What You Should Know:
- Bisu, Inc., a Tokyo-based digital health startup that helps people improve their health and wellness through lab-grade testing at home, today announced $3.2M in seed funding led by Korean biotech investor QUAD, with participation from ASICS Ventures Corporation, 15th Rock Ventures, Pacifico Investments, and SOSV.
- The funding will enable Bisu to bring to market Bisu Body Coach, a portable "home health lab" for
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Virgin Pulse to Acquire Welltok to Enhance Health Activation: 5 Things to Know
Virgin Pulse, a global provider of tech-enabled wellbeing solutions, today announced its intent to acquire Denver-based consumer activation company, Welltok, a leader in data analytics-based targeting and multi-channel outreach solutions.
Here are five things to know about the acquisition:
1. The Welltok acquisition will accelerate Virgin Pulse's ability to serve substantially more clients, consumers, patients and members across the full healthcare continuum – employer, health plans
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Teladoc Health Expands Virtual Primary Care to Health Plans
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health today announced it is expanding its virtual primary care service, Primary360 to commercial health plans, employers and other organizations that sponsor healthcare for individuals and families in the United States. Teladoc Health has received a positive initial response to Primary360 in the marketplace and the role it plays in delivering comprehensive, virtual-first benefits. Several Fortune 1000 employers are live today on the new primary care
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Cerner Launches RevElate Patient Accounting for Rev Cycle Portfolio
What You Should Know:
- Today Cerner announced the launch of Cerner RevElate™, the company’s go-forward patient accounting product that will bring new and enhanced capabilities to the Cerner® revenue cycle management portfolio.
- Cerner RevElate is expected to preserve and advance the clinically driven capabilities of Cerner Millennium® while adding scalable, enterprise capabilities of Soarian® Patient Accounting software.
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Twin Health Secures $140M to Expand Whole Body Digital Twin Precision Health Service
What You Should Know:
- Twin Health, Mountain View, CA-based makers of the Whole Body Digital Twin™ precision health service, today announced $140 million in Series C funding as it scales its service in the U.S. and globally from investors ICONIQ Growth, Sequoia Capital India, Perceptive Advisors, Corner Ventures, LTS Investments, Helena and Sofina.
- Powered by artificial intelligence, the Whole Body Digital Twin™ is a dynamic representation of each individual’s unique
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Sonde Health Launches Vocal Biomarker Tech to Monitor Mental Health and Well-Being
What You Should Know:
- Sonde Health has unveiled Sonde Mental Fitness, a voice-enabled mental health detection and monitoring technology that uses a brief voice sample to evaluate mental well-being. Available as an application programming interface (API) for health systems, employers, and wellness service providers, Sonde Mental Fitness is an easy and affordable way for individuals to engage with and better understand their mental well-being and can serve as a much-needed early warning
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Wolters Kluwer Targets Health Equity with Best Care Everywhere
What You Should Know:
- Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced the launch of Best Care Everywhere, a mission-driven movement to build and strengthen health equity globally. Wolters Kluwer is committed to the belief that all people—everywhere—should receive the best care possible.
- Wolters Kluwer is tackling challenges head-on in an array of healthcare settings to help reduce inequities in learning, research, decision support, and care.
Health Equity Tenets
Wolters Kluwer is
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Central Logic Integrates Offering and Rebrands to ABOUT
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company Central Logic, today announced it has rebranded as ABOUT (ABOUT Healthcare, Inc.), as the company also announces the integration of two earlier acquisitions with its core solution, to better serve health system clients across the country.
- The integration of Ensocare—which automates the inpatient referral process to post-acute care; and Acuity Link—which provides transportation communications and logistics management
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Elevate Emerges Out of Stealth with $15M to Modernize Consumer-Directed Benefits Platform
What You Should Know:
- Elevate, a Denver, CO-based next-generation consumer-directed benefits platform, today announced that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding, co-led by Greycroft and Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Bowery Capital. The fresh round of capital coincides with Elevate’s formal public launch after a year in stealth mode, as it looks to reimagine how employers and employees access, manage and experience consumer-directed benefits.
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Aquiline Drones Establishes AI-Driven Airline for Tissue/Organ Delivery Service
What You Should Know:
- Aquiline Drones (AD), an American drone manufacturer and cloud technology enterprise announced the formation of AD Airlines after being awarded its Air Carrier Certificate by the FAA on September 16, 2021, which enables AD to commercialize its lifesaving tissue and organ delivery service.
- Specifically, AD Airlines will implement its patent-pending and unique Mixed Modal Transport Model (R2M2), starting with the use of manned aircraft, and gradually incorporating
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