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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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know:
- Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes.
- Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa.
- Murray Brozinsky
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Cue Health Lands $100M to Scale Rapid, Portable, Point-of-Care COVID-19 Test
What You Should Know:
- Cue Health raises $100M to commercialize its portable, molecular diagnostic test capable of detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in less than 25 minutes using a simple nasal swab.
- The test is part of the Cue Health Monitoring System, which is designed to be a portable device that can perform a molecular test and connect patients to a mobile health platform that features interventional components such as telemedicine
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Kyruus Raises $30M to Expand Provider Search and Scheduling Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solutions company raises $30 million in new funding from Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm.
- Kyruus will use the investment to expand its patient access platform to help health systems enhance the patient experience, both during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kyruus, a Boston, MA-based suite of provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, today announced
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athenahealth Launches Its First Embedded Telehealth Solution at No Additional Cost
What You Should Know:
- Today, athenahealth unveiled athenaTelehealth, a new embedded offering that empowers healthcare providers to seamlessly conduct telemedicine visits with their patients. athenaTelehealth will be available at no additional cost for a limited time to allow providers to deliver care during COVID-19 and beyond.
- As stay-at-home orders and fear of exposure to coronavirus took root, government deregulation and high patient demand led to a surge in telehealth
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