“Connected health and the transformation of health care will proceed with or without ACA.”
TripleTree Blog – “Despite the King v. Burwell Distraction, Healthcare’s Leaders and Innovators Move Forward” See an excerpt from the post below and read the full blog here. “The Supreme Court made headlines last week as it heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the second marquee legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. The lawsuit centers […]
Surgical Blood Loss Medical App gets FDA Clearance
“Los Altos, California-based Gauss Surgical has received an FDA 510(k) clearance for its Triton iPad app, which can now estimate the surgical blood loss in canisters that hold blood. “Surgeons can estimate blood loss in surgical suction containers using the iPad’s camera. The app enables the user to take pictures of the surgical canisters and then send the images up […]
Glooko’s Diabetes Management Platform Pulls In $16.5M From Investors
Glooko, a diabetes management startup, has pulled in $16.5 million from new investors, including medical device company Medtronic and Cannan Partners. Glooko sells a diabetes management healthcare service, which imports blood glucose readings from a variety of glucose meters via Bluetooth to make monitoring patients significantly easier for doctors. Glooko plans to integrate with CGMs […]
Pager Plans to Use $10.4M to Expand its House Call App to More States
Started in New York, Pager is deemed as the “uber for doctors.” Pager provides an app that allows for in-person physician house calls. Doctors do an initial consult over the phone to determine what types of tools for full diagnosis and treatment will be needed, then show up at the patients home. The service is […]
OJ Bio at WLSA Convergence Summit 2015
OJ Bio will be attending the 10th Annual Convergence Summit being hosted by the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) in San Diego, CA. At the event the company will be demonstrating its innovative biosensor technology that successfully translates antibody-antigen binding events into an electronic signal, combining real time disease diagnosis and monitoring solutions with inbuilt wireless connectivity. […]
Pear Therapeutics Raises Money For Cutting Edge Drug-Software Combo Product
Boston and San Francisco based company Pear Therapeutics, is raising money for drug-software combo product they have developed called “eFormulations”. This product combines medication for a specific condition with a digital therapy program. “Depending on the patient’s condition, the software component of the offering could include games, tracking tools, and other engagement features” as well as […]
More progress on Connected Health
“More progress on Connected Health. Who would have predicted that the term “precision medicine” would roll off the President’s lips in 2015? The President’s budget proposal will reportedly include $215 million to support a Precision Medicine Initiative through the NIH (http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/obama-request-215m-precision-medicine-plan/2015-01-30?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal). Mapping the personal “x–omics” (genomics, proteinomics, metabolomics, etc.) of millions of people require a […]
Heart Health and the Digital Revolution
The digital revolution has transformed nearly every aspect of our lives. Smartphones connect us to others and to the Internet 24 hours a day. Online social networks let us interact with far flung people and communities. And electronic sensors help us personalize the way we operate cars, cameras, air conditioners, audio systems and countless other […]
More (mostly) forward progress in 2015
We have more connected health news from FDA (see prior note). The FDA followed through on its deregulatory itrajectory with final guidance on MDDS software and conforming changes to the final guidance on mobile medical apps. MDDS software has been removed from Class 1 regulation. Generally, if the software does nothing more than faithfully transfer information from a […]
TripleTree’s Thoughts on the Impacts of Medicare’s Shift to Alternative Payment Models
WLSA member company, TripleTree has posted a great blog on the impacts of medicare’s shift to alternative payment models. Read the blog below and visit TripleTree’s website to read additional healthcare and connected health blogs. “Many heads turned to Washington late last month when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laid out a definitive set […]