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Today, LRVHealth announced that it raised $200M in its fifth fund to accelerate its track record of driving transformational change in healthcare. In addition, the firm has expanded its team of healthcare operators and insiders to focus on a core investment strategy for this new fund that’s anchored around a central theme: Care Anywhere. The LRVHealth team has partnered with leading entrepreneurs and helped build many of the healthcare industry’s
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Neura Health Raises $8M to Expand Virtual Neurology Clinic
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Neura Health, a virtual neurology clinic, announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding to support its newly expanded go-to-market approach. With the funding, Neura will be able to move beyond the consumer market to bring the company’s neurology care offering to the enterprise sector, initially focusing on employers and health plans.Neura’s end-to-end solution offers those living with neurological conditions, starting with headaches and migraine, unlimited online
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PatientsLikeMe & MGH Partner to Support ALS Research
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PatientsLikeMe (PLM), announced a partnership with the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to share de-identified patient data that can improve research outcomes for ALS.The company’s outcomes-rich data is now freely available to the international research community and will be a significant addition to Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) database comprising anonymized data from 29
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Health Tech: Why Design Matters and Ease of Use is Everything
Today, patient data and patient information are essential components of delivering the best care. As healthcare expands beyond physical clinical settings and into digital channels, the need for data-driven, analytics-enabled, context-rich decision-making is only growing. Because of this, healthcare staff deal with ever-increasing amounts of data. In fact, health data proliferates so quickly, it doubles in volume every 73 days. How can our overburdened workforce keep up?
Information systems,
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Hippocratic AI Launches with $50M for Safety Large Language Model for Healthcare
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Today, Hippocratic AI launched out of stealth to announce the first Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for healthcare, as well as a $50M seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz.Co-founded by Munjal Shah and Meenesh Bhimani MD, Hippocratic AI is building the first LLM for healthcare, with an initial focus on non-diagnostic, patient-facing applications. It has outperformed existing language models (e.g. GPT-4) on 100+ healthcare tests
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How AI Can Deliver Benefits in Healthcare Manufacturing and Patient Device Usage
According to Grand View Research, the global artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare market size was valued at USD 15.4 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.5% from 2023 to 2030, to reach an estimated USD 208.2 billion. That’s an impressive growth rate, indicating the expected value delivery to a mostly early-phase adoption of AI in the healthcare marketplace. With such aggressive predicted growth, many health industry professionals may ask
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Validic Acquires Connected Health Platform Trapollo
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Validic has acquired the assets of Trapollo LLC, a connected health, technical support, and device logistics provider that helps healthcare organizations care for patients at home. Trapollo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cox Communications, Inc.With the acquisition of these Trapollo assets, Validic rounds out its core capabilities to make personalized healthcare a practical reality for patients and clinicians. Validic's EHR-integrated healthcare app ingests remotely
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Flatiron Health Launches Integrated RWE Solutions for Oncology
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Building upon over a decade of experience providing high-quality, real-world oncology data, Flatiron Health has announced the expansion of their real-world evidence (RWE) offerings to include analytic, scientific, and consultative services, leveraging the high-quality foundational real-world data (RWD) assets that the company is well known for.Flatiron’s new Integrated RWE Solutions will include data and end-to-end services to provide a more flexible and fit-for-purpose
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Datavant, AWS Partner to Generate Clinical and Patient Insights
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Datavant, a provider helping organizations securely connect health data, announces that it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate their ability to manage and optimize clinical and patient insights.Pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, research institutions, and healthcare technology customers can now access Datavant’s cutting-edge data de-identification technology in AWS, connect
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TELUS Health Launches Total Mental Health
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TELUS Health launches Total Mental Health - an innovative solution that provides employees with access to a team of care professionals who will curate personal care journeys with continuous mental health counseling, therapist led iCBT programs, digital tools, assessments, and ongoing tracking and feedback.Accessible by employees through their company’s health benefits, Total Mental Health leverages TELUS Health’s world-leading technology to offer a one-stop app
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