What You Should Know:
- Eleos Health, a leader in AI for behavioral health, has secured $40M in a Series B funding round. Menlo Ventures led the funding round, with participation from F-Prime Capital, Eight Roads, Arkin Digital Health, SamsungNEXT, ION, aMoon, and lool ventures. This brings Eleos Health's total funding to $68M.
- The funding will accelerate Eleos Health's product development, hiring efforts, reach, and strategic partnership development.
CareOps Automation for Behavioral
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Generative AI Takes on Cardiology Care Gaps in Agamon Health and Mayo Clinic Collaboration
What You Should Know:
- Agamon Health, a healthcare technology company, is collaborating with Mayo Clinic to use Generative AI and workflow automation to improve patient adherence to follow-up in cardiology.
- Delayed or insufficient follow-up care for patients with valvular heart disease can have severe consequences, such as increased hospitalization, worsening heart failure, and death. Agamon Coordinate seeks to "close the loop" on follow-up recommendations and improve patient health
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Corundum Neuroscience Launches Neuroscience Venture Builder & Fund
What You Should Know:
- Corundum Neuroscience, formerly Joy Ventures launches a new neuroscience-focused venture builder and fund to spur neuroscience research and innovation.
- The newly rebranded Corundum Neuroscience works with researchers and entrepreneurs with commercially applicable ideas to build and grow companies developing innovative solutions spanning a range of health and disease areas, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic pain, sleep and neurodegenerative
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Emory Launches AI Health Institute to Improve Health Equity & Patient Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- Emory University has launched the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute as part of its AI.Humanity initiative to leverage AI and big data to transform healthcare globally.
- The institute aims to use AI to discern patterns in health data, make predictions, and improve patient health outcomes in diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and more.
Precision Medicine Delivered with Empathy
Emory AI.Health aims to mitigate bias in AI-driven precision
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AppliedVR Releases Clinical Trial Results from In-Home Virtual Reality Program for Chronic Lower Back Pain
What You Should Know:
- AppliedVR, an immersive therapeutics pioneer, conducted a large randomized controlled trial (RCT) on virtual reality (VR) therapy for treating chronic low back pain (CLBP) at home.
- Results of the study were published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health and demonstrated that AppliedVR's RelieVRx program produced clinically meaningful improvements in adults with CLBP.
- AppliedVR aims to provide a non-pharmacological and non-invasive approach to treating
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23andMe Launches Prevention-Based Health Membership, Total Health
What You Should Know:
- 23andMe has launched 23andMe+ Total Health, a comprehensive prevention-based health membership.
- Total Health provides clinical-grade exome sequencing, biannual blood testing, genetics-based clinical care, and access to clinicians trained in genetics.
Comprehensive, Prevention-Based Health Membership
The offering aims to provide a comprehensive approach to prevention, enhancing patient understanding of disease risks and leading to healthier lives. Key
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Withings Health, Vida Health Partner to Enhance Virtual Cardiometabolic Care
What You Should Know:
- Vida Health, a virtual cardiometabolic care provider and wearables provider Withings Health Solutions has partnered to provide Vida members with state-of-the-art remote monitoring devices, including the Withings Body Pro cellular scale and the BPM Connect Pro cellular blood pressure monitor.
- Eligible Vida members will receive Withings Body Pro cellular scales, BPM Connect Pro cellular blood pressure monitors, or both. Vida's care teams will gain access to
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Telemedicine Increases EHR Documentation Burden for Physicians, Study Reveals
What You Should Know:
- A recent study reveals that telemedicine is related to increased EHR time for physicians in the ambulatory setting, primarily due to documentation of visits, and may require adjustments in productivity expectations and strategies to address EHR documentation burden for physicians in healthcare systems.
- The longitudinal cohort study of 1052 ambulatory physicians conducted at UCSF Health analyzes the time physicians spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled
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Emory Healthcare to Pilot AI-Powered Virtual Inpatient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Emory Healthcare partners with Andor Health to implement virtual patient observer technology to enhance safety interventions and reduce fall risks in hospitalized patients.
- Emory Healthcare plans to pilot the virtual sitter technology at two of its hospitals, allowing for remote monitoring of at-risk patients in medical and surgical floors as well as the emergency department.
AI-Powered Virtual Inpatient Monitoring
Andor Health's ThinkAndor® leverages
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IoMT: Why Healthcare Organizations Should Pay Attention to the New U.S. Cyber Trust Mark
The recently proposed U.S. Cyber Trust Mark is a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program operated by the FCC. It will initially provide IoT manufacturers with a certification label that signifies their compliance with cybersecurity guidelines and best practices—while providing consumers with more confidence when purchasing internet-connected devices. While the program won’t be implemented until the end of 2024 at the earliest and, as currently proposed, will cover only consumer-grade IoT
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