Roche Acquires mySugr to Form a Leading Open Platform for Digital Diabetes Management
Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and mySugr have signed an agreement under which Roche acquired all shares of mySugr GmbH. Counting more than one million users globally, mySugr is one of the leading mobile diabetes platforms in the market and will become an integral part of Roche's new patient-centered digital health services platform in diabetes care.
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Digital Health Ambitions in East Ireland Strengthened by Deployment of IMS MAXIMS Cutting-Edge Technology at St Michael's Hospital
St Michael’s Hospital achieved a significant milestone in East Ireland's journey towards digitally enabled healthcare last week by going live with an electronic patient management system in its Emergency Department (ED). The system went live on 15th June, effectively making the ED paper-lite as the core clinical and administrative processes moved from being paper-based to electronic with no disruption to patient care.
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Saving Lives with IoT Technology
Tejre Tobiassen suffered from a cardio arrest. During his rehabilitation, Tejre came up with the idea of an intelligent wearable that could help prevent cardio arrest and other life threatening incidents. A year after his cardio arrest, he founded ContinYou. The product is ready for sale in Norway.
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Philips to Acquire Electrical Geodesics, Inc. to Establish Integrated Neurological Imaging, Mapping and Therapy guidance Portfolio
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced an agreement to acquire Electrical Geodesics, Inc. (EGI), a US-based medical device company that designs, develops and commercializes a range of non-invasive technologies used to monitor and interpret brain activity.
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The Made-in-Italy Fast-Track Acceleration Program Dedicated to Projects in Life Science
ZCube, Research Venture of the pharmaceutical group Zambon, announced the second edition of Open Accelerator, the made-in-Italy fast track acceleration program dedicated to projects in life science fields. Open Accelerator is a 12-steps program providing training to international researchers, scientists and aspiring entrepreneurs that following a selection could receive a seed investment of up to a maximum of 100.000 EUR for each project.
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University Medicine, Industry, and Science Establish an Innovation Partnership for Digitalizing Healthcare
The Digital Health Innovation Platform (d.hip) was established by an alliance between university medicine, industry, and science for the purpose of accelerating the digitalization of medicine and healthcare. The Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Siemens Healthineers, the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, and Medical Valley EMN have signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect.
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m.Doc Named Winner in Nationwide WeDoDigital 2017
"Everyone talks? We do" is this year's slogan of the WeDoDigital campaign initiated by the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce - a campaign that aims to honor digital success stories in 2017. Cologne-based, digital healthcare company m.Doc is one of the nationwide winners. The award was given to m.Doc's founder and CEO Admir Kulin at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance Summit in Berlin yesterday.
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