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MediMergent and FDA team up to tackle medication adherence

April 16, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

Healthcare data analytics company, MediMergent, and the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research reportedly gathered stakeholders from biopharma companies, pharmacies, health plans and regulatory agencies to propose strategies regarding medication non-adherence. Approximately half of all Americans with chronic diseases who need lifelong medications do not stick to their prescribed regimen six months after they […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Pharmaceutical Tagged With: medimergent

ResMed is disrupting connected health: Here’s how

April 3, 2018 By Heather Thompson Leave a Comment

Here’s how a respiratory firm took control of the connected health and the medtech digital revolution. When you think powerful digital connected devices, the first thing to pop into your head probably isn’t a CPAP. Continuous positive airway pressure has been shown in numerous studies to be effective in improving sleep apnea and preventing a […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Digital Health, News Well, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: connected medical devices, Digital Health, ResMed Inc.

7 digital health startups you need to watch in 2018

March 29, 2018 By Heather Thompson Leave a Comment

If you want to see where the big money is going in healthcare these days, digital health products are the place to look. Digital health startups raised $11.5 billion in 2017, up 27 percent over 2016, according to the StartUp Health Insights Year End Report. Digital health startups are doing everything from enhancing patient-provider relationships to […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Funding Roundup, Health Information Technology, News Well, Patient Monitoring, Software / IT Tagged With: AI, artificial intelligence, babyscripts, cloud computing, conversa, Digital Health, empirichealth, murj, sansorohealth, wellthie, xealth

Study: Digital tools prove useful for kids with Type I diabetes

March 19, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

A six-month study found that children and teenagers with Type I diabetes who participated in an intensive remote therapy pilot program saw improved blood glucose control compared to those who received traditional care. The study, conducted by UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) and Children’s Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota, was published last month in the journal Pediatric Diabetes. Get the full story […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Diabetes, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: UnitedHealth Group

Optum CEO Renfro steps down to lead expanded investment fund

March 16, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

In a major personnel shift, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) announced this week that Larry Renfro, CEO of its subsidiary Optum, will step away from the corner office to become managing partner of Optum Ventures and its expanded $600 million investment fund. Ex-GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) chief executive, Andrew Witty, will take Renfro’s place as CEO of Optum on […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Funding Roundup, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: GlaxoSmithKline plc, Optum, UnitedHealth Group

Rebiotix develops tool to measure rehabilitation of microbiome

February 12, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

Rebiotix today unveiled its Microbiome Health Index – a tool it created to establish a standard metric that can be used to quantify how effective a microbiome-based therapy is at rehabilitating the human microbiome. The index, which was developed in partnership with data analytics firm BioRankings, combines four bacterial classes into a unidimensional expression of […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Rebiotix

How the Apple Watch & other wearables could help highlight early signs of diabetes

February 7, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

Researchers have found that using Cardiogram‘s deep neural network technology, data collected from ordinary wearables could help flag early signs of diabetes. In one 14,000-person study, the company’s DeepHeart technology was able to distinguish between people with and without diabetes at 85% accuracy. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News.

Filed Under: Big Data, Diabetes, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Software / IT, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Apple Watch, cardiogram, Fitbit

How blockchains could empower patients and secure data

January 18, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh Leave a Comment

Blockchains are best known as the technology behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Loophole Review. But the founders of a young Atlanta-based company called Patientory think they could have another important use – securing health data and empowering patients along the way. Secure access to patient data is a major issue for the healthcare industry. Patients […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Health Information Technology, Hospital Care Tagged With: blockchains, crytocurrency, MedTech, patient data, patientory

One Drop wants to help lead a healthcare revolution for people with diabetes – here’s how

November 28, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

When Jeff Dachis was diagnosed with Type I diabetes four years ago, he remembers leaving the doctor’s office with a sinking feeling in his chest. “I had about six minutes with a nurse practitioner and was given an insulin pen and a prescription and a pat on the back – and I was out the […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Diabetes, Healthcare Reform, Patient Monitoring, Pharmaceutical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Dexcom, Fitbit, One Drop

One Drop partners with Fitbit to bring diabetes data to people’s wrists

November 1, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

One Drop announced yesterday that it landed a multi-part collaboration with Fitbit (NYSE:FIT). The group’s first initiative will be to integrate Fitbit’s data onto One Drop’s mobile app for diabetes management, the company said, in the hopes to helping users better understand how physical activity impacts blood glucose management. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Patient Monitoring, Pharmaceutical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Fitbit, One Drop

Propeller Health launches API to provide local asthma conditions to orgs, patients

October 13, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, Propeller Health released an application programming interface to give local asthma conditions to anyone within the U.S. who is interested in using that data. The Air by Propeller API is a free service that uses a machine-learning model based on millions of days of anonymous asthma symptom data and environmental data. The model uses […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Health Information Technology, Pharmaceutical, Respiratory Tagged With: Propeller Health

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