Mayo Clinic research: Missouri startup’s VR tech can help calm patients’ pre-surgery jitters

A recent study from the renowned researchers at the Mayo Clinic suggests a dose of virtual reality can help reduce pre-op anxiety in older patients undergoing their first open-heart surgery — and their findings come after testing with technology from Columbia, Missouri-based Healium. “While much of the research to date using VR involved younger patient…

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Healium augments funding with $3.6M seed round, adds Mayo Clinic deal

Healium, a virtual and augmented reality biofeedback company, announced Monday one of the largest private equity raises for a women-owned business in mid-Missouri history. The startup — which transforms bio-data from any fitness tracker into immersive, reactive media — has also entered into a know-how license agreement with Mayo Clinic. A “virtual firefly release” using mobile…

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Mayo Clinic partnership proves TripleBlind’s privacy tech can be applied to healthcare, co-founder says

A new partnership with Mayo Clinic will put Kansas City-stored TripleBlind’s data privacy promise to the test.  “We hope to demonstrate the potential of applying TripleBlind’s data privacy and data clean room solution to accelerate how we develop, test, and deploy AI solutions in healthcare, particularly amidst heavily regulated privacy concerns,” Riddhiman Das, co-founder and…

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Mayo Clinic taps FitBark and finds dogs aren’t terribly disruptive bedmates

File this one under the “aww-some” news category. Those with four-legged bedroom guests can rest assured that quality slumber usually remains a loyal companion, two studies found after analyzing data captured from Kansas City-based FitBark devices. The Mayo Clinic Center for Sleep Medicine conducted the first of two studies to explore the impact of pets…

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