Tohoku University's Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, pharmaceutical firms Daiichi Sankyo and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., and medical IT company MICIN have started a collaborative research project to track long-term lifestyle habits to drive the creation of new drugs.
According to a press statement, the organisations will loan wearable tracking devices to about 2,000 participants. Over a year...
In a surprising move, Ramzi Haidamus stepped down from his post as president of Nokia Technologies, the Silicon Valley division of Finland-based Nokia Group. Nokia Technologies does not yet have someone to replace Haidamus, and the company says he will stick around until the end of September. In the meantime, Brad Rodrigues, who is currently head of strategy and business at the company, will...
Dr. Joseph Kvedar
Pharmaceutical companies are just beginning to think of digital health offerings as therapeutics, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, the vice president of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare, told MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Jonah Comstock at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference this week.
Kvedar explained that several years ago pharmaceutical company marketing departments would look...
Greg Barrett, VP Marketing and Managed Markets at Daiichi Sankyo
The partnership between Daiichi Sankyo and Partners HealthCare's Center for Connected Health to bring mobile device monitoring to atrial fibrillation patients is still in its early stages, so there's no data to share from the pilot. But Partners VP of Connected Care Dr. Joseph Kvedar and Greg Barrett, VP of Marketing and Managed...
Dr. Joseph Kvedar
Partners HealthCare's Center for Connected Health is in the midst of a transition from being a technology group that supports care offerings to being an integrated connected care group within the hospital, according to a year-end blog post by (now Vice President of Connected Health) Dr. Joseph Kvedar. Kvedar sees the move as reflective as a larger trend in the connected care...
