Kevin Goode I think it is dangerous to compare the intrusion of advertising, which we rarely have the choice to opt-out of,let alone opt-in, with health monitoring that requires us to opt-in. Also, the arguments for health monitoring are largely based on the need to reduce healthcare costs, one of the largest of which is the failure to comply with evidence based medicines. I have previously written a commentary on this see We need to keep some perspective by remembering that healthcare costs are set to rise dramatically due to the increase in chronic disease. A situation made worse by... Continue Reading
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Blueprint Health’s 8th Demo Day: 8 new companies show their stuff
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blueprint-health1.png” thumb_width=”150″ /]Last Friday, in the middle of a NYC nor’easter, Blueprint Health had its eighth Demo Day, where startup companies in this accelerator’s latest three-month Summer class, having worked on their innovations and developed a business plan, ‘graduate’ and ‘pitch’ their audience. There’s been a shift over the past few classes to B2B-oriented digital health, from reducing readmissions through geolocation (Position Health) to HIPAA compliance (HIPAAfix) to streamlined billing for chronic care management (Oculus Health), but half are more consumer-oriented companies, providing more accessible genetic testing (Bind Health), workplace stress reduction (Psocratic) and point of service lending to... Continue Reading
The difficulty in bringing telehealth to those needing it most
California’s Center for Connected Health Policy, which is the National Telehealth Policy Resource Center, has published a study which concludes that community health centers (CHC)–a general term covering Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and Rural Health Centers (RHC)–have difficulty sustaining telehealth programs to support the underserved and ill with chronic conditions including mental health without grants or other subsidies. Consultant Milliman studied five California CHCs and determined that other than financial, major impediments to successful implementation were structural: complex billing and reimbursement rules, and difficulty tracking telehealth visits through multiple EHRs that weren’t necessarily compatible with each other or with... Continue Reading
IMS Health report: mainstream health app adoption remains elusive
...(though many are free), limited healthcare system integration, regulator and privacy unknowns. Where’s the progress? Chronic condition monitoring (left), with clinical trials more than doubling in the past two years, and focusing on treatment/prevention largely for older adults. These clinical trails are looking at mental health, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, weight management and oncology. IMS Health also recommends that users and stakeholders, including clinical organizations such as the CDC, ASCO and the Cancer Support Community tap into their clinical resources to develop and promote patient-centered apps. Download report (information required.) A decidedly less cheerful take on the report is Stephanie Baum’s... Continue Reading
Conference report: MedCityNews CONVERGE
...electricity that changed the world and how we now live. In what directions is Independence Blue Cross converging? They are converging with the provider markets with a joint venture with Tandigm Health.With access to data and tools to manage patients with chronic conditions, doctors are financially rewarded for preventing hospitalizations and improving the overall quality of patient care. Plus a partnership with NaviNet, a real time communication site for providers to give the patient referrals within a value-based accountable care network. They are converging with medical research institutions to prevent the onset of diabetes.Collaborative work is under way with NYU... Continue Reading
Qualcomm Life, Cox Communications buy into integration–differently (US/FR) updated
Qualcomm Life, known for building partnerships with independent companies to form a continuum in transitional/chronic care management utilizing the HealthyCircles platform [TTA 19 Dec 14], yesterday announced not a partnership but an acquisition–Capsule Tech, a company that builds systems for healthcare facilities, mainly hospitals, to collect and integrate data from myriad medical devices. Their medical device information system (MDIS) is dubbed SmartLinx and is used by 1,930 hospital clients in 38 countries. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Capsule has international offices in France, Singapore, China, Australia, UAE and Brazil. Majority owner was Turenne Capital, a French PE company. Acquisition terms were... Continue Reading
IBM Watson Health adds 5 partners, 2 solutions
...Apple HealthKit into a personalized patient engagement program to improve individual health outcomes. The five new partners are Boston Children’s Hospital (pediatrics), Columbia University (Pathology & Cell Biology and Systems Biology), ICON plc (pharma clinical trial matching–Ireland), Sage Bionetworks (Open Biomedical Research Platform) and Teva Pharmaceuticals (treatments for chronic conditions–Israel). They join CVS Health, Medtronic and Yale University. On opening day, the new headquarters also hosted demonstrations by health ecosystem partners Best Doctors, Modernizing Medicine, Pathway Genomics, Socrates and Welltok. Release (PDF) Previously in TTA on IBM Watson Health: their big announcement at HIMSS 15 and we do wonder about... Continue Reading
Unicorns to Series A–health tech funding gained in (perhaps) the nick of time
...glucose sensing contact lens) as its own company, with a new moniker to come. It will tackle chronic disease detection and prevention, separately from Calico, which is working on anti-aging and longevity tech. LA Times, Wired **MedCityNews looks at four more funding rounds from last week: predictive analytics cruncher Zephyr Health ($17.5 million Series C), Gauss Surgical (blood loss measurement, $3.3 million venture), Fit4D (diabetes coaching, $2.8 million Series A) and one of our favorites, the Owlet baby sock that measures vital signs. An ‘awww’ inspiring product that just raised $7 million in a Series A. This Editor has predicted... Continue Reading
UK Department of Health views digital technology, future for the NHS (updated)
A freshly released video starring the Minister of Life Sciences George Freeman MP takes just under three minutes to touch on a dizzying number of aspects of revising a NHS organization structured around 1940s siloed medicine to serve a million new pensioners in the last five years and to ease the burden of chronic disease. There are the usual echoes of the Triple Aim: to be more ‘seamless’ and improve both patient treatment and their experience; precision (and early) diagnosis; to keep people out of hospital; ‘more health out of every pound spent’; pioneering treatments; new models of care….Embracing digital... Continue Reading
TBI neuromodulation therapy in phase 3 trials with US Army
Helius Medical Technologies and the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) jointly announced the phase 3 trial of Helius’ mPoNS (Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator), a non-invasive brain stimulation device for the treatment of balance disorder in patients with mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury. This commercializes the research of USAMRMC and University of Wisconsin-Madison we covered two years ago [TTA 28 Feb 13] in using electrical stimulation of the cranial nerves located in the tongue. The phase 3 study will be at three sites for seven months: the Montreal Neurofeedback Center, the Oregon Health & Science University Center for Regenerative Medicine,... Continue Reading
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