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- Clarapath, a robotics company aimed at catalyzing change in the way pathology laboratories process human and animal tissue acquires Mountain View, CA-based Crosscope. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Crosscope is a digital pathology company with a turnkey imaging solution providing best-in-class workflow tools and slide management along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to assist pathologists with better
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Health Gorilla Partners with CLEAR for Consumers to Access & Control Their Health Info
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- Health Gorilla, a leading Health Information Network and interoperability provider, has partnered with CLEAR, a secure identity verification platform, to launch Individual Access Services, which allows consumers to access their personal health information securely.
- Health Gorilla will embed Powered by CLEAR to seamlessly verify a consumer's identity and provide them with secure and easy access to their health information. Friction-free identity
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Risky Business of Health Trackers: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know
Gone are the days when healthcare information was only available to us at the doctor’s office or through the office's online portals, and that’s in part due to the rapidly growing popularity of wearable technology devices. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. use a fitness or health tracker to monitor things such as heart rate, blood pressure, sleep cycle, and stress. But this information is being used beyond just monitoring specific conditions. Take me, for example; I personally use my
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Aiberry Secures $8M for AI-Powered Mental Health Screenings
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- Aiberry (pronounced “I” + “berry”), an AI-powered mental health screening pioneer today announced that it has secured $8M in seed funding led by Confluence Capital Group, Inc. (CCG) with participation from the VC fund Ascension AI. This brings total funding to $10M
- The company plans to use the latest round of funding to accelerate the adoption of the Aiberry platform, which uses an AI-powered therapeutic assistant to conduct a conversation to detect mental health
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Opkit Launches First Insurance Verification Platform for Telehealth
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- Y Combinator startup Opkit emerges from stealth with an automated health insurance verification platform that is purpose-built for the new telehealth companies and virtual medical clinics that are providing care for a wide range of patients across the United States. The startup has raised more than $1M from Global Founders Capital, Mischief (Plaid founder Zach Perret's fund), Socially Financed, Y Combinator and Rex Salisbury, former partner at Andreessen
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COTA and GTC Partner to Improve Precision Oncology
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- COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company, today announced a new partnership with Genomic Testing Cooperative (GTC), a molecular testing company.
- GTC has a very innovative approach to genetic testing, providing molecular information which is critical to determining accurate diagnoses and determining the most appropriate treatment. GTC's tissue and liquid-biopsy testing leverages DNA and RNA sequencing, which is very rare in the
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Long-Term Care Insurtech Assured Allies Nabs $42.5M to Power Successful Aging
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- Assured Allies, an insurtech company for evidence-based successful aging raises $42.5M in Series B funding round co-led by FinTLV Ventures and existing investor Harel Insurance, and was joined by new and existing investors including Lumir Ventures, Funds managed by Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), New Era Capital Partners, MS&AD Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Poalim Equity, EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, Akilia Partners, and Samsung Next. The latest round
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Wave Life Secures $6M to Increase Mental Health Access For Gen Z
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- Wave Life, the science-backed mental health platform aimed at supporting Gen Z raises $6M in seed funding led by Santé Ventures. The seed round also included participation from Hannah Grey, Joyance Capital, Gaingels, and Telocity Ventures.
- Created and led by clinical psychologist Dr. Sarah Adler, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, the Wave Life platform takes the best of science-backed traditional therapy and delivers it in a way
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Transcarent Acquires 98point6 AI-Powered Virtual Care Platform and Care Business
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- Transcarent, a health and care experience company that makes it easy for people to access high-quality, affordable care announced it will acquire AI-powered virtual care platform and care business of on-demand primary care company, 98point6. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed; however, insiders expect the deal to be valued at $100M.
- As part of the acquisition, hundreds of 98point6 enterprise customers including Boeing, Kindercare and
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Maryland HIE to Expand Medicaid Redetermination Notification Project
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- CRISP, the nonprofit state-designated health information exchange (HIE) of Maryland, announced plans to expand its Medicaid Redetermination Notification project across the state to support care teams as they navigate redetermination for 1.6 million Medicaid enrollees.
- The project is a collaboration across state agencies and began as a pilot supporting federally qualified health centers who expressed concerns about lacking resources that would contribute to
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