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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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Ochsner will follow up hypertension pilot with COPD, diabetes efforts
Ochsner Health System in New Orleans has catapulted itself into the front lines of hospital innovation in the last few years as an early Apple HealthKit adopter, with its in-house "O Bar" app store,...
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West Virginia hospital system sees readmission reductions from patient...
A telehealth initiative at Charleston Area Medical Center led to reduced readmission rates for several chronic conditions, the health system reported today.What led to the reductions wasn’t the advent...
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Cohero Health adds another $1.5M to Series A with new backing from Samsung,...
New York City-based Cohero Health, which develops connected health tools and technologies for chronic respiratory diseases, has closed on $10.5 million in Series A funding. This builds on the company’s...
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Three lessons Propeller learned from a decade in digital health
Madison, Wisconsin-based Propeller Health is now a decade old. The digital health company, which makes connected inhalers and patient- and provider-facing data analytics tools for respiratory diseases...
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Propeller Health, GSK expand partnership, target asthma and COPD
Propeller Health, a company that trains its digital eye on respiratory medicine, first partnered with GSK in 2015. Now, that collaboration is being expanded -- enabling both companies to prepare for,...
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FDA clears Adherium's third inhaler sensor, for AstraZeneca's Symbicort inhaler
Melbourne, Australia-based Adherium, a digital health company that focuses in improving medication adherence and patient outcomes, has just received FDA clearance for a new inhaler monitoring device...
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Humana to pilot Revon's self-triage app for COPD
Humana has tapped Crestwood, Kentucky-based Revon Systems for a market-wide pilot of the latter’s mobile self-triage platform, the Revon Smart Symptom Tracker. The program aims to help a select...
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Pneuma Respiratory debuts smartphone-compatible inhaler
North Carolina-based Pneuma Respiratory has announced a fully digital soft mist inhaler device. The inhaler can deliver several different types of medicines directly to the lungs, and by syncing with a...
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Express Scripts, Propeller partner to make inhaler sensor more widely available
Express Scripts members will now have access to Propeller’s FDA-cleared digital platform for respiratory health. Today, the two companies announced a partnership which they claim is the largest...
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New ResApp data shows ~90 percent accuracy when diagnosing range of...
Brisbane, Australia-based ResApp is planning to re-do its big US trial soon, but in the meantime the smartphone respiratory diagnosis company is continuing to collect data in its native country.The...
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Smartinhaler maker Adherium heads to the US market with D2C push
New Zealand-based smart inhaler company Adherium, which up until now has distributed its products via pharma sales channels in Europe and Australia, plans to expand into the United States in the first...
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Study: COPD robot improves medication adherence, but no effect on admissions
A socially assistive robot could be key to helping people with COPD manage their condition at home. A recent study published in JMIR, found that COPD patients that had a take-home a robot following a...
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Adherium receives OTC clearance for AstraZeneca's Symbicort inhaler
Smart inhaler company Adherium announced last week that it has received 510(k) clearance for over-the-counter sales of its inhaler monitoring device for AstraZeneca’s Symbicort aerosol inhaler, called...
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