What You Should Know:
- Violet, the first-ever cultural competence credentialing, upskilling, and care coordination platform for clinicians, released today a new clinical research report showing the validity of a framework for standardizing and measuring cultural competence in clinicians.
- The framework was piloted with payors and providers, and garnered a 90% retention rate over industry standards of care. Developed by two academic researchers at Violet, the report explains the need
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SURGE Therapeutics Raises $26M to Accelerate Intraoperative Immunotherapy
What You Should Know:
- SURGE Therapeutics (SURGE) recently announced the completion of a $26 million Series A financing led by Camford Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Intuitive Ventures, Pitango HealthTech, 8VC, Alumni Ventures, and the Cancer Research Institute.
- The funds will be used to accelerate the development of the SURGE™ intraoperative immunotherapy approach, expand the team, and initiate clinical trials for its injectable biodegradable hydrogel.
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VisualDx Partners with ACEP to Build Library of Monkeypox Images
What You Should Know:
- Ahead of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly, VisualDx has announced a collaboration with ACEP to create the Monkeypox Emergency Medicine Project, a physician-sourced collection of monkeypox images. By offering access to images of varying disease presentations on real patients, VisualDx and ACEP are helping to further educate and prepare emergency physicians to test, diagnose, and treat the emergent disease.
- Images in the
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Minimizing Hospital Infections with Airflow Tech
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- Phoenix Controls, a leader in precision airflow control solutions for critical environments, announced today it is working with SLD Technology, a manufacturer of fully integrated modular ceiling systems for healthcare facilities, to help create a stable zone of asepsis in operating suites through enhanced environmental controlled airflow.
- The enhanced environmentally controlled solution can help manage hospital-acquired infections (HAI) and further supports the
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Eyenuk Raises $26M for AI-Powered Eye Screening & Predictive Biomarkers
What You Should Know:
- Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) digital health company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening™ and AI Predictive Biomarkers™, today announced it has secured $26 million in a Series A financing round, bringing the Company’s total funding to over $43 million.
- The capital raise was led by AXA IM Alts and was joined by new and existing investors including T&W Medical A/S, A&C Foelsgaard Alternativer ApS, Kendall
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Philips Expands ClarifEye AR Surgical Navigation in Japan
What You Should Know:
- Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, recently announced the expanded rollout of its augmented reality (AR) surgical navigation solution - ClarifEye - to Japan, highlighting positive results in the first patients treated by the International University of Health and Welfare, Mita Hospital using this innovative 3D AR solution.
- Installed on a Philips interventional X-ray system in a hybrid operating room at Mita Hospital, ClarifEye helped the
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Haleon and Microsoft Partner to Help Users Who Are Blind or Low Vision Lead More Independent Lives
What You Should Know:
- Haleon, a global leader in consumer health, and Microsoft Corp. announced a new collaboration to make everyday health more accessible for people who are blind, have low vision or have difficulty reading product labels due to low literacy.
- Together, the companies are expanding functionality in the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide consumers with more detailed labeling information for over 1,500 Haleon products across the U.S. and U.K. Seeing AI is a free mobile
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Eclipse and Mayo Clinic Create Nucleus RadioPharma for Cancer Patients
What You Should Know:
- Eclipse, a venture capital firm investing in the digital transformation of the world's physical industries, and Mayo Clinic, a leading nonprofit health organization, recently announced the creation and seed funding of Nucleus RadioPharma, a new company built to ensure cancer patients can access potentially life-saving radiopharmaceuticals by developing technologies to modernize the clinical development, manufacturing, and supply chain of these promising new
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Biotech Startup Obatala Sciences Raises $3M for Organ-on-a-Chip for Research
What You Should Know:
- Obatala Sciences, a New Orleans biotechnology company recognized for speeding up therapies for obesity, diabetes, and cancer across diverse populations, recently announced the closing of a $3 million Series A finance round co-led by être Venture Capital and Ochsner Lafayette General Healthcare Innovation Fund II and joined by Benson Capital Partners, Elevate Capital Fund, and The Hackett-Robertson-Tobe Group.
- The funding will be used to further the
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WELL Health Acquires EMR, Billing, Clinical Assets from CloudMD for $5.75M
What You Should Know:
- WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD's Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR1 based Juno EMR and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia.
- The combined entities serve more than 2,500 healthcare practitioners across Canada and represent WELL's entrance in the Alberta and Saskatchewan markets for its EMR and billing products.
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