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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Amazon down 8 points.

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Accenture Invests in Virtonomy to Help Medical Technology Companies Use Digital Twin Technology to Accelerate Time to Market for Medical Devices

Healthcare IT Today

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures , in Virtonomy , a provider of data-driven simulations that use existing patient data and digital twin technology to bring life-saving medical devices to market more quickly. Visit us at accenture.com. For more information, visit virtonomy.io.

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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

Health Populi

The rest of the CES story for 2019 is positive, Shelly optimistically continued. And so in the evolving health care ecosystem, as patients take on the roles of payor and clinical decision maker, technology-based solutions need to deliver enchanting experience, privacy by design , and empowering workflows.

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5 Ways Health Professionals Can Save Money on MedTech

Electronic Health Reporter

billion and expected to top $173 billion by the end of 2019. One of the reasons that it is so profitable is that new medical technology can be […]. medtech industry is one of the most profitable in the world. In 2016, the sector was worth $147.7

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Evident Vascular Exits Stealth with $35 Million Series A Funding to Develop Intravascular Imaging Platform

Digital Health Global

a medical technology startup developing a next-generation intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) platform leveraging artificial intelligence to enable superior imaging and streamlined workflows, announced today that it has launched with a $35 million Series A financing from Vensana Capital®.

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Imperative Care Announces Formation of Stroke Recovery Digital Health Company Kandu Health

Digital Health Global

Internationally renowned stroke treatment expert Dr. Tudor Jovin joins Kandu Health as Chief Medical Officer CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS 2019) Formal and informal care after stroke: A longitudinal analysis of survivors’ post rehabilitation hospital discharge. 2019 Nov;75:2495-2505. Kandu Health is based in Campbell, CA.

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Are Robots Coming to Healthcare? Consumers Say Not-So-Fast

Health Populi

Samsung introduced BotCare , a caring robot, at CES 2019. Think: medication reminders and around-the-house services that a human homecare aid might perform, among other medical support tasks. For more on Bixby and BotCare, check out this video from Samsung’s CES 2019 press conference.