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- Alira Health, a global healthcare advisory, clinical research and technology company, announced it secured an additional $58M in capital funding to accelerate delivery of patient-centric, technology-enabled healthcare solutions. Previously, Alira Health raised $35M in 2021 and $40M in 2022, in two rounds led by Creadev.
- Alira Health is focused on new opportunities brought into effect in the United States by federal rules preventing the blocking of electronic
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Franciscan Health to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud to Eliminate “Data Islands”
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Today Innovaccer, Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that Franciscan Health, a 12-hospital system with facilities in Indiana and Illinois, is deploying Innovaccer® Health Cloud to enhance risk-based contract performance and to launch a next-generation experience platform to deliver sophisticated customer and patient relationship management strategies.
- Franciscan Health plans to leverage Innovaccer Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform to integrate
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Caris Life Sciences and ConcertAI Partner to Accelerate Drug Development and Novel Research
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- Caris Life Sciences®(Caris), a molecular science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, and ConcertAI, an oncology real-world evidence data and AI technology company, announced a unique partnership to align the two companies' oncology capabilities.
- The strategic partnership will create one of the largest translational and clinical
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CipherHealth Partners With SADA to Enable Better Patient Care w/ Enhanced SDOH Data
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- Today, CipherHealth announced it has engaged SADA, a leading business and technology consultancy and award-winning Google Cloud Partner, to deploy Google Cloud’s Looker to collect socioeconomic data to improve patient care.
- CipherHealth previously had platform capabilities that provided healthcare providers with robust conversational and clinical data for each patient. They partnered with SADA, with expertise in deploying and configuring Google Cloud’s
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Virtual Reality to Improve Kidney Education to Dialysis Patients in Rural Mississippi
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- Fresenius Medical Care North America was awarded more than $130k grant from the Mississippi Department of Health's Office of Rural Health and Primary Care to provide local dialysis patients the opportunity to virtually experience a day-in-the-life of a home dialysis patient – helping them to better understand what this form of treatment entails.
- The grant allows FKC to provide its dialysis centers in Mississippi with virtual reality headsets and initially offers
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Exec Hires: GE HealthCare Names Taha Kass-Hout First Chief Technology Officer
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GE HealthCare announced today that Taha Kass-Hout MD, MS has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company’s new science and technology organization.
- Reporting to GE HealthCare President & CEO Peter Arduini, Dr. Kass-Hout will help drive GE HealthCare’s D3 precision care strategy, a framework and digital products that emphasize the company’s smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digital. D3 brings data and insights together to
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Exec Hires: Experity Appoints Brian Berning as Chief Financial Officer
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- Experity, the national leader in on-demand healthcare solutions, announced the appointment of Brian Berning as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. This appointment follows the recent acquisition of Experity by GTCR, a leading private equity firm.
- Before transitioning to the role of CFO, Brian joined Experity as Chief Corporate Development Officer, leading the company's merger and acquisition efforts. Prior to Experity, Brian served as
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Force Therapeutics Now Available in AWS Marketplace
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- Force Therapeutics, a full-suite digital care management platform, announced today its availability in AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog that makes it easy for customers to find, buy, consume, and manage third-party software, services, and data that customers need to build solutions and run their businesses.
- Through AWS Marketplace, health systems, physician practices, and ambulatory surgical centers will now be able to enjoy the simplified procurement
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Biomica Raises $20M to Advance its Pipeline of Microbiome-based Therapeutics
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- Biomica, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative microbiome-based therapeutics and a subsidiary of Evogene Ltd raises $20M led by Shanghai Healthcare Capital (SHC).
- The financing round will enable Biomica to forge ahead, developing its pipeline of microbiome-based therapeutics. Biomica plans to use the proceeds to complete its current BMC128 phase 1 immuno-oncology study and advance to phase 2 clinical trial; scale up and complete GMP
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FCC Opens New Portal for Hospitals Dealing with Robocalls
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- The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau today announced the opening of a new online portal by which private entities such as hospitals and health systems can alert agency enforcement staff of suspicious robocall, robotext, and spoofing campaigns. For example, a private hospital or small business might use the portal to seek support from the FCC in cutting off or taking enforcement action against robocallers flooding their institution’s phone lines with robocalls or spoofing the
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