Best Buy announced Tuesday it has signed an agreement to acquire home care and remote monitoring platform Current Health.
Current offers a healthcare-at-home technology platform that uses biosensors to monitor a patient’s condition and identifies when they might need help from a clinician. The acquisition builds on Best Buy’s previous purchases focused on remote monitoring and senior care.
“The...
US-based healthcare IT firms Royal Philips and Teladoc Health have joined hands to deliver virtual care solutions in Australia and New Zealand.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The two global healthcare IT firms will combine their virtual care offerings to offer hospitals and health systems a scalable end-to-end virtual care service that allows them to conduct remote patient monitoring across health facilities...
Senior assistance startup Papa is partnering with Milliman HealthIO, a digital health tracking platform geared towards employers, payers and value-based healthcare providers. The collaboration will allow the companies to help manage chronic conditions for Medicare Advantage plan members and other organizations.
Papa provides on-demand help for seniors with nonmedical tasks like transportation to...
Irish medtech giant Medtronic's subsidiary Medtronic India has entered into a strategic partnership with Statis Health, a unit of Stasis Labs, to promote the latter's bedside patient monitoring system in India.
WHAT IT DOES
The Stasis Monitor comprises a bedside monitor that tracks six vital signs, a tablet and a cloud-connected app that enables remote monitoring across devices.
The connected...
The University of South Australia has published a study where an AI-powered computer vision system that has the same accuracy as an ECG machine was used to remotely monitor premature babies' vital signs. The platform can also detect their faces while lying in hospital beds.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
According to a press statement, the university's researchers developed the "baby detector" software using a...
Nutromics, an Australian medical technology startup, has raised A$5.7 million ($4.1 million) in a pre-market funding round participated by private investors. This brings its total capital raised in the past three years to A$10 million ($7.2 million).
WHAT IT DOES
Founded in 2018, the startup is developing continuous molecular monitoring (CMM) platform technology that is able to track multiple...
Digital health and remote patient monitoring company Connect America announced Tuesday it has signed an agreement to acquire 100Plus, another remote monitoring provider that uses an AI-enabled virtual assistant called Ava for an undisclosed amount.
Connect America, which is owned by private equity firm Rockbridge Growth Equity, focuses on seniors and other vulnerable populations. The company’s...
Virtual care and digital clinical trials specialist Vivalink announced the release of its enhanced Biometrics Data Platform, designed to aid the deployment of patient monitoring and data analysis applications for ambulatory and remote settings.
Offering remote data capture, delivery and analysis for decentralized clinical trials and virtual care, the platform includes both advanced data services...
A Dubai-based specialist clinic has become the first healthcare provider outside of the United States to be awarded full URAC accreditation in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), it has been confirmed.
GluCare Integrated Diabetes Center – which describes itself as “the world’s first healthcare provider” to “employ remote continuous data monitoring” for diabetic patients – has received the URAC...
Wireless healthcare technology developer LifeSignals today shared that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its LX1550 Multiparameter Remote Monitoring Platform.
LifeSignals’ remote patient monitoring system consists of a single-use wearable biosensor that measures electrocardiography, heart rate, respiration rate, skin temperature and body posture data for up to five days. The biosensor...
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