Singapore-headquartered online pharmacy platform SwipeRx has raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by MDI Ventures.
It also received backing from global investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, and Susquehanna International Group.
WHAT IT DOES
Formerly mClinica Pharmacy Solutions, SwipeRx operates an online platform where...
Digital chronic condition management company DarioHealth has entered into a $30 million strategic partnership with biopharma giant Sanofi to speed adoption of Dario's suite of tools in the U.S.
The agreement with the multinational pharma company's U.S. division will focus on "significantly" expanding Dario's sales to health plans and to select employers. The deal also allows the companies to...
Bayer Middle East has introduced its Alleye Home Monitoring Sponsorship Programme to the Egyptian healthcare sector, it has been confirmed. The global pharma giant is reportedly working with some of the country’s top-rated eye hospitals to “support Egypt’s ophthalmologists in the new era” of virtual care for patients with either Diabetic Macular Edema [DME] – a complication of diabetic...
Digital healths’ moment in the sun doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon, and one area that is just beginning its journey into virtual care is the pharmaceutical industry.
In recent years, pharma has taken an interest in the digital health space, and even before the pandemic hit, experts from HealthXL expected 2020 to be a big year for digital therapeutics in pharma.
This morning at the DTx...
International pharma Boehringer Ingelheim and prescription digital therapeutics company Click Therapeutics have inked a $500 million-plus deal to jointly develop and commercialize a digital treatment for patients with schizophrenia.
The treatment, referred to as CT-155, will be a mobile app built on Click's proprietary tech platform, the companies said.
Employing cognitive and neurobehavioral...
UK-based Elucid Digital Health has launched a dashboard function that is automatically created by the dispensing of the pill or tablet through the intelligent Pill - Connect cap which fits on a standard pill bottle.
The patient receives a reminder on their phone when the pill or pills should be taken and then touches the dispense button on the screen. The pill is ejected from the bottle and a...
Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has announced this week that it is launching an initiative that will see the company invest in Israel’s growing digital health space.
Called BeyondBio, the scheme follows a memorandum of understanding for investment in Israel signed earlier this year by AstraZeneca and the Israel Innovation Authority.
WHAT HAPPENED
According to a press statement, the first...
German pharma giant Bayer has announced this month that it will be working with 11 additional startups to accelerate the development of digital products improving patients’ health through its G4A Digital Health Partnerships programme.
The startups, which look at oncology, cardiovascular diseases and others, were selected from over 750 applications spanning 65 countries based on the development...
Medisafe, maker of a patient-facing app that promotes medication adherence, has completed a large international pilot in which its software improved adherence to a partnered global pharma’s cardiometabolic therapy, MobiHealthNews has learned.
Medisafe said that it was unable to disclose the identify of the international pharma partner, with whom the pilot’s success has resulted in additional...
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