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Venteur, the digital health startup helping companies provide personalized health insurance options to their employees, has closed a seed funding round at $7.6 million. TThe funding is led by GSR Ventures, with participation by Headwater VC, Revelry Venture Partners, Houghton Street Ventures, Plug and Play, Techstars, CRCM Ventures, and various strategic angels. The funding round closed in June.
Improving Employee Healthcare
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Building A Telemedicine Company – Challenges and Best Practices
In the last few years, the healthcare industry has witnessed an explosion in both popularity and profits in a new sector of business. Thanks to the conditions brought about by the pandemic, telemedicine is now an increasingly popular format for diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions.
Just a few years ago, the telemedicine market had a size of about $42 billion. However, the industry’s growth rate experienced a remarkable surge, and the market size is now projected to reach a
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Dolbey, SOAP Health Partner on AI-Driven Early Disease Detection
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Dolbey and Company, Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with SOAP Health, a leading AI medical practice innovator.This collaboration brings together Dolbey’s state-of-the-art speech recognition technology, Fusion Narrate® powered by nVoq™, with SOAP Health’s expertise in leveraging AI for medical encounters. The partnership is poised to revolutionize how healthcare professionals and patients interact, improving productivity, revenue, early disease
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M&A: Orbita Acquires Wellbe Assets, Creating Seamless Digital Pathway
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Orbita today announced it has acquired the assets of Wellbe, a digital health company providing patient navigation for specialty care. The acquisition includes Wellbe’s software, customers and select staff. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Acquisition Creates Seamless Digital Pathway for Patient Care
This strategic acquisition will expand Orbita’s impact on healthcare organizations, ranging from general practices to
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Why Maternity Care Deserts Aren’t Going Away. Here’s What Can Be Done
For a long time, healthcare providers in the U.S. have been putting band-aids on the problem of maternity care deserts, propping up existing services for pregnant women and new mothers with temporary fixes.
The problem shows no sign of resolving, and it won't until we recognize that the issues at its heart are not temporary. They represent deeper, permanent changes in national demographics and healthcare delivery. And they require permanent solutions.
A DECLINING BIRTH
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Why Healthcare AI Must Maintain Multiple Layers of Specificity
The recent explosion of generative AI has pushed public discourse to a palpable tipping point. Nearly overnight, it seems, we’ve cycled from “must develop and/or adopt new AI applications ASAP” to existential fear, avoidance, and even acrimony.
For those of us who have been working directly in the artificial intelligence space for years, specifically in healthcare, these are both trying and exciting times.
On the “trying” hand, many people, including some AI experts, are raising
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FemTech: Visana Health Raises $10.1M for Virtual Women’s Health Clinic
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- Visana Health, a virtual-first comprehensive women’s health clinic raises $10.1M in seed funding co-led by Flare Capital Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures. The seed round also included participation from InHealth Ventures, Oxeon Partners, Pixel Perfect Ventures, Venture Investors, and others.
- Visana is a virtual, comprehensive women's clinic, offering care from menstruation to menopause from OBGYNs and women's health NPs.
Women Deserve
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Epic Integrates Abridge’s Generative AI Clinical Documentation in EHR
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Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, is now the first Pal in Epic’s Partners and Pals program.The collaboration will make Abridge’s generative AI-based documentation solution available for integration in Epic’s clinical workflows, giving providers the ability to generate real-time, structured summaries of their patient conversations with complete auditability. Together, Abridge and Epic aim to help providers be more present and
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Fluree, Vitality TechNet Partner to Enable Pharma Regulation & Drug Discovery
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Fluree, which has developed a knowledge graph database and semantic data pipeline toolset for secure and trusted data sharing, today announced a partnership with Vitality TechNet to build a semantic data infrastructure for pharmaceutical organizations looking to enable digital Regulatory Information Management and accelerate drug discovery.Fluree — which recently closed its $10M Series A funding round — provides data infrastructure technology to
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AliveCor and Clario Partner to Offer Decentralized Clinical Trials- Focused Six-Lead ECG Solutions
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Clario announced an expansion to its collaboration with AliveCor to enable trial participants to collect medical-grade six-lead ECG readings in the comfort of their own homes through KardiaRx, a clinical-trial-focused app. This technology enables pharmaceutical and biotech customers to consider decentralized and hybrid clinical trial strategies in study protocols that would have otherwise been limited to on-site evaluations.
Enabling Accurate Cardiac Safety
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