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CarePort’s Epic-Built Referral Platform Launches in Epic App Orchard
18 Feb 2020
CarePort Health, a pioneer in care coordination and post-acute outcomes management, today announced the availability of CarePort Transition ...
Wellin5 Acquires Mental Health Journaling and Tracking App Therachat
18 Feb 2020
Wellin5, an innovative online telehealth counseling platform, today announced its acquisition of Therachat, a San Francisco, CA-based mental...
Ro Launches WebMd-Like Health Information Website
18 Feb 2020
Direct-to-consumer virtual health company Ro launched a new health information platform dubbed Health Guide. Currently the platform covers s...
Digital Diabetes Prevention Program Use Tied to Weight Reduction Among Low-Income Patients with Prediabetes
18 Feb 2020
A sample of low-income patients engaged with Omada Health’s digital diabetes prevention program (DPP), achieved weight loss but no major d...
Study: Skin Cancer Detection Apps ‘Cannot be Relied On’ for An Accurate Diagnosis
18 Feb 2020
A study published in the BMJ has advised against the use of apps to assess the risk of skin cancer. Primarily targeted at catching early-s...
Alzheimer’s Research UK Seeks to Improve Early Detection of Disease with New Global Project
18 Feb 2020
Alzheimer’s Research UK is launching a project to improve early detection of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s through ...
Innovaccer Raises $70M to Expand Healthcare Data Activation Platform
18 Feb 2020
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare data platform company, announced today it has raised a total of $70 million in capital in...
UK-Based Startup Oxford VR Nabs $12.5M to Expand Automated VR Therapy Platform
18 Feb 2020
VR therapy pioneer Oxford VR announced today a landmark $12.5 million Series A funding round led by Optum Ventures and supported by Luminous...
Looking to Keep Data Analytics in Healthcare Affordable? The Answer is the Cloud
18 Feb 2020
It’s clear that 2020 Healthcare will be the year of big market disruptions. With data-rich players such as Amazon and Google entering into...
Tricks and Tips for Implementing a Digital Strategy
18 Feb 2020
Digital health has gone from an obscure term in the health tech world to buzz words on the lips of every hospital CEO in America. Today star...
Chinese Government Releases Public App to Gauge Potential Coronavirus Exposures
18 Feb 2020
As cases of the COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus) continue to spread across China and beyond, the Chinese government has released a new app i...
Atrius Health to Deploy Kyruus to Enhance Patient Access Across Eastern Massachusetts
18 Feb 2020
Atrius Health, the Northeast’s largest non-profit independent medical group, has selected Kyruus, the leader in provider search and schedu...
C. Light Launches AI-Driven Retinal Eye-Tracking; Predicts Neurological Health in 10 Seconds
18 Feb 2020
C. Light Technologies, a Berkeley, CA-based neurotech and AI company participating in UC Berkeley’s premier accelerator SkyDeck, is introd...
Cotiviti Launches Longitudinal Data Set in Healthcare
18 Feb 2020
Cotiviti has introduced Caspian Insights, a unified data and analytics platform that represents the most comprehensive data set in the healt...
AI-Powered Temperature Screening Solution Being Trialed in Singapore
18 Feb 2020
iThermo reduces the need for manual temperature screening, and provides prompts where secondary checks can be carried out for feverish perso...
Cognoa Teams up with Autism Learning Partners; Meditation.live Available on Slack Marketplace and More Digital Health Deals
18 Feb 2020
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals deployed LifeLink’s text chatbot; Advantia Health inks deal with West Virginia’s WIC progr...
Roundup: Tech’s Role in Tracking, Testing, Treating COVID-19
18 Feb 2020
With the incidence of new COVID-19 cases growing by the day, healthcare stakeholders are continuing to search for tools and medications to h...
Duke Study: Activity, But Not Skin Tone, can Impact Wearables’ PPG Heart Rate Accuracy
18 Feb 2020
The new investigation also found substantial differences between the performance of specific devices, with consumer products generally outpe...
Medtronic Acquires AI-Powered Surgical Simulation Platform Digital Surgery
18 Feb 2020
Medtronic, a global provider of medical technology solutions and services, announced the acquisition of Digital Surgery, a London-based priv...
Symplr Acquires Quality & Risk Management Platform the Patient Safety Company
18 Feb 2020
symplr, a leading healthcare governance, risk and compliance (“GRC”) software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) platform, backed by Clearlake Ca...