On Thursday 5th March 2020, a leading US healthcare conference, HIMSS announced the cancellation of its 2020 health tech exhibition due to the Coronavirus. Earlier in the week Amazon, Intel, Cisco and Salesforce all backed out of the health-tech conference HIMSS. It’s the first time in 58 years the company said […]
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Apple and Johnson & Johnson team up on new stroke study
Johnson & Johnson and Apple have joined to launch a new study called Heartland to explore the potential of the Apple Watch to be used to reduce the risk of stroke. The partnership opened enrolement in the Heartline™ Study this week. The study aims to assess whether the Heartline™ Study app […]
Paris start-up launches smart monitoring t-shirt
Chronolife, a Paris-based company has launched a new smart t-shirt that monitors six key physiological parameters to enable prevention and monitoring. The company has also this week closed a new round of fund raising to help in its commercial phase. The platform uses wearable electronics to integrate 10 biometric scanners […]
Amazon launches Transcribe Medical to its US audience
Amazon last week unveiled Transcribe Medical to its US audience, a speech recognition tool to make clinical documentation more efficient. The company said the tool will make it easier for developers to integrate medical transcriptions into applications. In the company announcement Amazon said “It can automatically and accurately transcribe physicians’ […]
Lumeon partners with Medtronic to support pathway management across Europe
Lumeon, the provider of care pathway solutions has partnered with Medtronic a provider of integrated healthcare solutions across Europe. The partnership will provide the technology to support Medtronic’s customer base in their transition to value-based care models. Medtronic will utilise Lumeon’s care pathway management platform to operationalise care pathways for […]
Cerner picks AWS as its preferred cloud and machine learning provider
At the 2019 Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent in Las Vegas, Cerner CEO and Chairman of the Board Brent Shafer announced the corporations plans with Amazon Web Services. Cerner has selected AWS as its preferred cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) provider. Shafer said to the audience “For […]
Amazon Alexa can now send medication reminders
Amazon is moving into the medicine adherence space by adding new functionality to Amazon Alexa. Non-adherence is well documented, with greater than 30% of patients with long term conditions failing to take their medicines correctly. This can result in possible hospital admission or deterioration. Amazon said they have introduced the […]
Google pays $2.1 billion for Fitbit
Google has announced that is it buying fitness tracking company Fitbit for $2.1 billion, or $7.35 per share in cash. James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit said “More than 12 years ago, we set an audacious company vision – to make everyone in the world healthier. Today, I’m incredibly proud […]
Facebook expands news tool in US connecting people with health resources
Facebook has launched a range of tools to connect users to local providers, recommended preventive tests, checkups and where to give blood when banks are in need. To support blood banks Facebook has launched a feature in the US, India, Brazil, Bangladesh and Pakistan that makes it easy to sign up […]
Amazon Care pilot launches for Seattle employees
Amazon is to launch a new virtual primary care service for its Seattle based employees called Amazon Care. Amazon Care is set to pilot in the City before building and scaling the offering elsewhere. It’s a mobile application that allows access to virtual and in-person healthcare services from Oasis Medical. […]
