remote monitoring
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Devices & Diagnostics, Health Tech
Philips receives FDA clearance for patch that monitors breathing
Designed long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Philips received FDA clearance for a wearable sensor that can track respiratory rate. The disposable patch is used to monitor patients after they are moved from the ICU to another care setting.
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Healthcare analytics startup Biofourmis moves into oncology with new acquisition
Biofourmis, a Boston-based startup that uses analytics to predict problems in patients with heart failure, acquired Gaido Health from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. The startup said the deal would help it expand its work into oncology.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Health IT, Telemedicine, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Hospitals turn to technology to combat coronavirus
With COVID-19 cases now reported in 73 countries, physicians around the globe are looking for ways to combat the disease. While pharmaceutical companies search for new treatments, healthcare providers are also turning to technologies that allow them to care for patients while minimizing exposure to the virus.
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Top Story, Daily, Devices & Diagnostics, Patient Engagement, Payers
Philips, Humana to offer remote monitoring for at-risk seniors
The two healthcare companies will provide remote monitoring for Medicare Advantage members at high risk of hospital readmission and congestive heart failure patients.
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Sony launches new B-to-B mobile health platform including a wearable
While the Apple Watch and other wearables have made significant inroads in the consumer arena, Sony felt the market could use a more robust B2B approach.
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Best Buy acquires senior remote monitoring company Critical Signal Technologies
Best Buy’s acquisition of CST builds on the company’s $800 million purchase of Great Call last year, which served to steer the company’s business in a strategic direction towards providing technology products, services and solutions to the aging population.
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Why house call startup Heal is launching a new telemedicine service
The Los Angeles-based startup positions the new offering as building on the existing relationships between patients and physicians established through its house call model.
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An interesting telemedicine story from Brazil told in Israel
Here’s how providers at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Brazil take care of workers on an oil platform away from the continent.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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Intermountain Healthcare expands its home-based services through Intermountain at Home program
The program will include services like remote monitoring, virtual urgent care visits through Intermountain Connect Care, appointment video visits and physical therapy, to name a few.
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Seattle startup rakes in $2M for hypertension remote monitoring system
The company, Sentinel Healthcare, plans to use the money to further develop its product and scale its customer base and patient population.
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Through new partnership, GreatCall brings its technology to CNA policyholders
Certain CNA policyholders who are still living in their homes will have access to GreatCall’s Lively Home and Lively Mobile solutions.
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Philips team up for remote patient monitoring
The hospital’s affiliated doctors at Weill Cornell Medicine will utilize the Philips eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion solutions.
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In collaboration with AARP, VRHealth reveals remote monitoring VR platform
Informed by learnings from its collaboration with AARP, VRHealth announced at CES that it has launched a VR platform, which includes healthcare-related apps for consumers to use at home.
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Hospitals, Devices & Diagnostics
Ochsner, Geneva Health Solutions partner for remote monitoring of cardiac device patients
Geneva Health Solutions’ cloud-based technology platform and remote monitoring service will be used to help Ochsner’s patients with cardiac device implants in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.