Healthcare was created to help people. So why is this industry the most heavily targeted by cybercriminals and ransomware attacks?
In the first half of 2020 alone, the Department of Health and Human Services saw a nearly 50% increase in the number of healthcare-related cybersecurity breaches. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the healthcare industry to operate at a level that it wasn’t prepared for, which meant emergency facilities were erected without proper security measures in place in order to
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Archives for 2021
WellSky Acquires Healthify to Enhance Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know:
- Seamless coordination between providers, community-based organizations, and payers is the key to delivering value-based care at scale. To better connect providers, identify social determinants of health, search for social services, and coordinate care with community partners, WellSky has acquired Healthify. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Together, WellSky and Healthify will connect
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Withings Devices Integrates with One Drop App for Multi-Condition Employer Program
What You Should Know:
- One Drop and Withings have announced a strategic partnership to integrate One Drop’s AI-powered chronic condition management platform with Withing’s suite of smart medical device. Through this integration partnership, members enrolled in the One Drop employer program can qualify to receive a Withings Body smart scale or a Withings BPM Connect smart blood
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Biofourmis Earns FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Digital Therapeutic for Heart Failure
What You Should Know:
- Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital therapeutics, announced its BiovitalsHF® solution is the first-ever heart failure digital therapeutic to receive a Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- The Breakthrough Devices Program was created to provide patients and providers with timely access to medical devices (in this case, software as a medical device, or SaMD) by speeding up their
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Medtronic Awarded FDA Clearance for 2 AI Algorithms for Cardiac Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Medtronic announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for two AccuRhythm™ AI algorithms for use with the LINQ II™ insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) – and the presentation of AccuRhythm AI validation data this week at Heart Rhythm 2021.
- AccuRhythm AI applies artificial intelligence (AI) to heart rhythm event data collected by LINQ II, improving the accuracy of information physicians receive so they can better diagnose and treat abnormal heart
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PE Firm Aquiline Capital Partners Acquires Telemedicine Provider Avera eCare
What You Should Know:
- Telemedicine services provider Avera eCare announced it has been acquired by private equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners with $6.4B in assets under management. As part of the acquisition, Aquiline will execute the carve-out of Avera eCare and rename the company Avel eCare. Closing is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2021.
- Avel eCare’s more than 230 employees will continue to work for Avel eCare, and its headquarters
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Cloud Technology and Healthcare Evolution: Microsoft in the Spotlight
In April, software giant Microsoft made a lot of headlines announcing its multibillion-dollar acquisition of Nuance, the cloud-based clinical intelligence developer best known to healthcare providers for its Dragon and PowerScribe speech-recognition products.
Business analysts and reporters zeroed in on impressive financial details and utilization potential for “ambient AI” technologies in health settings. But more than anything, the deal shows how serious Microsoft is about its healthcare IT
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Exo Raises $220M to Commercialize Handheld, Point-of-Care Ultrasound Device
What You Should Know:
- Exo (pronounced “echo”), a pioneering health information and devices company, announced it has raised $220M in Series C investment round led by RA Capital Management and joined by BlackRock, Sands Capital, Avidity Partners and Pura Vida Investments.
- The funding will fund the commercialization of its patented handheld medical device and its intuitive point-of-care ultrasound workflow solution, Exo Works. This brings Exo’s total funding to more than $320M.
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Health Tech VC Firm Nina Capital Launches $47.4M Second Fund, Closes 5 Investments
What You Should Know:
- Nina Capital, a health tech venture capital (VC) firm, announced its last five investments of its first fund and the launch of its second fund, Nina Capital Fund II FCRE, with an investment goal of EUR 40 ($47.4M).
- Nina Capital was founded in 2019 with its inaugural fund, Nina Capital Fund I FCRE, which reached its maximum size of EUR 18 million (USD 21.3 million). In less than two years, Nina Capital has created an international portfolio of 23 companies in the
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3 Ways IoT is Empowering Modern Healthcare Industry Today
Today’s healthcare systems are nothing like their predecessors of even a decade ago, and their growth is due, in large part, to the rapid evolution of technology. In recent years, e-health—the digital services that make it possible to improve the well-being of individuals, whether to prevent, diagnose or treat illnesses—has grown exponentially, with estimates that it will reach $234.5 billion by 2023.
In order for e-health devices to demonstrate their full value, healthcare networks
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