2019 - Connected Health Pulse

Roundup: 16 digital health studies, pilots and reviews from AHA 2019

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

From mobile ECGs to tele-rehabilitation to defibrillator delivery drones, a range of new data was on display at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2019.

Digital Health

iHealthtech researchers working on Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) detection kit

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A group of researchers led by Assistant Professor Shao Huilin at the Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech) located at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is working on the development of a rapid Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) detection kit, based on the enVision technology platform which they invented in 2018.

An overview of APAC’s healthtech landscape – the first half of 2019

Mobi Health News

JULY 19, 2019

Much has happened in the healthtech landscape in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in the first half of 2019 – according to Galen Growth Asia’s latest report for that period, APAC healthtech funding hit $2.5B across 140 deals.

Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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What $285,000 Can Buy You in America: Medical Costs for Retirees in 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2019

The average 65-year old couple retiring in 2019 will need to have a cash nest-egg of $285,000 to cover health care and medical expenses through retirement years, Fidelity Investments calculated. The post What $285,000 Can Buy You in America: Medical Costs for Retirees in 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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The 53 digital health mergers and acquisitions we covered in 2019

Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Alphabet, Amazon and Apple all made deals this year to buy digital health startups, and the year saw exits for Qualcomm Life, Fitbit and PatientsLikeMe.

Digital Health

The promises of consumer health data dominated CES 2019

Mobi Health News

JANUARY 11, 2019

From on-stage demos to expo floor chit chat, attendees couldn't resist discussing what data collection and analysis could bring to consumer healthcare technology.

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Veredus Laboratories announces development of detection kit for Wuhan Coronavirus

Mobi Health News

JANUARY 25, 2020

Singapore-based Veredus Laboratories, a provider of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions, recently announced the development of VereCoV detection kit, a portable Lab-on-Chip application capable of detecting the Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and 2019 Novel Coronavirus (..)

Following strong 2019 growth, Teladoc Health eyes severe flu season, COVID-19 outbreak

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

During its latest earnings call, the remote care company highlighted its new offerings for enterprise customers and discussed how it's been preparing for an increase in infectious disease cases.

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Digital Health: An Evolution From B.C. (Before Coronavirus) to A.D. (After the Disease)

Digital Health

APRIL 22, 2020

2019 […]. That Dickensian construct is a perfect one for thinking about digital health before and after the advent of the coronavirus. As late as March, the runaway train that has been investment in digital health had been running along at Bullet Train speed.

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How telemedicine can help patients and solve physician burnout

KevinMD

MARCH 6, 2019

Now, in 2019, I […]. In 2015, I had to beg doctors to work in telemedicine. Because so many doctors were wary of it, I started to get licensed in multiple states, and now, I have 15 state licenses. Well, what a difference a few years makes. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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12 digital health mergers and acquisitions from Q2 2019, plus 5 IPOs

Mobi Health News

JULY 4, 2019

While most of the financials remain undisclosed, the quarter included a number of interesting deals involving Apple, Best Buy, UnitedHealth Group, and Allscripts.

Digital Health

Digital health investments stay the course in Q2 2020

Mobi Health News

JULY 2, 2020

Despite the uncertainty of COVID-19, funding deals during the last three months were generally on par with those of Q1 2020 and Q2 2019.

Digital Health

With more than $4.6B in fundings, Q3 2020 was an unprecedented showing from digital health investors

Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 2, 2020

MobiHealthNews covered a record-breaking 109 funding deals during the past three months – a clear step up from Q3 2019 and the swelling numbers of H1 2020.

Digital Health

Google completes its acquisition of Fitbit

Mobi Health News

JANUARY 14, 2021

billion deal was announced in late 2019, but delayed by regulatory concerns. The companies' $2.1

Study finds Twitter mentions of pneumonia up in Europe ahead of COVID-19 outbreak

Mobi Health News

JANUARY 27, 2021

The study compared mentions of pneumonia in the winter of 2019-2020 to those of previous winters.

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Early smart clothing firm OMSignal is out of business

Mobi Health News

AUGUST 20, 2020

After declaring bankruptcy at the beginning of 2019, the Canadian company sold some of its patents to Honeywell.

Report: Digital health investment is rebounding in 2024

Mobi Health News

JULY 12, 2024

If investment patterns in the first half of 2024 persist, this year could exceed year-end totals seen in 2019 and 2023, according to Rock Health's H1 2024 digital health funding report.

Digital Health

Survey: Telehealth use increases overall in 2021, but growth stabilizes

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The CHIME Digital Health Most Wired survey found 26% of healthcare organizations reported a quarter or more of their patients have used telehealth, compared with only 7% in 2019.

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In-depth: Female-led startups make strides, but venture funding lags

Mobi Health News

MARCH 26, 2021

Women-led startups only represent 14% of digital health deals closed in 2019, according to Rock Health. .

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Wellinks scores $25M for digital COPD management

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The latest round follows a $14 million Series B raise from 2019.

Provider trends of 2019: Tech deals, voice interfaces, telemedicine and patient-centered care

Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This year, providers have continued to ink deals with big names in tech including Google, Amazon and Apple. The conversation around patient-centered care and technology is also picking up steam.

Telemedicine

Optum reportedly finalizing $470M purchase of virtual behavioral care company AbleTo

Mobi Health News

APRIL 28, 2020

Optum was already a stakeholder in the New York company thanks to a "significant investment" it made early in 2019.

Amwell reveals 65% revenue growth in 2020

Mobi Health News

MARCH 25, 2021

million in revenue up 34% from Q4 2019. . In Q4 Amwell reported $60.4

In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. This premium growth was 1 percentage point below the 5% uptick in 2019. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018.

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lululemon buys in-home workout platform Mirror for $500M

Mobi Health News

JUNE 30, 2020

The clothing and lifestyle brand backed Mirror in 2019, and had been working with the startup on branded workout content.

Report: Digital health funding drops again in Q3

Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

billion across 125 deals, making Q3 the lowest quarter by dollars raised since Q4 2019. According to Rock Health's analysis, startups raised $2.2

Digital Health

Mantra Health tackles college mental healthcare with 'closed-loop' virtual care

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

million seed funding round from 2019, the virtual mental healthcare startup has announced three new partner schools and the official launch of its integrated "Managed Care Program" offering. Backed by an unannounced $3.2

Amazon ends support for third-party, HIPAA-compliant Alexa program

Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The HIPAA-compliant Skills capabilities were launched in 2019 to help patients connect with hospitals and health insurers using Alexa.

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Singapore’s HeartVoice extends the use of its telehealth platform to all healthcare providers

Mobi Health News

MAY 15, 2020

Singapore-based HeartVoice, which was formed in February 2019 as a joint venture between both iAPPS and Omron Healthcare, announced last week that it will extend the use of its telehealth platform to all healthcare providers for free in the country until 31 July, 2020.

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How operating like a start-up helped NZ's Orion Health become profitable again

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The company had to restructure and delist from stock exchanges in Australia and New Zealand in 2019 after losing contracts in the US.

GSK taps at-home test maker Viome Life Sciences to research cancer, autoimmune diseases

Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The partnership expands on the companies’ earlier collaboration announced in late 2019.

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Therapeutic VR sedation startup Oncomfort closes €10 million Series A

Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Since launching its SedaKit for Digital Sedation product in June 2019, the Belgian company said more than 60,000 patients have used its digital therapy.

Finances Are the Top Cause of Stress, and HSAs Aren’t Helping Much

Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

has achieved “the best economy” ever in mid-July 2019. That’s the over-arching theme in PwC’s 8th annual Employee Financial Wellness Survey for 2019, painting a financial stressed-out workforce of fully-employed people. adults based on a poll conducted in January 2019. in December 2018 to 6.2% Louis Federal Reserve.

Health Policy

Polish healthcare provider uses Infermedica's AI-enabled call centre triage platform

Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2019 PZU Zdrowie directed 37% of patients with new health problems to telemedicine consultations.

Telemedicine

Philips scores FDA 510(k) for acute patient monitors

Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The IntelliVue MX750 and MX850 patient monitors received an EUA last year and a European CE mark in 2019.

COVID-19 pandemic leads to more people with high blood pressure, research suggests

Mobi Health News

AUGUST 31, 2020

The study looked at the proportion of Livongo members who had high blood pressure before and during the pandemic, specifically covering the time between mid-September of 2019 and mid-August of 2020.

Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This year’s study was designed to compare current clinicians’ perspectives with those garnered in the 2016 and 2019 studies. ” There was an 8-point growth in those seeing “definite advantages” since 2019. .”

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Walmart announces closing of clinics and virtual care

Mobi Health News

MAY 1, 2024

The Walmart Health centers opened in 2019. Walmart is closing Walmart Health and Walmart Health Virtual Care, saying the business model was not profitable nor sustainable.

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Intellect launches CBT-based digital therapy app

Mobi Health News

APRIL 29, 2020

The Singapore-based startup was founded in 2019 and consists of a team of startup founders and psychologists.

Pharma won't benefit from digital innovation without anticipating its challenges

Mobi Health News

JUNE 5, 2019

At BIO 2019, Sanofi's chief medical and digital officer advised fellow pharma leaders on embracing new technologies and preparing for the challenges they'll bring.

Akili is building its own digital therapeutic distribution platform, foregoing pharma partnerships

Mobi Health News

JANUARY 9, 2019

At CES 2019, the digital therapeutic company's CEO and cofounder described work on an independent prescription, procurement and support platform specific to digital medicines.

Roundup: 16 digital health studies, pilots and reviews from AHA 2019

iHealthtech researchers working on Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) detection kit

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An overview of APAC’s healthtech landscape – the first half of 2019

Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

What $285,000 Can Buy You in America: Medical Costs for Retirees in 2019

The 53 digital health mergers and acquisitions we covered in 2019

The promises of consumer health data dominated CES 2019

Veredus Laboratories announces development of detection kit for Wuhan Coronavirus

Following strong 2019 growth, Teladoc Health eyes severe flu season, COVID-19 outbreak

Digital Health: An Evolution From B.C. (Before Coronavirus) to A.D. (After the Disease)

How telemedicine can help patients and solve physician burnout

12 digital health mergers and acquisitions from Q2 2019, plus 5 IPOs

Digital health investments stay the course in Q2 2020

With more than $4.6B in fundings, Q3 2020 was an unprecedented showing from digital health investors

Google completes its acquisition of Fitbit

Study finds Twitter mentions of pneumonia up in Europe ahead of COVID-19 outbreak

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Early smart clothing firm OMSignal is out of business

Report: Digital health investment is rebounding in 2024

Survey: Telehealth use increases overall in 2021, but growth stabilizes

In-depth: Female-led startups make strides, but venture funding lags

Wellinks scores $25M for digital COPD management

Provider trends of 2019: Tech deals, voice interfaces, telemedicine and patient-centered care

Optum reportedly finalizing $470M purchase of virtual behavioral care company AbleTo

Amwell reveals 65% revenue growth in 2020

In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

lululemon buys in-home workout platform Mirror for $500M

Report: Digital health funding drops again in Q3

Mantra Health tackles college mental healthcare with 'closed-loop' virtual care

Amazon ends support for third-party, HIPAA-compliant Alexa program

Singapore’s HeartVoice extends the use of its telehealth platform to all healthcare providers

How operating like a start-up helped NZ's Orion Health become profitable again

GSK taps at-home test maker Viome Life Sciences to research cancer, autoimmune diseases

Therapeutic VR sedation startup Oncomfort closes €10 million Series A

Finances Are the Top Cause of Stress, and HSAs Aren’t Helping Much

Polish healthcare provider uses Infermedica's AI-enabled call centre triage platform

Philips scores FDA 510(k) for acute patient monitors

COVID-19 pandemic leads to more people with high blood pressure, research suggests

Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Walmart announces closing of clinics and virtual care

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Intellect launches CBT-based digital therapy app

Pharma won't benefit from digital innovation without anticipating its challenges

Akili is building its own digital therapeutic distribution platform, foregoing pharma partnerships

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