Accenture Launches HealthTech Innovation Challenge to Foster Technology Innovation In the Healthcare Industry
Accenture has announced the creation of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge which brings together leading-edge startups with prominent life sciences and health companies to tackle some of the world's greatest health challenges including access, affordability and transparency.
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., have announced a strategic technology collaboration to advance connected health across the health continuum - from healthy living and prevention to chronic care management and home care.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the 2016 Naloxone App Competition, a public contest focused on developing innovative technologies to combat the rising epidemic of opioid overdose. The FDA, with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is inviting computer programmers, public health advocates, clinical researchers, entrepreneurs and innovators from all disciplines to
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) has launched a new app, Moodivator, to help motivate and encourage the millions of adults who experience depression. Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in the United States, as an estimated one in 15 adults (6.7%) experience at least one major depressive episode in any given year.
Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences LLC, (formerly Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company, have announced the launch of Onduo, a joint venture created through Sanofi and Verily's diabetes-focused collaboration. The joint venture is based in Kendall Square in Cambridge. Onduo's mission is to help people with diabetes live full, healthy lives by developing comprehensive solutions that combine devices, software, medicine, and professional care to enable simple and intelligent disease management.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has completed a successful data migration and archive project, supported by healthcare data specialist Stalis, to centralise patient demographic and scheduling information, helping to deliver more coordinated and efficient patient care. The project included safely and securely transferring patient data from the trust's Community Services IT system to its central Patient Administration System (PAS).