Health Tech
… doctors, nurses, and other front-line workers, and people stuck at home contemplating their own mortality. (Fernandes, 4/12) Stat: Chronic Disease Startups Brace For A Looming Crisis As Covid-19 Delays Care Clinicians at health tech startups who treat patients with chronic conditions are raising a looming concern: Will their patients — many of whom have had their routine care disrupted during the Covid-19 pandemic — see a relapse in their …
Pentagon Wants Wearable, Lightweight Laser Detectors For the Troops | 4/14/2020
The challenge will be getting a sensitive enough sensor into a small enough package Health Tech Lightweight, high-powered lasers have become a problem on the battlefield, and the Defense Department’s future-forward research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is looking for a lightweight, wearable sensor that can detect when those lasers are targeting U.S. servicemembers. The state of small, high-powered lasers today is the …
Chronic disease startups brace for a looming crisis as Covid-19 delays care | STAT | 4/14/2020
By Erin Brodwin @erbrod April 14, 2020 C linicians at health tech startups who treat patients with chronic conditions are raising a looming concern: Will their patients — many of whom have had their routine care disrupted during the Covid-19 pandemic — see a relapse in their illnesses or new complications once the crisis subsides? Chronic conditions are as broad as they are diverse, ranging from diabetes and hypertension to Crohn’s …
Privacy experts fear a boom in coronavirus surveillance | 4/14/2020
… technology. Neither the infected person’s identity nor their actual location would be revealed. Politico also reported last week that a coronavirus task force led by presidential adviser Jared Kushner has reached out to numerous health tech companies about how they can use data to combat the virus. Yet one big concern is the virus could lead policymakers to rush headlong into adopting new digital surveillance regimes that don’t get rolled …
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… emergence. The researchers, from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, acknowledge the economic fallout from the response to the virus has been profound. advertisement Video Chat: How the coronavirus pandemic is testing health tech “Our goal in modeling such policies is not to endorse them but to identify likely trajectories of the epidemic under alternative approaches,” they wrote. “We do not take a position on the advisability of …
Digital Health Tech Trends That Will Become Mainstream In 2020 by Madhavi Kanumoory | 4/14/2020
Before we talk about digital health tech trends, let’s look at what’s happening around us From a consumer perspective: About 65+% of the population uses mobile phones today , 50% of which are smart phone users and this is only going to grow exponentially Consumers “expect” information at their fingertips when they want it, where they want it and how they want it Health awareness and focus – consumers today are empowered …
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… have seriously considered telehealth,” Weingard added. “While the shift towards virtual care has been expected for years, this outbreak has accelerated the need to adapt for the entire health care industry.” In Brooklyn, another health tech firm, Zipari, is continuing to sell its customer-experience technology to health insurers. “Our main focus has been on helping health insurance companies improve their communications to members,” said Mark Nathan, founder and CEO …
Coronavirus pandemic fuels a boom in demand for virtual mental health care | STAT | 4/13/2020
… clinicians can try out the different mental health apps with certain patients and assess which apps they like best and how beneficial they are to both patients and providers. Newsletters Sign up for STAT Health Tech Your weekly guide to how tech is transforming health care and life sciences. Please enter a valid email address. Leave this field empty if you’re human: Livongo’s behavioral health program centers mostly around digital …
Mental Health Tech PT Nights Detroit Recieving Hospital - USA-MI-Detroit | 4/13/2020
… Assists patients with activities of daily living e.g. eating, dressing, bathing and laundry. 8. Monitors and documents patient observations, 1:1 interactions, intervention/actions taken, and the patients response to interventions provided by the Mental Health Technician. 9. Completes court petitions, accompanies patients to court and testifies to substantiate the need for court ordered treatment. Communicates status of court activity to professional staff. 10. Assists professional staff with restraint and seclusion …
COVID-19 pandemic opens up new frontiers for health data privacy | Healthcare IT News | 4/8/2020
While European governments look to digital health tech nology for ways to speed up their containment strategies, the long-term view is that the COVID-19 emergency will generate new approaches to sharing healthcare data once the pandemic has passed. Credit: Markus Spiske on Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic has turned up the volume of the ongoing debate around health data privacy across Europe. New frontiers are opening up daily as …
Evolving Health Tech Models in Work Comp by Kimberly George | 4/6/2020
… to keep your solution consumer-focused. Then proceed to use external resources, even engaging with your competitors, because not all solutions can be developed from within one resource. The Investment Thesis Investments in new health technologies should always focus on the ability to drive smart, connected devices, personalized healthcare and digitalized guidance and provide 24/7 accessibility to experts. Investors lean toward these ideas because they typically make consumers more engaged …
Digital Health: Diabetes Apps and Virtual Coaching | PR Newswire | 4/2/2020
NEW YORK Overview This special technology-based report provides an overview of diabetes, wearable glucose monitoring devices, smartphone-based digital health tech nologies, and attempts to answer the question: can digital health help improve diabetes? Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05878943/?utm_source=PRN Smartphone-based digital health tech nologies are expected to transform the diabetes management market over the next decade by substantially improving diabetes outcomes and reducing healthcare costs …
The Future of the Diabetes Management: Apps & Virtual Coaching | PR Newswire | 4/1/2020
DUBLIN The “Digital Health: Diabetes Apps and Virtual Coaching” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. This special technology-based report provides an overview of diabetes, wearable glucose monitoring devices, smartphone-based digital health tech nologies, and attempts to answer the question: can digital health help improve diabetes? Smartphone-based digital health tech nologies are expected to transform the diabetes management market over the next decade by substantially improving diabetes outcomes and …
Dublin, March 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – The “Digital Health: Diabetes Apps and Virtual Coaching” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.This special technology-based report provides an overview of diabetes, wearable glucose monitoring devices, smartphone-based digital health tech nologies, and attempts to answer the question: can digital health help improve diabetes?Smartphone-based digital health tech nologies are expected to transform the diabetes management market over the next decade by substantially …
DUBLIN- The “Digital Health: Diabetes Apps and Virtual Coaching” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. This special technology-based report provides an overview of diabetes, wearable glucose monitoring devices, smartphone-based digital health tech nologies, and attempts to answer the question: can digital health help improve diabetes? Smartphone-based digital health tech nologies are expected to transform the diabetes management market over the next decade by substantially improving diabetes outcomes and …
Google sibling Verily launches COVID-19 screening website - news - Suddenlink | 3/17/2020
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google sister company Verily has launched a website to screen people who think they might have COVID-19 and point them to testing sites. But you probably can’t use it to get tested quite yet. Verily, a health tech company owned by Google parent Alphabet, launched the screening tool Sunday night for those that live in or near Santa Clara County and San Mateo County south of …
Coronavirus test process: Google sibling Verily launches COVID-19 screening website | 3/17/2020
… company Verily has launched a website to screen people who think they might have COVID-19 and point them to testing sites. But you probably can’t use it to get tested quite yet.Verily, a health tech company owned by Google parent Alphabet, launched the screening tool Sunday night for those that live in or near Santa Clara County and San Mateo County south of San Francisco.As of Monday morning, the …
… depending on my responses, advises me on what to do next, such as whether to visit a health facility for a conclusive diagnosis and treatment. The app, developed by Ada Health, a Germany-based health tech company, combines a database for 160 different diseases with intelligent reasoning technology. It is a taste of healthcare in the digital age: an era in which machines are simulating human tasks, thoughts, and actions …
Rollout of Verily coronavirus triage tool Monday will be limited | STAT | 3/16/2020
… of Google’s parent company Alphabet focused on initiatives ranging from treating addiction to using machine learning to screen for eye problems affecting patients with diabetes. While Verily has generated plenty of buzz in the health tech industry, it is much less known to the general public than Google. Support STAT: If you value our coronavirus coverage, please consider making a one-time contribution to support our journalism. The screening tool …
Why investing in Australia’s healthtech sector is critical | 3/16/2020
… to ensure we reduce if not eliminate the future cause of pandemics we have helped create. As technology continues to evolve, a clear commitment is needed to ensure the viability and prosperity of the health tech sector while at the same time breaking down the challenges it faces. The coronavirus is a sobering experience for all Australians and the global community. As we battle to stave off a potential national …
Health Tech Trump official behind health data rules has a message for privacy critics: Try helping patients, instead of your bottom line March 16, 2020 Don Rucker, the Trump administration’s national coordinator for health information technology Courtesy Peter Ashkenaz/ONC F or the past year, Don Rucker has been in the middle of one of the biggest fights in American medicine — a pitched battle over a federal proposal to liberate …
… medical screening devices for use by physicians in managing a patient’s health, announces its third distribution agreement for Co-Diagnostics’ Coronavirus COVID-19 PCR test. Pursuant to this agreement with Co-Diagnostics, Inc. and Health Tech Innovation Systems, Inc., the exclusive distributor for this product in Panama, PreCheck’s subsidiary will distribute Co-Diagnostics’ COVID-19 PCR diagnostic test and Co-Dx Box in Panama. This agreement follows the execution of …
… Reach-In CO2 Incubator. Celestica Inc. Celestica Inc. offers products through the following business units: ATS and CCS. The company offers microelectronics, design, engineering, and laboratory services. They also provide equipment for smart energy, health tech , aerospace and defense, and more. Eurofins Scientific S.E Eurofins Scientific S.E operates under various business segments, namely Western Europe, North America, and Rest of the World. The company caters to the testing needs of …
Digital Health
Nigeria looks elsewhere as countries package spectrum relief | 4/10/2020
… digital health technology solutions and has revealed successful solutions such as for population screening, tracking the infection, prioritizing the use and allocation of resources, and designing targeted responses. For Jeremy Potgieter, regional director – Africa, Eseye, this, calls for a connected response, adding that “the more data we gather on what happens when a pandemic occurs, the better we can become at modelling the outcome …
Behavioral Health
Evolving Health Tech Models in Work Comp by Kimberly George | 4/6/2020
… with your competitors, because not all solutions can be developed from within one resource. The Investment Thesis Investments in new health technologies should always focus on the ability to drive smart, connected devices, personalized healthcare … deals were within the digital space. Notably, women’s health and behavioral health technology earned significant investments last year. One of our guests spoke to the critical changes being driven by employers in healthcare, noting that …
Mental Health
Why Teens Find It Tough to Social Distance | U.S. News & World Report | 4/5/2020
… emotional minefield in the best of times, but the social distancing of the coronavirus pandemic could really strain young people’s mental health. Teens and young adults who are confined to home during the coronavirus pandemic … said Ann Murphy, director of the Northeast and Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and an associate professor at Rutgers School of Health Professions, in New Jersey. “Take time to discuss things they can do …
Home Health
Missouri Home Hospice Announces Acquisition of Hom | 4/1/2020
Missouri Home Hospice Announces Acquisition of HomeCare of Mid Missouri Home Health and Hospice to Significantly Expand its Service Coverage in Missouri abril 1, 2020 Missouri Home Hospice Announces Acquisition of HomeCare of Mid Missouri … founded by Bobby Robertson , a long-time Hospice and Home Health technology veteran that was CEO of Springfield, Missouri based HEALTHCAREfirst, Inc. for more than 20 years. Robertson says, «In each community we enter, we …
Health Management Technology
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar 20, 2020– Spry Health, a leader in health management technologies and remote patient monitoring, today announced the launch of Loop Signal, a new clinician-led monitoring service utilizing the company’s proprietary FDA-cleared (Class II) solution, the Loop System, to reduce avoidable hospital visits and to improve at home monitoring of patients confirmed, suspected, or at risk for COVID-19. The service is available …
Population Health
… population health technology to our partnership with Javara to provide patients the very latest and best innovative care options,” said Dr. Keith Fernandez , Chief Clinical Officer of Privia Health. Given the COVID-19 outbreak, the Javara team is fully prepared to support CRO, biotech and pharmaceutical companies working to develop vaccines and therapeutics for diseases affecting population health. Javara’s comprehensive E-Dapt technology platform meets the industry’s need for state …
Remote Monitoring
… aid the mHealth market revenue in the forthcoming years. The increasing number of mHealth applications such as chronic disease management, remote monitoring owing to its cost-effective advantage will further fuel demand for mHealth solutions … Health Market Size, Share and Global Trend By Technology (Mobile Health Technology, Health Information Technology, Wearables Technology, Telehealth Technology), By Deployment Mode(Software, Service, Hardware), By Modality(Wired, Wireless) By End User (Clinics, Hospitals, Ambulatory …
Home Healthcare
OPLIN 4Cast #681: Will healthcare tech take giant steps in 2020? – The OPLIN 4cast | 1/15/2020
… Qianqian Ben Liu, & Serrano, C. (2019). Capitalizing on Health Information Technology to Enable Digital Advantage in U.S. Hospitals. MIS Quarterly , 43 (1)) User involvement in digital health: Working together to design smart home health technology ( Burrows, A., Meller, B., Craddock, I., Hyland, F., & Gooberman, H. R. (2019). User involvement in digital health: Working together to design smart home health technology. Health Expectations , 22 (1), 65–73 …
Referral Management
… creating the highest quality data asset, pushing expertly derived insights to the point of care, and supporting administrative staff with data when and where they need it with applications including care management and referral management. Arcadia has off-the-shelf integration technology for more than 40 different physical and behavioral health EHR vendors, powered by machine learning that combs through variations in over 60 million longitudinal patient records across clinical …
Digital Health Solutions
… to patient and data privacy, coordinating care across multiple actors (including hospital, payers, health care providers, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, health technology providers, and patients), ensuring appropriate sharing, and maintaining integrity of health care data … panacea for all these problems, blockchain in conjunction with other digital health solutions has the potential to lower health care costs, enable extension and broader access to health care services, combat health care fraud, and …
Regenerative Medicine
… education and resources needed to understand their disease and care,” said Jim Lang , CEO, EVERSANA. “By integrating Noom’s proven behavioral health technology with EVERSANA’s best-in-class patient service programs, we will help manufacturers give … care, plus patient engagement and satisfaction. Additionally, the promise of regenerative medicine and precision medicine demands the evolution of traditional patient services to meet the complex needs of smaller patient populations. Both EVERSANA and Noom …
EHR Integration
… to patient and data privacy, coordinating care across multiple actors (including hospital, payers, health care providers, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, health technology providers, and patients), ensuring appropriate sharing, and maintaining integrity of health care data … several companies, initiatives, consortiums, and research groups looking at blockchain EHR integration in the United States. This includes MedRec, an open-source platform that uses blockchain and smart contracts to create a record of patient …
Diabetes Prevention
… education and resources needed to understand their disease and care,” said Jim Lang , CEO, EVERSANA. “By integrating Noom’s proven behavioral health technology with EVERSANA’s best-in-class patient service programs, we will help manufacturers give … have benefited from Noom’s behavior change courses, including its virtual diabetes prevention program, which was the first of its kind to be recognized by the CDC. The Noom platform is already being used by leading …
Telecare
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/7401045 Research Article Mobile Health Technologies May Be Acceptable Tools for Providing Social Support to Tuberculosis Patients in Rural Uganda: A Parallel Mixed-Method Study 1 Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara … reminder system for patients with tuberculosis,” Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare , vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 404–408, 2012. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus J. E. Haberer, A. Musiimenta, E …
Patient Satisfaction
8 Trends that Will Shape Connected Health in 2020 | 1/2/2020
… Connected Health in 2020 January 2, 2020 Meredith Wagner It’s been an exciting year for the healthcare industry. New connected health technologies that are driving innovative care models are gaining more and more attention, both … standard for evaluation business success and, for healthcare providers, improving patient satisfaction should become a top priority, particularly with connected health services extending providers’ reach into new areas and giving patients greater choice. Patient engagement …
Smoking Cessation
… management are complex, influenced by multiple individual, socioeconomic, societal, cultural, and environment factors, making it difficult to change [ 4 ]. Digital health technologies allow us to accommodate many of these factors with significant potential for digital … in developing countries where text messages have been utilized in smoking cessation, antenatal, diabetes, and retroviral interventions as well as communication with health workers [ 39 - 41 ]. Text Message Interventions Demonstrate Effectiveness in Health Promotion and …
HIPAA
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy | STAT | 12/4/2019
… required? How do you de-identify (data)? And where is data aggregated and for what purpose?” Sign up for STAT Health Tech Your weekly guide to how tech is transforming health care and life sciences … The uproar over such deals underscores for many experts that HIPAA, the federal patient privacy law enacted in 1996, is verging on obsolescence, with hospitals now sharing personal health information with giant companies whose size …
Electronic Medical Record
It’s all change again in healthcare IT sector | 12/4/2019
… entered exclusive negotiations with Dedalus Holding to sell part of its healthcare IT business – specifically the business tied to its electronic medical record (EMR) and integrated care offerings. Now’s a good time to look at … care IT, EHR/EMR, and telehealth at Signify Research , a health tech, market-intelligence firm based in Cranfield, U.K. The comments and observations expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of AuntMinnieEurope.com , nor should …
Electronic Health Records
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy | STAT | 12/4/2019
… required? How do you de-identify (data)? And where is data aggregated and for what purpose?” Sign up for STAT Health Tech Your weekly guide to how tech is transforming health care and life sciences … and breadth of that data, from smart watches and phones, electronic health records, genetic tests, and medical devices, pose a range of thorny dilemmas that Mayo and other health systems must answer before plowing ahead …
Telehealth
It’s all change again in healthcare IT sector | 12/4/2019
… telehealth at Signify Research , a health tech, market-intelligence firm based in Cranfield, U.K. The comments and observations expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of AuntMinnieEurope.com , nor should they be construed as an endorsement or admonishment of any particular vendor, analyst, industry consultant, or consulting group …
Health Management
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 101 | FBI Scandals, EHR Competitors, & Amazon | 12/4/2019
On Episode 101 of Health in 2 Point 00, there are some scandals and competitors brewing in the health tech space! Jess and I discuss Outcome Health’s investigation and charge by the FBI for $1 … EHR systems; and Wellframe raising $20 million to advance digital health management. If you are in Japan, catch me at Health 2.0 in Tokyo, Japan where they will be showcasing new health tech startups in …
EMR
It’s all change again in healthcare IT sector | 12/4/2019
… with Dedalus Holding to sell part of its healthcare IT business – specifically the business tied to its electronic medical record (EMR) and integrated care offerings. Now’s a good time to look at the implications. The … care IT, EHR/EMR, and telehealth at Signify Research , a health tech, market-intelligence firm based in Cranfield, U.K. The comments and observations expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of AuntMinnieEurope.com , nor should …
HIMSS
Leeds, one of the largest cities in the UK, is said to be the home of over 250 health tech businesses. Mindwave Ventures unveils plans to open office in Leeds, appoints chief innovation and operating … digital health consultancy mHabitat and is a member of the HIMSS, owner of MobiHealthNews, Advisory Council in the UK, will now be heading up the Leeds office. Both Betton and Gunatilleke bring to Mindwave decades …
Home Care
The Current State of Healthcare’s Digital Transformation (Part 3) | 12/4/2019
… 5G’s impact on healthcare! Do you have an idea for a disruptive medical device, but you don’t know where to begin? Dogtown Media is an FDA-compliant developer with extensive experience in bringing health tech innovations to life. Contact us today for a Free Consultation …
ACA
The Lynne Chou O’Keefe Fallacy | 12/4/2019
… getting your clinical process correct, etc, etc. But in the end, Lynne’s assessment was that the best bet for a health tech startup’s success was to improve the life of an incumbent. I don’t have … was set on HITECH and trying to roll out the ACA, and the Trump administration can’t manage to create a coherent policy on anything, regulators have been more or less absent so it’s no surprise …
Amazon Health
This New Life-Or-Death Sensor Tech Goes Into Test Homes In 2020 | Forbes | 1/14/2020
… health technology. Sekisui House’s foray offers a sensor-centric early-detection and split-second ambulance response solution that triggers at the onset of acute health events such as strokes at home. The initiative comes as data and technology’s multibillion-dollar smart home space race intensifies, with soaring stakes for winners and losers. For Alphabet , Amazon, Apple and a countless host of others large and small, today’s IoT feeding frenzy is …
Change Healthcare
(USA-PA-Pittsburgh) Digital Product Manager II | 12/4/2019
… a leading academic medical center & health system, UPMC is uniquely positioned to move quickly and creatively in the telehealth space. The Telehealth Strategy & Solutions team at UPMC Health Plan is working to leverage telehealth technologies & applications to make health care delivery more convenient, lower cost, and more member-centric. We are hiring a Digital Product Manager II to work on our direct-to-consumer telehealth product and member experience, as …
Cerner
It’s all change again in healthcare IT sector | 12/4/2019
… via its solutions that address interoperability. The new combined entity would become a leading international EMR vendor, second only to Cerner in terms of the Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) acute market share … care IT, EHR/EMR, and telehealth at Signify Research , a health tech, market-intelligence firm based in Cranfield, U.K. The comments and observations expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of AuntMinnieEurope.com , nor should …
Wellframe
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 101 | FBI Scandals, EHR Competitors, & Amazon | 12/4/2019
On Episode 101 of Health in 2 Point 00, there are some scandals and competitors brewing in the health tech space! Jess and I discuss Outcome Health’s investigation and charge by the FBI for $1 … dictate their notes and streamline them into EHR systems; and Wellframe raising $20 million to advance digital health management. If you are in Japan, catch me at Health 2.0 in Tokyo, Japan where they will …
Apple Health
What Really Changes Now That Larry Page Is No Longer CEO Of Alphabet? | Forbes | 12/4/2019
… end up being the most significant change to come from Tuesday’s announcement. As regulators in Washington and around the world increasingly scrutinize Big Tech, chief executives like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have all appeared in D.C. So has Pichai. Page has not. Now that he’s no longer an executive, he’s no longer the one that lawmakers—including angry Senators —will call …
Dexcom
A glitch in diabetes monitors serves as a cautionary tale for health tech | 12/4/2019
Dexcom, a company that makes sensors used by people with diabetes to measure their blood-glucose levels, has been one of the biggest success stories in applying technology to health. Sales of its continuous glucose monitors climbed to $396 million in the third quarter of 2019, up 49% from a year ago. Dexcom, a company that makes sensors used by people with diabetes to measure their blood-glucose levels, has …
Healx
Leeds, one of the largest cities in the UK, is said to be the home of over 250 health tech businesses. Mindwave Ventures unveils plans to open office in Leeds, appoints chief innovation and operating … its cardiovascular image analysis system . UK-based health tech firm Healx, which uses AI to accelerate discovery and treatment of rare disease treatments, also recently raised £43.4m in a Series B financing round led by …
Purdue Pharma
… show By Casey Ross @caseymross December 2, 2019 Alex Hogan/STAT P IKEVILLE, Ky. — In the early days of OxyContin, Dr. Richard Sackler, a member of the billionaire family that founded and controls Purdue Pharma, learned about concerns that the potent opioid could lead to abuse in chronic pain patients, and he then proposed executives aggressively push back, according to newly unsealed documents obtained by STAT after a four-year …
CVS
… of Ascension’s patients , and building a search tool for people’s medical records . It has also previously worked to add more healthcare information to Google Maps, like incorporating needle drop-off points with pharmacy CVS . Spokespeople for Google and Facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Do you work at Facebook or Google? Contact this reporter via encrypted messaging app Signal at +1 (650) 636-6268 using a non-work …
Merck
… aggressively push back, according to newly unsealed documents obtained by STAT after a four-year court battle. An email chain from January 1997 — just a year after Purdue launched the drug — shows that Merck Medco, then one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, had begun cautioning doctors that use of OxyContin to treat chronic pain patients could lead to abuse. That news set off alarms among executives at the …
Uber Health
… Uber Health is one of the non-health system customers to recognize the value of Clearwater’s expertise, engaging the company to help ensure its systems and infrastructure are secure and fully compliant with healthcare industry standards. Watch this video to see how Clearwater is helping Uber Health and another health tech innovator Digital Reasoning know and address their cybersecurity risks. As an outgrowth of that work, Clearwater developed The Clear …
Boston Scientific
BIOMEDevice: Q&A with Jordi Parramon of Verily | 12/3/2019
Is the line between clinical and consumer health tech blurring? Does it even exist anymore? This week we will be hanging out with best minds in med-tech and biomedical device manufacturing, design, and creation … medical device R&D at companies including Advanced Bionics, and Boston Scientific. Q&A With Jordi Parramon, Ph.D. of Verily As the line between clinical and consumer health tech blurs, does this change how OEMs …
Fitbit
- The Boston Globe | 12/2/2019
… and Livongo, another company focused on helping people manage their chronic conditions, hire their coaches as direct employees, just like their engineers and product managers. Other companies build their network of coaches differently. Fitbit’s health business, soon to be absorbed into Alphabet, relies on a mix of direct employees, contractors, and coaches who work for a third-party staffing service, sometimes in more traditional offices. Advertisement Leading companies in the …
Optum
… with CommVault Experience with SCCM Ability to work with a geographically dispersed team Health care industry experience Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve … before beginning employment. Job keywords: Infrastructure and Ops Engineer, Optum Health Tech, Telecommute, TX, Texas Requisition : 832303 …
UnitedHealth
… reality. This is the place to do your life’s best work.(sm) All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy For more information on our Internal Job Posting Policy, click here … before beginning employment. Job keywords: Infrastructure and Ops Engineer, Optum Health Tech, Telecommute, TX, Texas Requisition : 832303 …
UnitedHealth Group
… reality. This is the place to do your life’s best work.(sm) All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy For more information on our Internal Job Posting Policy, click here … before beginning employment. Job keywords: Infrastructure and Ops Engineer, Optum Health Tech, Telecommute, TX, Texas Requisition : 832303 …
Theranos
Omada Health is seeking solutions for clash of doctors and techies | CNBC | 12/1/2019
… validation, with Livongo Health , an Omada competitor, going public and PillPack and Flatiron Health selling for healthy sums. In recent years, the missteps have gotten more publicity. Even beyond the notorious collapse of Theranos , former medical hires have spoken out about problematic behavior at companies like Nurx, which sells birth control, and uBiome, which offered health tests before suspending operations and then closing down this year . Doctors working with men’s …
Flatiron Health
Omada Health is seeking solutions for clash of doctors and techies | CNBC | 12/1/2019
… in venture capital in 2018 to bring new technology to the health-care industry. They’re just starting to see some market validation, with Livongo Health , an Omada competitor, going public and PillPack and Flatiron Health selling for healthy sums. In recent years, the missteps have gotten more publicity. Even beyond the notorious collapse of Theranos , former medical hires have spoken out about problematic behavior at companies like Nurx, which sells …
PillPack
Omada Health is seeking solutions for clash of doctors and techies | CNBC | 12/1/2019
… 8 billion in venture capital in 2018 to bring new technology to the health-care industry. They’re just starting to see some market validation, with Livongo Health , an Omada competitor, going public and PillPack and Flatiron Health selling for healthy sums. In recent years, the missteps have gotten more publicity. Even beyond the notorious collapse of Theranos , former medical hires have spoken out about problematic behavior at companies like Nurx …
uBiome
Omada Health is seeking solutions for clash of doctors and techies | CNBC | 12/1/2019
… recent years, the missteps have gotten more publicity. Even beyond the notorious collapse of Theranos , former medical hires have spoken out about problematic behavior at companies like Nurx, which sells birth control, and uBiome, which offered health tests before suspending operations and then closing down this year . Doctors working with men’s health companies like Hims have raised concerns that they didn’t have enough of a voice. VIDEO 0:50 00:50 Theranos …
GE Healthcare
EY and BRG land healthcare contracts in Saudi Arabia and the UAE | 11/30/2019
… SEHA Health System was largest healthcare network in the UAE, with 12 hospitals and 2,644 beds and the capacity to treat 100,000 inpatients and more than five million outpatients annually. Previously, healthcare consultancy GE Healthcare Partners – a division of General Electric – took home awards from the UK’s Management Consultancies Association (MCA) for healthcare improvement projects in both Dubai and Saudi Arabia . Latest news …
PatientsLikeMe
… PatientsLikeMe, a U.S.-based health tech startup, to divest its stake in the company. The majority owner, iCarbonX, is based in Shenzhen, China, and backed by Tencent, the Chinese conglomerate. CFIUS also ordered the owner of Grindr, Beijing Kunlun Tech, to sell the gay dating app and blocked the sale of MoneyGram to Ant Financial, a Chinese tech company. “CFIUS is increasingly focusing on the potential links between personal data …
Pfizer
Irregular heart beat detection coming to Fitbit smartwatches | 11/29/2019
Fitbit, a Google company, in partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance, a pharmaceutical company in the US is coming up with a feature for its smartwatches that will detect irregular heartbeat. This technology detects … monitor their activity, features like these are a boon for health tech. The update rollout period and the smartwatches that will receive this update has not been revealed by Fitbit …
McKesson
… Inc., a provider of remote monitoring for implantable cardiac devices in March 2019. May 2018 - Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Dutch Rijnstate Hospital signed a new 10-year strategic partnership agreement, to … 6.1 Company Profiles 6.1.1 Abbott Laboratories 6.1.2 General Electric 6.1.3 McKesson Corporation 6.1.4 Koninklijke Philips N.V. 6.1.5 Aerotel Medical Systems Ltd. 6.1.6 Advanced TeleHealth Solutions 6.1.7 Honeywell Life Care Solutions 6.1.8 Medtronic PLC 6.1.9 LifeWatch …
Evolent Health
Google Alert - care plan | 11/28/2019
… health policy plan , it had not been nearly so thoughtful. Harris seems to have gone all-in … Flag as irrelevant Evolent Health Partner Passport Health Plan is Not Initially Selected for Kentucky Managed … PRNewswire (press … Cambia Health Solutions is partnering with Quartet to offer behavioral health technology and services to its regional health plan members. Flag as irrelevant As Primary Care Providers and Health Insurers Embrace Telehealth, How Will Clinical …
Salesforce Ventures
19 Investors and VCs Fuelling the SaaS Superstars of Australasia | 11/28/2019
… and the internet of things (IoT). Founded : 2003 Stage : Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS Investments : Kami, Qwilr Salesforce Ventures Salesforce Ventures —Salesforce’s corporate investment group—invests in the next generation of enterprise … investments in artificial intelligence (AI), software as a service (SaaS), health tech, artificial intelligence, internet of things (IoT), energy, food, education, wellness and infra-tech. Founded : 2018 SaaS Investments : Qwilr, Safety Culture Square Peg Capital …
Goldman Sachs
First Edition: November 27, 2019 | Kaiser Health News | 11/27/2019
… nearly $1 billion in fraudulently obtained investments and debt. The SEC made its own complaint, alleging that Outcome raised $487 million by falsely portraying itself as a success to its investors, which included Goldman Sachs, Google-affiliated CapitalG, and the Pritzker Group. (Herper, 11/26) The New York Times: Fertility Rate In U.S. Hit A Record Low In 2018 The fertility rate in the United States fell in 2018 for the …
Silicon Valley Bank
… arm of Aflac. Additional new investors included NMC, Nippon Life 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 … connect patients with appropriate care for their condition. COPD therapy: Health technology company H-CYTE picked up raised $6 million in new funding led by a group that includes Todd Wagner, a co-founder of …
F-Prime Capital
… 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 … connect patients with appropriate care for their condition. COPD therapy: Health technology company H-CYTE picked up raised $6 million in new funding led by a group that includes Todd Wagner, a co-founder of …
CapitalG
First Edition: November 27, 2019 | Kaiser Health News | 11/27/2019
… fraudulently obtained investments and debt. The SEC made its own complaint, alleging that Outcome raised $487 million by falsely portraying itself as a success to its investors, which included Goldman Sachs, Google-affiliated CapitalG, and the Pritzker Group. (Herper, 11/26) The New York Times: Fertility Rate In U.S. Hit A Record Low In 2018 The fertility rate in the United States fell in 2018 for the fourth straight year, extending …
Innovation Fund
… gastrointestinal cancers scored $42.9 million in series B funding backed by big-name investors. Sony’s corporate venture capital arm, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV (Innovation Growth Ventures), participated in the funding round along with Globis … connect patients with appropriate care for their condition. COPD therapy: Health technology company H-CYTE picked up raised $6 million in new funding led by a group that includes Todd Wagner, a co-founder of …
Rock Health
Consumers Like Generating Health Data, But Are Careful of How They Share It | 11/21/2019
Consumers Like Generating Health Data, But Are Careful of How They Share It November 20, 2019 Facebook New research suggests that while consumers are continuing to expand their use of digital health technologies, they’re still careful about with whom they share their health data. It also exposes an unexpected trend in which younger consumers are less trusting about such sharing than older ones. The survey, which was backed by Rock …
Morgan Stanley
Latest Tech News This Week: Nov 11, 2019 - Nov 15, 2019 | 11/15/2019
… Apple Card Sexist, or Is It Just the Algorithm ? ● Fintech: How Fintech and Techfin Are Going to Rule Our World ● Health Tech: Your Health Data Now Lies in The Hands of Google ● Autonomous Tech: Will … car entertainment. But things changed significantly in September 2019 with Morgan Stanley slashing Waymo’s valuation from $175 billion to $105 billion, terming the technology is taking longer to develop than expected. Our Take : Waymo had …
Andreessen Horowitz
Latest Tech News This Week: Nov 11, 2019 - Nov 15, 2019 | 11/15/2019
… Apple Card Sexist, or Is It Just the Algorithm ? ● Fintech: How Fintech and Techfin Are Going to Rule Our World ● Health Tech: Your Health Data Now Lies in The Hands of Google ● Autonomous Tech: Will … awakening of sorts. Riding on the buzz is VC powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz which launched a seven-week, free 7-week Crypto Startup School to dish out the best practices for blockchain entrepreneurs. Backstory : The 7 …
Foundry Group
… 55M – TechCrunch 11/15/2019 by admin On the heels of Google buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion , another player in wearables and health technology has picked up a big round of growth funding to continue expanding its … comes to purchasing power. This latest round was led by Foundry Group — coincidentally also an investor in Fitbit — with participation from Two Sigma Ventures, Accomplice, Thursday Ventures, Promus Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. Individual investors …
Promus Ventures
… 55M – TechCrunch 11/15/2019 by admin On the heels of Google buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion , another player in wearables and health technology has picked up a big round of growth funding to continue expanding its … Fitbit — with participation from Two Sigma Ventures, Accomplice, Thursday Ventures, Promus Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. Individual investors included David Stern, the former NBA Commissioner; Ed Baker, former VP of product and growth at Uber …
Two Sigma Ventures
… 55M – TechCrunch 11/15/2019 by admin On the heels of Google buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion , another player in wearables and health technology has picked up a big round of growth funding to continue expanding its … Group — coincidentally also an investor in Fitbit — with participation from Two Sigma Ventures, Accomplice, Thursday Ventures, Promus Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. Individual investors included David Stern, the former NBA Commissioner; Ed Baker, former VP …
Lightspeed Venture Partners
3 top startup trends from Web Summit 2019 | 11/14/2019
… 14, 2019 November 14, 2019 Last week at Web Summit, experts across various industries came together to discuss everything from health tech to future societies. Many ideas on startups emerged from the event, and our … talk “Is Silicon Valley pivoting to profits?,” Rytis Vitkauskas of Lightspeed Venture Partners said, “Not all companies are created equal. So long as you’re growing very fast and you’re spending very fast, so long as …
Providence Ventures
AHA, Concord Health Partners close $50M health tech venture round | FierceHealthcare | 11/13/2019
… Clinic and Cleveland Clinic have long been in the investment game. But a growing number of health systems are entering the venture world or doubling down. For instance, earlier this year Seattle-based Providence Ventures, the venture capital arm of Providence St. Joseph Health, raised $150 million for its second healthcare venture capital and growth equity fund. “Providers of all sizes, types and tax statuses, including Tenet, Trinity and Community …
HealthCare Ventures
AHA, Concord Health Partners close $50M health tech venture round | FierceHealthcare | 11/13/2019
by Tina Reed Nov 13, 2019 3:15pm The AHA Innovation Fund was formed to invest in early-stage healthcare companies that provide products, services and solutions that help hospitals and health systems transform care delivery, spur innovation and connect hospitals and entrepreneurs. (Getty/ipopba) The American Hospital Association (AHA) closed a $50 million strategic venture capital fund with Concord Health Partners aimed at investing in early-stage healthcare companies. The …
Health Enterprise Partners
… Physicians, a Dallas-based national leader in acute subspecialty telemedicine, has secured $9.3 million in a Series A round from Health Enterprise Partners, a New York City-based healthcare private equity firm. Health Enterprise Partners … million in debt, reports The Japan Times. Optum acquires Plano health tech firm Vivify The Optum division of UnitedHealth Group has acquired Vivify Health, the Plano-based remote patient monitoring startup, for an undisclosed amount …
Johnson & Johnson Innovation
SEOUL, South Korea , Nov. 5, Janssen Korea Ltd. and Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC, in collaboration with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), today announced the awardees of the Seoul Innovation … is to identify and help to accelerate promising early-stage health tech innovations with the potential to make a long-lasting, positive impact on health. With our collaborators, we aim to provide these innovators with …
StartUp Health
… health tech. Amazon is offering its employees its own virtual health care , which it could presumably sell to consumers someday. Amazon says its smart assistant Alexa is compliant with health care privacy law, allowing consumers to communicate with health care companies through the assistant . And earlier this month, Amazon acquired digital health startup Health Navigator . It purchased online pharmacy PillPack last year. Apple, with its Apple Watch , has expanded into …
Google Ventures
… attracted interest from investors and it recently scored $50 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Greenoaks with participation from Threshold Ventures, CRV along with existing investors GV, formerly Google Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins. Viz.ai uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularly disabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist. By alerting the right …
Felicis Ventures
… free FDA-cleared pregnancy and fertility tests, as well as essential prenatal vitamins and educational literature. And… just under the threshold: Behavioral health startup Sentio raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by Felicis Ventures, with participation from Anthemis Exponential Ventures, and SOSV. The San Francisco-based company is developing biomarkers and digital therapeutics for mental health and offers an emotion-sensing wearable and a connected support app. The latest …
MemorialCare Innovation Fund
… research portfolio. SignalPath supports over 2,500 trials across 250 sites and 3,000 active users. Patient engagement: Albuquerque-based Twistle landed $16 million in Series A funding led by Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF). The Seattle-based company develops a health care communication platform with automated workflows. organizations deliver personalized care to patients in their homes by automating everything from routine communication to information gathering and education …
Greycroft
… company works to improve diagnostics using cell mechanics and machine learning. Digital mental health practice: Octave, a technology-based mental health practice, landed $11 million in a Series A funding round led by Greycroft, with participation from Obvious Ventures. The company opened its first San Francisco location with its second New York office opening in December. The new funding will allow Octave to continue to expand nationally, with additional locations …
Canaan Partners
VC-backed Rallybio expands team with two new additions | PE Hub | 10/31/2019
… team. Hayward will focus on building Rallybio’s portfolio while Sinclair will be focused on new product commercial planning including diagnostic and patient access approaches to support the portfolio. Rallybio’s backers include 5AM Ventures, Canaan Partners and New Leaf Venture Partners. PRESS RELEASE FARMINGTON, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rallybio LLC, a development-stage biotechnology company, today announced that it has further expanded its drug acquisition and development capabilities with the addition of …
Venrock
AI voice tech startup Suki partners with Google Cloud | Healthcare Dive | 10/30/2019
… almost two additional hours on paperwork. Providers spend more than half of their workday on EHR and computer tasks. The startup was founded by Soni and is backed by funding from investors like Venrock, First Round and Social Capital. The company recently raised $20 million to advance the technology in a Series A round led by Venrock. It wasn’t an outlier. Robin Healthcare, another voice-enabled clinician workflow tool, raised …
Social Capital
AI voice tech startup Suki partners with Google Cloud | Healthcare Dive | 10/30/2019
… on paperwork. Providers spend more than half of their workday on EHR and computer tasks. The startup was founded by Soni and is backed by funding from investors like Venrock, First Round and Social Capital. The company recently raised $20 million to advance the technology in a Series A round led by Venrock. It wasn’t an outlier. Robin Healthcare, another voice-enabled clinician workflow tool, raised $11.5 million in a …
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 … data aggregated and for what purpose?” Sign up for STAT Health Tech Your weekly guide to how tech is transforming health care and life sciences. Please enter a valid email address. Leave this field empty …
Lahey Health
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy | STAT | 12/4/2019
… its efforts to apply artificial intelligence to vast stores of data from patients and devices. Halamka will leave Beth Israel Lahey Health in Boston to become president of the Mayo Clinic platform, a unified data … data aggregated and for what purpose?” Sign up for STAT Health Tech Your weekly guide to how tech is transforming health care and life sciences. Please enter a valid email address. Leave this field empty …
UPMC
(USA-PA-Pittsburgh) Digital Product Manager II | 12/4/2019
UPMC Digital Product Manager II in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania Description Are you ready to work on the cutting edge of technology & healthcare delivery? Are you excited to be part of a community of people who care … Solutions team at UPMC Health Plan is working to leverage telehealth technologies & applications to make health care delivery more convenient, lower cost, and more member-centric. We are hiring a Digital Product Manager II to …
Ascension
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy | STAT | 12/4/2019
… Health Tech Your weekly guide to how tech is transforming health care and life sciences. Please enter a valid email address. Leave this field empty if you’re human: 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 such deals underscores for many experts that …
Ascension Health
… important such programs are to companies deemed “business associates” under the federal HIPAA law when news surfaced of the Google- Ascension Health collaboration dubbed “Project Nightingale”. When health systems and providers work with technology and … to see how Clearwater is helping Uber Health and another health tech innovator Digital Reasoning know and address their cybersecurity risks. As an outgrowth of that work, Clearwater developed The Clear Advantage Program for Business …
HCA
(USA-CO-Aurora) Behavioral Health Tech II Adult | 12/2/2019
Job Information HCA, Hospital Corporation of America Behavioral Health Tech II Adult in Aurora , Colorado Do you have a passion for healthcare and helping others? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, patient-centered environment? Jump-start your career as a Behavioral Health Tech II . Submit your application today! Full Time Nights / Our colleagues come first. We provide a total compensation package to make sure your needs are met …
HCA Healthcare
(USA-CO-Aurora) Behavioral Health Tech II Adult | 12/2/2019
Job Information HCA, Hospital Corporation of America Behavioral Health Tech II Adult in Aurora , Colorado Do you have a passion for healthcare and helping others? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, patient-centered … Education Assistance/ /Tuition reimbursement/ /Student loan assistance/ /Clinical certifications support/ /HCA Healthcare Scholars Program/ /Time Away from Work/ /Paid time off/ /Paid family leave/ /Short-term and long-term disability/ /Life Insurance/ The Medical Center …
Sanford Health
Google Alert - care plan | 11/28/2019
… invests in integrated mental health care with Quartet partnership FierceHealthcare Cambia Health Solutions is partnering with Quartet to offer behavioral health technology and services to its regional health plan members. Flag as irrelevant As Primary … save in a health-care FSA: It … Flag as irrelevant Sanford Health unveils tiny device for virtual home visits Brainerd Dispatch Sanford partnered with Israeli startup Tyto Care to offer the $299 devices … The Sanford …
Sinai Health System
… Council of Chicago, or HC3, forum on reimagining the city’s safety-net hospital system. The group, started in 2016 by health tech hub Matter and consultancy Third Horizon Strategies, is a collaborative of more than … example, Smith, a member of the board of Chicago-based Sinai Health System, said Sinai only has six days of cash on hand to fund operations. Illinois House Majority Leader Greg Harris, a member of …
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Council Post: Remote Patient Monitoring Brings Healthcare To Your Home | Forbes | 11/27/2019
… Health Tech Magazine article, Jen A. Miller provides an instructive example, explaining that only 30% to 40% of women with pregnancy-associated hypertension show up for their four-to-six-week follow-up after having their baby. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center devised an RPM solution by giving women a blood pressure cuff that worked with a smartphone app, and in their pilot program, 88% of participants ended up …
Jefferson Health
Health Tech Trends: Connected Devices, Telehealth, Independent Living Solutions | 11/26/2019
Health Tech Trends: Connected Devices, Telehealth, Independent Living Solutions November 26 , 2019 tech ecommerce growth instalike business startups marketing smallbiz smb Ecommerce SEO The U.S. healthcare industry is in the midst of transformation, including an … can lower costs for both patients and providers. For example, Jefferson Health found that its telemedicine platform’s net cost savings to the patient or payer per telemedicine visit was US$19 to $121, which represents …
MedStar Health
Cures 2.0 campaign commences - Politico | 11/25/2019
… Story Continued Below — Cures 2.0 campaign commences: Reps. Fred Upton and Diana DeGette are calling for input on a refreshed health tech bill they say would expand patients’ access to new treatments and digital health … typo corrected from “can’t” to “can”) : Raj Ratwani, director of MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. @RajRatwani “Guess whose 60th birthday it is? The seat belt! Why should you care? 1. It’s …
Cleveland Clinic
This robot gynecologist named “da Vinci” could be all up in your business soon | 11/22/2019
… but that would be funny, right?) to other hospitals across the country, like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, University of Texas-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic hospitals, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Cleveland Clinic Hospital. Some idiot named the robot da Vinci (if they really wanted to make women feel comfortable, they could have made it a woman, or at least McDreamy). Dr. da Vinci was cleared by the …
Stanford Medicine
Consumers Like Generating Health Data, But Are Careful of How They Share It | 11/21/2019
… health technologies, they’re still careful about with whom they share their health data. It also exposes an unexpected trend in which younger consumers are less trusting about such sharing than older ones. The survey, which was backed by Rock Health and Stanford Medicine, reached out to 4,000 US adults, querying them about their engagement with various forms of digital health information. One key takeaway from the survey was that as …
Kaiser Permanente
… nurses via a mobile app. The program saw a 55% drop in inpatient rehabilitation since rolling out in 2016. Additionally, Kaiser Permanente reduced rehospitalizations after providing patients with a Samsung Gear S3 or Galaxy Watch … impacted traditional healthcare methodology and discusses the most transformative digital health technology making waves in the healthcare industry. Want to learn more about the fast-moving world of digital health? Here's how to …
Penn Medicine
Work Schedule: Part time, shifts may vary Penn Medicine Entity: Pennsylvania Hospital Location: Philadelphia, PA Education Required: High School Diploma/GED Experience Required: Per Position Description Employment Type: Part Time Regular 20+ hrs/wk Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center …
Harvard Medical School
Healthcare innovation leader talks future of health IT | 11/19/2019
… future of health IT. Halamka has worn different hats throughout his career, holding positions including: a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, chairman of the New England … is leading healthcare innovation as the executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center at Beth Israel Lahey Health. In this new role, he travels to many countries, helping academia and the health industry get …
Massachusetts General Hospital
… in ischemic heart diseases. Thomas Wurdinger , PhD Thomas Wurdinger studied molecular biology at VU University in Amsterdam and performed his PhD at Utrecht University. After his postdoc period at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital he now holds a position as Director of the Neuro-Oncology Research Group and Professor at the Amsterdam UMC Cancer Center. His mission is to eliminate late-stage cancers, including brain cancer. His passion …
Stanford Hospital
Stanford’s new hospital is packed with futuristic tech. Will it drive up costs? | STAT | 11/18/2019
Health Tech Stanford’s new hospital is brimming with futuristic tech. Will it help save money — or drive up costs? By Rebecca Robbins @rebeccadrobbins November 18, 2019 An operating room at the new Stanford Hospital. Will Pryce/ P ALO ALTO, Calif. — What does the hospital of the future look like? One vision of it is the shiny new Stanford Hospital, which wheeled in its first patients on Sunday morning after $2 …
Tenet Healthcare
(USA-CA-Modesto) Behavioral Health Tech Per Diem Varied Shift | 11/18/2019
Tenet Healthcare Behavioral Health Tech Per Diem Varied Shift in Modesto , California Facility Overview: Welcome to Doctors Medical Center Doctors Medical Center Modesto is a full-service, comprehensive health care facility, dedicated to providing the finest medical care for the community. From preventative and diagnostic services, to expertise in some of the world’s leading technologies, DMC’s multidisciplinary team of physicians and healthcare professionals is dedicated to your good health and …
Geisinger
Post-Nightingale, can you trust Google with your health data? | 11/15/2019
… Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has been developing healthcare technology inside of Verily and DeepMind for years. In October, at a health tech conference in Las Vegas called HLTH, Google’s head of health David Feinberg spoke … it receives. Feinberg, its health chief and former CEO of Geisinger, a healthcare system that serves 1.5 million patients, is under the impression that it is. “The final question I had to ask myself when …
Texas Health Resources
Damo Consulting announces inaugural Board of Advisors | PRWeb | 11/14/2019
… support. He was also responsible for developing leaders and leveraging digital healthcare technologies to enable superior business and clinical outcomes. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Edward served as Senior Vice President/ CIO of Texas Health Resources. In 2015, he spent over two years as Executive Vice President of the Advisory Board, providing IT leadership and strategy for New York City Health & Hospital. Edward began his healthcare service as a janitor …
Ochsner Health System
First at-home, on-demand medical exam kit launches at Best Buy - CNET | 11/13/2019
… 2019 6:07 PM PST TytoCare Hate going to the doctor’s office ? It’s now easier to avoid thanks to TytoCare . The health tech company just launched its hand-held telemedicine examination device, TytoHome , at Best Buy … administer care: American Well and LiveHealth Online, covering users nationwide Ochsner Health System, covering users in Louisiana and Mississippi Sanford Health, covering users in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa Novant Health, covering users …
St. Joseph Health
AHA, Concord Health Partners close $50M health tech venture round | FierceHealthcare | 11/13/2019
… the investment game. But a growing number of health systems are entering the venture world or doubling down. For instance, earlier this year Seattle-based Providence Ventures, the venture capital arm of Providence St. Joseph Health, raised $150 million for its second healthcare venture capital and growth equity fund. “Providers of all sizes, types and tax statuses, including Tenet, Trinity and Community Health Systems have begun investing in externally run …
Providence St. Joseph Health
AHA, Concord Health Partners close $50M health tech venture round | FierceHealthcare | 11/13/2019
… in the investment game. But a growing number of health systems are entering the venture world or doubling down. For instance, earlier this year Seattle-based Providence Ventures, the venture capital arm of Providence St. Joseph Health, raised $150 million for its second healthcare venture capital and growth equity fund. “Providers of all sizes, types and tax statuses, including Tenet, Trinity and Community Health Systems have begun investing in externally …
Humana
Google Alert - care plan | 11/28/2019
… health technology and services to its regional health plan members. Flag as irrelevant As Primary Care Providers and Health Insurers Embrace Telehealth, How Will Clinical … DARKDaily.com - Laboratory News The rise of virtual care is made possible by innovations in digital and … Humana is using Synapse in its new On Hand virtual primary care plan , the … Flag as irrelevant Charge of High Deductible Health Plan Task Force Debated CT News Junkie …
UnitedHealthcare
… Helgerson, who now leads Helgerson Solutions Group, disagreed with the notion that the state should “give millions of dollars to UnitedHealthcare and Centene and other publicly traded companies that are the biggest managed-care plans … keep that vision firmly in your mind.” —Jennifer Henderson Manhattan health tech company raises $20M Rightway Healthcare, which has developed a patient navigation platform and app for employers and their employees, has raised $20 million …
The Health Plan
… contracts. Providers should take the opportunity of DSRIP 2.0 to reconfigure their networks if needed, he said. “The role of the health plan is to be a creative contracting organization that is supportive of these … keep that vision firmly in your mind.” —Jennifer Henderson Manhattan health tech company raises $20M Rightway Healthcare, which has developed a patient navigation platform and app for employers and their employees, has raised $20 million …
Cigna
Can A.I. ever replace human doctors? Health tech experts weigh in | CNBC | 11/20/2019
… We are building telemedicine in our apps today where you can consult a doctor from the convenience of your homes, not for emergency,” said Jai Verma, CEO and board member of insurance company Cigna DIFC, and global head of government solutions at Cigna International. “I think AI, internet of things, are going to change the way we deliver health care in the future.” Verma also believes that along with AI …
Health Net
The Massachusetts eHealth Institute, part of the MassTech Collaborative, expanded its Digital Health Sandbox Network with the addition of three innovation hubs, which will provide resources and expertise to guide health tech startups’ research and development. The new additions, announced Nov. 12, are Boston-based Brigham Health’s Digital Innovation Hub, known as iHub; the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science; and Baystate Health’s TechSpring …
Aetna
(USA-TX-Burleson) Behavioral Health Tech PRN Days | 11/12/2019
AdventHealth Behavioral Health Tech PRN Days in Burleson , Texas Description Behavioral Health Tech- Texas Health Huguley- operated as joint venture between Texas Health Resources and AdventHealth Location Address: 11801 South Fwy., Burleson, TX 76028 Top … the way to Magnet status—2020. Amazing medical benefits through Aetna plus an onsite full-service fitness center. Growth opportunities designed for each employee. Located about 10 minutes from downtown Fort Worth and near TCU …
Priority Health
What Health Systems Need to Consider When Starting a Bug Bounty Program | 11/8/2019
… one of the most targeted industries for cyberattacks, as personal health information (PHI) is among the most profitable commodities on the dark web. Yet, as healthcare organizations and patients increasingly adopt new digital health technologies, they open up new attack vectors for bad actors to exploit. According to a recent study , vulnerabilities in health IT infrastructure increased 341% from 2017 to 2018. And they are expected to continue to rise …
Blue Shield of California
AI voice tech startup Suki partners with Google Cloud | Healthcare Dive | 10/30/2019
… in transcribing doctor-patient conversations and aiding documentation, and Amazon’s Alexa is HIPAA-eligible. The e-commerce giant also offers a speech-to-text service under AWS , its cloud business. Earlier this month, Blue Shield of California announced it was partnering with Notable, a platform supported by Apple Watch that documents physician-patient interactions and uses machine learning. Also this month, tech giant Microsoft announced a partnership with clinical documentation …
Oscar Health
Stay ahead of the players and tech trends reshaping the future of healthcare | 10/28/2019
… health technologies and outline the investment areas that are gaining the most funding to help illuminate the future path of digital healthcare. The companies mentioned in this report include: Aetna, Amazon, Apple, Arizona Care Network, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, CVS, Express Scripts, Fitbit, GE Healthcare, IBM, IDx, Johnson & Johnson, Mass General, Microsoft, NewYork-Presbyterian, Optum Rx, Oscar Health, Pfizer, T-Mobile, UnitedHealth Group, Verily, Viant, Walgreens, and ZocDoc …
Independence Blue Cross
7 can’t-miss panels at HLTH19 | Healthcare Dive | 10/24/2019
… is expected to double by 2035 to more than $1.1 trillion. Established and new entrants alike are responding by using health technology assessments, care management and value-based solutions. By taking on risk, DaVita Health … and benefits company Accolade, which works with companies like Humana, Independence Blue Cross, Teladoc and Lowes on improving health outcomes …
Clover Health
… to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers earlier this morning. Even though the digital health industry is steadily maturing , health tech companies might still have a long way to go when it comes to … carving out positions for leaders with healthcare expertise: Insurance startup Clover Health ditched a chunk of its tech employees to make room for healthcare hires in March — just before debuting its drug development offshoot. And …
Healthspan
Beyond Mobile Health Apps | Forbes | 6/1/2019
… story, we examined the ubiquity of mobile health apps . Now, our focus shifts to a more expansive view about digital health technologies and on how these technologies are not only playing out today, but what … as The New Mobile Age: How Technology Will Extend the Healthspan and Optimize the Lifespan by Joseph C. Kvedar; The Patient Will See You Now : The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric …
Metroplus Health Plan
Talya Schwartz, MD, Appointed President and CEO of MetroPlus Health Plan | Business Wire | 5/13/2019
NEW YORK- The Board of MetroPlus Health Plan today announced the appointment of Talya Schwartz, MD, as the health plan’s President and CEO. MetroPlus is the low-cost, five-star quality health insurance plan of … sector. She has been a founding member of a behavioral health technology startup company and prior to that served in various leadership roles in regional and national health plans. Earlier in her career she worked …
Shradha Agarwal
… participated in those practices that ended up defrauding Outcome’s customers.” Purdy, Desai, and former CEO Rishi Shah and former president Shradha Agarwal face a combined 26 counts of fraud totaling nearly $1 billion. Shah and … analyze patient-generated data from wearables and apps. People Behavioral health technology company NView Health names Maurice Rosenbaum (HealthSystems) chief product officer. Telemedicine Skin care startup Apostrophe raises $6 million in a seed funding round …
Rishi Shah
… there that were wrong. I participated in those practices that ended up defrauding Outcome’s customers.” Purdy, Desai, and former CEO Rishi Shah and former president Shradha Agarwal face a combined 26 counts of fraud totaling … analyze patient-generated data from wearables and apps. People Behavioral health technology company NView Health names Maurice Rosenbaum (HealthSystems) chief product officer. Telemedicine Skin care startup Apostrophe raises $6 million in a seed funding round …
Brad Purdy
… Choi and Oliver Han have pled not guilty to charges of felony conspiracy to commit wire fraud, while former executive Brad Purdy has also pled not guilty. Former EVP Ashik Desai pled guilty: “When I … analyze patient-generated data from wearables and apps. People Behavioral health technology company NView Health names Maurice Rosenbaum (HealthSystems) chief product officer. Telemedicine Skin care startup Apostrophe raises $6 million in a seed funding round …
Eric Topol
The Lynne Chou O’Keefe Fallacy | 12/4/2019
… getting your clinical process correct, etc, etc. But in the end, Lynne’s assessment was that the best bet for a health tech startup’s success was to improve the life of an incumbent. I don’t have … for those top provider systems. (Stolen from Modern Healthcare via Eric Topol) Which brings me to what’s wrong with all of this and it’s the question I asked Lynne at that talk, mindful of her …
Bill Gates
What Really Changes Now That Larry Page Is No Longer CEO Of Alphabet? | Forbes | 12/4/2019
… co-founders,” and “continue talking with Sundar regularly.” In that vein, both cofounders donate to philanthropic trusts through their family foundations, though neither have championed a cause, unlike Bezos, Zuckerberg or Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. The announcement also comes as Google faces more internal strife than ever before, as employees clash with management on the company’s business decisions and policies. When workers were protesting Google’s plans to launch a censored …
Seema Verma
Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) in their letter to CMS Chief Seema Verma cited a recent study that revealed how an algorithm widely used by hospitals to determine who needs … health care and technology news — Stat: Mayo Clinic Taps Boston Health Tech Leader To Guide Data Strategy On the heels of forming a new partnership with Google (GOOGL), Mayo Clinic announced it has hired Dr …
Jack Dorsey
What Really Changes Now That Larry Page Is No Longer CEO Of Alphabet? | Forbes | 12/4/2019
… shift may end up being the most significant change to come from Tuesday’s announcement. As regulators in Washington and around the world increasingly scrutinize Big Tech, chief executives like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have all appeared in D.C. So has Pichai. Page has not. Now that he’s no longer an executive, he’s no longer the one that lawmakers—including angry Senators …
Bernie Sanders
What Really Changes Now That Larry Page Is No Longer CEO Of Alphabet? | Forbes | 12/4/2019
… are facing more criticism than ever . Both are billionaires many times over — with net-worths of nearly $60 billion by Forbes estimates — while Pichai is not. As Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders both call for ways to limit personal wealth, Alphabet can better stay out of that political fray with Pichai leading the ship. Getting Page and Brin further out of the picture could also quell associations …
Larry Page
Alphabet CEO Larry Page steps down, replaced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai - Vox | 12/4/2019
Google co-founder Larry Page no longer runs the company he helped create 21 years ago. On Tuesday, Page announced that he’s handed the job to Sundar Pichai, who was already CEO of Google and … the company called “Other Bets” — side businesses like Calico, a health tech company, and Waymo, its self-driving car venture. But even when he was working on these projects, Page has been hard to spot …
John Halamka
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 … data aggregated and for what purpose?” Sign up for STAT Health Tech Your weekly guide to how tech is transforming health care and life sciences. Please enter a valid email address. Leave this field empty …
Sundar Pichai
Alphabet CEO Larry Page steps down, replaced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai - Vox | 12/4/2019
… longer runs the company he helped create 21 years ago. On Tuesday, Page announced that he’s handed the job to Sundar Pichai, who was already CEO of Google and is now also CEO of Alphabet … the company called “Other Bets” — side businesses like Calico, a health tech company, and Waymo, its self-driving car venture. But even when he was working on these projects, Page has been hard to spot …
Mark Zuckerberg
What Really Changes Now That Larry Page Is No Longer CEO Of Alphabet? | Forbes | 12/4/2019
… Ultimately, a perception shift may end up being the most significant change to come from Tuesday’s announcement. As regulators in Washington and around the world increasingly scrutinize Big Tech, chief executives like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have all appeared in D.C. So has Pichai. Page has not. Now that he’s no longer an executive, he’s no longer the one that lawmakers …
Donald Trump
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 | Kaiser Health News | 12/3/2019
… discussion and hold up the ban,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) of reports that the vaping industry influenced President Donald Trump’s retreat on the issue. “Our children are not for sale.” In other vaping … Glitch In Diabetes Monitors Serves As A Cautionary Tale For Health Tech Here’s the challenge for technology in health care: Success means that new tech also becomes too indispensable to fail. You can deal with …
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 … Sean Duffy’s Mom Test,” and some good advice for other health tech startups about what it takes to win over clinicians with your tech. Filmed at Health 2.0 in Santa Clara, California in September 2019 …
Elizabeth Holmes
Omada Health is seeking solutions for clash of doctors and techies | CNBC | 12/1/2019
… before suspending operations and then closing down this year . Doctors working with men’s health companies like Hims have raised concerns that they didn’t 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 lost talent in its health efforts as it attempts to move deeper …
Diana DeGette
… mHealth technology, like digital therapeutics, to improve care management. By A new iteration of the 21st Century Cures Act pledges to pay more attention to mHealth technologies Reps. Fred Upton and Diana DeGette, who helped usher the original bill to passage in 2016, have issued a “Call to Action” for what they’re calling Cures 2.0. And they’re focusing much of their efforts on connected health platforms that will “modernize coverage …
Fred Upton
… mHealth technology, like digital therapeutics, to improve care management. By A new iteration of the 21st Century Cures Act pledges to pay more attention to mHealth technologies Reps. Fred Upton and Diana DeGette, who helped usher the original bill to passage in 2016, have issued a “Call to Action” for what they’re calling Cures 2.0. And they’re focusing much of their efforts on connected health platforms that will “modernize coverage …
Elon Musk
TPS Consulting Daily | 11/27/2019
… with electronics getting more expensive as the years go by. While it may seem like the only electronics worth getti… Elon Musk: Tesla Cybertruck already has 200,000 pre-orders Shared by Ars Technica arstechnica.com - When … and Travis Allen, both Technion-Cornell Dual Master’s Degrees in Health Tech ’19, researched how t… How To Write a Strong Data Governance Policy techsocialnetwork Shared by Informatica Data Quality & Governance techsocialnetwork.co.uk - Data has become …
Joe Biden
First Edition: November 27, 2019 | Kaiser Health News | 11/27/2019
… you have an infant in a neonatal intensive care unit or a loved one on a hospital ventilator, a loss of power carries far more dire implications. (Kreidler, 11/26) Kaiser Health News: Did Joe Biden Overstate Democratic Voters’ Opposition To ‘Medicare For All’? When the subject of “Medicare for All” came up during the Democratic debate last week, former Vice President Joe Biden claimed that the majority of his party …
David Smith
… Council of Chicago, or HC3, forum on reimagining the city’s safety-net hospital system. The group, started in 2016 by health tech hub Matter and consultancy Third Horizon Strategies, is a collaborative of more than … so long Springfield can underwrite this challenge,” Third Horizon CEO David Smith said during the event. “We need to be able to create a financially self-sustaining system. We need to integrate.” That integration could …
Dina Abdelrazik
Health Tech Trends: Connected Devices, Telehealth, Independent Living Solutions | 11/26/2019
Health Tech Trends: Connected Devices, Telehealth, Independent Living Solutions November 26 , 2019 tech ecommerce growth instalike business startups marketing smallbiz smb Ecommerce SEO The U.S. healthcare industry is in the midst of transformation, including an … solutions experiment with integrating virtual care services into their offerings. Dina Abdelrazik is a senior analyst at Parks Associates . Ecommerce …
James Park
Facebook bid against Google in attempt to acquire Fitbit: report | 11/26/2019
… health tech company Fitbit, CNBC reported on Tuesday . Rival tech giant Google on Nov. 1 announced its plan to buy FitBit for $2.1 billion cash, which comes out to about $7.35 a share. In contrast, according to the filing, Facebook’s best and final offer was $7.30 a share. The SEC filing also shows that Fitbit CEO James Park had dinner with “the chief executive officer of Party A” on June …
Lisa Murkowski
… Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released an official statement following the WSJ report, expressing “privacy concerns” regarding the project. U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski also tweeted her concern regarding this partnership. She stated, “Like many Americans, I’m … told Analytics India Magazine . California-based Ciitizen is a consumer health tech company that offers a platform that helps patients collect, organize, and share their medical records digitally. “While tech hacks are something, that all …
Amy Klobuchar
… The privacy-breaching ambit of this project drew massive backlash from the public as well as prominent figures. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released an official statement following the WSJ report, expressing “privacy concerns … told Analytics India Magazine . California-based Ciitizen is a consumer health tech company that offers a platform that helps patients collect, organize, and share their medical records digitally. “While tech hacks are something, that all …
David Feinberg
Medical Records Were the Last Bastion of Privacy - Until Silicon Valley Got Them | 11/24/2019
… in the framework “We have these enormous gaps in our regulatory framework,” says Deven McGraw, chief compliance officer for the health tech startup Ciitizen and a former official with the Department of Health and Human … showing symptoms, according to a presentation by Google’s health head, David Feinberg. HIPAA safeguards our data when it’s within our health care system and moving between providers and their associates. But its protections are narrow …
