This partner blog is from The Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC). In collaboration with MedTech, CMHC will host the Cardiometabolic Tech Summit on October 10th to analyze topics including big data and its role in cardiometabolic health, developments in genetic testing, medical devices, patient usage, and more. Rising rates of cardiometabolic risks and disease have led to significant innovations within cardiometabolic health technology. While conventional approaches to care, such as landmark clinical trials and updated clinical practical guidelines, have helped to improve outcomes, growin ..read more

CMS Launches New Physician Focused Claims Data Project The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the launch of a new pilot program aimed at providing healthcare providers with direct access to patient claims data. Using application programming interfaces through the Medicare Blue Button program, the program is designed to allow practitioners with deeper insight into patients’ history, providing data access to previous diagnoses, medication lists, and more to provide a more full picture of a patient’s medical history. The pilot has launched on the program website, where cli ..read more

  This partner blog is from The Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC). In collaboration with MedTech, CMHC will host the Cardiometabolic Tech Summit on October 10th to analyze topics including big data and its role in cardiometabolic health, developments in genetic testing, medical devices, patient usage, and more. Rising rates of cardiometabolic risks and disease have led to significant innovations within cardiometabolic health technology. While conventional approaches to care, such as landmark clinical trials and updated clinical practical guidelines, have helped to improve outcomes, growin ..read more

CMS Launches New Physician Focused Claims Data Project The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the launch of a new pilot program aimed at providing healthcare providers with direct access to patient claims data. Using application programming interfaces through the Medicare Blue Button program, the program is designed to allow practitioners with deeper insight into patients’ history, providing data access to previous diagnoses, medication lists, and more to provide a more full picture of a patient’s medical history. The pilot has launched on the program website, where cli ..read more

CMS Launches New Physician Focused Claims Data Project The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the launch of a new pilot program aimed at providing healthcare providers with direct access to patient claims data. Using application programming interfaces through the Medicare Blue Button program, the program is designed to allow practitioners with deeper insight into patients’ history, providing data access to previous diagnoses, medication lists, and more to provide a more full picture of a patient’s medical history. The pilot has launched on the program website, where cli ..read more

  Digital Health Market On Track for Its Best Year Ever A new funding report compiled by Mercom Capital Group has shown that the first half of 2019 has drawn in the largest funding numbers within digital health than any year prior, setting the market to reach unprecedented numbers come the year’s end. In line with previous reports completed by Rock Health and MobiHealthNews, the findings show a to-date funding of $5.1 billion raised by 318 deals (2018 drew $4.9 billion from 383 deals). The report further broke down the market funding through highlighting the highest funding market segments. An ..read more

Researchers from Purdue University have created an electrode that can detect viruses carried by mosquitos, including Zika and Dengue. The device can detect dangerous mosquito-borne tropical diseases more rapidly–and at a lower cost–than current methods, giving health officials time to take action before the viruses are transmitted to humans. SMK Diagnostics has created biosensor technology to identify and monitor diseases such as Zika, which initially set off a global health crisis in 2015 and 2016; and dengue, which causes about 22,000 deaths a year worldwide, mostly among children. Dengue a ..read more

  Digital Health Market On Track for Its Best Year Ever A new funding report compiled by Mercom Capital Group has shown that the first half of 2019 has drawn in the largest funding numbers within digital health than any year prior, setting the market to reach unprecedented numbers come the year’s end. In line with previous reports completed by Rock Health and MobiHealthNews, the findings show a to-date funding of $5.1 billion raised by 318 deals (2018 drew $4.9 billion from 383 deals). The report further broke down the market funding through highlighting the highest funding market segments. An ..read more

Tech Company Claims MRI Software Can Detect 11-13 Types of Cancer Ezra software, a tech company has reportedly developed a MRI software capable of detecting 11 different types of cancer in men and another 13 types in women. The software, which scans patients in around an hour, has the potential to drastically reduce standard costs for a full body MRI scan; the Ezra scan costs only $1,950 compared to a traditional $5,000-$10,000 MRI bill. While the new fairly nascent company has not yet been picked up by covering insurers, the company is reportedly in negotiations with several insurance compani ..read more