Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) and FibriCheck said yesterday that they inked a deal to enable European users to monitor their heart rhythm for irregularities directly from a Fitbit smartwatch. Users in Belgium, Holland, Ireland and the U.K. are affected by the partnership, which combines the CE-marked FibriCheck software with the Fitbit smartwatch technology to check for irregularities such […]
Digital Health
MedTech Innovator announces five finalists in competition
MedTech Innovator last week announced the five finalists for its $500,000 competition. The organization will award more than $500,000 in prizes to the finalists with first place taking $350,000 and the four remaining finalists taking $25,000. Five finalists will have seven minutes to pitch their technologies to a panel of four judges. The audience will […]
Bayer leads One Drop’s $40m Series B, inks deal to expand past diabetes
Bayer (ETR:BAYN) led a $40 million Series B round for glucose monitor maker One Drop, licensed its platform for treating conditions beyond diabetes and put its pharma president on the One Drop board. New York City-based One Drop developed a compact blood glucose monitor, pairing it with an app designed to provide behavioral cues and one-on-one coaching. […]
TransEnterix seeks to raise $20.3m
TransEnterix (NYSE:TRXC) said that it has priced a public offering of 28 million shares of its common stock for gross proceeds of approximately $20.3 million. The Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based company also granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase approximately $3 million in additional shares of common stock. TransEnterix intends to use the net […]
iRhythm unveils $13m Verily afib deal, readies $100m offering
iRhythm Technologies (NSDQ:IRTC) said yesterday that it inked a deal worth nearly $13 million with Alphabet (NSDQ:GOOGL) life sciences unit Verily to develop AI-based screening, diagnosis and management technology for atrial fibrillation and said it’s readying a stock offering worth $100 million in part to back the collaboration. The deal to integrate Verily’s data analytics into […]
New AMA codes to cover e-visits and home health monitoring
The American Medical Association (AMA) has released the 2020 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set, which contains identifiers and descriptors assigned to each medical, surgical and diagnostic service available to patients. Healthcare providers, insurers and researchers use CPT codes for reporting, measurement, analysis, and benchmarking of medical services and procedures nationwide. The 2020 code set […]
Livongo shares gain as first earnings print tops expectations
Livongo (NSDQ:LVGO) shares gained in pre-market trading today after the digital health company posted second-quarter results that beat the consensus forecast on Wall Street, in its first earnings print since its public flotation in July. Mountain View, Calif.-based Livongo said losses widened 129.3% to -$14.3 million, or 76¢ per share, on sales growth of 155.8% […]
Senseonics touts BCBS reimbursement wins
Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) said today that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Idaho now provide coverage for the implantable Eversense continuous glucose monitor. The company’s Eversense device includes a fluorescence-based sensor, a mobile app and a transmitter. Senseonics’ touts its system as being the first with a long-term, implantable CGM sensor, as well as the first […]
Adherium inks digital health deal with Summatix
Adherium (ASX:ADR) announced a data-based initiative with Summatix to allow clinicians to improve care of patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease across the world. New Zealand-based Adherium and Australia-based Summatix plan to build upon an existing relationship, as the former will gain access to Summatix’s platform to release data from its Hailie sensors for […]
AliveCor stops selling KardiaBand ECG for Apple Watch
AliveCor reportedly yesterday said that it ended sales of its KardiaBand for use with the Apple Watch. The company stopped selling the device in June and has pulled the device from its Amazon vendor profile as well, according to MobiHealthNews. “In 2017, we were proud to launch the first FDA-cleared accessory for the Apple Watch,” […]
FDA clears DynoSense’s cloud-based vitals monitor
DynoSense this week announced that it received FDA clearance for its Vital Signs Measuring System. The wireless system can capture electrocardiogram, respiration rate, oral body temperature, functional oxygen saturation of arterial hemoglobin, optical photoplethysmogram for pulse rate and heart rate. The device communicates with any smartphone using its DynoLife application that can send raw data […]