What You Should Know:
- Caption Health raises $53 million series B round to
fuel commercialization and expansion of its FDA-approved AI ultrasound
technology. This is on the heels of its receiving FDA clearance, designated as
a breakthrough technology to fight against COVID-19.
- As ultrasounds, especially cardiac ultrasounds, have
become increasingly important during a time of COVID when resources are
stretched, using AI to help more healthcare professionals take high-quality
images is
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GYANT Raises $13.6M for AI-Enabled Digital Front Door Solution to Drive Patient-Doctor Engagement
What You Should Know:
- GYANT raises $13.6M in Series A funding for AI-enabled digital front door solutions to drive meaningful patient-doctor engagement.
- The investment will enable GYANT to scale up its product development to meet rapidly increasing market demand and support its exponential customer growth.
- Current customers include Intermountain Healthcare, OSF
Healthcare, Adventist Health, Health First, Integris, etc.
GYANT, a San Francisco, CA-based care navigation
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7 Day Moving Average for COVID-19 Cases Is Up 148% Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Nationwide, the seven-day moving average for COVID-19
cases is up 148% from June 7th to July 7th. In many states across the country,
the “curve” never flattened. Since June there hasn’t been a flattening effect,
but rather a significant spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
- States hit hardest with new waves of COVID-19 cases
like Arizona, California, Texas and Florida have the highest percentage of
hospital beds occupied by patients with COVID-19. If there are
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eConsult Platform AristaMD Raises Additional $6M to Close $24M Series B Round
What You Should Know:
- AristaMD, a digital health company that provides a platform to connect primary care providers with timely and documented specialist insights through eConsults, has secured an additional $6M in investments to top off the company’s Series B funding round at $24 million.
- With non-emergency, proactive care and elective
procedures being canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a backlog of
appointments. eConsults will continue to be an effective triage tool now
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Change Healthcare Offers Providers Free Access to Lab Orders/Results for COVID-19 Tests
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare offers healthcare providers free
access to lab orders and results for COVID-19 tests through one of the nation’s
largest lab networks and adds in-home testing.
- The Change Healthcare Clinical Network expands test
ordering through one of the nation’s largest lab networks and adds in-home
testing.
- Providers can choose labs from one of the nation’s
largest lab networks, with over 1,400 lab testing sites, of which over more
than 100 are
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UnitedHealth Group Launches New Digital Health Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- UnitedHealth Group launches a new pilot for digital health therapy for Type 2 Diabetes to nearly a quarter-million members at no additional cost to more than 230,000 employer-sponsored, fully insured UnitedHealthcare members in 27 states and Washington, D.C.
- The therapy, known as Level2, helps participants gain
real-time insights about their condition and, for some, successfully reduces
spikes in blood sugar levels or achieves Type 2 Diabetes remission.
- The
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Paige Lands Additional $20M for AI-Native Digital Pathology Ecosystem
What You Should Know:
- Paige secures an additional $15M from Goldman Sachs totaling $20M to close out a total Series B funding round of $70M for its AI-native digital pathology ecosystem.
- The company’s continued product portfolio of innovation in telepathology and digital diagnostics accelerated by further investment.
Paige, an NYC-based leader in computational pathology transforming the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, today announced it received an additional $15M from
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Allscripts, Microsoft Ink 5-Year Partnership to Support Cloud-based Sunrise EHR, Drive Co-Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Allscripts and Microsoft sign a five-year partnership extension to support Allscripts’ cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record and drive co-innovation.
- The alliance will enable Allscripts to harness the power of Microsoft’s platform and tools, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI, creating a more seamless and highly productive user experience.
Today Allscripts and
Microsoft Corp. announced the
extension of their long-standing
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Scripps Research, Repurpose.AI Partner to Develop COVID-19 Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- Repurpose.AI, has partnered with Scripps Research to
discover drug candidates that may be repurposed to treat COVID-19.
- The partnership will leverage Repurpose.AI's ActivPred
AI Drug Discovery Platform, an unbiased drug, target, and disease agnostic
digital chemistry engine, to discover drug candidates to treat COVID-19.
Scripps Research is
teaming up with Repurpose.AI, an AI
drug discovery company to develop COVID-19 therapeutics. The
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Cleveland Clinic Florida Opens Florida Research and Innovation Center
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic Florida opens Florida Research and
Innovation Center that will advance innovative translational research, focused
on immuno-oncology and infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
- The 107,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art research facility features modern laboratory space, biosafety level 3 facilities for work with infectious agents, and office space for support services on eight acres of land.
Cleveland
Clinic Florida announced
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