InTouchLink is pleased to announce the launch of its newest division to provide an innovative pharmacy portal and pharmacy-community data bridge to long term care pharmacies in the USA and Canada. The new division will be branded as InTouchRx (intouchrx.com) and will focus specifically on working with pharmacies to improve their engagement with senior living communities, increase their transparency and provide a consolidated collection of all pharmacy-community data.
The irony, the irony – everyone saw Europe’s data privacy initiatives. Why has this taken so long here? In a word – lobbying. The congressional hearing droned on, and Mark Zuckerberg tried so hard not to sound condescending towards his techno-light questioners about the so-called ‘Facebook Scandal.’ Which could have been the Google scandal, the Twitter scandal, or eve Amazon -- consolidation of industry players and using the data to sell them (or make ads ‘more effective’) or as with Amazon, sell them more stuff. The real scandal? Not the Cambridge Analytica role, which didn’t exactly sneak around in the long-time and paid analysis of Facebook data. The real scandal might be last year's $30 million of lobbying spent to avoid controls (and user protection) actions like those considered and in process in Europe.
Health tech future: you have to love the wording – and this time, the press ate it up. Apparently at the time no one really noticed the 2016 Rock Health report on ‘willingness’ to share health data. But times have changed. So Mary Meeker’s report, which everyone now quotes, cites that data as though it were important input for brands. And now it is really and inaccurately famous. She opines, that of the ‘brands well-positioned for digital health’ – the leader is Google. The oft-quoted answer (see Tech Crunch “Pretty neat” insight): “Meeker’s report says a full 60 percent of us were willing to share our health data with Google in 2016.” That does sound pretty neat, huh?
Recent announcements, interesting offerings are worth a look. AARP recently completed the judging process for its Innovation Champion Awards; and upcoming, the Boomer Venture Summit in Berkeley in July, will select business plan startup winners – see last year’s winner. Here are six technology-enabled offerings (some in market, some in process of getting to market) that can be helpful to older adults and those who care for them and about them (listed in alphabetical order):
Palo Alto, CA June 15 , 2017 (NEWSWIRE) -- Spry Health, a leader in health management technologies and remote patient monitoring, announced today that it has raised $5.5M in Series A financing led by Grove Ventures. Joining Grove Ventures in this round are existing investors OVO Fund and Think+ as well as new investor, the Stanford-StartX Fund. This round of financing will be used to fund commercialization of Loop, Spry Health’s disease management platform. Mr.
BioSensics is excited to unveil its latest product, Frailty Meter, at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting this week in San Antonio, TX.