What You Should Know:
- TytoCare has partnered with Baptist Health, a full-spectrum health system, to bring Tytocare’s virtual care solutions to patients in Kentucky and Indiana.
- As part of the partnership, Baptist Health will integrate TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic solution into its current telehealth offering, enhancing the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients with in-depth, remote physical examinations during virtual visits, including urgent
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GDIT Awarded $84M Traumatic Brain Injury Research Contract by the Defense Health Agency
What You Should Know:
- General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), announced today that it was awarded an $84 million contract by the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to support the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence (TBICoE). The contract has an eight-month base period with three option years.
- Under the contract, GDIT will continue to support the TBICoE in conducting clinical
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WebMD Strikes Deal with Patient Communications Platform Artera
What You Should Know:
- Today, WebMD and patient communications platform provider Artera (formerly WELL Health) announced data integration that will enable providers (health systems and hospitals) to digitally communicate and engage patients on important education and information about medication affordability programs.
- The collaboration reduces the cost of care while also improving patient adherence to prescriptions -- which is a key challenge for providers -- by connecting with
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Hims & Hers Appoints Dr. Knoer as First-Ever Chief Pharmacy & Innovation Officer
What You Should Know:
- Hims & Hers Health, Inc. appoints pharmacy industry veteran Dr. Scott Knoer, Pharm.D., MS, FASHP, as the company’s first-ever Chief Pharmacy & Innovation Officer.
- As Chief Pharmacy & Innovation Officer, Dr. Knoer will oversee pharmacy strategy and innovation efforts for Hims & Hers. Knoer will direct efforts to develop proprietary formulations that will make it possible to provide customers with personalized health and wellness advancements. Hims
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HeartSciences & Rutgers Partner to Develop AI-based ECG Algorithms
What You Should Know:
- Heart Test Laboratories, a medical technology company focused on saving lives by making an ECG a far more valuable screening tool through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), announced that it has entered into a multi-year collaboration agreement with Rutgers University (Rutgers).
- HeartSciences and Rutgers will collaborate to develop AI-based ECG algorithms, which are expected to accelerate HeartSciences’ product development pipeline and further expand the
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Virta Health Helps AutoZone Employees Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- Type 2 diabetes reversal leader Virta Health revealed promising one-year outcomes from its partnership with AutoZone, Inc., a retailer and distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories in the Americas.
- Virta provides virtual, continuous health coaching, medical supervision and personalized nutrition to help patients reverse their metabolic disease, lose weight, + get off medications. At one year, AutoZoners experience long-term blood sugar control
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Ohio Families Receive Free Telehealth Breastfeeding Support via Kettering Health
What You Should Know:
- Families across Ohio can now receive telehealth consultations with lactation professionals at no cost via a partnership between the non-profit health system Kettering Health and Nest Collaborative.
- Nest Collaborative’s International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) will augment Kettering Health’s own lactation program by providing virtual prenatal and postpartum support for new parents 7 days a week.
Nest Collaborative’s Nationwide Network
Nest
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Eyenovia Secures $15M for Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Technologies
What You Should Know:
- Eyenovia, Inc., a pre-commercial ophthalmic technology company developing the Optejet® delivery system for use both in combination with its own drug-device therapeutic programs for mydriasis, presbyopia and pediatric progressive myopia as well as out-licensing for additional indications, today announced that the company enters a $15M credit facility with the Avenue Venture Opportunities Fund, L.P. (“Avenue Venture Debt Fund” or “Avenue”).
- The financing is
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AWS Launches Amazon Omics for Precision Medicine
What You Should Know:
- AWS announced the launch of a new service, Amazon Omics, to help bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data and generate insights to improve health and advance scientific discoveries.
- The explosion of “omics” data, such as genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data, is driving a new understanding of biology at the molecular level. This, in combination with
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RNSA22: CloudWave Acquires Sensato Cybersecurity
What You Should Know:
- CloudWave, the expert in healthcare data security today at RNSA22 announced it has acquired Sensato Cybersecurity, a managed cybersecurity services company focused on protecting healthcare providers from ransomware events and other cybersecurity threats.
- The Sensato Cybersecurity suite is a natural fit with CloudWave’s OpSus Cloud Services. The acquisition will bring together leading-edge cloud hosting services and managed cybersecurity-as-a-service to
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