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- Variantyx, a Boston-based provider of high complexity hereditary disease testing, today announced that they secured $20M in funding for their Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)-based testing methodology, an advanced genetic testing method currently used to diagnose rare inherited and neurological disorders. The series C funding round was led by GHS Fund (Quark Venture LP and GF Securities) and includes new investor, IBM Ventures and current investors, Pitango
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Waystar Launches Price Transparency Solutions to Meet Consumer Demand
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- Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today announced the addition of the Text Statements feature to its suite of payment tools. This new solution enables patients to easily view and pay medical bills directly from their smartphone, bringing transparency and convenience to the patient financial experience – a long-standing focus for Waystar.
- Patients frequently don’t know what they’ll owe weeks, if not months after the point of care, If
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MEDITECH Expanse Leads Customer Satisfaction for Small Community Hospitals, KLAS Report Finds
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- Small community hospitals (1–200 beds) leaders cite MEDITECH Expanse Acute Care EMR as a leader in delivering the most consistent customer experience, according to a new KLAS report.
The KLAS report reveals that while Epic and Cerner EMRs leads in performance among large organizations they don’t deliver as consistently for smaller hospitals. Customers cite their approaches to the community market—hub-and spoke relationship (Epic) and shared server (Cerner)—create
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BioIntelliSense Partners with Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for Continuous Monitoring in Clinical Trials
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-BioIntelliSense announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to incorporate the BioSticker™ platform in clinical trials of hematological cancer patients.
- The LLS clinical trials will include use of the BioSticker medical device for the continuous collection of vital sign and physiological data which includes temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate at rest, activity level and body position. The BioSticker
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City of Milwaukee Taps NowPow to Improve Health Equity & Outcomes
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- IMPACT, a designated provider of 211 information and referral services in Southeastern Wisconsin, today announced a groundbreaking collaboration with local health systems, community organizations and NowPow to power one of the nation’s most comprehensive, community-wide systems to connect health and social care and track outcomes.
- As part of the partnership, IMPACT Connect will establish a shared digital platform for partner organizations across multiple sectors —
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Exscientia Secures $100M To Expand AI Drug Discovery Platform
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- Exscientia, leading AI drug discovery company, today announced that it completed its $100 million Series C financing round, with a further $30 million investment from Blackrock.
- This new capital, which will be used to support Exscientia's platform development and proprietary pipeline, follows Exscientia’s demonstrated high growth, having announced earlier this year that the first ever precision engineered drug designed using AI had entered Phase I human clinical
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Best Buy Health Now Offers Lively Health & Safety Services On Apple Watch For First Time
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- Best Buy Health, today announced it is offering a full array of health and safety services available on the Apple Watch to help to make it easier for older adults to stay safe, healthy, and connected.
- Now Apple Watch users with the Lively app can get help from highly trained Lively Urgent Response Agents to get help in an emergency and non-emergency situations, from medical emergencies to car trouble and more.
How to Access Lively Health & Safety Services
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Cipher Skin Lands $5M for Mesh Network of Sensors to Capture Movement
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- Denver-based data startup, Cipher Skin, today announced its $5 million Series A, led by the Boyett Group with participation from Draper Capital, Tribe Capital and TKC Capital to grow its product line and expand into new markets.
- Founded in 2017, Cipher Skin’s first-of-its-kind, patented, sensor technology, Cipher Mesh, wraps around patients’ body parts—allowing doctors, PTs, and human performance professionals to collect detailed data of the body in motion
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Kroger Health to Offer Smartphone-Enabled COVID-19 Tests Nationwide
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- Kroger Health, the healthcare division of The Kroger Co. announced plans to offer the first smartphone-enabled, at-home Gauss COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test Kit to patients nationwide, expanding the company's existing portfolio of in-clinic and employer-focused COVID-19 testing solutions.
- Kroger Health expects the at-home rapid antigen test will be available to purchase on Kroger.com and over the counter at its 2,200 pharmacies nationwide.
The test, developed by
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LinkedIn Launches Support to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
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- LinkedIn announces it will utilize its platform to connect healthcare professionals to COVID-19 vaccination distribution volunteer and paid support opportunities with a goal of helping to slow the spread of COVID-19.
- Starting today, healthcare organizations, pharmacies and governments that have hiring needs in direct support of vaccine distribution can post jobs for free on LinkedIn through May 15, 2021. These jobs include registered nurses, medical assistants and
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