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- Medidata announced that Allucent, a contract research organization (CRO) bringing innovation to biopharma companies, is expanding the global use of Medidata’s Clinical Cloud to advance its end-to-end clinical trial operations offering.
- The agreement expands Allucent’s existing utilization of Medidata technologies. These include Rave EDC, eCOA, RTSM,
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ReKlame Health Joins Cigna In-Network, Reducing Psychiatric Care Barriers for BIPOC Communities
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- ReKlame Health, a provider of culturally competent, affordable and empathetic behavioral healthcare for BIPOC communities, announced that it has joined Cigna as an in-network mental healthcare provider in New York, New Jersey, and Florida.
- ReKlame is now in-network with all of the nation’s leading insurance plans, including Optum, United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Oxford and Oscar. The Black-founded and Black-led company brings high-quality
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Beam Healthcare Lands Growth Funding from Decathlon Capital Partners
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- Clinical telemedicine company Beam Healthcare has landed a significant investment from Decathlon Capital Partners. Details of the revenue-based funding investment were not disclosed.
- Beam Healthcare plans to utilize the funding toward expanding into new geographic markets and continuing its investment into the development of enhanced patient care programs. Beam Healthcare provides telemedicine services across the country to healthcare organizations and employers
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FemTech Startup Iron Health Launches with $4.5M to Empower OB/GYNs
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- Built at Redesign Health, Iron Health, the tech-enabled, virtual care partner that empowers OB/GYNs and their patients today announced its official launch with $4.5 million in seed investment.
- March of Dimes both contributed funds to Iron Health as part of its seed as its first investment from its first Innovation Fund but is also a partner resource for the startup. Iron Health addresses the fragmentation between OB/GYN, primary,
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Clarapath Acquires AI-Powered Digital Pathology Platform Crosscope
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- Clarapath, a robotics company aimed at catalyzing change in the way pathology laboratories process human and animal tissue acquires Mountain View, CA-based Crosscope. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Crosscope is a digital pathology company with a turnkey imaging solution providing best-in-class workflow tools and slide management along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to assist pathologists with better
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Risky Business of Health Trackers: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know
Gone are the days when healthcare information was only available to us at the doctor’s office or through the office's online portals, and that’s in part due to the rapidly growing popularity of wearable technology devices. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. use a fitness or health tracker to monitor things such as heart rate, blood pressure, sleep cycle, and stress. But this information is being used beyond just monitoring specific conditions. Take me, for example; I personally use my
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Aiberry Secures $8M for AI-Powered Mental Health Screenings
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- Aiberry (pronounced “I” + “berry”), an AI-powered mental health screening pioneer today announced that it has secured $8M in seed funding led by Confluence Capital Group, Inc. (CCG) with participation from the VC fund Ascension AI. This brings total funding to $10M
- The company plans to use the latest round of funding to accelerate the adoption of the Aiberry platform, which uses an AI-powered therapeutic assistant to conduct a conversation to detect mental health
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Opkit Launches First Insurance Verification Platform for Telehealth
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- Y Combinator startup Opkit emerges from stealth with an automated health insurance verification platform that is purpose-built for the new telehealth companies and virtual medical clinics that are providing care for a wide range of patients across the United States. The startup has raised more than $1M from Global Founders Capital, Mischief (Plaid founder Zach Perret's fund), Socially Financed, Y Combinator and Rex Salisbury, former partner at Andreessen
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COTA and GTC Partner to Improve Precision Oncology
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- COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company, today announced a new partnership with Genomic Testing Cooperative (GTC), a molecular testing company.
- GTC has a very innovative approach to genetic testing, providing molecular information which is critical to determining accurate diagnoses and determining the most appropriate treatment. GTC's tissue and liquid-biopsy testing leverages DNA and RNA sequencing, which is very rare in the
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Long-Term Care Insurtech Assured Allies Nabs $42.5M to Power Successful Aging
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- Assured Allies, an insurtech company for evidence-based successful aging raises $42.5M in Series B funding round co-led by FinTLV Ventures and existing investor Harel Insurance, and was joined by new and existing investors including Lumir Ventures, Funds managed by Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), New Era Capital Partners, MS&AD Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Poalim Equity, EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, Akilia Partners, and Samsung Next. The latest round
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