What You Should Know:
- The first large, real-world study of the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy found these vaccines, especially two initial doses followed by a booster, are effective in protecting against serious disease in expectant mothers whether the shots are administered before or during pregnancy
- Pregnant women were excluded from COVID-19 mRNA vaccine clinical trials, so this new study fills a significant knowledge gap, providing strong evidence that
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Wellframe and Linkwell Health Launch Wellsquared to Close the Gap Between Health Plans and their Members
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- Wellframe and Linkwell Health have announced the launch of Wellsquared, a new product designed to deepen engagement with members and help health plans deliver the modern healthcare experience members expect.
- Wellsquared is a partnership between Wellframe, the market leader in member experience solutions for health plans, and Linkwell Health, the premier consumer engagement technology and content company serving health plans and health services
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3M, Epicore Biosystems, Innovize Partner to Scale Sweat-Sensing Wearable Tech
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- Epicore Biosystems, a digital health company developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables to provide real-time personalized hydration insights for performance and safety, today announced a new collaboration with 3M’s Health Care Business, a manufacturer and distributor of medical products and solutions, and Innovize Inc. (Innovize), a custom medical device manufacturer.
- Leveraging 3M’s leading skin-interfacing materials and Innovize’s manufacturing capabilities,
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Kahun Secures $8M for Clinical Reasoning Engine
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- Kahun, an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians, raises $8 million in a seed funding round led by LocalGlobe with the participation of European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund as part of the EIC Accelerator program and The Founders Kitchen (TFK).
- Kahun will leverage the funding to continue building the largest ever map of evidence-based medical knowledge powered by AI. The funds will be used to continue adding new sub-specialties beyond primary
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Bon Secours Mercy Health Goes Live on PerfectServe to Transform Nursing Workflows
What You Should Know:
- PerfectServe®, a leading provider of cloud-based clinical collaboration and provider scheduling solutions, recently announced the successful go-live of a project at Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health that utilizes its Clinical Collaboration solution to transform clinical workflows for nurses.
- Bon Secours Mercy Health is a long-time PerfectServe customer and is one of the top five largest Catholic health systems in the United States.
Reinventing Nursing
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BrightInsight Adds Xealth, Woebot Health and Claritas Rx to the BrightInsight Ecosystem
- BrightInsight, Inc., a global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions, recently announced the expansion of its recently launched BrightInsight Ecosystem, a network of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies collaborating to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to drive digital innovation, adoption and engagement.
- In addition, BrightInsight is proud to be a part of General Catalyst’s Health Assurance network—comprised of healthcare technology
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Rockley Photonics Develops Smaller, Powerful Chip for Health Wearables
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- Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited, a global leader in photonics-based health monitoring and communications solutions, recently announced that it has developed what it believes to be the world’s first micro-transfer-printed (mTP) silicon-photonics-based laser for commercial applications.
- This groundbreaking achievement is expected to allow Rockley to further increase the density and reduce the size of its high-density spectrophotometer chips — which are already
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IntelyCare Launches The IntelyHeart Foundation, Committing $2M to Support Healthcare Professionals
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- IntelyCare, a healthcare workforce management platform in the United States, today announced the launch of The IntelyHeart Foundation, a charitable not-for-profit organization.
- The IntelyHeart Foundation, with support from IntelyCare, will provide need-based grants to healthcare professionals who apply and meet established criteria. IntelyCare intends to commit up to $2 million over the next two years to fund grants to those who need short-term financial
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New athenahealth Research Finds that Telehealth Fills Care Gaps
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- Increased usage of telehealth, driven by COVID-19, not only remains substantially above pre-pandemic levels but has also emerged as both a key diagnostic tool and treatment vehicle, according to new research from athenahealth.
- The findings, announced today by athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for medical groups and health systems nationwide, suggest that telehealth is now integrated across the care continuum. The findings
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Geneial Receives $2.3M NIH Grant for Decentralized Biomedical Data Platform
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- Digital health company Geneial announces a $2.3M grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to fund the development of their secure, decentralized platform.
- Geneial will use $2.3M NIH award to build private, decentralized data platform facilitating research of genetic diseases. Geneial's platform will connect researchers of rare genetic diseases with relevant data while preserving patient privacy. Geneial's platform aims to help researchers leverage
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