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Mount Sinai, LifeMap launch COPD app, smart inhaler pilot
LifeMap Solutions, the San Jose, California-based company that recently collaborated with Apple on one of the flagship apps for Apple ResearchKit, has launched a new pilot with Mount Sinai Hospital in...
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Scripps, Anthem help test Sentrian's COPD remote monitoring technology
Aliso Viego, California-based Sentrian, the remote patient monitoring company formerly known as Jointly Health, will work with Scripps Translational Science Institute to study its technology on 2,000...
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Digital pharma news roundup: Boehringer-Sutter, opioid app, Canaan's insights
Pharma-related digital health news picked up this week. Boehringer Ingelheim has teamed up with Sutter Health to research COPD interventions; BioDelivery Science created an app to help users deal with...
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Propeller gets FDA clearances to improve adherence to inhalers from...
Madison, Wisconsin-based Propeller Health has secured two new FDA clearances for new sensors that are designed to work with two particular inhalers on the market: the Diskus inhaler from...
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AstraZeneca, Adherium to create smart inhaler adherence program for patients
AstraZeneca has partnered with New Zealand-based Adherium Limited, which offers a mobile-enabled inhaler, to incorporate digital health offerings into AstraZeneca’s patient support programs for people...
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Teva Pharmaceuticals buys smart inhaler company Gecko Health Innovations
Teva Pharmaceuticals will acquire Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Gecko Health Innovations (previously known as GeckoCap), a smart inhaler company. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.Gecko's main...
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Smart inhaler boosts medication adherence 144 percent in small study
Adherium, the Australian connected inhaler company that partnered with AstraZeneca earlier this summer, has released data from three small studies of the company's Smartinhaler system. Data from the...
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5 companies breathing life into the connected inhaler space (and their pharma...
Over the last two years, big pharma has gotten behind the idea of smartphone-connected inhalers for asthma and COPD in a big way. Two acquisitions, a $3 million investment, and a number of pilot and...
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LifeMap moves from research to clinical care with COPD Navigator app
LifeMap Solutions, the San Jose-California startup behind the ResearchKit app Asthma Health, has launched its second app, COPD Navigator, for free in the app store. At the same time, the company has...
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Propeller Health, Aptar partner to create connected metered dose inhalers
Propeller Health is partnering with Aptar Pharma, a drug delivery system company, to create what the company believes will be the first-to-market integrated, connected metered dose inhaler...
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Study: Smartphone app that listens to breathing, determines respiratory...
A smartphone-based system for diagnosing respiratory diseases achieved an accuracy of 89 percent in a recent clinical study of 524 pediatric patients conducted by the company at Joondalup Health Campus...
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ResApp raises $9.74M for respiratory disease diagnostic app
Australia-based ResApp, a public company, has raised $9.74 million ($12.5 million Australian dollars) for its product, a smartphone-based system for diagnosing respiratory conditions. The company sold...
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Study: Telemedicine interventions for COPD rarely improve quality of life
There is little evidence that telemedicine interventions consistently improve the quality of life of COPD patients, according to a new systematic review published recently in the International Journal...
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Moving Analytics raises $1.1M for app-enabled cardiac rehab program, eyes...
Marina Del Rey, California-based Moving Analytics has raised $1.1 million in a round led by Launchpad Digital Health, an accelerator where the startup is currently enrolled, with additional...
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Smart inhaler company Adherium raises $5.9M from Fidelity
Adherium, a Melbourne, Australia-based connected inhaler company, has raised $5.9 million ($8 million Australian) through a private placement of shares with Fidelity. Adherium is publicly traded in...
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AstraZeneca plans new connected inhaler trial to improve medication adherence...
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is beginning a clinical trial in collaboration with Quintiles looking at the impact of mobile medication reminders for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary...
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Boehringer Ingelheim taps Qualcomm Life for future connected COPD inhaler
Qualcomm Life and Boehringer Ingelheim have announced that they will work together to develop the next generation of Boehringer's Respimat connected inhaler. Propeller Health, which developed the...
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5 companies breathing life into the connected inhaler space (and their pharma...
Over the last two years, big pharma has gotten behind the idea of smartphone-connected inhalers for asthma and COPD in a big way. Two acquisitions, a $3 million investment, and a number of pilot and...
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LifeMap moves from research to clinical care with COPD Navigator app
LifeMap Solutions, the San Jose-California startup behind the ResearchKit app Asthma Health, has launched its second app, COPD Navigator, for free in the app store. At the same time, the company has...
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Propeller Health, Aptar partner to create connected metered dose inhalers
Propeller Health is partnering with Aptar Pharma, a drug delivery system company, to create what the company believes will be the first-to-market integrated, connected metered dose inhaler...
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