Summary: "Germany is on the rise in digital health, which is why the market size is expected to reach 57 billion euros by 2025. Factors such as new regulations, the presence of successful...
THIS WEARABLE + EYE TRACKING MEDICAL DEVICE HELPS PATIENTS IN THE ICU COMMUNICATE THEIR NEEDS FOR REAL-TIME MEDICAL TREATMENT!
Summary: "The stress and impact that ICUs can have on the mental health of patients typically result in prolonged hospital stays. Troubling cycles typically ensue as soon as...
NuvoAir app records coughing to help diagnose respiratory conditions
Summary: "Stockholm-based respiratory health startup NuvoAir is rolling out a new app that can record coughs in a home setting in order to help clinicians detect possible conditions like asthma and...
FDA Authorizes Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton for Stroke Rehab
Summary: "Medical device startup Neurolutions' IpsiHand — a brain-computer interface (BCI) that uses an exoskeleton to assist with stroke rehab — has just been authorized by the FDA. "Thousands of...
Q Bio Launches Clinical “Digital Twin” Platform, Whole Body Scanner
Summary: "Q Bio, a Redwood City, CA-based company building technology for the Physical of the Future, unveiled its “digital twin” platform, the first to capture and monitor comprehensive baseline...
Digital-Health Startups Are Booming. Their Customers Are Overwhelmed.
Summary: "Digital-health startups have boomed during the pandemic, raising record amounts of capital for a range of services. The message from some of their customers: Enough, already." Article...
Amwell Integrates Biobeat’s Wearable RPM Devices with Virtual Care Platform
Summary: "Amwell, who has collaborated with Biobeat, and will integrate Biobeat’s AI-powered wearable remote patient monitoring solutions into its Converge virtual care platform." Article written...
IDE Group, Kipuwex team up to develop new telehealth solutions
Summary: "Australian startup studio IDE Group has announced a partnership with Kipuwex, a Finnish health device maker, to develop new telehealth solutions over the next two to three years." Article...
Melio se expande en España y llega a 41 nuevas ciudades
Summary: "La start up especializada en análisis de sangre amplía su cobertura nacional ya que hasta el momento ofrecía su servicio en Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Sevilla, Córdoba y Málaga."...
Biotecnología para crear un modelo de negocio de genética y salud personalizada
Summary: "Combinar las analíticas clínicas de toda la vida con la biogenética. Esta es la propuesta de la biotecnológica española Made of Genes para aterrizar un modelo de negocio disruptivo en el...
UK remains the European leader in health tech research
Summary: "Dealroom, Inkep Capital and MTIP have released a report powered by a database dedicated to mapping and tracking the health innovation ecosystem. The report looks at 76,275 startups, 38,907...
Startup Boundless Bio brings in $105M to break the circle behind cancer growth
Summary: "Boundless Bio’s research has uncovered a previously unknown driver of cancer growth and drug resistance. With $105 million in Series B financing, the biotech is on a path to bring to the...
Cigna covers Ginger’s mental health app as in-network benefit
Summary: "Insurer Cigna plans to cover mental health startup Ginger’s coaching services as a covered benefit. Investors are pouring more funds into mental health startups as they companies and...
Capsule becomes a unicorn with latest funding, Caresyntax scores $100M, direct healthcare payment platform Sesame lands $24M and more digital health fundings
Summary: "Digital pharmacy Capsule has completed another massive funding round, this time worth $300 million, according to Bloomberg. The added investments value the New York-based startup at more...
Outcomes4Me Raises $12M for AI-Powered Cancer Patient Empowerment Platform
Summary: "Outcomes4Me Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based developer of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered platform to empower cancer patients to navigate their care, today announced it has raised $12...
Men’s fertility startup Legacy raises $10M to expand services
Summary: Legacy is born out of the Harvard Innovation Labs incubator program and focuses on helping men understand their fertility. Clients can send away for a mail-order kit, which is able to...
Alimetry Leaves Stealth Mode to Announce CE Mark on New Wearable Medical Device for Gastric Diseases and Investment
Summary: "Alimetry, a digital healthcare and diagnostic devices start-up, announced today that it has achieved CE Mark for its first product, a pioneering medical device for enabling diagnosis of...
30 Under 30 Asia: The Young Entrepreneurs Innovating In Healthcare
Summary: "To Ryuichi Onose, launching his own business was led by deeply personal reasons. When his grandfather was diagnosed with cancer, Onose struggled to get a second opinion. The former trading...
Female-Founded Telehealth Startup Calibrate Announces $22.5 Million Series A
Summary: "When Calibrate—the female-founded telehealth startup trying to disrupt the $70 billion weight loss industry—came out of stealth mode in June, it was operating in three states, had 10...
New Omada care program cuts down on PCP visits by making its own adjustments to patient meds
Summary: "Omada's new Physician-Guided Care Program is looking to help patients cut down on frequent trips to the doctor with its virtual cardiometabolic clinic, which provides telemedicine...
French Healthcare Company Alan Raises €185M At €1.4 Billion Valuation
Summary: "French healthcare platform Alan, cofounded by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve and Charles Gorintin, announced today that it has raised a €185M Series D which puts the company in the unicorn...
La disrupción sanitaria copa el programa de aceleración ‘deeptech’ Barcelona Activa
Summary: "De los 10 proyectos elegidos, seis pertenecen a este sector. Entre ellos, un sistema de transporte de medicamentos por el sistema nervioso o una tecnología que predice recaídas del cáncer...
7 Healthtech Startups Helping To Fight Against COVID-19
Summary: "Needless to say, the ongoing pandemic has exposed the wide gaps underlying the healthcare sector over decades. Higher case loads, low availability of beds, lack of ventilators and rising...
Five innovative startups improving the lives of people with diabetes
Summary: "The diabetes epidemic is a growing concern in many parts of the world. In the UK, over 3.9 million people have the chronic illness, which Diabetes UK estimates will increase to 5 million...
TytoCare & GIVA Care Partner to Bring Telehealth to Ukraine
Summary: "TytoCare has partnered with GIVA Care Group, a leading healthcare distribution company, to bring its all-in-one remote examination solution to the Ukrainian healthcare industry." Article...
New app aims to address disparities in care for Black and brown mothers
Summary: "Irth allows Black and brown patients to search for and create reviews of their OB/GYN, birthing hospitals, postpartum care and pediatricians up to an infant's first year." Article written...
The Future Of Healthcare Is Coming Home: Three Major Trends To Leverage For Startups
Summary: "What goes around, comes around. It was routine in the 1950’s for doctors to make house calls and deliver a high level of service to their patients. Well, here we are in 2021, and we might...
Startup Adapts AI Used In Space To Advance Healthcare On Earth
Summary: Maarten Sierhuis, a NASA alum, had made the comment to Rachna Dhamija, a tech veteran and his future cofounder. Both were dealing with aging parents who had health issues. Sierhuis had...
Béa Fertility raises $1m to bring at-home fertility treatments to the UK | Digital Health Technology News
Summary: "Founded by embryologist David O’Rourke and femtech specialist Tess Cosad, Béa Fertility is focused on democratising access to affordable, effective fertility treatments for couples and...
La inversión en ‘start ups’ de salud en Cataluña alcanza 226 millones de euros en 2020
Summary: "El sector de la salud en Cataluña acelera. En un año, 2020, que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, las start ups de salud consiguieron sumar 226 millones euros de...
New app helps prevent skin cancer using AI and ML
Summary: "Monitor the size of moles and skin lesions with Miiskin, an app that can help your doctor see changes more easily. (...)TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Jon Friis, CEO and founder of...
Healthcare Is Experiencing A Boom In Female Entrepreneurs And Leaders
Summary: "While specific data is hard to find, anecdotal evidence seems to show more women are founding or leading efforts in the healthcare and life sciences industries. And even though women still...
Virtual therapy startups tackle the gap in mental health care for kids and teens
Summary: "When Alex Alvarado and his co-founders started their virtual therapy company Daybreak Health in February 2020, they saw a “massive need” for better mental health options for teens. Then...
Eye wellness app developer Plano partners with myopia education platform
Summary: "The partnership aims to produce new educational content for eye care professionals." "Plano, a Singapore-based eye wellness app developer, has teamed up with US-based myopia education...
AstraZeneca working with Mass General on tech for heart failure, asthma
Summary: "The organizations said the collaboration will use AstraZeneca's AMAZE disease management platform to deliver insights to clinically validate digital health solutions." Article written...
BCN3D’s 3D printing technology creates biomedical models that improve cancer surgeries
Summary: "BCN3D, a leading 3D printer manufacturer based in Barcelona (Spain), today announced that its 3D printing technology is helping surgeons to create biomedical models and apply them in their...
Top 15 Health Tech Startups To Watch
Summary: "Using biometric data, mobile apps, and wearables, these 15 health tech startups are bringing innovation to the health care industry by promoting healthier lives for patients." Article...
This Mental Health Startup Is Open 24/7 To Refill Your Medications
Summary: "Minded, a telehealth startup that renews and delivers mental health medications, announced its launch today for patients in the New York City area with $5 million in venture funding."...
AI startup steps in to unlock the puzzle of infertility with machine learning
Summary: "As it matures, machine learning has been applied to more and bigger challenges. One of the latest is women’s health tech, a space where research has traditionally lagged, and that few...
La inversión en ‘start ups’ de salud en Cataluña alcanza 226 millones de euros en 2020
Summary: "El sector de la salud en Cataluña acelera. En un año, 2020, que se presentaba difícil debido a la pandemia, las start ups de salud consiguieron sumar 226 millones euros de inversión, la...
Desktop Metal launches a health-focused business line
Summary: "Mass manufacturing may be the future of 3D printing (one hopes), but health products are very much its present. From orthodontics to prosthesis, medical needs are right in the sweet spot...
Startup says A.I. helped it find treatment for rare lung disease in record time
Summary: "Artificial intelligence is making rapid inroads in helping with the discovery of potential medicines. In the latest example, a Hong Kong–based biotechnology company, Insilico...
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Summary: "Read about news from Seven Bridges, Outcomes4Me, Carrum Health and more." Article written by MEDCITY NEWS 08|02|2021 Source:MedCity...