What You Should Know:
- Selux Diagnostics, Inc., a personalized diagnostics company to combat superbug infections and fight antibiotic resistance raises $50M in Series C financing led by RA Capital Management, with participation from Sands Capital, Schooner Capital and Northpond Ventures.
- The funding will support the U.S. commercial launch of its Next-Generation Phenotyping (NGP) rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform.
Precision diagnostics for
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Amino Launches its Healthcare Guidance Platform in Spanish
What You Should Know:
- Amino, the leading employer-sponsored healthcare guidance platform, is adding Spanish Language capabilities and Mental Health providers. This will allow employees to easily find in-network mental health providers in either English or Spanish.
- By guiding members to top mental health providers, Amino expands and accelerates access to high-quality, cost-effective mental health services, which can be difficult to find. From insurance details to locating providers,
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CVS Health Releases Drug Trend Report
What You Should Know:
- CVS Health released their Drug Trend Report, examining the drivers of overall and specialty drug trend through the first three quarters of 2021. Data were calculated on a cohort of 1,014 PBM clients—employers and health plans—covering approximately 22 million lives.
- The report details how CVS Health delivered an overall drug trend of 2.4% for commercial PBM clients, with 35.9% having a
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NeuroFlow Secures Deal with Aflac, Targets Growth in Employee Benefits Space
What You Should Know:
- This week, NeuroFlow announced a long-term deal with Aflac to provide the supplemental insurer's employers with the technology platform.
- NeuroFlow's app will be offered for self-care, providing tailored educational content, resources, and a 'Response Services' team if users are deemed at-risk.
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The NeuroFlow solution is designed to help fill gaps that may exist in an employer’s behavioral health program by proactively detecting potential issues
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Force Therapeutics and Xealth Integrate to Drive Remote Care Management
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- Today, Force Therapeutics and Xealth are partnering to bring remote management of postoperative recovery and care plans into clinicians’ EHR workflows.
- The Force platform delivers provider-prescribed digital education and video content for patients recovering from injury or surgery at home. The partnership integrates the Force platform with a provider’s electronic health record, enabling care teams to view clinically relevant metrics within the
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Benchling Acquires Overwatch Research to Accelerate Breakthroughs for Biopharma Companies
What You Should Know:
- Today, R&D Cloud pioneer Benchling announced it has acquired Overwatch Research to accelerate in vivo research.
- The acquisition will create the industry’s first comprehensive, cloud-native in vivo solution – a critical component of drug discovery and development – drastically accelerating the time it takes biopharma companies to bring products to market.
Digital Transforming R&D
In vivo studies are a critical component of drug discovery and
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Current Health and Zoom Partner to Enable Equitable Care in the Home
What You Should Know:
- Current Health – a care-at-home technology platform that was recently acquired by Best Buy – announced a new integration with Zoom, which will allow patients to more easily connect with their care teams, regardless of bandwidth connectivity or language barriers.
- As part of the partnership, Zoom will provide Current Health customers with enhanced video communications platform capabilities that expand their ability to deliver safe and effective virtual care
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TytoCare, Alice Partner to Expand Telehealth Offerings in Brazil
What You Should Know:
- Today, TytoCare has partnered with Alice, Brazil’s first primary care-driven health insurance plan, to expand Alice’s telehealth offerings with at-home medical examinations.
- The partnership will mark the first implementation of TytoCare in Brazil. Through the partnership, Alice is offering its members the TytoCare device, enabling seamless digital diagnostics for its members while enabling physicians to
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Sema4, BioSymetrics Partner to Advance Data-Driven Drug Discovery
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- Today, Sema4, a leader in AI-driven clinical data intelligence, announced that they have partnered with BioSymetrics, to accelerate the advancement of drug discovery and new treatments for patients and pharmaceutical companies.
- Together the two will leverage Sema4’s Centrellis®, one of the largest and fastest-growing integrated health information platforms that includes approximately 12 million de-identified clinical records, and Elion, BioSymetrics’
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EarliTec Diagnostics Raises $19.5M to Advance Autism Diagnosis and Treatment in Children
What You Should Know:
- EarliTec Dx, a digital health company developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic products for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and early childhood vulnerabilities, today announced a $19.5 million financing led by Bernie Marcus, with participation from the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA).
- This round of financing will be used to support filing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 510K clearance, as well as commercialization of the
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