Judges picked Sonavi Labs as the winner of the home health track at MedCity INVEST Digital Health. The Baltimore-based startup makes a smart stethoscope that can be used at home, and plans to seek FDA clearance for a feature to detect pneumonia.
B.Well Connected Health, a startup that brings together patients’ health records and helps them navigate their benefits, recently raised $32 million in funding. CEO Kristen Valdes started the company based on her own experience advocating for her daughter.
Patient expectations continue to evolve, and healthcare practices that fail to adapt risk more than just revenue—they risk losing trust.
The company, which uses asynchronous video visits to help patients take their medication, raised a series A round led by Claritas Health Ventures.
The study, by Personal Genome Diagnostics and academic researchers, was able to predict responses to checkpoint inhibitor therapy in patients with MSI-H and high tumor mutational burden.
Kaiser Permanente acknowledged to The Baltimore Sun that it paid former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh $114,000 for her Healthy Holly children's book series from 2015 to 2018. During this time, Kaiser was negotiating a lucrative contract from the city of Baltimore.
Kaiser's collaboration with the organization will be directed at seven communities in California as well as Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Montgomery County in Maryland, Arlington and Fairfax Counties in Virginia, Denver, Atlanta and Honolulu.
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
During the three-month program, UMHP members with type 2 diabetes will use emocha's app to submit daily videos of themselves taking their medication.
Amid the drug pricing debate, the findings show that trials can be run at relatively low cost and still generate high-quality data, the study's lead author said.
These numbers compare to 2017, when 20.9 million pills and $301.1 million were lost because of drug diversion, according to an analysis by data analytics company Protenus.
There is debate in medical circles about just how effective recommendations and guidelines will be in stemming the epidemic.
Balancing healthcare benefits and insurance costs requires research. From becoming a Difference Card member to offering wellness resources, there are many ways to improve healthcare at low cost.
The 10 startups that made the cut for Health: US 2018, the venture development program headed up by Village Capital and Kaiser Permanente, seek to address the needs of America's aging population.
A little more than one year after OurCrowd Qure launched a digital health fund and Luminox Health partnered with Johns Hopkins to validate medtech, a managing partner of the fund and CEO of Luminox, Dr. Yossi Bahagon, offered an update in response to emailed questions.
Baltimore, Maryland-based startup Protenus has raised $11 million in a Series B round led by Kaiser Permanente Ventures and F-Prime Capital Partners. Arthur Ventures, LionBird Venture Capital and Cognosante Ventures also participated.
Although DigiTx Partners, a private equity firm launched by Astellas Pharma and MPM Capital, led the round, another participant was Swedish medical device company Mölnlycke Health Care, which is working with Tissue Analytics to commercialize clinical decision support tools.
It's hard to ignore how much hype AI is getting in healthcare. Companies are touting how artificial intelligence can be applied to various areas of the healthcare space. But where does it fit in when it comes to data breach prevention?