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Aflac Corporate Ventures led the round with participation from NMC, Nippon Life Insurance Company, Susquehanna International Group, Sojitz Corporation, Zuellig Pharma and Silicon Valley Bank.
Emphasizing users' privacy, the tool aims to synthesize preventive care recommendations from major professional and federal health organizations into simple, consumer-friendly recommendations and reminders.
The integration will start with Livongo for Behavioral Health in January and expand to other areas.
The company's approach combines live medical scribes, natural language processing and either a smartphone or Google Glass device.
The system is designed to help clinicians quickly complete worksheets, QA and credentialing at the point of care.
The five-year-old Illinois company offers digital health content middleware in the form of APIs used by Microsoft, MDLive and others.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that patients had an average of 2.6 more hours a day in their target glucose range compared to their peers using a sensor-augmented pump.
At the Connected Health Conference last week, Ada Health's Jeff Cutler shared some tenets of a good hospital-startup partnership.
A recent literature review of 80 app safety studies details a laundry list of shortcomings.
At last week's Connected Health Conference, Daniel Shen, founder of Eargo, discussed designing hearing tools for baby boomers.