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How Start-up BirthVue Is Helping Moms During Labor and Delivery
We are thrilled to announce a significant collaboration reflective of our ongoing commitment to improving healthcare outcomes through innovation and user-centered design. HITLAB is joining forces with Birthvue, an emerging startup determined to transform perinatal care and pain management in the delivery rooms.
Clinical Trials Designed for the Patient: How Remote Technologies Improve Engagement
Patient data is the backbone of all clinical trials. However, trial subject recruitment, engagement and data collection are very costly activities. According to the Deloitte Center for Health, roughly a third of a clinical trial’s total costs go toward patient recruitment alone. The rise of remote monitoring tools in the post pandemic era, such as smart packaging, wearables, and other technology, can help focus and contain trial efforts for individual patients, while reducing costs, and diversifying trial patient samples for more effective drug development.
Applications Open for HITLAB Fall 2023 Breakthrough Alliance Challenge
The HITLAB Breakthrough Alliance is holding a ‘Call for Applications’ for its annual Fall 2023 Breakthrough Alliance Challenge. They are looking for the world’s most innovative developing and early commercial digital health technologies that solve significant gaps in healthcare. The challenge is open to all new and innovative solutions across the healthcare spectrum.
HelixVM™ teams up with HITLAB to enhance its medical marketplace, fortifying triage clearinghouse and fast-tracking patient care
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2023 -- HelixVM™, a virtual health care marketplace, is partnering with HITLAB (Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab), to elevate medical marketplace innovation.  This partnership further enhances HelixVM's cutting-edge medical marketplace, focusing on streamlining triage clearing for healthcare providers and expediting FastTrackRx™ prescriptions for patients. 
FFF Enterprises: The Battle to Reign In the Opioid Crisis
The opioid pandemic has had a devastating impact on communities across the United States. In 2020, more than 93,000 people died from drug overdoses, most of which involved opioids. As COVID-19 took the headlines, and has since waned, the opioid crisis remains a growing problem, costing the US billions each year. For Rachel Meier, the crisis hit on a personal level as she struggled with opioid addiction after a devastating car accident. For Dr. Renee Manworen, a pediatric pain specialist, advocating for responsible prescriptive use has become her calling to educate healthcare providers. Additionally, there is a need to increase the awareness, availability, and use of naloxone, an opioid antagonist (reversal agent) for overdoses.
HITLAB Announces Winners of Spring 2023 Breakthrough Alliance Challenge
New York, NY June 28, 2023 -- HITLAB announced the winners of the Spring 2023 Breakthrough Alliance (BTA) Innovator’s challenge. The BTA is a digital health consortium founded in partnership with New York City Economic Development Corporation and was created to accelerate the optimal adoption of digital health innovations through shared evidence, communication, and perspectives to improve health outcomes, access and care delivery.