Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The startup was founded in 2014 by Suci Arumsari (Co-founder & Director Alodokter) & Nathanael Faibis (Co-founder & CEO Alodokter). Existing investors Softbank Ventures Asia and Golden Gate Ventures also participated in the round.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The system first landed clearance in 2014 for Class III heart failure patients.

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APRIL 15, 2019

With the ambitious mission to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth, Babylon Health, an AI-powered smartphone app, was founded in January 2013 and launched to the public in April 2014.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2014, AARP’s Health Innovation @50+ sponsored a report, Challenging Innovators: Matching Offerings to the Needs of Older Adults. It was published in June of 2014 in conjunction with a Venture Summit event run by Mary Furlong and Associates. In the tech innovation world, a decade is both a long and short time.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 28, 2018

Now Minnesota hearing aid company Starkey Hearing Technologies, which launched one of the first hearing aids to connect directly to an iPhone back in 2014, has launched Livio AI. As a health wearable that far predates the invention of the term, hearing aids have always been an interesting spot.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 2, 2019

Founded by CEO Raghu Rai and serial entrepreneur Ken Rohl in 2014, Vietnam-based health tech startup Jio Health recently announced that it has raised $5M series A funding led by VC fund Monk Hill’s Ventures. The new funds will be used by Jio Health to scale its operations and capabilities across Vietnam. What it does

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 14, 2018

According to the announcement, Carbyne — which was founded in 2014 and is backed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak —will be using these new funds to build its presence in global markets and fuel R&D. Carbyne, an Israeli firm looking to digitally update emergency response systems, has raised $15 million in Series B funding.

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Geonetric

JULY 25, 2024

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Burning Rock Biotech, which was founded in 2014 and focuses on NGS (Next-Generation Sequencing) diagnostics solutions for precision medicine in oncology, today announced the closing of the Series C financing totaling RMB 850 million.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Since 2014 to 2019, the proportion of people who said technology makes life more complicated grew from 26% to 33%. At the same time, 62% of consumers said they are “constantly connected online,” growing from 56% in 2014. Consumers have good reason for baking “concern” in that “embrace of technology.”

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 14, 2019

reopened a 2014 probe into whether generic drug manufacturers colluded to raise drug prices. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,

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Digital Health

APRIL 1, 2018

Note to readers: I originally wrote this piece in May of 2014. I was reminded of it today when a colleague from work suggested I look at the Spurious Correlations website, which I hadn’t checked out in a while. While we don’t often call it “Big Data” anymore, having moved on to the new jargon […].

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr. Chris Gibbons of Johns Hopkins University, who wrote about Broadband as a Health Imperative back in 2014.

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Health Populi

JULY 18, 2019

There was three-times faster-paced growth in unintentional deaths in the later years of this study (2014-2017) than in the first seven years studied (1999-2006)–1.9% Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here’s the bar chart illustrating the rates of mortality due to unintentional drug overdoses between 2014 and 2017, by geography.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 15, 2019

With the ambitious mission to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth, Babylon Health, an AI-powered smartphone app, was founded in January 2013 and launched to the public in April 2014.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

This last chart from a 2014 PwC/Strategy& report on the birth of the healthcare consumer is data I often turned to as U.S. What a difference seven years makes, with the latter years book-ended by the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event and the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2021

The first line chart illustrates the trends in medical debt in collections by state expansion of Medicaid, with the bottom darkest line representing debt in collections in Medicaid expansion states from the jump in 2014. Now, cast your eye up to the orange line, tying to debt in states that expanded Medicaid after 2014.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

“The ACA expanded coverage to millions of poor and near-poor families between 2014 and 2016, and the obtaining of health insurance may have staved off financial ruin, perhaps. It’s important to know that the incidence of medical bankruptcy fell within two years of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. households.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The graphic here is of the QR code she had tattooed on her sternum in 2014, embedding much of her electronic health record data. You can read the story of that tattoo and its provenance here.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 28, 2021

Although the amount of US healthcare organizations that utilize patient portal software increased from 32% in 2014 to 90% in early 2019, less than a quarter of […]. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andrei Klubnikin, content management team lead, ITRex.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2020

CVS stopped selling tobacco on October 1, 2014. In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

Fast-forward to her diagnosis in 2014 with Stage IV colorectal cancer, when Stacy emerged as an expert advocate due to her previous personal and professional experience. Stacy first stepped a toe into social media via online support groups focused on rare diseases for Emmett.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2019

Five years ago, financial toxicity as a side-effect was noted by two Sloan Kettering Medical Center in a landmark report on 60 Minutes in October 2014. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In 2014, Dr. Bach and Dr. Saltz were referring to innovative therapeutics like Gleevec and Zaltrap, each priced then at over $10,000 a month.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

” In my 2014 paper for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information Is Being Tracked and Used: ” I quoted James Pyles, Esq.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S. where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Smartphone adoption among older people grew by 50% since 2014, rising from 48% adoption among people 50+ to 79%. The smartphone ranked as the top-purchased tech item among folks over 50 in the past year, followed by a computer, smart TV, tablet, or Bluetooth headset/earbuds.

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Digital Health

JUNE 16, 2014

This post also appeared June 16, 2014 in PE Hub. Phil & Luke Dunphy. I was watching an episode of the sitcom Modern Family on TV the other day and one of the subplots was about one of the kids, Luke, trying to invent the next great kitchen innovation.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 12, 2019

Telehealth adoption among hospitals and health systems is on the rise—up from 54% in 2014 to 85% in 2019—while adoption among outpatient healthcare facilities remains flat, according to two new reports.

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Clocktree

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Here are some highlights: 21% of all telehealth claims were made by clients age 31-40 during the time period 2014-2018. This week the AMA published an article with some interesting stats related to telehealth use across the US. In that same time period, 65% of all claims were made by female clients. 01% in Massachusetts.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 12, 2019

Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurance company in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Farzad Mostashari is now running Aledade, the company he co-founded in 2014 to help independent physician practices transition to value-based models. After spending a chunk of his career creating policy in Washington, D.C.,

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

And there’s already one in the JASON Report from 2014 that was eclipsed by the industry’s excitement about open APIs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2022

Even before their $68 billion merger in 2018 , both CVS and Aetna have, separately and together, both been refining and expanding their virtual and in-person offerings, dating back to 2014 with CVS MinuteClinic and its extensive network of major U.S. health systems.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In this last time period, COVID and its long-tail into 2024, workers’ earnings rose much more than in the previous three time intervals, and inflation increased dramatically at 23% roughly matching premium increases in the period.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

I interviewed Fred for research I was conducted on behalf of the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) in 2014. Juhan for the former lightbulb moment; and for the latter, Fred Trotter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2014, she explained, Providence, a Catholic health system encompassing more than 51 hospitals in the western United States, created the telehospitalist program. Joseph Health, during the InTouch Health-sponsored session, The Telehospitalist Program.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 19, 2019

A 2014 study has concluded that women who were not treated with infertility medications, only acupuncture, had essentially the same conceiving success rate as women on infertility treatments. Judging from these studies, acupuncture seemingly has the potential to be just as healing and useful infertility treatments in most cases.

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