Is my prescription covered? What’s my copay? Choosing a health insurance plan that gets you the most bang for your buck is daunting. For many, medication price and coverage is a crucial decision factor. Meanwhile, drug prices vary under different … Continue reading
Intel partnered with headphone maker SMS Audio to develop biometric-sensing earbuds. The earbuds are powered by Valencell’s PerformTek technology, and will offer a built-in optical sensor for continuous heart rate monitoring, sweat and water resistance, and integration with RunKeeper so … Continue reading
Practice Fusion reported it has signed up 122 enterprise clients since the beginning of 2014. Enterprise clients include health systems, hospitals, and independent clinical labs and imaging centers. Kurbo Health, a mobile subscription-based weight loss program, raised $5.8 million in … Continue reading
HealthSpot and the Cleveland Clinic partnered to form a jointly owned company to develop more telemedicine options alongside HealthSpot’s enclosed kiosks. The Clinic plans to deploy more kiosks after testing three stations, while HealthSpot is also beginning a test with … Continue reading
In England, the NHS is preparing to kick-off of a nation-wide program designed to expand out-of-hospital care availability, and drive down non-emergency visits presenting in local emergency rooms. The program, called the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund, is backed by an … Continue reading
A new company called Moov launched its own crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for a new fitness tracker. Built by a former Apple engineer, the Moov band uses a combination of hardware and software to understand body movement in space, … Continue reading
Four months after raising $1,664,574 on Indiegogo, medical device developer Scanadu closed $10.5 million in Series A financing led by Relay Ventures. Scanadu also partnered with Dr. Eric Topol at the Scripps Translational Science Institute to conduct clinical testing on … Continue reading
The Veterans Affairs Department awarded ASM Research a $162.5 million contract to “improve the user experience” for VA’s electronic health record system VistA. The ONC named the winners of its recent patient empowerment codeathon. In the Blue Button category: Edge … Continue reading
The VA selected Health eTime as the winning submission in a scheduling app contest. The app allows veterans to schedule visits online across VA locations and lets VA providers share appointments with veterans’ personal digital calendars and with non-VA providers. StartUp Health announced from … Continue reading
LifeNexus, maker of digital insurance card, raised $4M from undisclosed investors, bringing its total funding to date to $11.9M. The company is looking to raise another $3M soon. Biobeats, an application using bio-metric data to produce customized music, raised $650K … Continue reading
babyQ, an iPhone app to help pregnant women improve maternal and fetal health, launched its supporting website under the same name. babyQ provides customized advice using research-based, physician-approved data along with data generated from a brief survey about the user’s … Continue reading
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