What You Should Know:
- Medtronic announced a new contract with Vizient, a leading healthcare performance improvement company for more than half the nation’s healthcare providers, to offer Touch Surgery™️ Enterprise, the first AI-powered cloud-based video management and analytics platform for the OR.
The latest offering from Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics portfolio, Touch Surgery™ Enterprise makes it easy to capture and analyze surgical video and ensures data privacy compliance with AI that
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Proscia & Hamamatsu Partner to Accelerate Scaled Adoption of Digital Pathology
What You Should Know:
- Proscia, the leader in digital and computational pathology solutions, and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., a leading provider of whole slide imaging systems, today announced a collaboration to accelerate digital pathology adoption at an enterprise scale.
- The cooperation agreement increases the availability of the companies' best-of-breed, unified solution that combines Proscia's Concentriq® platform and Hamamatsu's NanoZoomer® series of whole slide scanners to deliver
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Aetion and Cognito Team Up for Predictive Modeling in Alzheimer’s
What You Should Know:
- Aetion, real-world evidence (RWE) tech and analytics provider, and Cognito Therapeutics, a pioneer in neuromodulation therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, are partnering to develop an AI-driven predictive model to help payers and providers identify patients with rapidly progressing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s who may benefit from earlier treatment.
Impact of MCI & Alzheimer’s Disease
There are approximately 13.5
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GHX Names The Top 50 Hospitals for Supply Chain Excellence
What You Should Know:
GHX today announced its annual list of the Best 50 supply chains, which recognizes the highest performing healthcare provider organizations in North America. These honorees set the standard for supply chain excellence by improving operational performance while driving down costs through supply chain automation.
Healthcare Providers Modernizing Supply Chain Operations
Selected among more than 4,100 hospitals connected to the GHX digital trading network (Exchange) in
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Healthgrades Releases Top 24 Hospitals Leading Early COVID Care
What You Should Know:
- Healthgrades announced its Leading Hospitals in Early COVID Care list of the top 24 U.S. hospitals that provided exceptional care while treating the highest volumes of coronavirus patients during the first wave of the pandemic.
Methodology Background
Using inpatient data from CMS for almost every hospital in the country, Healthgrades identified 24 U.S. hospitals that provided exceptional care while treating the highest volumes
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Health Gorilla Raises $50M to Expand FHIR-Native Health Interoperability Platform
What You Should Know:
- Health Gorilla raises $50 million in Series C funding to securely enable the exchange of actionable and aggregated clinical data.
- The new investment will accelerate Health Gorilla's mission to connect everyone, everywhere, with actionable health data.
Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, CA-based health interoperability platform, today announced it has raised $50M in Series C funding led by SignalFire with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, IA Capital, and
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Foresite Capital Raises $173M Fund for Foresite Labs Incubated Companies
What You Should Know:
- Foresite Capital is announcing their latest, oversubscribed $173M fund, which will be used to support Foresite Labs’ incubated life science companies.
- Foresite Labs was created in October 2019 to found, build, and scale life sciences companies at the intersection of healthcare and data science. One of Foresite Capital’s core beliefs is that by combining machine learning, big data, and genomics, life sciences companies can accelerate commercialization from decades
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MD Anderson Taps Syntrophy to Aggregate Disparate Data, Enable Team Science
What You Should Know:
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced efforts to advance its capabilities to seamlessly connect basic science, translational and clinical research data for the benefit of patients through a technology collaboration with Syntropy and the Foundry platform.
- This initiative is part of MD Anderson’s new Strategy aimed at focusing its mission to end cancer on approaches that maximize the impact on humanity, which
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Unite Us Launches Social Care Payments Platform
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us, the enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power integrated health and social care, today announced the launch of its Social Care Payments solution.
- Social Care Payments is a first-of-its-kind solution designed to bridge the gap between healthcare funders and community-based organizations (CBOs), enabling social care funding at scale. It is the only end-to-end solution for social care that streamlines the
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Black Female Co-founders CancerIQ Raises $14M to Improve Cancer Early Detection and Prevention
What You Should Know:
- CancerIQ, a Chicago-based platform powering early cancer detection and prevention across broad patient populations, announced today it closed a $14M Series B financing round.
- The Series B round was co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures with participation from McKesson Ventures, OSF Ventures (the investment arm of OSF HealthCare, a current CancerIQ customer), and HealthX Ventures.
Inequality in
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