What You Should Know:
- Unite Us acquires social determinants of health (SDoH)
analytics company Staple Health to greatly expand its valuable predictive data
analytics capabilities.
- Predictive analytics and outcome data are essential as
Unite Us supports local communities, addressing needs and providing proactive
social care infrastructure where it is lacking.
- The acquisition of Staple Health brings 10 years of
data experience and a database of 270M individuals, with notable
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FDA Clears ICU Device That Predicts Respiratory Failure to Support COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- CLEW is awarded FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
for its predictive analytics platform in support of COVID-19 patients.
- CLEW is the only device authorized by the FDA to
provide early identification of patients who are likely to experience
respiratory failure of hemodynamic instability—both significant complications
associated with COVID-19.
- CLEW is already implemented in coronavirus units in two
Israeli hospitals, and being tested by several US
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MD Anderson, Philips Partner on Personalized Oncology Treatments, Clinical Trial Matching
What You Should Know:
- Philips and MD Anderson collaborate to facilitate
personalized oncology treatments and clinical trial matching based on genomic
markers.
- Philips connects oncologists and pathologists around
the world to MD Anderson’s Precision Oncology Decision Support (PODS) system of
actionable clinical information
Philips and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center today announced a collaboration to provide oncologists with
evidence-based therapy and clinical
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Augmedics Lands $15M for FDA-Cleared Augmented Reality Guidance System for Surgery
What You Should Know:
- Augmented reality surgical image guidance startup Augmedics
raises $15M in Series B funding led by its U.S. staff in an effort to
secure and successfully launch the company as venture capital (VC) all but
evaporated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The xvision system, the first augmented reality
guidance system for surgery, allows surgeons to see the patient’s anatomy
through skin and tissue as if they have “x-ray vision,” and to accurately guide
instruments and
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Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds
What You Should Know:
- A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate forms for notifiable disease reports increases reporting and completeness of information.
- The system extracts data from the Indiana Health Information Exchange and fills in the information fields on the official state reporting form.
- The form is delivered to an ambulatory care clinic using the HIE network, acting as a
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Redox, Curative Partner to Connect COVID-19 Test Results to Public Health Depts.
What You Should Know:
- Curative and Redox have found a way to easily send COVID-19 test results to state officials for reporting, contact tracing programs, and to inform policies as regions move through phases for re-opening the economy.
- Since formalizing the partnership in May, the duo has kicked off projects with 24 states, with two, Illinois and Delaware, now fully live.
- In this novel use case, Curative uses the Redox API to allow for a secure, efficient flow of data between
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Foundation Medicine Acquires Precision Oncology Company Lexent Bio
What You Should Know:
- Foundation Medicine acquires Lexent Bio, a precision oncology company developing novel liquid biopsy platforms.
- The acquisition will accelerate Foundation Medicine’s liquid biopsy R&D and advance cancer care through an expansion of multiomics capabilities.
Foundation Medicine, Inc., announced that it has completed the acquisition
of Lexent Bio, Inc., a precision oncology
company located in California, developing novel multiomics liquid biopsy
platforms
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Cleveland Clinic Awarded $7.2M NIH Grant for to Study MRI-Based Biomarker in Multiple Sclerosis
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic-led research team has been awarded a $7.2M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a multi-center study to study CVS, an MRI-based biomarker identified in multiple sclerosis associated white matter lesion.
- The prospective study, referred to as CAVS-MS, will
enroll 400 patients with typical or atypical presentations of MS at 11
participating centers in North America, with Cleveland Clinic serving as
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EnsoData Raises $9M to Accelerate Waveform AI Platform for Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- EnsoData announces its official launch and a $9M Series A funding round to accelerate analysis and understanding of human health, starting with sleep disorder diagnoses.
- Using AI, EnsoData’s technology transforms billions of waveform data points (outputs from heartbeats on an EKG, eye movement through an EOG, brain waves through an EEG, etc.) collected from sensors in medical devices and wearables into an easy-to-read report.
- EnsoData saves clinics and
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CareAcademy Lands $9.5M for Online Training Platform for Senior Care
What You Should Know:
- CareAcademy raises $9.5 million in Series A funding to expand its online training platform for senior care professionals to deliver the highest caliber of service and improve the lives of older adults.
- Series A round signals massive market opportunity as CareAcademy seizes a greater share of online caregiver training; brings total company funding to more than $13 million.
CareAcademy, a Boston, MA-based home care & home health workforce empowerment
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