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Isaac Health Raises $5.7M to End Dementia Care Deserts and Build the Future of Brain Health Care Delivery

Digital Health Global

Oversubscribed Seed round led by Meridian Street Capital and B Capital NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Isaac Health, a digital health company emerging as a national leader for brain health, announced today the successful completion of its oversubscribed $5.7 Doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011146 4 Liu, Y.,

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What We Know We Know About ZIP Codes, Food, and Deaths of Despair – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 3

Health Populi

.” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. This data point comes from research published in JAMA in April 2016 on the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

Health Populi

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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Bringing Digital Health to Those Who Need It Most

Chilmark Research

Under Armour’s $400 Health Box ? It’s for athletes with money to burn, not seniors on Medicare collecting Social Security. Yet digital health appeals to the young, the affluent, and the health literate. In 2016, it’s a great way to drive a tech business into the ground. Fitness-tracking headphones ?

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When Social Determinants of Health Limit Virtual Care Access

GlobalMed

Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. These three components are known as digital health readiness – and when it comes to underserved patients, much of their readiness is limited by social determinants of health.

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Data breaches raise new concerns about Australia’s e-Health record

Lloyd Price

The latest figures from the 2017-2018 financial year were an increase compared with the 35 data breaches reported in 2016-2017 reporting period, according to Australian Digital Health Agency figures cited by the newspaper’s website.

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Texting patient information – The latest from CMS

Health Blawg

The apoplectic response of the regulated community and commentariat to the off-message message conveyed via email moved CMS to issue an official statement more in line with the joint communiqué of December 2016. Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals).

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