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- Sentara Health, one of the largest health systems in the mid-Atlantic and southeast expands its partnership with Regard, an AI-powered copilot that helps clinicians diagnose medical conditions.
- The expansion will provide clinician access to Regard's AI technology in all 12 of Sentara's hospitals, and automate clinician note-taking, improve diagnostic accuracy, elevate patient care, and optimize financial outcomes within the healthcare system.
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M&A: Virgin Pulse and HealthComp Merge in $3B Deal
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– Virgin Pulse, a global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company announced its intent to merge with HealthComp, a next-generation benefits and analytics platform valued at $3B.
The blockbuster merger will create a technology and data-powered health platform-as-a-service organization poised to tackle some of the industry’s biggest challenges. Together, the combined entity will aim to improve health outcomes and lower costs for members and
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Augmedix Launches Gen AI Mobile App for Automated Medical Notes
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- Augmedix, a provider of ambient medical documentation and data solutions, announced the early access release Augmedix Go, a clinician-controlled mobile app that uses generative AI to instantaneously create a fully automated draft medical note after each patient visit.
Augmedix Go harnesses proprietary natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), and structured data sets, key components of Augmedix’s tech stack. This powerful technology is
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Cartwheel Raises $20M to Tackle The Student Mental Health Crisis
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- Cartwheel, a platform helping schools tackle the student mental health crisis by delivering affordable, evidence-based telehealth services with no waitlist raises $20M in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures. Reach Capital joined the round, as did earlier investors General Catalyst, BoxGroup and Able Partners.
- The funding will allow Cartwheel to expand mental health services to hundreds of thousands of new students in
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Health Gorilla & Amwell Expands Digital Diagnostic Lab Ordering for Clinicians
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- Health Gorilla, a leading interoperability provider, and Amwell, a global leader in hybrid care enablement, announced a new lab capability within Amwell’s virtual care platform that will enable providers to offer patients a more connected hybrid care experience.
- With this expanded partnership, Health Gorilla’s lab automation system will empower providers on the Amwell Converge platform with access to a broader lab network and enhanced
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Laguna Health Launches Caregiver Companion App
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- Laguna Health, an AI-powered care management platform launched its Caregiver Companion app, a fully-digital care experience for caregivers supporting patients throughout their post-hospital care journeys.
- The app provides caregivers with greater visibility into the patient’s care pathway and access to the patient’s digital-first care team so caregivers can more easily manage the health and well-being of
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Q/A: LookDeep Health CEO Talks AI Adoption & Tackling Clinical Staff Skepticism
The potential of AI in clinical settings is clear, yet adoption of the technology continues to lag. Despite the myriad ways it can alleviate the burden placed on healthcare professionals, there is still significant staff skepticism to embrace AI. Narinder Singh, co-founder and CEO at LookDeep Health, believes that this reluctance and skepticism is a result of ambiguity over what AI even means. We recently spoke with Nardiner to discuss how clinical executives can address the hesitation to
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Arcadia Launches Point of Care Generative AI Assistant to Improve Care Team Efficiency
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- Healthcare data analytics company Arcadia launches a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by Open AI, that will help boost productivity and improve care team efficiency.
- Care managers play a critical role in the healthcare delivery system, but they are stretched thin, having to quickly review and interpret massive amounts of information from complex medical records. Arcadia’s AI assistant does the heavy lifting with the ability to catch
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Amenities Health Closes $10M to Modernize Health System Digital Front Doors
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- Amenities Health, a Dallas, TX-based healthcare digital front door platform secured an additional $6.25M, putting Amenities' total Series A amount raised to date at $10M.
- The Series A round was led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund, and Epic Ventures with additional participation from HealthTech CEOs Chris Gibson, Blake Marggraff, Kyle Robertson, Tom White, Kulmeet Singh, Harjinder Sandhu, and Buzz White.
- Amenities plans to use the additional
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M&A: Avel eCare Acquires Virtual Hospitalist Provider Fident Health
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Avel eCare, a provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services acquires Fident Health, a Texas-based virtual hospitalist provider dedicated to delivering high-quality telemedicine care to rural and suburban communities.
- The acquisition strengthens Avel eCare’s existing clinician network and builds on the company’s successful acute and post-acute telemedicine solutions to help hospitals, health systems and senior care facilities throughout the
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