What You Need to Know:
- Today, Suki announced a Series B funding round of $20 million, led by new investor Flare Capital Partners and including top investors like First Round and Venrock.
- In just two years, Suki has established its product as a leading solution to address the urgent crisis of physician burnout and is already trusted by independent and group practices as well as leading systems like Sutter Health and Ascension.
- Suki will use the funding to expand its user base
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Hong Kong’s Dept. of Health Taps Biofourmis’ Remote Monitoring Platform to Fight Coronavirus
What You Need to Know:
- Boston-based Biofourmis’ AI-powered digital therapeutics technology has inked a deal with The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong’s Department of Health to leverage its wearable, AI-powered remote monitoring platform to provide new insights to fight COVID-19 in a national disease monitoring program.
- Biofourmis’ technology will remotely monitor coronavirus infected and suspected patients and apply personally predictive analytics to help patients and increase
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Ginger Acquires Technology Assets of Mental Health App LiveBetter
What You Need to Know:
- Ginger has acquired the technology assets of LiveBetter, a company that brings free mental health and well-being support to anyone through a highly engaging, conversational app.
- LiveBetter reaches over 10,000 users and continues to reach more individuals every day - young adults, the unemployed, new parents, and the homeless.
Ginger, on-demand access to behavioral health coaching, video therapy, video psychiatry, and self-guided content has acquired the
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XRHealth to Deliver VR Therapy to Coronavirus Patients in Quarantine in Israel
- XRHealth announced it will provide Israel’s Sheba Medical Center’s Coronavirus patients in quarantine with virtual reality telehealth services.
- The XRHealth platform will provide relief from isolation, stress, and anxiety for those quarantined at Sheba for possible Coronavirus exposure.
XRHealth, a Boston, MA-based provider of extended reality and therapeutic applications, today announced it will be providing virtual reality (VR) telehealth services to the Sheba Medical Center in
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Philips Launches Emergency Care Informatics Suite to Power Real-Time Feedback Between Emergency Responders & Doctors
What You Need to Know:
- Philips launches its new pre-hospital informatics solution for emergency responders in the U.S. market and will debut it at HIMSS 2020 next week.
- Emergency medical service personnel are facing rising demands in their roles while also encountering challenging and diverse cases that require better technology to meet patient needs.
- By providing real-time, bidirectional feedback between emergency responders on the scene and doctors in the hospital awaiting the
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InterSystems Launches HealthShare Managed Connections to Improve Data Exchange
What You Need to Know:
- InterSystems launches InterSystems HealthShare® Managed Connections, a service that enables healthcare organizations to take advantage of a network of connections to a vast number of patient records via a central hub and exchange data easily.
- As a CommonWell ConnectorTM product, HealthShare Managed Connections empowers users with the ability to access the CommonWell Health Alliance network—representing more than 15,000 provider sites and 76
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AMA, Nuance to Pilot Innovations to Reduce Physician Documentation Overload
- Today, Nuance and the American Medical Association announced a partnership to pilot innovations preventing physician burnout from documentation overload.
- This partnership is a step forward in solving physician burnout and the associated costs by piloting the combination of each organization’s technologies to reduce distractions from patient care caused by increasing administrative demands.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc and the American Medical Association (AMA)
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Best Buy Launches New Medical Alert Device & App for Seniors
- Today, Best Buy Health launched its new Lively app and medical alert device, the Lively Wearable2 designed to help older adults live safely, actively and independently.
- The new Lively app gives older adults easy, one-touch access to urgent response services via their smartphone, quickly connecting to help if an emergency occurs.
Best
Buy Health, today announced the availability of its new Lively app by Great Call that gives older adults easy,
one-touch access to 5-Star Urgent
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Innovaccer Launches Unified Patient Record to Deliver Complete View of the Patient
- Innovaccer launches its “unified patient record” as its proprietary model to eliminate the challenge of seamless data access for healthcare organizations.
- The unified patient record will serve as the backbone of Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform that uses APIs and an analytical framework to manage complexity across all patient care settings.
Innovaccer Inc., a
Silicon Valley-based healthcare
data platform company, today announced the launch of its “unified patient
record” as its
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Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbon Health Raises $10M for Health Data Platform
- Ribbon Health, a health care data platform raises $10.25M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) and is the first investment by a16z’s newly announced Bio Fund III.
- Ribbon is a health data platform that offers the most accurate, up-to-date data on providers, insurance plans, and price and quality of care.
Ribbon Health, a New York City-based healthcare data platform, that today just announced a $10.25 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) and
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