What You Should Know:
- Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering a new
class of messenger RNA (mRNA) medicines, has selected Amazon Web Services
(AWS) as its preferred cloud provider, as well as its standard for
analytics and machine learning workloads.
- By building and scaling its operations on AWS, Moderna
is able to quickly design research experiments and uncover new insights,
automate its laboratory and manufacturing processes to enhance its drug
discovery
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Amwell Appoints Amazon Exec Serkan Kutan as Chief Technology Officer
Amwell,
a national telehealth
provider, announced today that Serkan Kutan has joined the company as
Chief Technology Officer. As part of his new role as CTO, Serkan will lead
building upon and further scaling Amwell’s national telehealth platform to
serve the needs of hospitals and health systems, health plans, innovators, and
patients.
“Serkan’s experience in innovating, building and maturing transformative healthcare technologies will play a significant role as we scale Amwell to meet
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RUSH, R1 Launch Innovation Lab to Drive Value-Based Care & Advanced Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Rush University System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc. launches a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions to improve the quality of care for patients.
- The Innovation Lab is expected to commercialize its
solutions beginning in 2021.
Rush University
System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc.,
a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle
management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, announced the launch of
a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions
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Collective Health Appoints Max Mancini as New Chief Technology Officer
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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