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Study: In-home healthcare expansion requires overcoming market and technical barriers
By Kat Jercich | 06:29 pm | September 03, 2020
Mobile platform helps collect family health histories; digital CBT improves eating disorder outcomes; and more digital health news briefs
By MobiHealthNews | 03:59 pm | September 03, 2020
Also: Viz.ai landed a New Technology Add-on Payment designation from CMS, and a Canadian company rolls out new return-to-work wearable. 
With expert guidance, Apple Watch could record multi-lead ECGs and spot ST-segment changes
By Dave Muoio | 03:08 pm | September 03, 2020
Although beyond the reach of everyday users, an independent study lends support to the Apple Watch's ECG as an option for cardiologists when standard ECGs are unavailable.
Digital health adoption saw a dip before COVID-19, but the pandemic brought it into limelight
By Laura Lovett | 02:27 pm | September 03, 2020
A new consumer report from Accenture found that rates of smartphone-app and wearable use have slightly declined over the last two years. 
The pediatrics field lags in digital innovations, but a new accelerator is looking to change that paradigm
By Mallory Hackett | 01:20 pm | September 03, 2020
SoftBank leads $100M investment for intelligent health monitoring and digital therapeutics startup Biofourmis
By Dave Muoio | 11:48 am | September 03, 2020
Biofourmis has restructured its business to pursue its original focus on data-driven patient monitoring alongside its more recent interest in standalone and companion digital therapeutics.
'Femtech and women’s health issues have become more mainstream. We must do more though'
By Sara Mageit | 05:16 am | September 03, 2020
Takeaways from Alison Byrne, FGM specialised midwife at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust & University Hospitals Birmingham NHS trust and Lina Chan, founder and CEO of Parla who will be speaking at HIMSS Europe Digital.
uMotif raises £5m to power decentralised clinical trials
By Sara Mageit | 02:48 am | September 03, 2020
The funding will also help get much-needed therapies to patients faster. 
Patients using Omada's diabetes management tool see reduction in A1c levels, according to research
By Laura Lovett | 04:18 pm | September 02, 2020
The study was conducted by Omada and Evidation Health and included 195 participants. 
Neurostimulation therapy startup NeuroPace closes $33M raise with extra $34M in debt financing
By Dave Muoio | 03:47 pm | September 02, 2020
The company's implanted product acts as a closed-loop system that monitors and responds to brain activity by automatically delivering stimulation prior to the start of a seizure.