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Patient shark tank takes much gentler approach than sharp-toothed muse

A nutrition app that tailors diets to patients’ diseases and medications to avoid adverse reactions, Nutrify shared the winners’ circle spotlight with a price transparency tool, Clear Health Costs. A tie? That would never happen on Shark Tank where winners are lionized and the losers get a lesson on entrepreneurship they never forget. Patient Shark […]

ActualMeds raising $5M to expand medication management services

ActualMeds graduated from New York Digital Health accelerator‘s inaugural class last year with a goal of  making it easier for patients with a high risk of readmission to manage their medication. More than one year later, it’s raised two-thirds of the company’s first equity round. It plans to use the $5 million it’s seeking in […]

Devices & Diagnostics

Eric Topol calls out 6 startups that are giving healthcare power to the people

#Doctors being squeezed by many new trends in #healthcare & #tech. Via @EricTopol@NYeHealth#DHC14pic.twitter.com/5EMQKFPMlZ — Wen Dombrowski MD (@HealthcareWen) November 17, 2014 Eric Topol, the director of Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California, shared some more details of his vision of democratized healthcare at the New York Digital Health Conference this week. In a […]

Next IT bets AI will be able to get people to take their meds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFzOyGEsB6I People are complex beings – that’s why we need to use many methods to get people to take their prescription meds consistently. Smart bottles to alert physicians and patients, text messages, phone call reminders. Next IT’s healthcare channel is developing an even more interactive approach to medication adherence. It is applying artificial intelligence to […]