What You Should Know:
- XRHealth today announced that they are currently deploying hundreds of VR headsets in Israel to treat patients coping with anxiety, stress, and PTSD as a result of the recent Hamas attacks.
- The distribution of the headsets will span across 30 hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and mental health centers throughout Israel (including three Clalit hospitals).
Assisting Patients Coping with Anxiety, Stress, and PTSD
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DaVita, Google Cloud to Develop Customized Clinical OS to Transform Kidney Care
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- DaVita Inc. and Google Cloud are teaming up to create a new clinical operating system that sets a foundation for streamlined kidney care for more than 200,000 DaVita patients.
- Built on Google Cloud infrastructure and utilizing AI and analytics tools co-developed by the two companies, DaVita's Center Without Walls (CWOW) is now live across the organization's 2,700+ dialysis centers nationwide.
- With the deployment, DaVita has moved from a
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Launches Biohub in New York for Early Disease Prevention, Detection, and Treatment
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- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced the launch of a new biomedical research hub in New York City that will catalyze collaboration between leading scientific and technology institutions in the area, with the goal of solving grand scientific challenges on 10- to 15-year time horizons.
- The CZ Biohub NY is the fourth research institute in the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network, a groundbreaking collaborative model for scientific research. The
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Waymark Secures $42M to Expand Community-Based Care for Medicaid Patients
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- Waymark, a San Francisco, CA-based Medicaid provider enablement company raises $42M in new financing to scale technology-enabled, community-based care for primary care providers and their patients enrolled in Medicaid programs. The round was led by Lux Capital and CVS Health Ventures joins as a new investor.
- Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) also participated in the round. The investment consists of $22M in
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HIMSS Appoints New Chief Financial Officer & General Counsel
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- HIMSS announced it has appointed Elizabeth Slater Jasper as general counsel, and Anne Tuzik as its new chief financial officer.
- Jasper comes to HIMSS after serving for 14 years as the chief legal officer, general counsel and corporate secretary for the National Service Office for Nurse-Family Partnership and Child First, an organization that oversees the national replication of maternal, infant and mental health evidence-based
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InfoBionic Secures Funding to Expand Virtual Telemetry Solution
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- InfoBionic, a digital health company focused on virtual telemetry and cardiac remote patient monitoring closes its Series D financing round. The series D funding round includes participation by Security International Investments (SII), Mayo Clinic and Excel Venture Management while distinguished existing investors like Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA (Zaffre Investments), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and Safeguard Scientifics remain actively involved.
- The
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BARDA, Evidation Expand Partnership for Early Detection of Influenza-like Illness Using Wearables
What You Should Know:
- Evidation has been awarded a contract by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to fund the 2023 Influenza-like Illness (ILI) Detect & Protect Studies.
- This contract will also fund research to expand and better understand the potential impact of Evidation’s FluSmart program to encourage protective
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Ventricle Health Secures $8M to Accelerate Value-Based Home Care Model for Heart Failure
What You Should Know:
- Ventricle Health - a new national, virtual cardiology clinical reimagining cardiac care delivery - raises $8M in seed funding led by RA Capital and Waterline Ventures.
- This company will used the seed funding to expand Ventricle Health’s heart failure management therapeutic model in collaboration with value-based care provider groups and payers, which can reduce the overall average annual cost of heart failure care by at least 30-50%.
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HeartX Accelerator Announces 5 Startups for 2023 Program
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- HeartX, a digital health accelerator powered by HealthTech Arkansas and MedAxiom along with eleven leading cardiology practices in Arkansas and around the country — has selected the five healthcare companies that will participate in the 2023 accelerator program.
- HeartX is a cardiovascular-focused healthcare accelerator that facilitates guaranteed hospital pilot projects and clinical trials for accomplished, early-stage companies bringing new cardiovascular
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M&A: OptimizeRx to Acquire Medicx Health for $95M
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OptimizeRx, a provider of healthcare technology solutions announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Scottsdale, Arizona-based Healthy Offers, Inc., dba Medicx Health, a healthcare consumer-focused omnichannel marketing and analytics company.
- OptimizeRx will acquire Medicx for $95M, and certain members of Medicx’s management plan to invest approximately $10.5M of their proceeds into the Company’s common stock. The cash component of the acquisition is
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