Mayo Clinic researchers found success with an mHealth app - EpiFinder, which can diagnose Epilepsy (A disruption in which nerve cell activity in the brain is disturbed, causing seizures). During recent research conducted at Mayo Clinic, the Epifinder app recognized epilepsy in almost 87percent of the cases.
Consumers are depending on mHealth applications and wearable devices to improve their medication abidance.
A Fitbit official disclosed eight mobile health apps, including two focused on diabetes management and one on oncology care.
During the Fitbit Q1 earnings call, the company confirmed its focus on digital health regardless of the expected decline in sales numbers. Currently, Fitbit is focusing on its new alliance with Google, wherein the two companies will work together to speed up innovation in the digital health space to provide clear EHRs and precise patient data to help the clinicians.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Researcher Institute (PCORI), a study to look at more effective ways to tackle uncontrolled hypertension using mHealth, was funded $6.5 million to the researchers of the University of California and San Francisco. The research includes whether the patients can care for themselves better at home through mHealth devices, compare to the doctors’ office.
Several Mobile-Health companies are joining hands to create a clinician-facing platform for assuring data quality and patient identification in remote patient monitoring programs.
California-based Casetabs, the pioneer of cloud-based surgery coordination technology, yesterday announced it has received $6 million in series A-funding to scale its surgery coordination application.
US patient-centric data analytics company, Trayt Technologies (formerly Ava Health), has developed an app to help improve the diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life for patients with autism, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental and brain disorders.
San Francisco-based wearable tech company iBeat announced today that it has closed an additional $5.5 million in seed funding, bringing its total round to $10 million.
Fitbit announced yesterday that it plans to utilize Google’s new Cloud Healthcare API, in order to continue its push into the world of serious healthcare devices. It’s a bit of a no-brainer as far as partnerships go.
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