What You Should Know:
- Forum, a peer support group marketplace, has officially launched with $5.3M in funding from a seed round led by NextView Ventures and featuring participation from MBX Capital, Cue Ball Capital, Sahil Bloom of SRB Ventures, Romeen Sheth, Shaan Puri and City Light Capital..
- Forum connects mission-driven facilitators with individuals seeking support for various life challenges.
Virtual Support Group Marketplace Forum
The platform offers a range of support
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Artera, Hyro Launches AI-Powered Virtual Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Artera, a digital health leader in patient communications, has introduced Artera Care Assist, powered by Hyro, an AI-powered adaptive communications solution.
- Artera Care Assist is a web-virtual assistant that can be deployed on a healthcare providers website, in as little as 48 hours, to answer common patient questions 24/7.
- Patient inquiries including questions around locating providers with specific qualifications and language skills, or finding nearby
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CareAbout Health Selects Innovaccer to Scale VBC for Expanding Provider Network
What You Should Know:
- CareAbout, a healthcare management services company, has selected Innovaccer's data platform and analytics solutions to help its providers achieve their clinical and financial goals.
- The partnership between CareAbout and Innovaccer will help CareAbout's providers achieve their clinical and financial goals in a value-based care environment.
- Innovaccer's platform will provide CareAbout's providers with actionable insights into quality, performance, and cost
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Philips Expands AI-Guided Ultrasound Capabilities with Bill & Melinda Gates Investment
What You Should Know:
- Philips has secured a second round of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate global adoption of AI algorithms on its Lumify Handheld Ultrasound. The second round of funding brings a total of $60M from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- The AI technology simplifies key measurements to identify abnormalities during pregnancy, significantly reducing the training time required for ultrasound use from weeks to hours.
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ApolloMed & Wider Circle Partner to Deliver Patient-Centered Care in California
What You Should Know:
- Wider Circle and Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (ApolloMed) are partnering to provide Enhanced Care Management (ECM) to high-need Medicaid members in California as part of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative.
- The collaboration aims to deliver patient-centered care and ECM by combining Wider Circle's community-based engagement model with ApolloMed's clinical care management expertise and technology platform.
ApolloMed
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Kythera Labs Raises $20M for Wayfinder Data Technology Platform
What You Should Know:
- Kythera Labs, a healthcare technology and data analytics company, has secured $20M in Series A funding and debt financing from BIP Ventures and CIBC.
- The funding will support the growth and scaling of Wayfinder, Kythera's data-transforming technology platform, and the development and adoption of new and existing offerings. It will also be used to expand partnerships with industry leaders such as Datavant and Databricks.
WayFinder Data Technology
Kythera Labs
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Particle Health, Hona Integrate to Deliver Longitudinal Data for Informed Clinical Decisions
What You Should Know:
- Particle Health, an intelligent data platform that aggregates and delivers actionable patient data and insights and Hona have formed a strategic partnership to enhance Hona's AI-driven healthcare solution. Hona is a customizable, HIPAA-compliant artificial intelligence product that searches and converts thousands of health records into one simple patient overview for healthcare providers,
- The collaboration between Particle Health and Hona aims to simplify patient
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M&A: Health Catalyst Acquires Cancer Registry Platform ERS
What You Should Know:
- Health Catalyst has acquired Electronic Registry Systems, Inc. (ERS), a prominent cancer registry software and services provider. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition aims to strengthen Health Catalyst's comprehensive data abstraction and registry management capabilities, particularly in conjunction with its ARMUS platform. The addition of ERS enhances Health Catalyst's Tech-Enabled Managed Services (TEMS) offering within the
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Accenture, Salesforce Partner on Generative AI for Life Sciences Companies
What You Should Know:
- Accenture and Salesforce are investing in the development of Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud, focusing on innovation, assets, and accelerators powered by data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help life sciences companies create sustainable value and drive growth.
- Building on their generative AI collaboration, Accenture and Salesforce will leverage their joint generative AI acceleration hub to develop new solutions and use cases for Salesforce Life Sciences
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Hims & Hers Launches AI Service to Help Providers Personalize Treatments
What You Should Know:
- Hims & Hers Health, the leading health and wellness platform, has unveiled MedMatch, an AI-powered solution designed to revolutionize healthcare by providing providers with a more intelligent and informed way to deliver personalized care to patients, offering more effective and precise treatments and medications.
- The goal of MedMatch is to recommend clinical decisions and treatments informed by the collective knowledge of thousands of providers and
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