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- Zocdoc, the country's leading digital healthcare marketplace, today announced $150 million in growth financing from Francisco Partners.
- The funding follows Zocdoc’s successful transition to a fee-per-booking model, which has dramatically fueled its expansion into telehealth, vaccine scheduling, and national television advertising. The company has quickly become one of the country's largest telehealth platforms, with more than 10,000 providers offering nearly one
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RapidSOS Secures $85M to Scale Emergency Response Data Platform
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- RapidSOS, NYC-based digital health announced it has raised $85M in Series C funding led by Insight Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to $200M
- Founded in 2012, RapidSOS has created the world's first emergency response data platform that securely links life-saving data from 350M+ connected devices to emergency services and first responders. Through the platform, RapidSOS provides intelligent data that supports over 4,800 Emergency Communications Centers
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Theator Nabs $15.5M to Scale AI-Driven Surgical Intelligence Platform
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- Theator raises $15.5M in Series A funding to support the company’s mission of using AI and computer vision to eradicate disparity and variability in surgical care.
- The startup plans to use this round to scale its commercial operations and partnerships with U.S. providers, grow its R&D team and cement its status as a world-leading provider of AI-powered Surgical Intelligence solutions.
Theator, a Palto Alto,
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Verily and Janssen Launch COVID-19 Immune Response Study
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- Verily and Janssen launches COVID-19 Immune Response Study that aims to collect detailed information about how the coronavirus affects the immune system immediately after someone tests positive for COVID-19.
Verily, an Alphabet company, is partnering with Janssen Research & Development LLC (Janssen) to launch a COVID-19 Immune Response Study as part of Verily’s Project Baseline. The study aims to collect detailed information about how the coronavirus affects
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Lyft Launches Enhanced Concierge In-App Experience for Healthcare
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- Lyft launches enhanced Lyft Concierge experience within the rider app like streamlined, multi-language support and advanced security — through their Lyft app account, if they have one.
Lyft Business, today announced the launch of enhanced Lyft Concierge experience with advanced safety features and an enhanced experience when they open their rides in the Lyft app. Lyft Concierge enables organizations to schedule and cover the cost of a ride on behalf of a
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SPAC Compute Health Acquisition Prices $750M IPO, Led by Intel Chairman
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- Compute Health Acquisition, a SPAC company targeting the intersection of computation and healthcare announced the pricing of its $750M initial public offering (IPO) by offering 75 million units at $10.
Compute Health Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”), a SPAC “blank check” company announced today that it priced its initial public offering of 75,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit. The units will be listed on The New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and trade under the
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UPMC Spinout Astrata Launches NLP Platform to Improve Value-Based Care
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- UPMC spinout company Astrata launches a natural language processing (NLP) technology platform that allows health insurers to more efficiently analyze unstructured clinical data.
UPMC Enterprises, the innovation and commercialization arm of UPMC has incubated and launched Astrata, a digital healthcare quality company. Astrata uses advanced analytics and natural language processing (NLP) to improve value-based care.
Founded by Rebecca Jacobson, M.D., M.S. Astrata
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6 HIEs Form New Consortium to Drive Population Health Improvements Via Data Sharing Interoperability
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- A group of six health information exchanges (HIE) announced today their formation of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI).
- The 501(c)(3) CRSI aims to help drive individual and population health improvements across the nation through robust and innovative sharing of health information.
- Collective, CRSI connects over 80 million records for patients across several states and provide a wide range of services to healthcare
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Anthem Acquires Puerto Rico’s Largest Medicare Advantage Plan
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- Anthem, Inc. has entered into an agreement with InnovaCare Health, L.P., to acquire its Puerto Rico-based subsidiaries, including MMM Holdings, LLC (“MMM”) and its Medicare Advantage (MA) plan MMM Healthcare, LLC as well as affiliated companies and Medicaid plan.
- MMM is Puerto Rico’s largest MA plan and one of the fastest-growing vertically integrated healthcare organizations in the United States.
- With more than 267,000 MA members and over 305,000
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Kaiser Inks Multi-Year Agreement with Accenture, Microsoft for Cloud Transition
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- Kaiser Permanente signs a multi-year strategic agreement with Accenture and Microsoft to support the healthcare provider’s transition to the cloud environment.
- The partnership enables stronger cloud computational power and data insights readily available to care teams, so Kaiser’s members—and patients—will benefit from more timely and personalized healthcare.
Kaiser Permanente today announced a multi-year agreement with Microsoft and Accenture to leverage
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