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Medigate by Claroty announced its strategic partnership with medical technology company, Siemens Healthineers to protect healthcare enterprises from malicious cyberattacks. Through a combination of software, managed services, and medical device security data sharing, the solution will increase reliability for patients by boosting risk management and operational efficiency. Additionally, the two companies will share medical device product security
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Simple HealthKit Launches At-Home Testing Kits on Walmart.com
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Simple HealthKit, which provides the first human-centric, complete diagnostics platform with access to follow-up care for respiratory health, sexual health and chronic conditions partners with Walmart to make Simple HealthKit’s at-home HbA1c (Diabetes), Respiratory Wellness and Sexual Wellness Tests available at Walmart.com*.Simple HealthKit’s HbA1c (Diabetes) Tests identify key markers for Type 2 diabetes. Its Respiratory Wellness Tests identify Influenza A,
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Range Biotechnologies Raises $5.2M to Advance Proteomics for Precision Health
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Range Biotechnologies (Range Bio) announced $5.2M in seed funding, led by TechBio-focused ARTIS Ventures with participation from Pear VC, Page One Ventures, Civilization Ventures, Pillar, Four Cities Capital, Hawktail, and others. Proteomics, the study of proteins in the body, has the potential to improve human health in several ways. For example, proteomic studies can help identify which proteins correlate with a certain disease or drug response.
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FemTech: Pomelo Care Secures $33M for Value-Based Virtual Maternity Care Platform
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Pomelo Care, an NYC-based value-based virtual maternity care platform that improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, announced $33M in Seed and Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The latest round brings its total capital raised to date to $33M. The company supports its patients from preconception through an infant’s first year with personalized and proactive 24/7 care from a dedicated, multispecialty team.
Pregnancy & newborn care,
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Amazon HealthLake Adds 3 New FHIR API Capabilities to Offerings
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AWS announced the addition of three new capabilities to Amazon HealthLake’s managed FHIR API offerings. The launch of these three new capabilities benefits EHR system providers, ISVs, SIs, and IT teams working with healthcare organizations, by allowing them to simply leverage managed FHIR APIs to build interoperability applications or systems that conform to ONC and CMS patient access rules, reducing the burden of building and managing the underlying FHIR APIs
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Interoperability Institute Launches Virtual Innovation Center with AWS
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The Interoperability Institute (IOI), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on scaling interoperability for the health information technology (HIT) sector, today announced that it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch Interop.WORLD, a Virtual Innovation Center designed to accelerate critical advancements within the industry. IOI was created by the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) to tackle the challenges around healthcare
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Bayer Launches Precision Health Unit to Develop New Products
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The Consumer Health Division of Bayer announced this week it has launched a Precision Health business unit focused on developing new products across its range of everyday health categories. The new unit will consist of multiple business units and diverse leaders prioritize developing products that enable people to take greater control of their own personal health through digital solutions that facilitate more informed choices based on personal insights and novel
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Eversense E3 CGM for Diabetes Now Covered by UnitedHealthcare
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UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance company in the United States, will begin providing coverage for the Eversense E3, a Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System effective July 1, 2023 for people with type 1 and insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes.Eversense, brought to people with diabetes by Ascensia Diabetes Care, is a CGM System indicated for continually measuring glucose levels in persons age 18 years and older with diabetes for up to 6 months. The system
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Strive Health Secures $166M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Platform
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Strive Health, a Denver-based provider of value-based kidney care today announced it has raised $166M in Series C funding led by NEA alongside five new investors, including large strategic investor CVS Health Venture.The company will use the new funds to grow and scale the business by expanding into new markets, investing in its existing payor, health system, nephrologist and medical group partnerships and refining its clinical value-based care model. Strive will
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AI in Drug Discovery Market to Reach $4B by 2027
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The AI in Drug Discovery market in terms of revenue was estimated to be worth $600M in 2022 and is poised to reach $4B by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 45.7% from 2022 to 2027 according to a new report published by MarketsandMarkets™. The report cites the growing need to curb the drug discovery cost & reduce the overall time taken in this process, the rising adoption of cloud-based applications and services, and the impending patent expiry of blockbuster
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