Fertility-tracking app Premom, owned by Easy Healthcare, came under fire by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged the company shared consumers' health data with third parties like Google, AppsFlyer and two China-based analytics and marketing firms for advertising purposes without user consent.
Premom is a free app that offers fertility tracking tools, including period and ovulation tracking...
Bipartisan senators sent letters to telehealth providers Monument, Workit Health and Cerebral urging the companies to better protect users' healthcare data.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Susan Collins (R-Me.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wa.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo,) expressed concerns that the companies are "tracking and sharing sensitive and personally-identifiable health data with third-party...
Healthcare data exchange startup Moxe Health raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Piper Sandler Merchant Banking and Vensana Capital with participation from existing investors.
The company most recently announced an undisclosed investment led by 3M Ventures in early 2021.
WHAT IT DOES
The company makes tools for sharing patient health record information. For providers, it offers...
Blockchain startup Avaneer Health scored $50 million in seed funding from large healthcare industry players.
Its first network participants include insurers Aetna, Anthem and Health Care Service Corporation, providers Cleveland Clinic and Sentara Healthcare, and the PNC Financial Services Group.
WHAT IT DOES
Founded in 2020, Avaneer offers a network using blockchain and FHIR technologies to allow...
Singapore-based healthcare data exchange platform Smarter Health announced Monday it had raised $5.15 million SGD ($3.8 million USD) in Series A funding.
The round was led by East Ventures, with participation from Citrine Capital, HMI Group and Emtek.
WHAT IT DOES
Smarter offers a platform that allows for easier data exchange between payers, providers and patients.
That includes products that...
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is expanding its portfolio of data services for the healthcare and life sciences industries.
Azure Healthcare APIs, formerly named the Azure API for FHIR, allows users to input health data and map it to the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), allowing the information to be easily searched and shared or managed with machine learning and artificial...
The GAIA-X initiative has designed a technical architecture that ensures trustworthy data exchange in Europe and forms the basis for a comprehensive data ecosystem.
With 300 organisations from various countries involved, the project has gained support from German and French governments, and has links to the European Commission.
Science institutions and representatives of the Federal Government...
Health agencies now have better access to the Department of Health and Human Services’ data following a year-long data initiative focused on information sharing.
The HHS partnered with the Center for Open Data Enterprise to hold a series of roundtable discussions aimed at improving the ways agencies within the department share, integrate, analyze and visualize federated data to better inform...
Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center are being sued for violating patients' privacy following a data-sharing partnership that the two parties inked two years ago.
A new class action lawsuit, which was first reported on by the New York Times, accuses the hospital system of sharing data with the tech conglomerate that could be identifiable, namely doctor’s notes and the time frame...
A new report from Royal Philips exploring the progress and shortcomings of digital health pinpointed infrequent patient data sharing as a frequent barrier to high-quality care and healthcare innovation. This trend was consistent across several global regions, despite increasing interest and advocacy for such approaches among patients and providers alike.
“Two-way sharing of information is not...
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