What You Should Know:
- Collective Health appoints Max Mancini
as its new Chief Technology Officer.
- Mancini, who previously held senior roles at Apple and
eBay, will lead the company’s exceptional engineering team- overseeing the
architecture, design and scaling of Collective Health’s core platform and suite
of products which help make health insurance work for everyone.
- He will also be responsible for continuing innovation,
initially bolstering the recent launch of Collective
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Imprivata Introduces Digital Identity Framework for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know:
- Imprivata introduces a new framework to help healthcare
organizations manage digital identities and support remote/virtual care.
- Framework designed to help organizations develop and
implement a robust, comprehensive digital identity strategy to address
healthcare’s unique security, compliance, and workflow challenges.
Imprivata, the
digital identity company for healthcare, building on the work done by H-ISAC,
today introduced
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AstraZeneca, Eko Collaborate to Advance Innovation Around Heart Failure
What You Should Know:
- Eko today announced a global collaboration with
AstraZeneca to accelerate the development of digital health tools for the
earlier screening of cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure.
- Through the collaboration, AstraZeneca and Eko will explore accelerating the development of Eko algorithms, enhancing clinical trials with Eko technology, and potentially building new heart failure detection solutions.
Eko, a digital health company
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Talis Awarded $25M NIH Contract for Point-of-Care COVID-19 Testing
What You Should Know:
- Today, Talis Biomedical Corporation announced it has
been awarded a $25M contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as
part of Phase 2 of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative as
well as another $100 million in additional financing.
- The new funding will be used to scale manufacturing for
the launch of the Talis One™ diagnostic platform that provides rapid and highly
accurate detection of COVID-19 at points-of-care in 30 minutes
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Digital Therapeutics Company DarioHealth Raises $28M to Expand Market Share
What You Should Know:
DarioHealth raises $28M in institutional financing
intended to finance growth of their digital therapeutics B2B market share with
employers, health insurance plans, and healthcare providers.
The company sold 2,969,266 shares of common stock and, to
certain investors in lieu thereof, pre-funded warrants to purchase 824,689
shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share.
DarioHealth Corp.
(Nasdaq: DRIO), a pioneer in the global digital therapeutics
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Greenway Health Taps AWS to Develop Cloud-Based, Data Services Platform
What You Should Know:
- To help meet the needs of ambulatory care practitioners in a post-COVID environment, Greenway Health, a leading health information technology, and services provider, today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Leveraging AWS cloud services, Greenway is developing a
new cloud-based, data services platform, Greenway Insights, that creates new
data insights and healthcare interventions to advance the breadth of Greenway’s
products and
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Ciox Health Acquires Biomedical NLP Company Medal
What You Should Know:
- Ciox Health has acquired Medal, Inc., a biomedical
Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP) technology company.
- The acquisition will lead Ciox to better and more
quickly enable real-world data in support of research that advances patient
care.
Ciox
Health, a leading health technology company, today announced its acquisition
of San Francisco-based biomedical Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP)
technology company, Medal, Inc., a leader
in
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COVID-19 Molecular Test Shipments Top One Million Per Day
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today announced that shipments of COVID-19 molecular diagnostic tests reached one million per day for the week ending July 24, based on the latest data from the association's National Testing Registry.
"This incredible milestone is just the latest example of how the medical technology industry is rising to meet the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic," said Scott Whitaker, AdvaMed president and CEO. "Widespread and widely available
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DrChrono, ClearGage Integrate Patient Estimator and Finance Tools
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono announces that ClearGage has integrated its
patient estimator and financing tools into DrChrono‘s Practice Management
platform.
- The ClearGage app offering gives practices the ability
to provide patient estimates directly within appointments.
DrChrono Inc., the
company developing the essential platform and services for modern medical
practices, announced today that ClearGage has integrated
its patient estimator and financing
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52% of Households Willing to Share Smartphone Data to aid in COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Over 50% of US broadband households are willing to share smartphone data to aid in COVID-19 contact tracing, while another 20% could be convinced provided privacy protections are in place, according to Parks Associates' new research, COVID-19: Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives. The research tracks changes in consumer attitudes and adoption of telehealth services as a result of COVID-19 and measure future interest in telehealth services beyond the pandemic.
Parks Associates' COVID-19:
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