What You Should Know:
- Home healthcare technology provider Axxess announced it has acquired Complia Health, a provider of EMR solutions, technology and services for home care, home health and hospice agencies.
- The acquisition will help both organizations combine resources to help clients accelerate outcomes and provide world-class care team and consumer experiences.Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. In addition, the acquisition adds more clients,
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Generative AI Can Transform Public Health, but Guardrails by Design Needed
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- The next generation of ethical generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) provides new hope to transform public health; however, advances in technology must never come at the cost of patient rights, according to a recent webinar.
- The insights were the consensus amongst top African and American health AI experts who participated in a recent webinar about the impact of GenAI on healthcare hosted by Vantage Health Technology, a social enterprise focussed on
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Wearable Sensor Measures Sweat Lactate Levels During Exercise
What You Should Know:
- A team of Japanese researchers has developed a wearable device that can measure how hard one is exercising by analyzing their sweat.
- Their findings have been published in the journal ACS Sensors. The device continuously monitors the level of lactate in our sweat, which is a good indicator of exercise intensity. This technology can be valuable for athletes and fitness enthusiasts to manage their training and monitor their overall health.
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M&A: Ventra Health Acquires ArcMed
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- Ventra Health, a business solutions provider for hospital-based clinicians, announced today the acquisition of ArcMed, an India-based billing and automation services organization. This acquisition will strengthen Ventra Health’s service performance and quality, optimize operational efficiencies, and provide added scale for automation and growth.
- Ventra Health's new operating model, predictive analytics platform, and intelligent process automation will enable
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M&A: Capsa Healthcare Acquires MASS Medical Storage
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- Capsa Healthcare, a provider of healthcare workflow solutions, announced the acquisition of MASS Medical Storage, a prominent manufacturer of high-quality medical storage and endoscope cabinet drying systems.
- The strategic acquisition strengthens Capsa Healthcare's global position as a premier provider of innovative and efficient workflow solutions for hospitals, clinics, and surgery centers.- With this acquisition, Capsa Healthcare gains access to MASS
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FemTech: Herself Health Raises $26M To Power Primary Care for Women 65+
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- Herself Health, a New York City-based healthcare company providing comprehensive primary care to women 65+raises $26M in Series A fuding led by Michael Cline of Accretive serving as the lead investor. The company has raised $33 million to date. Juxtapose also participated in the Series A.
- Founded in 2022, Herself Health provides value-based care to women 65+ with a focus on helping women feel seen and heard as they age in a way that the current healthcare
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U.S. News & World Report Integrates 3M AM-PPCs with Best Hospitals Specialty Rankings
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U.S. News & World Report will incorporate the 3M™ Ambulatory Potentially Preventable Complications (3M AM-PPCs) software in the analysis of its 2023-2024 Best Hospitals Specialty rankings.Developed to address patient safety and quality oversight for procedures performed in hospital outpatient departments or ambulatory surgery centers, 3M AM-PPCs uses sophisticated classification logic and allows providers and payers to identify and analyze complications in
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Paytient Raises $7.5M in Venture Debt for Health Payment Platform
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Paytient, the Health Payment Account (HPA) that helps plan members access affordable health care, officially announced Silicon Valley Bank has finalized a $7.5M venture debt facility. To date, the company has raised $55.5M in equity from leading investors including Mercato, Bertelsmann Investments, Lightbank, Felicis Ventures, Box Group, Lachy Groom, Left Lane Capital, Commerce Bank, Crossbeam Ventures, Cultivation Capital, and Inspired
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Prenosis Awarded $4.8M in NIH Grants to Enable Precision Medicine for Sepsis
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Prenosis, Inc., a Chicago, IL-based AI company enabling precision medicine in acute care, announced today that it has been awarded two Phase 2 SBIR grants totaling $4.8M in funding by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a division of the National Institute of Health (NIH). The grants will study the use of Prenosis's Immunix™ Artificial Intelligence platform for acute immune states. Prenosis has built a collection of artificial
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Unite Us Partners with Healthix and Regional Social Care Networks
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Today Unite Us, a leading software company enabling cross-sector collaboration to improve people's health and well-being, announced a partnership with Healthix, the largest public health information exchange (HIE) in the nation serving New York City and Long Island.Healthix and Unite Us will provide technology to enable communication between healthcare systems and social care networks. Together, they aim to address social drives of health such as food, housing,
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