CCGs Using New Online Marketplace to Support Personalisation and Take-up of Personal Health Budgets
Chiltern CCG and Aylesbury Vale CCG are working with one of the UK's largest commissioning support units to pioneer the use of a new simple and easy-to-use tool that delivers a seamless, end-to-end process for the delivery of personal health budgets. The clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are using PHBChoices, the new online marketplace that connects health and care suppliers with Personal Health Budget (PHB) holders.
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Wayra UK and MSD's Velocity Health Open a Second Call for the Digital Startup Community
Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd (MSD), a global healthcare company, and Wayra UK, part of Telefonica Open Future, open a second call for the digital start-up community to create radical solutions that reimagine how healthcare can be delivered to help improve delivery and patient outcomes.
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Sandoz Invites Young Entrepreneurs to Enter #SandozHACk, a Global Competition to Help Solve Healthcare Access Challenges
Sandoz, the Novartis generic and biosimilar pharmaceutical division, announces the launch of Sandoz HACk - Healthcare Access Challenge - a global competition to generate innovative ideas and solutions to help tackle some of the world's most pressing healthcare access problems. The competition is open for entries until November 30, 2016.
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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.
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FDA Launches #NaloxoneApp Competition to Spur Innovative Technologies to Help Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths
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
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Pfizer Launches New "Moodivator" App to Help Support, Encourage and Motivate People with Depression
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.
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Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences Announce Launch of Onduo, a Joint Venture to Develop Comprehensive Diabetes Management Platform
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.
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