...Medtronic, the 9,000 elephant of healthcare devices, is partnering with AI-based nutrition platform Nutrino, an AI-powered personalized nutrition platform. Nutrino’s FoodPrint Report technology will integrate into Medtronic’s iPro2 myLog app that connects to their continuous glucose monitor. Users log their food by taking a picture of each snack or meal. The patient’s sensor glucose data is integrated with the food data for a Pattern Snapshot report and a FoodPrint report. Nutrino recently gained $8 million in Series A funding. Mobihealthnews Babylon Health passes the test–the British GP test. Babylon recreated the MRCGP (Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners)... Continue Reading
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Instant GP, don’t even add water; Babylon Health taps into the corporate market via insurer Bupa (UK)
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/instant-gp-300×300.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Is digital health gaining some traction in the UK? One insurer is making the bet. Earlier this week, Babylon Health announced a UK partnership with Bupa’s corporate insurance area to open Babylon’s digital health services to corporate employees insured by Bupa. Bupa’s Instant GP app offers these employees Babylon services, such as the ability to book virtual appointments with GPs, be transferred to specialists, and receive prescriptions. The app is free to download through the Apple App Store or Google Play for Bupa-covered employees. Bupa and Babylon have been working together in a limited way since 2015–see... Continue Reading
Rounding up the news: Babylon’s Samsung Health UK deal, smartphone urine test debuts, a VA Home Telehealth ‘announcement’, Aging 2.0’s NY Happy Hour
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Lasso.jpg” thumb_width=”125″ /]Huge or Ho-Hum? Babylon’s ‘Ask an Expert’ feature is now available within the Samsung Health app as of the start of June. It will need to be activated at a cost of £50 per year, or £25 for a single consultation. Babylon’s service with over 200 GPs is now available on millions of Samsung Galaxy devices in the UK. Babylon now claims half a million users of its private GP services and 26,500 registered in London with its NHS-funded and controversial GP at Hand app. Is it as our Editor Charles, quoting Niccolo Machiavelli writing in The... Continue Reading
‘Deconstructing the Telehealth Industry’ positively, focusing on ‘virtual care’ of older adults
...This is the sting in the tail for funders of Babylon etc!! Access breeds Excess!! D-Ann Ross Convenient VirtuCare is now available in Florida. We bring our doctors to the patient via secure audio and video. We are available 24/7 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our goal is to be a cost effective alternative to brick and mortar urgent care. We are also available for post discharge follow-ups. Studies show that is a patient can follow up with a health care provider after being hospitalized, the chance of re- hospitalization is significantly reduced. Many PCP’s schedules are packed... Continue Reading
Robots, robots, everywhere…even when they’re NHS 111 online algorithms
...a ‘robot’. This is a robot.[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/robottoy-1.jpg” thumb_width=”100″ /] What is so surprising about using algorithmically based questions for quick screening? Zipnosis in the US has been using this method for years as a pre-screener in major health systems. They call it an ‘online adaptive interview’ guiding the patient through branching logic of relevant questions; a provider can review the provided clinical note and make a diagnosis and treatment recommendation in 2 minutes. It also captures significant data before moving to an in-person or telemedicine visit if needed. Babylon Health uses a similar methodology in its chatbot-AI assisted service [TTA... Continue Reading
Babylon Health’s ‘GP at hand’ not at hand for NHS England–yet. When will technology be? Is Carillion’s collapse a spanner in the works?
...of patients are encouraged to register at a physical site that could be a significant distance from both their home and work address, arguably represents a distortion of the original intentions of the Choice of GP policy. (Page 12) There are also concerns about complex needs plus other special needs patients (inequality of service), controlled drug policy, and the capacity of Babylon Health to expand the service. Since the October report, a Babylon spokesperson told Digital Health that “Commissioners have comprehensively signed off our roll-out plan and we look forward to working with them to expand GP at Hand across... Continue Reading
Babylon’s ‘GP at hand’ has thousands of London patients in hand
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Babylon-NHS-tube-advert.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Apparently Babylon Health’s ‘GP at hand’ is a hit with Londoners, despite the requirement to shift GP practices. The Evening Standard reports that the Lillie Road Surgery in Hammersmith, one of the five London practices in the program (plus Victoria, Poplar, Euston, and Fulham), increased its patient list by nearly 7,000 (4,970 in November to 11,867 last month). (Was it the Tube adverts?–Ed.) No information is available on increases at the other surgeries. Helping matters may be the UK flu epidemic, where the incentive to stay at home and have a video consult would be great (and... Continue Reading
Rounding up the roundups in health tech and digital health for 2017; looking forward to 2018’s Nitty-Gritty
...content of 2017 here. Newer models of telehealth and telemedicine such as Babylon Health and PushDoctor continue to struggle to find a place in the national structure. (Babylon’s challenge to the CQC was dropped before Christmas at their cost of £11,000 in High Court costs.) Judging from our Tender Alerts, compared to the US, telecare integration into housing is far ahead for those most in need especially in support at home. Yet there are glaring disparities due to funding–witness the national scandal of NHS Kernow withdrawing telehealth from local residents earlier this year [TTA coverage here]. This Editor is pleased... Continue Reading
Babylon Health: correcting our NW London CCG report; objects to concerns raised by CQC report (latest updates)
...to reinforce that this was a local CCG project and that NHS England was not involved. The second request we received last Friday was from Babylon Health’s PR representative, Giles Kenningham, principal at Trafalgar Strategy. It was certainly strong and quoted here, edited as indicated to remove the link to the original article and Mr. Kenningham’s signature: Your recent article on Babylon is factually wrong and misleading (link removed): You claim the babylon app was dropped after being manipulated by patients. The term ‘manipualtion’ has been removed from the board papers and is wrong. Similarly the planned pilot had never... Continue Reading
HeyDoctor! Come and get your diagnosis via text here!
...and metabolic analysis. Not happy with your lash thickness and growth? Here’s the topical med for you! Trying to quit smoking? Done. All you need do is text one of their in-house board-certified physicians and live in one of 19 states where it’s offered. For our UK Readers, this is a service with similarities to Babylon Health‘s chatbot service but without the decision support ladder–it goes straight to the doctor. They claim on the website that most visits are five minutes and under $20 in cost, plus affiliations with leading medical centers like UCSF and Georgetown, although this Editor doubts... Continue Reading
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