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DexCare, Inc., a Seattle-based patient demand and care access platform raises $75M in Series C funding led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from existing partners Transformation Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and others. The funding will advance DexCare’s platform, which extends limited health-system capacity to serve patients faster and to precisely manage the supply and demand of digital-care access. The new funding brings the total raised to
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Outbound AI Raises $16M for AI-Powered Virtual Agents
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Outbound AI, a Seattle-based conversational AI platform for healthcare announced it has raised $16M in seed funding co-led by Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and SpringRock Ventures.Founded in 2021, Outbound AI is breaking new ground with cloud technologies that serve as workforce multipliers to drive productivity while improving the daily job experience for human talent. The company’s inaugural offering includes a portfolio of AI-powered virtual agents
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New Generative AI App Measures Vital Signs Through A Selfie
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Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai — who previously founded and built visionary doctor house call company Heal — today introduced Together by Renee, the first app to use generative AI to complete and manage cumbersome healthcare tasks for aging adults, those with chronic diseases and their overwhelmed caregivers.Together requires no typing or data entry and uses just the smartphone camera and AI to “magically” remove the myriad obstacles — such as medication refills,
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Pathology: Mindpeak, Proscia Partner To Improve Cancer Diagnosis
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Mindpeak, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) for pathology, and Proscia®, a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, have announced a partnership to broaden access to improved diagnosis for cancer patients.Through the collaboration, the companies lay the foundation for delivering tightly integrated AI-powered workflows that enable pathologists to provide more efficient, informed, and reproducible clinical
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TikTok Reveals Consumers Want Engaging Healthcare Content
Technology has drastically changed the way we consume information in our daily lives. That goes for healthcare information, too. Dated, static educational pamphlets featuring dense explanations of illnesses and medical procedures just won’t cut it anymore. Most patients now have a smartphone and the internet right in their pocket or readily accessible at home, and patients expect, and deserve, to receive healthcare information that speaks their language, both literally and
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Study: Virtual Reality Effective for Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
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TRIPP, a global XR wellness company, announced the completion of TRIPP PsyAssist’s Phase 1 Proof Of Concept (POC) Feasibility Study. The first phase of the breakthrough study shows virtual reality (VR) as an effective tool to help patients prepare for ketamine-assisted therapy
Research Background
The study focuses on investigating the effects of a Virtual Reality (VR) experience before Ketamine dosing and was conducted at the esteemed Kadima
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Why Health Tech Firms Must Hire Chief Medical Officers
The health tech industry is driven by innovation and is constantly in a state of change. Yet it’s clear that post-pandemic investors and consumers are a lot less comfortable with decision-making that is purely made by technology gurus without senior medical expertise in the room.
From the outside looking in, it might seem obvious to have a medical officer on your leadership team, but research shows this is often not the case. According to CB Insights’ most recent ‘Digital Health 150’, it was
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Roundups: 18 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships
care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments. care.ai can deliver an elevated experience for both clinicians and patients by offering health systems integrated solutions combining care.ai's Smart Care Facility Platform with Samsung's healthcare-grade displays.
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Walgreens and Freenome Partner to Increase Diversity in Research
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Walgreens and Freenome form a multi-year relationship to advance clinical studies of Freenome’s blood-based tests for the early detection of cancer. Walgreens will combine its national footprint, patient insights, compliant recruitment technology and local infrastructure to engage diverse patient populations in Freenome’s multi-cancer research program. Walgreens will initially recruit patients across diverse populations for Freenome’s Sanderson Study, which aims to
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HandSport Surgery Institute Launches Virtual Practice in Metaverse
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HandSport Surgery Institute (HSSI), a provider of hand and wrist surgical care launches virtual practice in Decentraland, a blockchain-based metaverse platform. The HSSI Decentraland practice features a futuristic, sophisticated, and professional design inspired by crypto and cyberpunk culture. Visitors can interact with a virtual receptionist to schedule appointments, explore a comfortable waiting room with patient success stories, and learn about hand
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