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This Idea Can Save 125,000 Life in The United States Annually

14May By PriyankaNo Comments

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This Idea Can Save 125,000 Life in The United States Annually

This is a story of how a new medical adherence and management, TrackMyStack.com -- designed to help people manage their regimen for their health condition is helping patients quickly learn about alternatives for their treatment and discover other’s going through the exact same thing as them. About 125,000 deaths occur annually in the United States alone due to non-adherence to medical treatments. Now that I've got your attention (hopefully!) let me tell you more about what adherence means in this context, it means taking the right dose at the right time at the right frequency, consistently till required. The reason people become non-adherents is because they either forget to take their medication, run out of it, patients feeling like it is ineffective or because of side effects. The ...

10May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Healthifyme a Mobile Based Fitness Startup Raises $6 million Funding

HealthifyMe, a mobile health and fitness startup today announced Series A funding of USD 6 million (about 40 crores) led by IDG Ventures India, Inventus Capital and Blume Ventures. The funding comes just a year after announcement of seed round led by angel investors and Micromax, the company said in a release. Stating that HealthifyMes funding comes on the back of strong growth, it said adding that with in a years time, the company has scaled up users to 5,00,000 from 30,000 users in January 2015. The funds will be used to further develop its digital coaching platform and to accelerate growth in India, the company said. "With these funds we plan to impact 5 million users and tie-up with over 500 corporate and healthcare partners. Our aim is to be the best in the world and we wi...

Fitbit Sold 8.2 Million Activity Trackers in Q4 2015

23Feb By NitishNo Comments

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Fitbit Sold 8.2 Million Activity Trackers in Q4 2015

San Francisco-based maker of digital health and fitness products, Fitbit has stated in its fourth quarter earnings report that it sold 8.2 million activity trackers in Q4 2015. it had sold 5.3 million activity trackers in the last quarter. The company also stated that its yearly unit sales nearly doubled to 21.4 million units sold in 2015 from 11 million in 2014. Founded and managed by James Park and Eric Friedman, Fitbit is known for its products of the same name, which are activity trackers, wireless-enabled wearable technology devices that measure data such as the number of steps walked, heart rate, quality of sleep, steps climbed, and other personal metrics. The first of these was the Fitbit Tracker. “We believe we are beginning 2016 with strong customer engagement and retenti...

Some Serious Questions Asked From Two Varanasi Boys About Their Startup Dawailelo.com

25Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Some Serious Questions Asked From Two Varanasi Boys About Their Startup Dawailelo.com

How many of you live in metro? And your family lives in tier 2 and tier 3 cities? Who takes care of your family’s health when in need while you are busy in your work? Two youngsters also came across same questions and came up with a solution: Dawailelo. Dawailelo helps the people through their services in tier 2 and tier 3 cities where there is acute need of genuine, affordable and accessible health care services. Hailing from tier 2 city like Varanasi, the two founders Arpit Sarin and Aditya Agrawal wanted to know whether others are facing the same problem and thus they conducted a survey of 2000 residents to understand the roots. They came to know that majorly the old age patients are suffering from one or other chronic diseases and need health care at home, peopl...