What You Should Know:
- PicnicHealth, a pioneer in real-world data (RWD) and clinical AI has unveiled its new Clinical Services division, featuring a Virtual Clinic for patients and a Virtual Site for life sciences companies. This innovative approach, supported by a team of in-house providers, aims to enhance care management for patients and streamline observational research for life sciences.
Virtual Clinic: Empowering Patients & Observational Research
PicnicHealth's
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Humana, Interwell Health Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Agreement to Florida
What You Should Know:
- Humana Inc., a health and well-being company, and kidney care management company Interwell Health are expanding their value-based care agreement to include Florida.
- The expansion will provide eligible Humana Medicare Advantage members living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in Florida with access to Interwell’s comprehensive care and specialized resources.
Value-Based Care for Improved Outcomes
Value-based
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Centivo Raises $75M to Fix America’s Broken Employer Healthcare Model
What You Should Know:
- Centivo, a healthcare company on a mission to make high-quality healthcare more affordable, today announced a successful $75M funding round, comprising both equity and debt financing.
- The investment included participation from new strategic investors Cone Health Ventures and MemorialCare Innovation Fund, alongside existing financial investors such as B Capital, Cox Enterprises, and others.
Addressing the Affordability Crisis
Healthcare costs in
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Particle Health Sues Epic Systems, Alleging Antitrust Violations in EHR Market
What You Should Know:
- Particle Health, a company specializing in aggregating and delivering actionable patient data, has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Epic Systems Corporation.
- The lawsuit accuses Epic of abusing its dominant position in the electronic health records (EHR) market to hinder competition in the burgeoning payer platform market.
Epic's Alleged Anti-Competitive Practices
Particle's complaint alleges that Epic is actively thwarting the development of
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Hippocratic AI Secures $17M to Advance Safety-Focused LLMs in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Hippocratic AI, a pioneer in developing safety-focused Large Language Models (LLMs) for healthcare, announced today that it has received a significant investment from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA.
- The $17M investment, backed also by Greycroft and Leo Shapiro of 7Wire Ventures, adds to Hippocratic AI’s recent Series A round, bringing the total funds raised to an impressive $137M.
Collaboration with NVIDIA
Hippocratic AI's
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The Role of Stem Cell Therapy in the Future of Personalized Medicine
In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, personalized medicine is making waves by offering tailored therapies that cater to the unique needs of individual patients. One of the most promising advancements in this field is stem cell therapy, particularly autologous stem cell therapy, which utilizes a patient's own cells to promote healing naturally. Unlike traditional treatments, stem cells have a unique ability to enhance the body’s natural healing process, offering a new dimension of
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Mendel AI’s Hypercube Platform Now Available on Snowflake, Transforming Clinical Data Analysis
What You Should Know:
- Mendel AI, a leader in clinical AI, announced the general availability of its groundbreaking Hypercube Platform natively on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
- The integration offers healthcare organizations a powerful tool to transform fragmented data into actionable clinical insights, driving advancements in research, operations, and patient outcomes.
Hypercube Platform: Redefining Clinical Data Analysis
Mendel's Hypercube Platform combines advanced
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Medical Experts Utilize NVIDIA-Powered Federated Learning to Advance AI in Tumor Segmentation
What You Should Know:
- A team of experts from leading U.S. medical centers and research institutions is utilizing NVIDIA-powered federated learning to investigate the impact of this technique and AI-assisted annotation in training AI models for tumor segmentation.
- NVIDIA-powered federated learning aims to overcome data-sharing challenges and accelerate the development of more accurate and generalizable AI models in medical imaging.
Federated Learning: Revolutionizing Data
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Cardinal Health Acquires Integrated Oncology Network for $1.115B
What You Should Know:
- Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Integrated Oncology Network (ION), a physician-led independent community oncology network, for $1.115 billion in cash.
- The acquisition will integrate ION into Cardinal’s Navista platform and expand its suite of solutions to deliver world-class patient care and experiences while navigating the complexities of the healthcare landscape.
Expanding Support for Independent
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Ferrum Health Secures $16M for Vendor-Neutral AI Platform
What You Should Know:
- Ferrum Health, a pioneering software provider enabling AI deployment in healthcare systems, raises $16M in Series A funding led by Foundry, with participation from Catalyst by Wellstar, Headwaters Ventures, UnitedHealthcare Accelerator, and existing investors including Blumberg Capital, Cercano, GSR, Urban Innovation Fund, and Singtel Innov8. This brings Ferrum Health's total funding to $31M.
- This Series A funding will fuel Ferrum Health's expansion and
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