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- The FDA has listed Mira's new Mira Ovum Wand as an over-the-counter tool to detect the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) in urine. Starting October 2022, the product will be available to U.S. customers. The wands help monitor FSH levels to predict approaching menopause. They can also be used to monitor fertility and find possible causes of reproductive issues for women after 35.
- Mira's new Ovum Wand provides lab-accurate detection of the follicle-stimulating
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CareFirst BCBS Taps Headway to Expand Access to Mental Healthcare
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- Today, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst), the largest not-for-profit health plan in the mid-Atlantic region, and Headway, a tech-enabled company that expands access to in-network mental health care by removing barriers that providers, payers, and the people they serve face, announced a collaboration to scale CareFirst’s mental health care program.
- CareFirst launched a search in fall 2021 for a company to help them better support and engage their
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Doceree Partners with Tealium to Enrich Precision Targeting of HCPs
What You Should Know:
- Doceree, a global platform building unprecedented solutions for HCP programmatic marketing with proprietary data tools is teaming up with Tealium, the world’s largest independent customer data platform (CDP) to advance Doceree’s capabilities to collect, collate and analyze data sets, ultimately helping with the company's mission of reducing healthcare costs.
- US healthcare costs grew by 9.7 percent in 2020 alone, highlighting the need for healthcare providers
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Elevation Oncology Secures $50M Loan Facility with K2 HealthVentures
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Elevation Oncology, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of precision oncology products for patients with genomically defined cancers, today announced that it has secured a $50M senior secured loan facility from funds managed by K2 HealthVentures.
Elevation plans to use the funding from the facility will primarily support the exclusive license of EO-3021 (SYSA1801) outside of Greater China from CSPC Pharmaceutical Group and the
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GDIT Awarded $10B Medical Research & Development Contract by the Defense Health Agency
What You Should Know:
- General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics has been awarded the Omnibus IV Medical Research and Development contract by the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (IDIQ) has a total ceiling of $10B with a five-year base period and one five-year option.
- The DHA enables the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force to
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Syapse Raises $35M to Expand Learning Health Network
What You Should Know:
- Syapse raises $35M led by an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC (Innovatus)to tackle the challenge of understanding, preventing, and treating complex cancers.
- The investment will allow Syapse to expand its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, making it more efficient to uncover meaningful insights from real-world oncology data.
Syapse, a San Francisco, CA-based real-world evidence company accelerating the
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Hospital Deploys Immersive Virtual Reality Treatment Room for Kids with Cancer
What You Should Know:
- Lee Health’s Golisano Children’s Health Center in Naples, FL has deployed a new immersive virtual reality treatment room to improve the chemo experience for kids with cancer. Today, children battling cancer can now receive their chemotherapy while traveling to outer space, going on a deep-sea diving adventure or being immersed inside a video game.
- The opening of the immersive treatment room took place earlier this year and is part of a comprehensive expansion of
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Bicycle Health Partners with Included Health on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Bicycle Health, a provider of virtual opioid addiction treatment, today announced a collaboration with Included Health – the only integrated clinical care and healthcare navigation platform – to help patients discover and navigate Bicycle Health’s treatment options and seek treatment for their opioid use disorder (OUD). Included Health delivers employers and their employees a simplified experience to finding the care they need, whenever and wherever they
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Covid Clinic Expands Its Services to Offer Treatment Options, Telemedicine Consultations & Prescription Access
What You Should Know:
- Covid Clinic, a nationwide network of COVID-19 testing sites is expanding its core service offerings across the United States.
- In partnership with Driven Care, patients will now be able to easily access treatment options, including antiviral prescription services and consultations, through its newly launched telemedicine services.Why It Matters
According to the CDC’s most recent data release, COVID-19 cases are exponentially rising across the country, due
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Curana & Innovaccer Partner to Improve Outcomes for Senior Living Communities
What You Should Know:
- Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that Curana Health is partnering with Innovaccer to build a leading edge value-based care solution to support delivery of exceptional care quality at the lowest possible cost for one of healthcare’s highest risk populations: residents in senior living communities across the country.
- Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer Health
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