Air Liquide Healthcare ha anunciado la adquisición de una participación mayoritaria en la compañía valenciana Connected Health Services (CHS), especializada en el desarrollo de soluciones tecnológicas para la gestión de pacientes con enfermedades crónicas.
Creada en 2013 y con sede en Valencia, CHS es una filial de tecnologías para la salud y el bienestar (TSB), una empresa privada de investigación cien por cien propiedad de sus empleados y especializada en el desarrollo de soluciones informáticas para el sector. La empresa desarrolla programas y aplicaciones en el ámbito de la e-Health.
La plataforma de teleasistencia multidispositivo para el cuidado de mayores y dependientes, Kwido, desarrollada por la empresa vasca Ideable, ha sido galardonada como ganadora delprograma europeo FICHe. Eso coloca a Ideablecomo una de las 20 startups eHealth más importantes del continente.
Medical Informatics, a Houston healthcare IT company, has received FDA clearance to sell the first version of its healthcare data alert system, a major milestone as it works to bring its product to market.
The company is focusing on “alarm management,” with software that aggregates patient data in the hospital gathered from devices like heart rate monitors in real-time in order to alert healthcare providers to an impending issue, say, a heart attack.
“We’re working toward data transformation to provide more actionable information to clinicians rather than raw data,” says Chris Raff, Medical Informatics’ chief financial officer and chief operating officer.
Last Friday we co-hosted the third annual Digital Health Investor Summit with Fenwick and West to a packed audience of investors specifically interested in the digital health space. Here are some of the day’s memorable moments:
El centro tecnológico Vicomtech ha tomado el control de la eMedica, startup vasca especializada en la aplicación de software de tratamiento de imágenes digitales en el ámbito sanitario. El laboratorio donostiarra creó en su día esta compañía como uno de sus primeros spinoffs, después la dejó en manos de socios ligados a Teccon y ahora retoma la mayoría del capital para darle estabilidad financiera y facilitar el lanzamiento de nuevos productos.
There’s a parable about the elephant and the rider that’s been used by Chip and Dan Heath, and that originated with Jonathan Haidt, to describe how humans make decisions. A person’s mind can be thought of as consisting of a rider, representing the rational part of human thinking, and the elephant she’s riding, representing emotion. Both of these play a role in how a person decides things, and many of us believe the rider–the rational part–is in charge.
n an effort to reduce costs and increase quality of service, the government has provided over $26 billion in economic incentives to promote the adoption of health information exchange (HIE) platforms among medical providers. The full implementation of electronic health records is estimated to save consumers and providers over $77 billion per year. However, medical providers must overcome barriers to interoperability that have prevented widespread adoption.
Those sit-down-and-get-checked health kiosks you see in grocery and drug stores are becoming a thing.
SoloHealth‘s says its brand of the health kiosks are being used by 130,000 people every day. The kiosks are in 3,500 Walmart, Sam’s Club, and Safeway stores.
BlueDot, a spinout from St.Michael's Hospital at the Unviersity of Toronto that uses big data to track and analyze risks posed by global infectious diseases, has closed a Series A round.Horizons Ventures was the main investor — it’s the private investment arm of Asian businessman Li Ka-shing, according to a company statement.
