StartUPDATES: New Developments from Healthcare Startups
Check out news from VenoVision, Cora Therapeutics, Zorro, and Validic.
HIMSS highlights: How health IT companies navigate the Covid-19 pandemic landscape
Health IT companies across revenue cycle management, behavioral health, cybersecurity, supply chain and other areas highlight new developments and share how they have responded to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Validic updates patient-generated data integration tool and deepens healthcare partnerships
Validic also announced a collaboration with Partners Center for Connected Health to integrate patient-generated health data from more than 420 consumer and clinical health devices, which is set to go live in 2018.
#Connect2Health panelists ask: For clinicians, where’s the value in wearables?
Among consumers, wearables are growing in popularity. But what can clinicians actually gain from the data the devices collect? Panelists at the Connected Health Conference in Boston weighed in.
Report: More than 60 percent used digital health tools in clinical trials but accuracy concerns linger
About 67 percent surveyed said they want to use wearable activity trackers in future clinical trials and 64 percent reported they would like to use sensors, such as ones placed in pill bottles to measure medication adherence.
Does Validic’s move to reduce digital divide point the way forward for healthcare?
Optical character recognition could offer an alternative to Internet of Things to transmit vital health data to physicians.
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Transforming Patient Care: The Role of AI-Powered Assistants
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Healthcare deals I’d like to see in 2016: IBM buys athenahealth, Verizon buys a hospital and Kaiser Permanente buys a wine app
Go big or go home, healthcare. 2016 is the year to make big things happen.
Validic inks deal with Quintiles to do remote monitoring for clinical trials
The move will help Quintiles improve the frequently costly, lengthy recruitment process for clinical trials.
The key driver to transforming healthcare: patient engagement
This post is sponsored by Validic and is the first article in a six-part series. Our current healthcare system can often function with the patient on the outskirts. To combat this systemic problem, providers are adopting health IT in greater numbers, and healthcare is finally starting to become patient-centric. Chris Edwards, Validic It is a […]
How one of healthcare’s hottest startups avoided being a middling wellness company
Validic's Drew Schiller: "Entrepreneurs don't understand what they're getting into when you start a company."
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Internet of Things enabler Validic raises $12.5M to add staff, support product development
Validic, a software developer with technology that suppoorts the growth of the Internet of Things in healthcare, has raised $12.5 million to expand its staff to support more products and to expand its customer base. Kaiser Permanente’s venture arm led the Series B round. “We are currently hiring for roles in technology development, operations and […]
Validic offers API to entrepreneurs as influence grows
Validic has been adding a diverse group of companies interested in using its data aggregation tools to unharness data from devices and apps. But in a move that is likely to accelerate that trend, it has begun offering its API to healthcare entrepreneurs to connect their own products to Validic’s network. It is making the […]
Validic inks deal with Cerner to integrate health and fitness, device data with clinical data into patient portal
Validic, a health IT company that developed a way to desilo data from medical devices and activity trackers, has signed a deal with electronic medical record provider Cerner, according to an emailed company statement. The deal is a major milestone for Validic and signals a significant expansion of its influence in the market. The deal […]
There’s a strong case to be made for simplifying what wearables do
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Henry Thoreau was more interested in removing the incumbrances of his life and building a cabin in the woods than getting his head around the health tracking market. But a Wired magazine article makes a good case for the need to stop building Swiss army knives of wearables that have a bunch […]
In 2015, ecosystems will transform fragmented wearables market
The widespread availability of fitness wearables coupled with marginal use has created a relatively new trend in the market — ecosystems. After all, no one can afford to depend on the business of just a few devices and it opens up access to a bigger share of wearables users. Its also a way to add […]