Startup Funding Alert: Data analytics startup Evidation raises $45M, plots foray into virtual health

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Evidation Health, a startup that provides technology for virtual clinical trials, raised $45 million in series D funding. The company plans to use the funds to offer virtual health programs to research participants.

The San Mateo-based company can pull in data from wearable devices, videos, speech, and other sources. It also designs virtual studies using this capability, such as Johnson & Johnson’s Heartline study, which tests whether an Apple watch feature can detect atrial fibrillation earlier and reduce participants’ stroke risks.

The company’s research app, Achievement, pays users to track steps, sleep, meals and other health metrics. They can also opt into participating in virtual clinical trials. Evidation Health says 4 million people that use the app.

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Data analytics startup Evidation raises $45M, plots foray into virtual health

Evidation Health, a startup that pulls in digital health data for virtual studies, raised $45 million in funding. The San Mateo-based company can pull in data from wearable devices, videos, speech, and other sources. It also designs virtual studies using this capability, such as Johnson & Johnson's Heartline study, which tests whether an Apple watch feature can detect atrial fibrillation earlier and reduce participants' stroke risks.

Technology: Scientists develop stamp-sized, wearable device that can record body temperature and blood oxygen levels to monitor Covid-19

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Researchers have developed a stamp-sized device, comprising a suite of sensors, including ones , an advance that can be used to catch early signs and symptoms of COVID-19, and help monitor patients as the illness progresses.

The scientists, including John A. Rogers from Northwestern University in the US, said they have tested the novel device on more than 50 physicians, rehabilitation specialists, and patients at the country's Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

According to an editorial, published in the journal Science Advances, the sticker-like medical device, which is of the size of a postage stamp, is soft, flexible, and sits just below the suprasternal notch - the visible dip at the base of the throat.

"As you cough and breathe, it counts coughs, monitors the intensity of cough and senses laboured breathing. The location on the throat also is close enough to the carotid artery that it can measure mechanical signatures of blood flow, monitoring heart rate," he added.

Eventually, they believe the self-learning algorithms will become smart enough to distinguish between a COVID-like cough and more benign coughs from allergies, colds or dryness.

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Scientists develop stamp-sized, wearable device that can record body temperature and blood oxygen levels to monitor Covid-19

WASHINGTON: Researchers have developed a stamp-sized device, comprising a suite of sensors, including ones , an advance that can be used to catch early signs and symptoms of COVID-19, and help monitor patients as the illness progresses. The scientists, including John A.

Startup Technology: The startup SynPhNe's wearable device can help stroke patients regain mobility on their own

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Singapore-based SynPhNe is a neurological therapeutics startup that hopes to change the recovery process for stroke patients through its sensor-based wearable device.

Fifteen years after an incident, in 2013, Dr Subhasis Banerji founded SynPhNe. The Singapore-based digital neurological therapeutics startup has developed a wearable device to guide stroke patients to follow correct movements so that the recovery process is faster.

The challenges faced by stroke patients are quite severe. According to SynPhNe, in a country like India, there is upwards of seven million such patients, which is regarded as traumatic brain injury, with 60 percent of them being chronic, while the number of therapists stands at around 35,000.

The startup’s wearable device is a set of sensors, which are attached to the arm and head to track the electrical activity in the brain and the muscle linkages. The software in the device captures the signals and guides the affected patient through a set of exercises based on their readings and reactions.

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This startup's wearable device can help stroke patients regain mobility on their own

A national level athlete and yoga practitioner met with a car accident way back in 1998, which left him severely disabled. This led him on a quest to provide hope to individuals, especially people who have suffered stroke, that they could get back to their normal physical self.