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- Verily and Sosei Heptares announced a new research collaboration combining Verily’s Immune Profiler platform, a next gen immune mapping platform, with Sosei Heptares’ world-leading StaR (stabilized receptor) platform, with the goal of rapidly identifying novel drug candidates across multiple immune-based disorders.
- Together, the collaboration will focus on accelerating the development of new drug candidates against
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Illumina and Syapse Partner on Biomarker Testing Research Across Oncology Practices
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- Syapse, a real-world evidence company that informs cancer care, announced a partnership with Illumina aimed at assessing the real-world uptake and actionability of comprehensive genomic profiling in the community oncology health system setting.
- Together, the two companies will work to better understand biomarker testing patterns among clinicians, which have become foundational in identifying treatment options for cancer patients. The insights gleaned from this
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Caira Surgical Secures $5M for Robotic Solutions for Joint Replacement Surgery
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- Caira Surgical, a revolutionary computer-assisted navigation system for joint replacement surgery raises $5M from series seed investors to include a leading OUS Strategic and several MedTech venture funds. These include U.S.-based Mountain State Capital; Amsterdam-based Snowboat BV, a Dutch fund formed by the founders of Avania Clinical (previously Factory-CRO); and Grenoble, France-based Haventure, founded by Stephane Lavallee, Ph.D. Dr. Lavallee is also the Founder
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Bamboo Health Promotes Rob Cohen to CEO
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- Bamboo Health™, formerly Appriss Health and PatientPing, today announced that Rob Cohen, president and general manager of Bamboo Health, is assuming the role of CEO effective December 16, 2021. Appriss CEO Krishnan Sastry is now executive chairman for Bamboo Health and serves as an advisor to Cohen.
- The promotion comes as Bamboo Health transitions from one of several business units under the Appriss Inc. name to an independent health technology company. Instead,
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Clear Arch Health Acquires Life Care Solutions to Expand RPM Marketshare
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- Clear Arch Health, a division of MobileHelp and a leading provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) solutions, today announced the company acquired Life Care Solutions (LCS), a division of Resideo.
- Life Care Solutions has been a global leader in the remote patient monitoring industry for two decades, with a complete RPM solution to help streamline care coordination and improve outcomes.
Life Care Solutions
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Femtech: 5 Important Women’s Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2022
The next year will be a critical one for women’s healthcare, according to Elizabeth Ruzzo, PhD and CEO and Founder of adyn. Ruzzo knows firsthand how important it is to choose the right birth control. After becoming severely depressed and having suicidal thoughts on the pill, she consulted with a doctor, only to experience medical gaslighting about her symptoms.
Below are five important predictions Ruzzo sees in women’s healthcare (femtech) in 2022.
1. Women’s reproductive rights
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FCC Awards Additional $42.7M in Round 2 of COVID-19 Telehealth Program
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- The Federal Communications Commission today approved an additional 68 applications for funding commitments totaling $42,702,383 for Round 2 of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
- This is the FCC’s fifth funding announcement of approved Round 2 applications, bringing the total to over $208M awarded to health care providers in each state, territory, and the District of Columbia.
On November 9, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau issued a Public Notice
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KardiaMobile ECG Integrates with Epic EHR via App Orchard Marketplace
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- AliveCor, the global leader in FDA-cleared personal electrocardiogram (ECG) technology, today announced that KardiaMobile 6L, the most clinically-validated six-lead personal ECG device, is now available via KardiaPro on Epic's App Orchard Marketplace for hospitals, health systems and providers.
- The integration will enable even more healthcare providers around the world to seamlessly prescribe and deliver the physician-preferred remote ECG monitoring solution to
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Equality Health Announces New Investment from Governor Jeb Bush-Led Firm
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Equality Health receives an infusion of capital from Governor Jeb Bush-led firm to accelerate its national expansion of the company’s value-based primary care platform.
Equality Health, a Phoenix, AZ-based value-based care organization uniquely equipped to address the needs of diverse and historically underserved populations, today announced an equity investment from Finback Investment Partners.
Finback’s leadership team consists of Co-Founders and Managing
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Complex Claims Vendor Argos Health Merges with EnableComp
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- Argos Health ("Argos"), a rapidly growing provider of complex claims solutions to the country's leading healthcare providers announced today it has merged with EnableComp. Argos Health is.
- Argos works with hospitals, health systems, and physician groups to increase revenue recovery across workers' compensation, motor vehicle accident, out-of-state Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs claims, as well as ERISA appeals. Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe ("WCAS") acquired
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