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Best Buy acquires aging in place tech company GreatCall for $800M

Mobi Health News

San Diego-based GreatCall — an old guard digital health company which started out making smartphones for seniors in 2006 but now offers a suite of connected safety products and services for aging in place individuals — has been acquired by retail chain Best Buy for $800 million.

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Investor Opportunities in Women’s Digital Health Market 2023: Surging Adoption Rate of Digital and Remote Healthcare Services Offers Avenues for Investment – ResearchAndMarkets.com

Digital Health Global

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Investor Series: Opportunities in Women’s Digital Health Market” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the usage of digital technologies in order to receive healthcare, remotely.

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HealthTech Scotland: NHS to launch new Health and Social care app as a ‘Digital Front Door’ for patients

Lloyd Price

This initiative reflects a growing trend towards digital health solutions and aims to modernise healthcare delivery in Scotland. Global Recognition: The country's success in digital health initiatives, such as telemedicine and AI-powered diagnostics, has attracted international attention and investment.

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. Five offerings from the Rock Health Aging in Place report. What did they get for that investment?

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AstraZeneca launches Evinova, a health-tech business to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector, the delivery of clinical trials and better health outcomes

Digital Health Global

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AstraZeneca today launches Evinova, set to be a leading provider of digital health solutions to better meet the needs of healthcare professionals, regulators and patients. 2 Digital health is a large (+$900bn by 2032) and growing (13.6% CAGR 2022-2032) market.

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Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Care Gets Personal at Philips for Parents and Babies

Health Populi

Note that Philips acquired Avent in 2006, well before the company committed to an all-health portfolio. A big message of CES 2019 was indoor air quality, and I met with several suppliers of home tech that gauge pollutants and problems that can be risks for family health. Over one in four women in the U.S. Over one in three U.S.