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Oncology drug development platform N-Power Medicine closed a $32M Series B financing round to scale its community oncology clinical research network and expand adoption of its Prospective External Control Arms (ProECA) technology.The financing features Labcorp Venture Fund as a new strategic investor, alongside continued participation from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI), Innovatus Capital Partners, and a leading U.S.-based biotechnology investor.Solves a
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BARDA Awards Flosonics Medical Up to $70M to Expand Wearable Ultrasound into Trauma Care
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Flosonics Medical secured a major development contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).Awarded under BARDA’s Burn and Blast Medical Countermeasures program (Contract No. 75A50126C00006), the agreement includes initial funding of approximately $15 million, with a total potential value of up to ~$70
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Glooko Launches GestationalCare to Unify Multi-Device Diabetes Telemetry in High-Risk Pregnancy
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Global connected diabetes care leader Glooko, Inc. announced GestationalCare™, a dedicated pregnancy-specific clinical module built on its ambulatory diabetes management platform.GestationalCare resolves the acute challenge of compressed clinical timelines in pregnancy, replacing disconnected spreadsheets, patient portal screenshots, and paper logs with automated, device-neutral data aggregation.Covers the full spectrum of maternal metabolic care: Gestational Diabetes
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Scan.com Secures $220M to Scale National Diagnostic Imaging API
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Diagnostic medical imaging network Scan.com has closed $220M in combined equity and debt financing, comprising a $90 million Series C equity round and $130M in debt facilities.The equity financing was led by Noteus Partners, with participation from Aviva, Concord Health Partners, YZR Capital, and Oxford Capital; debt facilities to support M&A and working capital were provided by VerisFi Capital and Atempo Growth.Follows a period of rapid growth where Scan.com doubled
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Labcorp Redesigns Global Trial Connect to Streamline Sponsor and Investigator Workflows
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Labcorp launched major digital enhancements to Labcorp Global Trial Connect™, redesigning both the Labcorp Sponsor™ and Labcorp Investigator™ portal experiences.Co-developed and guided by direct product testing and feedback from more than 80 biopharma sponsors and 100 clinical investigator sites worldwide.Features embedded in-portal kit ordering that cuts manual data entry by 75% while standardizing inventory tracking and supply replenishment.Introduces a unified Study
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Kettering Health and ASHN Partner with WellBeam to Embed Home Health Workflows in Native EMRs
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Healthcare technology firm WellBeam formed a strategic partnership with Kettering Health (a regional health system in western Ohio) and Alternate Solutions Health Network (ASHN) (a national provider of home health joint ventures).Embeds home health clinical workflows—including order management, electronic plan-of-care signing, and clinical communication—directly into existing physician electronic medical record (EMR) environments.Eliminates the traditional post-acute
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M&A: Globus Medical Acquires Duke Incubator Higgs Boson Health to Expand Surgical Intelligence
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Musculoskeletal technology leader Globus Medical, Inc. announced the acquisition of Higgs Boson Health, a digital healthcare experience company based in Durham, North Carolina, and incubated out of Duke University.Integrates Higgs Boson’s software engineering and artificial intelligence research teams into Globus Medical to develop a seamless, connected digital care environment spanning the entire musculoskeletal patient journey.The acquisition positions Higgs Boson’s
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 Gartner Research: Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders Must Transition to Self-Managing AI Inventory Rooms
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Gartner advises healthcare Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) to replace manual inventory counting and legacy scanning tools with autonomous supply rooms driven by computer vision and artificial intelligence.Garner reveals advances in computer vision, spatial sensing, and workflow automation enable Periodic Automatic Replenishment (PAR) rooms to autonomously monitor inventory levels, predict demand, and trigger reorders with minimal human involvement.Autonomous supply
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Philips Wins $33.7M ARPA-H Award to Scale Autonomous Robotic Thrombectomy
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Philips secured an award of up to $33.7M from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) under its Autonomous Interventions and Robotics (AIR) program, led by Dr. Ileana Hancu.Develops AI-enabled robotic procedure automation and remote-assisted capabilities for endovascular stroke treatment (mechanical thrombectomy) built on the Philips Azurion image-guided therapy platform.The program integrates AI navigation algorithms, robotic catheter control, and
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Metriport Raises $26M to Scale Open-Source Point-of-Care Clinical Intelligence
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Open-source healthcare data infrastructure company Metriport secured $26M in new funding led by TJ Parker, General Partner at Matrix, with participation from ARTIS Ventures and Y Combinator, bringing its total capital raised to $28.4M.The platform eliminates point-of-care blind spots and weeks-long manual chart chasing across hospitals, pharmacies, and outpatient clinics by unifying and deduplicating medical records into a standardized, searchable data model. Replaces
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