Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company that is empowering people with chronic diseases to live better has raised $105 million in funding led by existing investors General Catalyst and international investment company Kinnevik. Existing investors DFJ, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Microsoft Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Zaffre Investments, and 7wire Ventures participated in the round along with new investor Echo Health Ventures.Livongo
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Genetic Material Once Considered Junk Actually Could Hold Key to Cancer Drug Response
Material left out of common processes for sequencing genetic material in cancer tumors may actually carry important information about why only some people respond to immunotherapy, possibly offering better insight than the type of material that is being sequenced, according to a study by Mount Sinai researchers published on April 3 in Cell Reports. Sequencing a type of genetic material in cancer tumors called messenger RNA has transformed personalized cancer therapy and revealed biomarkers for
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hc1.com Raises $7M to Further Expansion into Healthcare CRM Market
hc1.com, a Indianapolis, IN-based provider of healthcare relationship management, today announced it has raised $7 million in new Series B capital led by private equity firm Health Cloud Capital and included participation from Elevate Ventures, a long-time investor in hc1.com. The latest round of funding enables the company to continue its aggressive expansion within the healthcare CRM market, and to drive expanded adoption of its newly launched information services, including hc1
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Allscripts Care Management Merges with CarePort Health to Build Care Coordination Tools
CarePort Health, an Allscripts company and pioneer in post-acute outcomes management, today announced it has assumed management of the Allscripts Care Management solution and services portfolio. This transition is part of a strategy to accelerate innovation for the Care Management platform. Together, the Care Management and CarePort platforms offer providers, payers and ACOs unparalleled visibility across all levels of care and transitions across the continuum. Acquired by Allscripts in
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AI Nutrition Data Startup Nutrino Lands $10M to Build Largest Food Database
Nutrino, an Israeli-based digital health provider of nutrition-related data services and analytics technology, announced today the completion of its Series A round of $8 million, bringing the total raised to $10 million. The round included participation from Pereg Ventures, Nielsen Ventures and Gandyr Group joined existing investors - including the New York Angels group. The latest round of funding will be used to further develop Nutrino’s database, which collates data from millions of food
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Change Healthcare Integrates with Doctor on Demand for Lab Orders
Change Healthcare has announced an integration partnership with on-demand telehealth provider Doctor On Demand’s patient geo-location technology, allows physicians to order lab work based on patient’s location—giving consumers the power to choose the most convenient and cost-effective facility. As part of the collaboration, Doctor On Demand is now using the Change Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare Network to empower consumers to choose the most convenient and cost-effective lab for tests ordered
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5 Must-Have Features for a Hospital Clinical Communications Platform
According to a newly released report from Spyglass Consulting Group, 90% of hospitals surveyed are making significant enterprise-wide investments in Smartphones and secure mobile communications platforms to drive clinical transformation and address the mission- and patient-critical communications requirements of clinical and non-clinical mobile workers within the hospital and across the care continuum. Report Background/OverviewConducted over a three-month period starting in September 2017, the
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Vitra Health Nabs $45M to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based company delivering the first clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes (T2D) and other chronic metabolic diseases without the use of medications or surgery has raised a $45 million Series B funding round. THe round include participation from existing investors including Venrock, Obvious Ventures, Creandum,Caffeinated Capital, and Max Levchin’s SciFi VC, along with new investors including Founders Fund and Playground
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Wellframe Granted Patent for Mobile-Enabled Care Interventions to Monitor Ongoing Patient Progress and Improve Patient Compliance
Wellframe, a Boston, MA-based mobile-enabled care management solution has been awarded a patent for a mobile-enabled method to monitor and improve patient compliance with care programs. Wellframe’s mobile-enabled care solution extends the reach and effectiveness of a clinical team by delivering a customized, interactive, daily health checklist to patients on their smartphone or tablet, collecting valuable, day-to-day-health information, and enabling high-touch, sustained, and supportive
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Survey: 69% of Healthcare Providers Plan to Transfer More Health Data to the Cloud
Despite the security risks, 69 percent of healthcare organizations plan to transfer more sensitive data to the cloud in the near future, according to the 2018 Netwrix Cloud Security: In-Depth Report for Healthcare. The report reveals that most healthcare providers store sensitive data, such as electronic protected health information (ePHI), personally identifiable information (PII) and financial data, in the cloud, yet only a few of them have pervasive visibility into who is accessing that
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