We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022.
Milan Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Biofourmis
Cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems will continue their rapid pace in 2022, but as more providers launch hospitals at home and remote patient management programs and the technology has to traverse enterprise firewall boundaries, it provides attackers an extensive new surface area to attack.
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Swiftarc Ventures Launches $75M Telemedicine Venture Fund
What You Should Know:
- Swiftarc Ventures, an NYC-based early and growth-stage consumer and consumer health-focused venture capital firm announced it has launched a $75M telehealth-focused venture fund.
- The telehealth fund is aimed at harnessing breakthrough innovation opportunities currently emerging from key legislative changes in healthcare delivery within the United States and globally.
Investment Thesis
In the past, the three-pillared U.S. healthcare system (Patients,
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Telemedicine Platform Offers Outpatient COVID-19 Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Alpha Medical, a virtual primary care group that empowers women to take control of their healthcare by offering a medical team specifically trained for a woman’s unique needs, announces it will prescribe PAXLOVID, an investigational medication used to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and children 12 years of age and older, and are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death, under a EUA.
- Alpha Medical, whose
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LifeWorks Acquires Breaking Free, Digital Substance Use Disorder Treatment Platform
What You Should Know:
- LifeWorks, a provider of comprehensive mental health, digital and in-person total wellbeing solutions, today announced the acquisition of Breaking Free, a provider of evidence-based behavioral health SaaS solutions for substance use intervention.
- The addition of Breaking Free’s solution in substance use intervention to the LifeWorks platform will result in further enhancing the mental health service clients can seamlessly access through the LifeWorks wellbeing
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RecoveryOne, Cigna Offers Virtual Physical Therapy for Medicare Advantage Customers
What You Should Know:
- RecoveryOne, a digital health innovator dedicated to improving health outcomes for recovery from musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries of all types and reducing costs, announced an expansion of its partnership with Cigna to offer its virtual physical therapy and broad MSK solution for Medicare Advantage (MA) customers as an in-network benefit.
- This new benefit builds on the partnership between Cigna and RecoveryOne announced
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M&A: Babylon Acquires Patient Engagement Solution DayToDay Health
What You Should Know:
- Babylon (NYSE: BBLN) acquires patient engagement platform DayToDay Health (“DayToDay”) to provide Babylon members with DayToDay’s digital-first, highly engaging programs and clinical services prior to and following scheduled surgeries, major health events like childbirth, and following diagnosis of chronic conditions.
- Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Enhancing Lives by Guiding Patients with Individualized Care
Although almost all
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Casana Raises $30M for Effortless Home Health Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Casana, a healthcare technology firm that is reinventing in-home health monitoring announced it has raised $30M in Series B funding, bringing the total capital raised to $46 million led by Morningside with participation from Matrix Partners, as well as Series A investors General Catalyst and Outsiders Fund.
- The Series B funding will allow Casana to accelerate FDA submission of the Heart Seat with the goal to obtain FDA approval and bring this important new device
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M&A: IBM Sells Off Watson Health Business to PE Firm Francisco Partners
What You Should Know:
- Today, IBM announced it has sold off healthcare data and analytics assets from IBM that are currently part of the Watson Health business to global private equity firm Francisco Partners. The assets acquired by Francisco Partners include extensive and diverse data sets and products, including Health Insights, MarketScan, Clinical Development, Social Program Management, Micromedex, and imaging software offerings.
- Financial terms of IBM's agreement with Francisco
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Alphabet’s Verily + L’Oréal Partner to Advance Precision Skin Health
What You Should Know:
- Today, Alphabet’s Verily, a world leader in personalized medicine, and L’Oréal, the world leader in beauty, joined forces to lead a new era of precision skin health.
- The first-of-its-kind partnership in the beauty industry aims to break down barriers to dermatology care and bring new insights to dermatologists that can help improve health outcomes for the nearly two billion people worldwide with skin issues.
Strategic Partnership Addresses Unmet Need in
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DarioHealth Acquires Physimax, AI-Powered Musculoskeletal Self-Assessment and Optimization Platform
What You Should Know:
- Global digital therapeutics (DTx) company DarioHealth Corp. (Nasdaq: DRIO), a leader in the market (the Company), announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase all of the right, title and interest in certain assets of Physimax Technologies Ltd. ("Physimax"), a leading provider of computer vision (CV) technology for Musculoskeletal (MSK) functional screening and predictive risk of injury assessment.
- This acquisition complements DarioHealth’s existing MSK
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