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Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric

Healthcare IT Today

The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area. “Our vision for better global health becomes more achievable when we focus on the inherent value of finding innovative ways to efficiently share and use data.

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Why France's 2019 Health Bill will be key in harnessing health data for research

Lloyd Price

The access and use of personal health data for research purposes is increasingly receiving press attention. Undeniably, there are renewed possibilities of conducting health research by processing and cross-referencing large volumes of data through sophisticated algorithms.

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Cybersecurity frameworks in APAC don’t support remote care: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It shall identify and classify the data collected and develop customised risk management strategies for each type of health data. "For example, [medical devices for remote care] connected to a network are at higher risk of data leakage compared to medical devices that are not connected to a network.

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Apple's Healthcare Strategy: Build, buy or partner? Buy appears to be the most likely.

Lloyd Price

Apple’s main Investments and acquisitions in the healthcare space since 2016 include: In 2016, Apple acquired Gliimpse, a personal health data platform. In 2019, Apple acquired Tueo Health, an asthma monitoring company. In 2016, it acquired Flyby Media, which worked on computer vision technology.

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Particle Health Appoints Dr. Carolyn Ward as Director of Clinical Strategy

Digital Health Global

How health data is created, collected, transmitted, and analyzed in the U.S. That is why Particle was founded with a mission to enable simple and secure access to actionable patient data through its modern API platform. “We healthcare system must be more cohesive to prevent digital friction.

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How Will IoT and AI Transform the Patient-Doctor Relationship?

Healthcare IT Today

In fact, 30% of physicians are using remote monitoring devices in 2022, up from 12% in 2016 and nearly double from 2019. These devices are indispensable when it comes to the continuous gathering of reliable health data. The device will likely also do a personalized analysis of collected health data without the need of a doctor.

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Apple provides powerful insights into new areas of health

Digital Health Global

New mental health features allow users to log their momentary emotions and daily moods, see valuable insights, and easily access assessments and resources. All of these new features — and existing health features — are grounded in science and built with privacy at the core. They can review and manage permissions at any time.