Nathan Eddy

Doctor doing telehealth while looking at x-ray scans
By  Nathan Eddy 10:06 am August 19, 2021
Telehealth technologies have the potential to improve access to healthcare for people experiencing homelessness (PEH), according to researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina. This group regularly encounters barriers to healthcare, which in turn increases vulnerability to illness, hospitalization and death. Survey results, published in Telemedicine and e-Health, indicate telehealth...
Doctor doing telehealth
By  Nathan Eddy 10:30 am August 18, 2021
Telehealth specialist TytoCare announced a partnership with Prisma Health, South Carolina’s largest healthcare system, that will enable its patients to perform telehealth-guided medical exams through Prisma providers. Prisma is also using TytoCare for its federally funded post-COVID-19 disaster relief program, offering the device to patients who would benefit from more comprehensive telehealth...
Doctor using an iPad
By  Nathan Eddy 10:16 am August 18, 2021
Virtual care and digital clinical trials specialist Vivalink announced the release of its enhanced Biometrics Data Platform, designed to aid the deployment of patient monitoring and data analysis applications for ambulatory and remote settings. Offering remote data capture, delivery and analysis for decentralized clinical trials and virtual care, the platform includes both advanced data services...
Business people shaking hands at a table
By  Nathan Eddy 10:34 am August 17, 2021
Blockchain security healthcare specialist ConsenSys Health announced it has acquired FHIRBlocks, a specialist in secure patient data-sharing tools. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal includes the transfer of FHIRBlocks’ technological and other IP, as well as key executives and staff, business activities and relationships, to ConsenSys Health. The acquisition will result in the...
Person sitting at a desk on their laptop wearing a mask while they cough
By  Nathan Eddy 10:13 am August 16, 2021
RAIsonance, a group of AI-powered companies focused on natural language processing and AI/ML, announced the release of SoundPass, a trio of AI apps that transform sound data signatures into biometric signal data signatures. SoundPass uses artificial intelligence to create a biometric perimeter security bubble around workplaces, entertainment venues, public-facing businesses, and college campuses...
Wearable user
By  Nathan Eddy 04:03 pm July 21, 2021
The market for wearable gadgets is set to get a boost from the overall booming consumer tech market, which is expected to generate a record-breaking $487 billion in revenue in this year, according to a report from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The report projected shipments of connected health monitoring devices such as smart thermometers, pulse oximeters and blood pressure monitors...
Clinicians looking at a screen
By  Nathan Eddy 02:25 pm July 14, 2021
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Boston’s Brigham and Women Hospital announced the launch of a Diagnostic Accelerator that aims to create new diagnostic technologies. The goal is to compress the time frame for introducing diagnostic technologies specifically developed to solve high-value clinical problems. The Brigham clinical community will...
Telemedicine
By  Nathan Eddy 11:04 am July 6, 2021
Healthcare-at-home specialist Amedisys announced the acquisition of Contessa Health, a provider of hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility (SNF) at-home services. Upon closing of the deal, Contessa will operate as a wholly owned division of Amedisys. Contessa’s business and proprietary informatics platform, Care Convergence, offers risk-based-model and claims analytics capabilities. The...
By  Nathan Eddy 01:52 pm July 1, 2021
Google rolled out support for a digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate card for the Pay app on Android devices, which can now store and display COVID-19 test and vaccination information. The updated Passes API is available for government and healthcare providers or authorized third parties in the U.S. It gives developers the ability to create digital COVID-19 vaccine and test cards. When a user...