By Kevin Truong, MedCity News | May 21, 2019 The company just announced strategic alliances with Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer and Sanofi to develop new clinical research programs utilizing the Project Baseline platform across therapeutic areas ranging from cardiovascular disease to oncology to mental health. Alphabet’s Verily life science division launched [...]
By Laura Lovett, MobiHealth News | May 20, 2019 A study published in JMIR found that a fertility wearable was able to use skin temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate to help determine a woman's fertility window. A recent study published in JMIR found that the Ava fertility wearable was able to use [...]
By Victoria Song, Gizmodo | May 20, 2019 Unless you’re a tech-savvy woman looking to get pregnant, you’ve probably never heard of Ava. Slim and discreet, it’s a $300 wearable tracker that in tandem with its companion app monitors your heart rate, body temperature, and breathing while you sleep to [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | May 20, 2019 The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning that jury-rigged, altered or unauthorized mHealth platforms for diabetes care management could cause harm, even death. The US Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on do-it-yourself mHealth devices for people [...]
By Kevin Truong, MedCity News | May 20, 2019 Cardinal Innovations Healthcare's program - which helps patients find housing and live independently - has reduced crisis costs for participants by 71 percent and crisis events by 42 percent. Payer organizations having been targeting social determinants of health as a way [...]
By Kevin Truong, MedCity News | May 19, 2019 As videogames have become mainstream and emerged from the dimly-lit arcade rooms of years past, gaming technology has found increasing application in medical training, pain management, rehab, and digital therapeutics. On Justin Barad’s office desk in San Francisco sits an old [...]
