Dave Muoio
The Amazon Alexa Care Hub connects a senior's personal assistant device to a caretaker's mobile app, and includes activity alerts, emergency contacts and other communications features.
Now available in public preview, the offerings are designed to help organizations and individuals pull clinically-relevant insights from large volumes of free text housed in medical records.
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The data analytics platform extracts patient data from physician notes, medical charts, and other documents and translates the information into clinical and administrative guidance.
NightWare's digital therapeutic monitors a wearer's heart rate and movement to detect disturbances during sleep, and delivers gentle vibrations to interrupt a nightmare without waking the user.
The Oakland, California, company recently announced collaborations with AstraZeneca and 3M Littmann Stethoscopes.
The company's lead offering for employer customers has so far reached more than 250,000 users.
The study, backed by the digital therapeutics company, measured the change in clinical encounter frequency among opioid use disorder patients who were also prescribed buprenorphine.
The tool was "100% accurate" when spotting cases among asymptomatic individuals, the researchers wrote, and could be deployed as a low-cost prescreener to support diagnostic testing efforts.
Outcomes from the randomized controlled trial were presented today at a virtual conference. The company and its research partners say this study differs from others due to its size and length.