What You Should Know:
- Carta Healthcare, a pioneer in harnessing the power of clinical data, today announced it closed a $20 million series B round led by South Korean firm Paramark Ventures. Other contributors to the round include Memorial Care Innovation Fund (MCIF) and Frist Cressey Ventures, led by heart surgeon, incoming chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Board of Directors and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.- Carta will use the
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Mount Sinai Develops Employee Health Contact Tracing Database to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread
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- Mount Sinai researchers have developed an Employee Health COVID-19 REDCap Registry to address the need for contact tracing and agile exposure investigations to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among hospital staff.
- Employee Health COVID-19 REDCap Registry is a cloud-based digital framework using the Research Electronic Data Capture web application—to track and reduce the spread of the virus across the Mount Sinai Health System including 8 hospitals and more than
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Nuvance Health Launches Cognitive Care-At-Home Program
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- Nuvance Health, a system of nonprofit hospitals and outpatient healthcare services throughout the Hudson Valley and western Connecticut launches a pilot that provides brain-stimulating activities such as gamification and a way to upload family photos and videos for “reminiscence” therapy.
- The platform, Neuroglee Connect uses artificial intelligence to track which activities help each individual the most to target the most effective treatment possible.
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Clinical Reasoning Tool Proves Better Than Symptom Checkers, Study Shows
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- Kahun, an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians, announces the publication in the International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) of a first-of-its-kind study assessing the data-gathering function of currently available chatbot symptom-checkers. Out of eight symptom-checkers—K Health, Babylon, ADA, Buoy, Kahun, Mediktor, Symptomae, and Your.MD.
- Kahun demonstrated the best overall performance in finding the most pertinent
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Medidata Expands Sensor Cloud Network
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- Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, and Boehringer Ingelheim, today announced a five-year renewal of their collaboration in the wider area of electronic data capture. The agreement extends the use of Rave EDC for Boehringer Ingelheim's clinical trials worldwide and includes myMedidata, Medidata’s suite of patient-facing technologies focused on enhancing patient centricity and diversity in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs).
- The
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Sutter Health & Ada Integrate to Deliver AI Support for Mental Health
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- Sutter Health extends its partnership to global digital health company Ada - creators of the world’s most popular symptom assessment app to integrate digital triage into the mental health service, Scout by Sutter Health™ to help deliver AI-powered mental health support to young people.
- As many as half of all mental disorders begin by age 14. However, mental health concerns in
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Memora Launches Research Program with Mayo Clinic for Postpartum Care
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- Memora Health, an organization helping healthcare companies digitize and automate care programs has launched a research program with Mayo Clinic to extend care to postpartum patients.
- This new program will infuse Memora's digitized care programs across the health system, enabling Mayo’s postpartum care teams to proactively interact with new mothers from the comfort of their homes and respond to their needs with tailored guidance in real-time.
Memora’s SMS
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Evidation Launches FluSmart to Better Identity & Understand Flu Early
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Evidation, the company that connects directly with individuals to measure health in everyday life, has launched FluSmart, a digital flu monitoring program that brings together individuals, researchers, and public and private organizations to understand flu at its earliest stages.
Evidation has developed machine learning detection models to compare flu and COVID and validated and extended this work with collaborators. Evidation will use permissioned data from
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Arine, Gemini Health Partner to Optimize Medications While Lowering Prescription Drug Costs
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- Arine - a next-generation medication intelligence company - and Gemini - a drug cost transparency platform - announced an integration that supports Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) by combining each platform’s unique technology to deliver value-based care.
- The collaboration incorporates cost transparency information into Arine’s medication intelligence platform to empower care teams to provide highly personalized, data-driven medication consultations for
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ObvioHealth & Oracle Collaborate to Seamlessly Integrate Diverse Data Sets Into Decentralized Clinical Trials in APAC
What You Should Know:
- Today, ObvioHealth and Oracle have announced a partnership to enable the rapid collection, integration and analysis of this complex data to get breakthrough therapies to market faster and cheaper within the APAC region. This partnership will integrate ObvioGo, ObvioHealth’s next generation decentralized clinical trial (DCT) platform and mobile app, and Oracle Clinical One Cloud Service, facilitating pharma-grade analytics and reporting that can
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