preferred choice of AVIA’s Virtual Access cohort. Bright.md is venture-backed by B Capital Group, Seven Peaks Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Oregon Venture Fund, and the Stanford-StartX Fund. For more information, visit Bright.md . SOURCE Bright.md …
Bright.md Named Vendor to Watch by Chilmark Research | PR Newswire | 11/19/2019
… Digital Health” report, a Gartner Cool Vendor in Healthcare, a Vendor to Watch by Chilmark Research, and is the preferred choice of AVIA’s Virtual Access cohort. Bright.md is venture-backed by B Capital Group, Seven Peaks Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Oregon Venture Fund and the Stanford-StartX Fund. For more information, visit Bright.md or go to go.bright.com/chilmark to read an excerpt of what Chilmark has to say about …
SVB Leerink
Ex-Sequoia VC Michael Dixon on digital health investment strategy - Business Insider | 12/4/2019
Michael Dixon , who spent 10 years at Sequoia Capital , is joining a new venture fund focused on digital health. Dixon is joining up with the Sequoia alum Todd Cozzens and Dr. Jared Kesselheim at Transformation Capital , the recently spun-out digital-health venture arm of SVB Leerink. The fund, which initially got its start within the bank in 2016, manages $313 million. At Transformation Capital, Dixon is looking to invest …
Michael Dixon, who spent 10 years at Sequoia Capital, is joining a new venture fund focused on digital health. Dixon is joining up with Sequoia alum Todd Cozzens and Dr. Jared Kesselheim at Transformation Capital, the recently spun-out digital health venture arm of SVB Leerink. The fund, which …
Rock Health
A Rock Health report found that the percentage of female partners at digital health VC firms only rose from 12.2% to 12.6%, while deals closed by women-led startups rose 13.4% to 14%. Digital health, Fortune 500 health companies see more female leadership, but still far from reaching parity The digital health field saw an increase in women leadership in 2019, but the pace of change remains relatively slow, according …
Among Fortune 500 healthcare executive teams and boards, U.S. hospitals, healthcare VCs and digital health startups, gender equity is improving, but at a snail’s pace, they said. Fortune 500 healthcare company boards made the most … 0.6 points from 13.4% in 2018 to 14% in 2019. Rock Health projected how long it will take each of these segments to reach gender parity. Healthcare boards will wait 72 years to reach 45 …
F-Prime Capital
Wellframe Secures $20M in Funding to Advance Digital Health Management | 12/2/2019
Wellframe, Inc ., the market leader in Digital Health Management solutions, today announced it has closed $20M in series C funding led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners (BCBSVP), with additional strategic investments from several Wellframe clients. Existing investors Threshold Ventures and F-Prime Capital , which led the company’s prior $15M Series B round, also participated. The funding will support company growth, including hiring in its Boston office, and accelerate its leadership …
… Digital health management: Boston-based digital health management company Wellframe raised $20 million in a series C funding round led by Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners, with additional strategic investments from several Wellframe clients. Existing investors Threshold Ventures and F-Prime Capital, which led the company’s prior $15 million series B round, also participated. The funding will support company growth, including hiring and a future office move. Clinical trial …
BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners
Wellframe Secures $20M in Funding to Advance Digital Health Management | 12/2/2019
Wellframe, Inc ., the market leader in Digital Health Management solutions, today announced it has closed $20M in series C funding led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners (BCBSVP), with additional strategic investments from several Wellframe clients. Existing investors Threshold Ventures and F-Prime Capital , which led the company’s prior $15M Series B round, also participated. The funding will support company growth, including hiring in its Boston office, and accelerate its leadership …
… will be used to expand Rightway’s navigation platform and explore new opportunities to deliver its products across the healthcare sector. Digital health management: Boston-based digital health management company Wellframe raised $20 million in a … round led by SV Health Investors and existing investors like BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners. The company will use the capital to fuel the company’s rapid growth as it continues to bring healthcare and social service …
Morgan Stanley
Best Buy’s healthcare strategy: Get insurers to pay | Becker’s Hospital Review | 11/27/2019
… as the largest specialty electronics retailer in the U.S., and a key part of its growth strategy is centered on digital health initiatives. In the past year, Best Buy has spent roughly $1 billion on … next 10 to 20 years, according to Bloomberg , which cited Morgan Stanley estimates. More articles on strategy …
Dr. Google Will See You Now - Patriots’ Soapbox 24/7 News Network | 11/27/2019
… sold to employers, insurance companies, financial firms, and whoever is interested in knowing about your health and disease status. As digital health expert and journalist Bruce Y. Lee writes in Forbes , “health data reveals what … Consider too that shareholders, according to SEC ’s archives, include Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Citigroup, and the Lehman Brothers. CBInsights The report reads “Google is working on so many initiatives focused on so many …
Goldman Sachs
Dr. Google Will See You Now - Patriots’ Soapbox 24/7 News Network | 11/27/2019
… wonder whether the data they acquire with the purchase of Fitbit will be sold to employers, insurance companies, financial firms, and whoever is interested in knowing about your health and disease status. As digital health expert and journalist Bruce Y. Lee writes in Forbes , “health data reveals what you can and cannot do, your vulnerabilities, limitations, or what others may view as such.” What if you are deemed an ‘algorithmic …
How difficult is a $1 billion health-tech fraud? - STAT | 11/26/2019
… Goldman Sachs, Google-affiliated CapitalG, and the Pritzker Group. Outcome was founded in 2006 as Context Media by two Chicago entrepreneurs: Rishi Shah, now 33, and Shradha Agarwal, 34. According to the SEC, Shah owned 80% of the startup and Agarwal the other 20%. advertisement The company liked to portray itself as a digital health pioneer. A video on its website claimed that a flat-screen wallboard “saved my patient’s …
Khosla Ventures
… of Imaging IT and Value-Based Imaging at Erasmus MC University Medical Center. Zebra-Med is now part of the Digital Health Software Precertification (Pre-Cert) Pilot Program. As outlined by the FDA, the program … pathways, to improve patient care. The company is funded by Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, Intermountain Investment Fund, OurCrowd Qure, Aurum, aMoon, Nvidia, J&J and Dolby Ventures. Zebra Medical Vision has raised $52 million in …
… of Imaging IT and Value-Based Imaging at Erasmus MC University Medical Center. Zebra-Med is now part of the Digital Health Software Precertification (Pre-Cert) Pilot Program. As outlined by the FDA, the program … pathways, to improve patient care. The company is funded by Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, Intermountain Investment Fund, OurCrowd Qure, Aurum, aMoon, Nvidia, J&J and Dolby Ventures. Zebra Medical Vision has raised $52 million in …
Silicon Valley Bank
… will be used to expand Rightway’s navigation platform and explore new opportunities to deliver its products across the healthcare sector. Digital health management: Boston-based digital health management company Wellframe raised $20 million in a … Insurance Company, Susquehanna International Group, Sojitz Corporation, Zuellig Pharma and Silicon Valley Bank. Sensely uses avatars and chat-based platforms to help users understand and organize their insurance information. Kidney stone medical device: SonoMotion , a …
Sverige Industry Veterans Form Transformation Capital to Focus on High-Growth Digital Health Companies Former Managing Partners of Leerink Transformation Partners form new management company to manage existing $313 million fund and future funds. News … of 2019, SVB Financial Group (SVB), the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank, a U.S.-based commercial bank serving technology and life science companies and their investors, acquired the Leerink businesses, including Leerink Capital Partners …
Health Catalyst Capital Management
… will be used to expand Rightway’s navigation platform and explore new opportunities to deliver its products across the healthcare sector. Digital health management: Boston-based digital health management company Wellframe raised $20 million in a … neck”: Risalto Health scored $7 million in new funding from Health Catalyst Capital Management to further scale its musculoskeletal digital health platform. HCCM joins Oxeon Venture Studios as investors in Risalto. The company uses artificial …
Risalto Health collects another $7M for its MSK concierge platform | MobiHealthNews | 11/14/2019
After fueling its seed round last year, Health Catalyst Capital Management again lead the startup’s funding. November 14, 2019 Share Musculoskeletal digital health platform Risalto Health bagged $7 million in new funding from Health Catalyst Capital Management, the startup announced yesterday. WHAT THEY DO The New York-based company use artificial intelligence to find muscular and skeletal health providers in the user’s area. Patients navigate these selections through the company’s …
Partners HealthCare
Partners HealthCare launching $100 million digital health initiative - The Boston Globe | 12/12/2019
Boston-based Partners HealthCare is spending more than $100 million on a broad new digital health initiative designed to improve the patient experience and make health care more efficient. The five-year initiative will aim to appeal to patients by allowing them to book appointments online, communicate with care providers through video and text, and access doctors’ notes, among other changes, Partners officials said. “There’s going to be a dramatic …
Partners Creates Investment Funds | 12/4/2019
Partners Creates Investment Funds Dec. 4, 2019 Partners HealthCare https://www.partners.org has created two new investment funds to address the lack of translational funding in pre-clinical life sciences, AI, and digital technology in terms … clinicians while also helping to fuel the life sciences and digital health industries throughout the region.” “Too often what could be game-changing research is stranded due to lack of financing between initial funding and …
Ascension
Radar trends to watch: December 2019 | 12/5/2019
… digital health. Google’s alliance with Ascension Health (which may just be moving Ascension to the cloud, but appears to be more about making data available for research) is generating a lot of suspicion. That suspicion may be deserved, but one of the biggest problems hampering health research is data access. The project raises many ethical issues ; we don’t yet know how they’ll be addressed. Robotics Google is building a general …
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy | STAT | 12/4/2019
… take effect Jan. 1. The hire underscores Mayo’s eagerness to tap into the opportunities offered by AI and the exploding digital health industry, and its awareness that doing so carries plenty of risks. advertisement Halamka … In recent weeks, some hospitals and their partners — Google and Ascension, for example — have courted controversy for failing to publicly address those sorts of questions before entering into partnerships on patient data. The uproar over …
Geisinger
Want To Improve The Social Determinants Of Health? Here Are 8 Solutions | Forbes | 12/5/2019
I am a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational and digital health expert, avocado-eater, and entrepreneur, not always in that order. Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin From right to left: moderator: Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., M.B.A., President, Thomas Jefferson … [+] University and Chief Executive Officer, Jefferson Health; Jaewon Ryu, M.D., J.D., President & Chief Executive Officer, Geisinger; Jean C. Accius, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, AARP; Kevin E …
Dr. Google Will See You Now - Patriots’ Soapbox 24/7 News Network | 11/27/2019
… sold to employers, insurance companies, financial firms, and whoever is interested in knowing about your health and disease status. As digital health expert and journalist Bruce Y. Lee writes in Forbes , “health data reveals what … In January 2018, Dr. David Feinberg , the former CEO of Geisinger Health System, breezed through, making the switch from the hospital world to the tech world. “Feinberg has been working to coordinate health initiatives across …
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy | STAT | 12/4/2019
Dr. John Halamka Courtesy Mayo Clinic O n the heels of forming a new partnership with Google ( GOOGL ), Mayo Clinic announced it has hired Dr. John Halamka — a Harvard professor and hospital IT veteran — to … tap into the opportunities offered by AI and the exploding digital health industry, and its awareness that doing so carries plenty of risks. advertisement Halamka, who served in the Obama and George W. Bush administrations …
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform | 12/4/2019
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform December 3, 2019 ROCHESTER, Minn. — John Halamka, M.D., has been named president of Mayo Clinic Platform. The platform will elevate Mayo Clinic to a global leadership position within digital health care. He will join Mayo Clinic Jan. 1, 2020. Most recently, Dr. Halamka was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts. Previously, he …
Harvard Medical School
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform | 12/4/2019
… digital health care. He will join Mayo Clinic Jan. 1, 2020. Most recently, Dr. Halamka was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts. Previously, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 20 years. He also was the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School. He remains chairman of New England Healthcare Exchange Network Inc …
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform. | 12/4/2019
… digital health care. He will join Mayo Clinic Jan. 1, 2020. Most recently, Dr. Halamka was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts. Previously, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 20 years. He also was the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School. He remains chairman of New England Healthcare Exchange Network Inc …
Northwell Health
Median pay for NY-area hospital CEOs tops $1.1M | Crain’s New York Business | 12/4/2019
… liability reform would result in real budget dollar savings,” he said. —Jennifer Henderson Northwell deploys chat bot for colonoscopy patients Northwell Health has created a chat bot to answer questions for patients about to undergo … just two physicians who could provide abortion services. DARIO DISTRIBUTION: Digital health company DarioHealth on Tuesday announced the launch of its digital diabetes program on walmart.com. MyDario helps users manage diabetes as well as high …
MYRX365 Announces Physician Advisory Board & Joins StartUp Health | PRWeb | 11/26/2019
… therapies and opioid alternatives to pain management. The advisory board includes the following physicians: Ram Raju, MD Surgery SVP of Northwell Health and former CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals Armand Dorian, MD Emergency Medicine Chief … Group, and SeventySix Capital, StartUp Health has the world’s largest digital health portfolio with more than 290 companies spanning six continents and 24 countries. Learn more at startuphealth.com . About MYRX365 MYRX365, a StartUp Health portfolio …
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform | 12/4/2019
… digital health care. He will join Mayo Clinic Jan. 1, 2020. Most recently, Dr. Halamka was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts. Previously, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 20 years. He also was the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School. He remains chairman of New England Healthcare Exchange Network Inc …
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform. | 12/4/2019
… digital health care. He will join Mayo Clinic Jan. 1, 2020. Most recently, Dr. Halamka was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts. Previously, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 20 years. He also was the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School. He remains chairman of New England Healthcare Exchange Network Inc …
One Medical
Our 2019 Predictions – A Bit off Target | 12/4/2019
… jittery stock market at the end of 2018 had us thinking no IPO would materialize – instead we had four, successful, digital health IPOs and if you count Peloton, which we don’t, five. Without further ado … press and general industry cheerleading, clinics such as Chen-Med, One Medical and Oak Street Health have seen only modest growth. Instead, we are seeing a rapid rise in interest by employers in using virtual …
Ex-Sequoia VC Michael Dixon on digital health investment strategy - Business Insider | 12/4/2019
Michael Dixon , who spent 10 years at Sequoia Capital , is joining a new venture fund focused on digital health. Dixon is joining up with the Sequoia alum Todd Cozzens and Dr. Jared Kesselheim at Transformation … companies, such as Livongo and SmileDirectClub . The primary-care startup One Medical is eyeing a 2020 initial public offering as well, according to CNBC . Joining in to look for the next companies to get to …
Lahey Health
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy | STAT | 12/4/2019
… Lahey Health in Boston to become president of the Mayo Clinic platform, a unified data repository the Minnesota-based health system is creating to develop new analytics capabilities and digital services. His appointment will take effect Jan. 1. The hire underscores Mayo’s eagerness to tap into the opportunities offered by AI and the exploding digital health industry, and its awareness that doing so carries plenty of risks. advertisement Halamka, who …
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform | 12/4/2019
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform December 3, 2019 ROCHESTER, Minn. — John Halamka, M.D., has been named president of Mayo Clinic Platform. The platform will elevate Mayo Clinic to a global leadership position within digital health care. He will join Mayo Clinic Jan. 1, 2020. Most recently, Dr. Halamka was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts. Previously, he …
Providence Health
Health IT Appointments and Hires | 12/3/2019
… Providence Health Plans. Blink Health Welcomes Gene McKenna as Head of Performance Marketing & Analytics Blink Health ( @blinkhealth ), the digital health company on a mission to make prescription drugs affordable for everyone, has appointed Gene McKenna as Head of Performance Marketing & Analytics. He joins the company with over 15 years of leadership experience managing global marketing, product and engineering teams. inHealth Hires New Chairman inHealth Medical Services ( @inhealthonline ), a lifestyle therapeutics …
The one-hour educational broadcast will feature expert insight from Becky Wilkinson, MSW, CSWA Inside Digital Health ™, a trusted digital resource that delivers information that healthcare decision makers and physicians need to confidently navigate the … to a patient’s health, such as environmental and socioeconomic factors — Providence Health developed a program to address these nonmedical contributors. As the head of the Providence Health SDOH program development, Wilkinson will serve as the …
Aetna
Senators push CMS, commercial payers on bias in algorithms | 12/4/2019
… wrote in their letters. The letters were sent to executives at UnitedHealth Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana and Aetna, in addition to CMS Administrator Seema Verma and FTC Chairman Joseph Simons. The Science … In April, a group of more than 30 tech giants, digital health companies, trade associations and healthcare organizations, including AdvaMed, Google and Fitbit, joined forces to work toward developing standards and best practices for AI …
… black patients. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker sent a letter to healthcare companies like UnitedHealth and Aetna asking for information on how they prevent bias in health algorithms. Booker’s letter shines … reached out to the five healthcare companies for comment. Featured Digital Health Articles …
UnitedHealthcare
Amazon Alexa now boasts medication management features | Business Insider | 11/29/2019
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they’re published on Business Insider, click here … and Medicaid Services’ new Plan Finder platform is misleading seniors UnitedHealthcare is planning to set up Medicare centers in Walgreens stores Apple expects a surge in shipments for the next-generation 5G iPhones, likely due …
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they’re published on Business Insider, click here … the rest of the story at Business Insider See Also: UnitedHealthcare is planning to set up Medicare centers in Walgreens stores Get two full years of Business Insider Intelligence for the price of one! Is …
Oscar Health
Building a Seamless Digital Health Experience: 3 Innovative Mode… | 11/25/2019
Request Info Building a Seamless Digital Health Experience: 3 Innovative Models Technology has been touted as the answer to questions about how to deliver the health experience of the future. But can that digital experience … opinion on whether a seamless digital health experience was possible. Oscar Health brings a human touch to health insurance Sara Wajnberg is chief product officer at Oscar Health, a consumer-focused digital health insurance company …
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they’re published on Business Insider, click here … Insider Prime. BI Prime raked through the financial results of Oscar Health, Clover Health, Bright Health, Devoted Health, and Alignment Healthcare — which were the targets of heavy investor appetite, pocketing north of $3 billion to …
Humana
Humana enjoys major savings after shifting to value-based care - Business Insider | 11/22/2019
Two crossed lines that form an ‘X’. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they’re published on Business Insider, click here. Health insurance giant Humana is cashing in on its transition to value-based care (VBC): Medical …
3 Healthcare Stocks to Counter Tech Encroachment | Zacks | 11/22/2019
… Report ) , Apple and Microsoft — have been eyeing the healthcare fraternity as a stupendous opportunity, thanks to the growing popularity of digital health. CBIInsights states that since 2012, the top 10 tech corporates in the United … stock has rallied 44.3%, outperforming the industry ’s 32.6% rise. Humana Inc. ( HUM - Free Report ) and Walmart ( WMT - Free Report ) have been talking about merger/partnership arrangements, per media reports. In fact, Humana recently partnered …
Cigna
3 Healthcare Stocks to Counter Tech Encroachment | Zacks | 11/22/2019
… Report ) , Apple and Microsoft — have been eyeing the healthcare fraternity as a stupendous opportunity, thanks to the growing popularity of digital health. CBIInsights states that since 2012, the top 10 tech corporates in the United … distribution of a product through acquisitions or partnerships. For instance, Cigna ( CI - Free Report ) acquired pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts for $71 billion. The vertical merger is likely to place Cigna in a better position …
Clover Health
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they’re published on Business Insider, click here … BI Prime raked through the financial results of Oscar Health, Clover Health, Bright Health, Devoted Health, and Alignment Healthcare — which were the targets of heavy investor appetite, pocketing north of $3 billion to transform health …
Alignment Healthcare shines amid peers’ financial performance - Business Insider | 11/20/2019
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they're published on Business Insider … BI Prime raked through the financial results of Oscar Health, Clover Health, Bright Health, Devoted Health, and Alignment Healthcare — which were the targets of heavy investor appetite, pocketing north of $3 billion to transform health …
Health Net
… approved health innovations that show promise for improved diagnosis, treatment and return to better health,” said Anil Singh, MD , Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and VITAL medical advisor. “By testing MOVN, we’re studying a new cardiac … Analytics’ investors include OCA Ventures, Tsingyuan Ventures, HealthX Ventures, Launchpad Digital Health, Harlem Capital and Impact Engine. To learn more visit www.movinganalytics.com . SOURCE Highmark Health Related Links http://www.highmarkhealth.org …
Headspace Launches Healthy Happy America Campaign | 11/7/2019
… impact efforts on supporting youth initiatives, joining with local schools, the JuJu Foundation, EMBRACE, Carnegie Mellon University and the Allegheny Health Network (AHN) to pilot a mindfulness program based in social and emotional learning (SEL … research, having one of the largest research pipelines of any digital health and wellness company. Headspace operates a B2B business (Headspace for Work) to offer its mindfulness products and services to more than 400 companies …
Bright Health
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they’re published on Business Insider, click here … raked through the financial results of Oscar Health, Clover Health, Bright Health, Devoted Health, and Alignment Healthcare — which were the targets of heavy investor appetite, pocketing north of $3 billion to transform health insurance — revealing …
Alignment Healthcare shines amid peers’ financial performance - Business Insider | 11/20/2019
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they're published on Business Insider … raked through the financial results of Oscar Health, Clover Health, Bright Health, Devoted Health, and Alignment Healthcare — which were the targets of heavy investor appetite, pocketing north of $3 billion to transform health insurance — revealing …
Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Massachusetts
BCBSMA Offers CBT App | Managed Care Magazine | 11/20/2019
Massachusetts insurer has assembled a menu of digital offerings November 19, 2019 Robert Calandra Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has started covering a digital cognitive behavioral therapy tool for members struggling with depression, insomnia … medical director. Ken Duckworth, MD BCBSMA calls its menu of digital health offerings Emerging Solutions , and it includes diabetes management (Livongo and Omada); fertility, pregnancy and parenting (Ovia Health); chronic back and knee pain (Hinge …
BOSTON Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) has added an innovative online resource to help members address their mild to moderate anxiety, depression or insomnia and improve their emotional health. The program, Learn … Cook . “Blue Cross’ ground-breaking Emerging Solutions portfolio is bringing digital health innovation to its customers for improved outcomes and reduced costs, particularly in the critical arena of emotional health. In partnership with Blue Cross …
Independence Blue Cross
Business for Good: Quil Health | 11/14/2019
… Independence Blue Cross (IBX). That two of the city’s largest businesses have come together to solve one of our country’s most complex problems by creating a first-of-its-kind digital health platform is, to put it mildly, Big News. But equally big are the problems Quil is looking to address: patient health, provider burnout, needless and costly hospital readmissions, inflated healthcare costs. And so on. Quil aims to reduce …
7 can’t-miss panels at HLTH19 | Healthcare Dive | 10/24/2019
… Health, Julia Hu, CEO and co-founder of chronic disease management platform Lark Health, and Natalie Schneider, Samsung’s VP of digital health. Telehealth’s Tipping Point Monday at 9:20 a.m. Interest in the virtual care is … and benefits company Accolade, which works with companies like Humana, Independence Blue Cross, Teladoc and Lowes on improving health outcomes …
Chris Hogg
… and Sandoz as a learning opportunity. December 13, 2019 Share It has been a tumultuous week in the realm of digital health partnerships. It started with word of Proteus Digital Health’s floundering business and failed … in these types of uncharted collaborations. “These are all risky,” Chris Hogg, chief commercial officer at digital respiratory health company Propeller Health, told MobiHealthNews. “[Digital health and pharma are] doing partnerships that haven’t existed before …
Express Scripts to add digital health treatments like Livongo, Omada | CNBC | 12/12/2019
… and Cigna Services, speaking at the CNBC Healthy Returns conference in New York on May 21, 2019. Astrid Stawiarz CNBC Digital health companies are getting funded in droves, but many are struggling to get traction … path to reimbursement. Magic happens and it just works,” said Chris Hogg, chief commercial officer at Propeller Health. “In digital health, many of us started out 10 years ago and we did a bunch of …
John Halamka
Mayo Clinic calls up physician from the farm for ‘platform’ project | Star Tribune | 12/7/2019
Dr. John Halamka and his wife, Kathy, currently run Unity Farm, an animal sanctuary that’s located at their home in suburban Boston that includes 30 acres of agricultural production plus a cidery and winery. From … has been working at the intersection of care delivery and digital health. Q: What is health care getting right with technology and what is health care not yet getting right? A: I worked in the …
… no easy feat to do at the same time. Somewhat related in CIO-land, Mayo this week hired on Dr. John Halamka, the former CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, to run its Mayo … had a good chat about what's ahead for digital health after an eventful 2019. A former Sequoia partner just joined a $313 million VC fund that's focused on digital health. He …
Farzad Mostashari
… charging the Trump administration’s price transparency rule is “unlawful, several times over.” Webinar Curating a Higher Level of Personalized Care: Digital Health + Mom A long-term digital health strategy is needed to respond to the … Dana-Farber Cancer Institute said. Aledade co-founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari, M.D., then quipped: “The only thing that makes me think that transparency might reduce costs is hospital opposition to it.” Dowling called Mostashari’s …
Meet the power players of DC healthcare politics and policy - Business Insider | 11/13/2019
… national media outlets. Levitt has worked at KFF, a nonprofit and nonpartisan healthcare research organization, for more than two decades. Farzad Mostashari Farzad Mostashari, CEO of Aledade. Photo courtesy of Farzard Mostashari. Farzad Mostashari , MD … University, and a law degree from George Mason University. Featured Digital Health Articles …
George W. Bush
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy | STAT | 12/4/2019
… digital health industry, and its awareness that doing so carries plenty of risks. advertisement Halamka, who served in the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, told STAT his goal is to create a kind of data “innovation factory” at Mayo while updating privacy and security protocols to reflect the modern age of wearables and cloud analytics. He said Mayo is seeking to harness data to build services in three areas …
Dr. John Halamka named president of Mayo Clinic Platform | 12/4/2019
… has been named president of Mayo Clinic Platform. The platform will elevate Mayo Clinic to a global leadership position within digital health care. He will join Mayo Clinic Jan. 1, 2020. Most recently, Dr. Halamka … worldwide. As a Harvard Medical School professor, he served the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration and governments around the world planning their health care information (IT) strategies. In his role at Beth Israel …
Brad Russell
… with Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA), USAA Life developed a means to analyze an applicant’s EMR, utilizing the RGA Digital Health Data Risk Score of diagnosis codes, which USAA Life’s system uses to make … company has sole financial responsibility for its own products. Contact : Brad Russell [email protected] 830-358-3423 USAA on Twitter: @usaa SOURCE USAA Related Links http://www.usaa.com …
Alexis Ohanian
Meet The 30 Highest-Funded Members of 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 | 12/3/2019
… digital health clinic company Ro with $176 million in venture money from investors like FirstMark and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, giving the two-year-old company a $500 million valuation (Disclosure: Forbes has a small investment in Ro). Zachariah Reitano started Ro in May 2017, inspired by his horribly awkward experience discussing his erectile dysfunction with his doctor (this discussion led to Reitano’s heart issue diagnosis, resulting in surgery a …
… Alexis Ohanian , co-founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital. “Initialized was an early investor in Papa and we continue to be impressed by the enthusiasm and creativity of Andrew and the Papa team. We’re inspired by their efforts to bring the benefits of digital healthcare to an older generation of Americans all over the United States .” Papa Pals undergo a rigorous screening and training process, before being matched to …
Paul Hudson
Biogen Stock Tumbles on Brutal Takedown of Its Alzheimer’s Drug Bet | Fortune | 12/3/2019
… on Skorney’s criticism in an emailed statement. Read on for the day’s news. Sy Mukherjee [email protected] @the_sy_guy DIGITAL HEALTH \n Dexcom’s diabetes debacle. Parents of children with diabetes who used some of … in cash. It’s the latest strategic shift by Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson, who’s only been on the top job since September and is conducting a top-to-bottom review of the French pharma giant’s portfolio …
China Leapfrogs Healthcare Access - Techonomy | 11/11/2019
China Leapfrogs Healthcare Access By Paul Hudson November 11, 2019, 10:00 AM Techonomy Exclusive A Parkinson patient in a remote rural area receives a deep brain stimulation implant inserted by a lead surgeon located nearly … doing so. What was clear from my visit is that digital health technology is now becoming a normal part of healthcare there, both for patients and the physicians who treat them. A recent report by …
Sean Duffy
Will Omada Health be Digital Health’s Next Big IPO? | Sean Duffy, Omada Health | 12/2/2019
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Sean Duffy, CEO of Omada Health, proves why his company is one of those digital health startups everyone’s watching in the chronic condition management space. Never mind the buzz around their latest massive funding round or Livongo’s IPO, the real story here is Sean’s idea about building a “completely digital” care provider for folks with pre-diabetes, type II diabetes, hypertension, and mental health issues …
James Park
Google has bought Fitbit to compete in the consumer health market | 12/1/2019
… while also enhancing the experience we offer to our users and the healthcare system,” said Fitbit CEO and co-founder James Park at the time of the 2018 Google partnership. Fitbit has been shifting attention … Nurses Fitbit is one of nine companies in the FDA’s digital health software precertification pilot program. At the end of the program, Fitbit’s software could be validated as a medical device for various health conditions …
Dr. Google Will See You Now - Patriots’ Soapbox 24/7 News Network | 11/27/2019
… suggestions can be used to shift opinions about any topic — even about Google itself.” Googleplex: UnFit Developments & Privacy Bit Issues James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit, announced with exuberance the recent purchase of … interested in knowing about your health and disease status. As digital health expert and journalist Bruce Y. Lee writes in Forbes , “health data reveals what you can and cannot do, your vulnerabilities, limitations, or what …
Elizabeth Holmes
Omada Health is seeking solutions for clash of doctors and techies | CNBC | 12/1/2019
… top candidates to make sure they’re the right fit. Jasik, a trained physician, has seen numerous well-funded companies in digital health struggle, in part because the technologists and medical experts too often sit on … have enough of a voice. VIDEO 0:50 00:50 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives for a pre-trial hearing Halftime Report It’s not just a problem at start-ups. Apple is facing internal strife and has …
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos. REUTERS/Mike Blake This story requires our BI Prime membership. To read the full article, simply click here to claim your deal and get access to all exclusive Business … and employs 400 people in its Bengaluru, India, headquarters. Featured Digital Health Articles …
