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– Vivante Health, a Chicago-based provider of digital digestive health raises $31M in Series B funding led by Mercato Partners with participation from Health Catalyst Capital as well as returning investors 7wireVentures, Intermountain Ventures, Distributed Ventures, Human Capital, and SemperVirens.
- The latest funding round brings the total capital raised by Vivante to date to $47M, following a $16M Series A round in late 2021.
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Amenities Health Closes $10M to Modernize Health System Digital Front Doors
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- Amenities Health, a Dallas, TX-based healthcare digital front door platform secured an additional $6.25M, putting Amenities' total Series A amount raised to date at $10M.
- The Series A round was led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund, and Epic Ventures with additional participation from HealthTech CEOs Chris Gibson, Blake Marggraff, Kyle Robertson, Tom White, Kulmeet Singh, Harjinder Sandhu, and Buzz White.
- Amenities plans to use the additional
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Take Command Secures $25M to Expand ICHRAs Coverage
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- Take Command, a Dallas-based SaaS platform and employer-sponsored, personalized health benefits space secures $25M in growth stage financing led by Edison Partners, with participation from current investors LiveOak Venture Partners and SJF Ventures.
- Take Command is the first and largest company in the U.S. to offer end-to-end individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements, or ICHRAs, administrative platforms and access to an individual health
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Mount Sinai Researchers Identify Biomarker That Tracks Recovery From Treatment-Resistant Depression
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A team of leading clinicians, engineers, and neuroscientists has made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of treatment-resistant depression. By analyzing the brain activity of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS), a promising therapy involving implanted electrodes that stimulate the brain, the researchers identified a unique pattern in brain activity that reflects the recovery process in patients with treatment-resistant depression.This pattern, known as
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Health Gorilla Launches Patient Access Solution Enabling Access to Health Data from Health Information Networks
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Health Gorilla, a privacy-focused health information network and interoperability solution provider, has announced the launch of its Patient Access solution, which allows healthcare organizations to access comprehensive health data by enabling consumers to submit queries to national health information networks under the Individual Access Services (IAS) purpose of use.Accessing comprehensive data seamlessly from national exchanges has traditionally been limited to
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Creating A Thriving Patient-Centric Data Economy
We shouldn’t underestimate the power of patient data.
Every data point from clinical studies and patient medical records provides fuel for researchers. The more fuel they have, the greater the chance for life-saving breakthroughs.
As we sit here today, the research ecosystem isn’t working to its full potential. Valuable datasets are siloed and disparate, making it hard for researchers to access them. Patients aren’t empowered to take ownership of their own data; the power of data is in the
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Evidation, USC Partner to Integrate Wearables Dataset for Healthy Aging Study
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Evidation, the company creating new ways to measure and improve health in everyday life, today announced a partnership with USC’s Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research to incorporate wearable device data into the landmark Understanding America Study.The goal of the partnership is to power research that will generate insights into healthy aging. Evidation and USC will collaborate to integrate a robust wearables dataset into extensive survey data that has
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Google Searches for “AI in Healthcare” Up by 300% in 3 Years
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- An analysis of “AI in Healthcare” related Google search data from 2020 to 2023 increased by over 300%, according to a study conducted by Dataconomy Media in August 2023.
- From a mere 12,100 queries in 2020, the enthusiasm surrounding AI's role in healthcare has surged to an impressive 33,100 searches in 2023. This seismic leap underscores a momentous shift in public curiosity about AI's capacity to transform healthcare, as monthly average searches achieve
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Briya Raises $11.5M for Healthcare Blockchain-Secured Data Exchange Platform
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Briya, an end-to-end healthcare data exchange platform, today announced completion of an $11.5 million Series A round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding to $17 million. The round was led by Team8, includes existing investors Insight Partners, Amiti Ventures, and is joined by the George Kaiser Family Foundation.The funding will support Briya's mission to transform how data is exchanged between healthcare organizations and life sciences organizations, with
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Rev1 Ventures Launches $30M Fund to Support Research-Based Healthcare Innovation
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Today, Rev1 Ventures, the venture studio that helps entrepreneurs and corporations accelerate innovation, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and The Ohio State University announce expanded support for life sciences companies with the launch of Rev1 Catalyst Fund III, a $30 million fund that delivers capital and strategic services for pre-seed, seed stage and early-stage healthcare innovators. Following the success of Rev1 Catalyst Fund II, Rev1
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