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Cala, the bioelectronic medicine leader setting a new standard of care for chronic disease, today announced the commercial launch of its next generation therapy: the Cala kIQ™ System, the first and only FDA-cleared wearable device that delivers effective therapy for action hand tremor relief in people with essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease.The Cala kIQ System empowers patients and physicians by providing an on-demand, comfortable, at-home therapy for ease of
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General Catalyst Partners with Israel’s Sheba Medical Center to Drive Digital Health Transformation
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Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest medical center and a Newsweek ranked world’s best hospital for the last five years, and General Catalyst, a leading US-based venture capital firm, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate digital health transformation. Sheba is the second global partner and first partner in Israel to join the General Catalyst's Health Assurance Ecoystem cohort.
Paving the Way to Accelerate Transformative
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Virtual Digestive Care Platform Oshi Health Receives Strategic Investments
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Oshi Health today announced strategic investments by the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) GI Opportunity Fund.The landmark support of both gastroenterology (GI) associations signals the importance of evidence-based, multidisciplinary care delivered through hybrid collaborative models to address the urgent and growing problem of limited access to digestive healthcare in
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AMN Healthcare Language Services Integrates with Epic EHR
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AMN Healthcare Language Services, the leading provider of video remote language interpretation services for the healthcare industry, today announced it will offer clients data exchange integration with electronic health record (EHR) systems starting with Epic, a cloud-based EHR solution catering to a broad range of practices, from community hospitals and independent practices to multi-specialty hospital groups and hospice care providers.Healthcare systems can
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STAT Health Launches In-Ear Wearable to Measure Blood Flow to the Head
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Today, STAT Health emerges from stealth to introduce a 24/7 in-ear wearable that measures blood flow to the head to better understand symptoms such as dizziness, brain fog, headaches, fainting, and fatigue that occur upon standing. These are common symptoms for illnesses like long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and other orthostatic (caused by standing) syndromes that
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2023 Life Sciences Digital Pathology Adoption Survey Report
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Nearly three-fourths of life sciences organizations surveyed have invested in digital pathology to advance drug research and development (R&D), according to new research commissioned by Proscia®. Over half of these organizations (53%) still center their operations around legacy software systems primarily for basic image viewing despite growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the introduction of breakthrough therapeutics.The “2023
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MedStar Health Taps Luna to Improve In-Person Outpatient Physical Therapy
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Luna, the leading provider of in-home, in-person physical therapy, and MedStar Health, the largest healthcare system in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region, have today announced a partnership to improve access to in-person outpatient physical therapy across Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Northern Virginia, in collaboration with MedStar Health rehabilitation centers.With this relationship, Luna is now the preferred outpatient in-home, in-person
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Uber Health Launches Grocery & OTC Item Delivery to Patient Homes Nationwide
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Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced it will soon add grocery and over the counter (OTC) item delivery to its centralized HIPAA-enabled platform. Payers and providers nationwide will soon be able to use the same platform they already use for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) and prescription delivery to have groceries and OTC items delivered directly to patient homes, facilitated by Uber Eats.The first-of-its-kind platform will simplify and
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Pregnancy Care: Withings Partnership to Address Maternal Mortality
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Maternal healthcare tech innovator Emagine Solutions Technology announces an exciting partnership with Withings Health Solutions, the business-to-business division of Withings, the global leader in connected health.The collaboration is an effort designed to improve maternal mortality by giving pregnant users of Emagine’s The Journey Pregnancy App access to premium blood pressure monitoring tools.
Enabling a Data-Driven Approach to Blood
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Carta Healthcare Raises $25M for AI-Powered Clinical Data Abstraction
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Carta Healthcare®, a company whose mission is to improve patient care by harnessing the value of clinical data, announced today the final closing of its $25 million series B financing, thanks to additional investments from leading health systems Memorial Hermann Health System and UnityPoint Health.These additional investments follow the initial $20 million series B financing announced in November 2022, which included investors such
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