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- Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's largest and most integrated health network launches of Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, a program that delivers high-quality acute care in the home of a Medicare patient and may ultimately be scalable to the larger patient population. The program was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals struggling with bed capacity. In November 2020, the Centers for
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Science 37, physIQ Collaborate to Enhance Clinical Trial Data Collected from Connected Devices
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- Science 37, a leader in agile clinical trials, and physIQ Inc, a leader in digital medicine, announced their alliance to help researchers use remote biosensors and machine learning to build more robust data sets.
- The partnership will help boost the number of digital biomarkers and generate insights from continuous data streams to indicate the safety and efficacy of new clinical treatments more quickly and objectively.
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Butterfly Network & Ambra Health Partner to Enhance Ultrasound Data Integration
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- Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, and Ambra Health, an Intelerad Company, and maker of a leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate and simplify interoperability for bedside imaging data.
- Working together, Butterfly and Ambra will empower providers and departments across
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AliveCor Launches KardiaMobile Card, World’s First Credit-Card-Sized Personal ECG
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- Today, AliveCor is launching KardiaMobile Card, the latest generation of personal electrocardiogram (ECG) technology that, at the size of the credit card, is the thinnest, lightest ECG device ever created and fits in any wallet.
- The FDA-cleared KardiaMobile Card detects six of the most common heart arrhythmias in 30 seconds – something no other personal ECG can do – making it the most important card in your wallet.
KardiaMobile Card: Instant Feedback on Heart
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Summus Global Secures $22M for Virtual Specialist Platform
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- Summus Global, a NYC-based virtual specialist platform, announced today the completion of a strategic investment round of $22 million, led by Danaher Corporation’s Co-founder and Executive Committee Chairman Mitchell Rales and the Glenstone Foundation.
- The funding follows a previous Series B funding round in 2021 by Sator Grove Holdings, Summus has now raised $50 million to expand its innovative specialty care platform.
On-Demand Access to Leading Medical
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Walmart, Health at Scale Launch Personalized Provider Recommendations to Employees, Families
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- Today, Walmart and healthcare machine intelligence company Health at Scale announced a collaboration to provide personalized provider recommendations to Walmart employees and their families.
- The U.S. healthcare system drives life-determining decisions, like doctor referrals, based on reputation rankings and star ratings on Google. Health at Scale’s technology uses advanced AI and machine learning – developed by a leading team of engineers from MIT, Harvard,
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Omicron: Hospitals and Physicians Face High Expenses & Labor Shortages
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- The nation’s hospitals, health systems, and physician groups closed the second year of the pandemic amid ballooning expenses exacerbated by nationwide labor shortages and global supply chain challenges. Many providers ended 2021 in a stronger financial position relative to the first year of COVID-19 in 2020, as they learned to better navigate pandemic volatility. Yet overall performance remains down compared to pre-pandemic levels,
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Alto Pharmacy Raises $200M to Expand Full-Service Pharmacy Delivery
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- Alto Pharmacy (“Alto”), the leader in America’s rapidly expanding digital pharmacy market, raised approximately $200 million in an oversubscribed series E financing round led by returning investor Softbank Vision Fund.
Free hand-delivery to your door
Despite the pandemic, the retail pharmacy industry has been one of the slowest to use technology to improve the customer experience. Founded in 2015, Alto is a full-service pharmacy powered by a team of experts
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WoundZoom Digital Wound Management Joins Epic App Orchard Marketplace
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- Perceptive Solutions, Inc., developer of WoundZoom Digital Wound Management, today announced its integration partnership with Epic and the availability of WoundZoom in the Epic App Orchard marketplace. The purpose of this partnership is to provide a seamless exchange of wound care data between WoundZoom and a facility's Epic EHR system.
- Perceptive Solutions joins the Epic App Orchard as a trusted integration partner so our customers can leverage the benefits of
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Pfizer, BioNTech Launches Clinical Trial for Omicron-Specific COVID-19 Vaccine
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- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced the initiation of a clinical trial study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of an Omicron-based vaccine candidate in healthy adults 18 through 55 years of age.
- The study will have three cohorts examining different regimens of the current Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or an Omicron-based vaccine. The study will draw upon some participants from the companies’ Phase 3 COVID-19
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