PicnicHealth and Komodo Health are placing an emphasis on real-world evidence research of complex illnesses like multiple sclerosis and hemophilia.
Earlier this week the two companies announced a partnership to use their products jointly to create a deep real-world patient data pool using de-identified data from payers, providers, labs and electronic health records.
Specifically, PicnicHealth, a...
With an eye on the rising need for mental health services, healthtech company Limbic has launched a suite of new products.
Limbic Self-Care, Limbic Care and Limbic Prevent are designed to help clinicians by using conversational AI to provide end-to-end support at different points of patients’ treatment pathways.
Clinicians can start with Limbic Self-Care which provides instant CBT support to...
Despite lockdowns during the pandemic, air pollution is not improving as experts initially hoped and climate change is the primary culprit.
As climate change worsens natural catastrophes like wildfires and droughts, air quality declines. Even for healthy adults, this does not bode well for respiratory health.
In answer, innovators are looking to help people stay informed via digital tools like...
Less than a year after its launch, Cohere Health, maker of a care-collaboration platform, announced a $36 million Series B funding round.
Polaris Partners led this latest funding round with participation from new investors Longitude Capital and Deerfield Management. Existing investors Flare Capital Partners and Define Ventures also contributed.
Since its founding, the company has continued to...
Speech data collected from older adults could help determine the risk of driving accidents, according to a new study out of Japan.
Published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the study found that drivers age 60 and up who experienced accidents or near accidents had changes in their speech features indicating cognitive impairments. Researchers also found that the algorithms used to...
Student athletes will now be donning Fitbits in an effort to study the connection between illnesses and wearable device tracking.
On April 1, the Pac-12 Conference announced a research collaboration with Fitbit and researchers at Stanford Medicine to study whether wearable devices can help detect and track infectious diseases like COVID-19.
About 1,000 student athletes across all Pac-12...
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