Japanese ICT provider Fujitsu has unveiled a new cloud-based platform that allows the secure collection, storage, and leverage of health and health-related data.
HOW IT WORKS
Based on Microsoft Azure, the new platform features automatic conversion of medical data from EMR systems to conform with current HL7 FHIR standards for easy utilisation and data exchange.
It also allows the secure...
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) is the most common heart rhythm disorder, affecting more than 40 million people worldwide.
The condition poses a five-fold increased risk of stroke, yet is often difficult to detect.
Until now, studies have shown the potential of smart devices for large-scale AFib screening but have made no comparison with conventional screening.
However new research presented at the...
The advantages of telehealth beyond enabling physician/patient relationships to continue virtually are now driving adoption in many aspects of care provision that were critically disrupted by the pandemic – most notably preventive healthcare, remote patient monitoring and chronic disease management.
While clinicians derive great value from the flexibility and efficiencies enabled by these digital...
Tohoku University's Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, pharmaceutical firms Daiichi Sankyo and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., and medical IT company MICIN have started a collaborative research project to track long-term lifestyle habits to drive the creation of new drugs.
According to a press statement, the organisations will loan wearable tracking devices to about 2,000 participants. Over a year...
Omron Healthcare, maker of health monitoring and therapy devices in Japan, has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based telehealth startup Doctor Anywhere.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Under the partnership, Omron will enable the sharing of health records tracked on its connected devices with the DA platform. The integration involves the following Omron health monitoring devices: OMRON Smart...
Ribbon Health, which offers a health data API platform, scored $43.5 million in a Series B funding round led by General Catalyst.
Other investors participating in the round include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), BoxGroup, Rock Health, and SCAN Group and Health Plan CEO Sachin Jain.
Ribbon said the Series B brings its total raise to $55 million.
WHAT IT DOES
Ribbon provides an API layer that...
In Germany, the public health insurers are in charge of the ePatient record (ePA) app delivery. MobiHealthNews asked Sandra Hoyer, ePA project manager at one of Germany’s main insurers, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), how the implementation works - and how it has been used so far.
Q. The payers are responsible for providing the national ePA in Germany. How does that work?
At the moment we provide...
Following months of regulatory investigation, the European Commission has officially signed off on Google's $2.1 billion purchase of health-wearable-maker Fitbit. Still, the go-ahead is contingent on a handful of commitments from the tech company that focus on its competitive practices across advertising, digital health APIs and smart device interoperability.
"We can approve the proposed...
Orange has pledged to invest in the Digital Health 2 (DH2) fund of LBO France — a major player in the private equity sector in France.
The investment will be made through its Orange Digital Investment holding and will contribute to the development of innovative eHealth companies in France and Europe.
The DH2 fund plans to invest €200 million in eHealth SMEs, such as QuantifiCare, Tribvn...
UK digital health platform, Your.MD and the creators of Healthily have approached the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) to help ensure that the growth of the business was not compromising the safety of their users.
PRSB helps define the standards needed for high quality care records including in digital care.
WHY IT MATTERS
Former chief executive at the NHS Institute for Innovation and...
.jpg?itok=rg058rsW "Since January 2021, all statutorily insured 72 million German citizens have been legally entitled to a national electronic patient record (ePA).")
