What You Should Know:
- Thirty Madison, the premier healthcare company for people with chronic conditions, today announced a $140 million Series C round led by new investor HealthQuest Capital. Mousse Partners and Bracket Capital also participated in the funding, along with existing investors Polaris Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc., Northzone, Greycroft, and others. Thirty Madison has raised a total of $210 million to date and is now valued at over $1
Read More
Innovaccer and PatientPing Partner for Real-Time Care Coordination
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer, today announced a strategic partnership with PatientPing, a real-time care coordination platform.
- As part of the partnership, Innovaccer will become a reseller of Pings, PatientPing’s real-time notification solution, which will be embedded directly within the Innovaccer Health Cloud. This will enable providers to improve care delivery outcomes, simplify care navigation and throughput, reduce out-of-network utilization, and succeed under value-based
Read More
HHS Launches VC Partnership to Develop Solutions to Prevent Future Pandemics, Public Health Emergencies
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launches a new $50M venture capital partnership with nonprofit organization Global Health Investment Corporation (GHIC) to accelerate development and commercialization of technologies and medical products needed to respond to or prevent public health emergencies, such as pandemics, and other health security threats
- Through the BARDA Ventures program, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development
Read More
Report: State of Black Mental Health Before and After George Floyd’s Death
What You Should Know:
- Hurdle, a Washington D.C.-based digital mental health company, announced the publication of a white paper on Black mental health before and after George Floyd's death.
- Co-authored by leading mental health researchers Dr. Harold "Woody" Neighbors, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Dr. Norma L. Day-Vines, Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins
Read More
PE Firm Frazier Healthcare Partners Closes $1.4B Growth Buyout Fund
What You Should Know:
- Frazier Healthcare Partners, a Seattle-based healthcare private equity firm announced the close of its tenth global buyouts fund and 13th fund across buyouts and life sciences. Investment focus will continue to be middle market provider-based businesses, with virtual health as a major component. The oversubscribed $1.4 billion fund, FHGB X, is significantly larger than FHGB IX, which closed at $780M in 2018.
- Frazier, 30 years strong this year,
Read More
Biobeat Launches Wearable Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Device
What You Should Know:
- Biobeat announced the launch of its new wearable and continuous ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) device, currently the only cuffless ABPM solution in the world.
- As blood (BP) measurement has shown to be crucial in the early detection and prevention of clinical disorders, Biobeat’s cuffless ABPM device can act as a decisive indicator of patient health, tracking patient cardiac data continuously in real-life settings outside of the physician’s office
Read More
Nebula Genomics Launches World’s First Genomic NFT – Blockchain
What You Should Know:
- Professor George Church, co-founder of Nebula Genomics and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, will be partnering with GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum selling artist, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Akon and his NFT platform, AkoinNFT, to auction off Professor George Church’s full genome as the world’s first genomic NFT.
- The acclaimed singer and face of Akoin Cryptocurrency and its affiliate AkoinNFT, is thrilled to be collaborating on
Read More
PE Firm Thoma Bravo Acquires Clinical Trial Financial Platform Greenphire – Health M&A
What You Should Know:
- Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenphire, a financial lifecycle management software for clinical trials, from The Riverside Company. Financial details were not disclosed for the pending transaction.
- The acquisition, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the second quarter of this year.
-
Read More
HCA Healthcare Taps Google Cloud to Create New Health Data Analytics Platform
What You Should Know:
- HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, is partnering with Google Cloud to help create a secure health data analytics platform.
- The partnership will leverage HCA Healthcare’s 32 million annual encounters to identify opportunities to improve clinical care. Note that privacy and security are guiding principles of the partnership, and Google Cloud will not have
Read More
RelayHealth, McKesson Rx Automation, RxCrossroads Unifies Under CoverMyMeds Brand
What You Should Know:
- Today, CoverMyMeds announced that RelayHealth, McKesson Prescription Automation, CoverMyMeds, and RxCrossroads by McKesson have unified as one business and one team under the CoverMyMeds brand.
- Together, the technology innovation and robust connections to providers, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma provided by RelayHealth and CoverMyMeds; RxCrossroads’ deep therapeutic and drug commercialization expertise; and McKesson Prescription Automation’s
Read More
