What You Should Know:
- Kythera Labs, a healthcare technology and data analytics company, has secured $20M in Series A funding and debt financing from BIP Ventures and CIBC.
- The funding will support the growth and scaling of Wayfinder, Kythera's data-transforming technology platform, and the development and adoption of new and existing offerings. It will also be used to expand partnerships with industry leaders such as Datavant and Databricks.
WayFinder Data Technology
Kythera Labs
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23andMe Launches Prevention-Based Health Membership, Total Health
What You Should Know:
- 23andMe has launched 23andMe+ Total Health, a comprehensive prevention-based health membership.
- Total Health provides clinical-grade exome sequencing, biannual blood testing, genetics-based clinical care, and access to clinicians trained in genetics.
Comprehensive, Prevention-Based Health Membership
The offering aims to provide a comprehensive approach to prevention, enhancing patient understanding of disease risks and leading to healthier lives. Key
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Particle Health, Hona Integrate to Deliver Longitudinal Data for Informed Clinical Decisions
What You Should Know:
- Particle Health, an intelligent data platform that aggregates and delivers actionable patient data and insights and Hona have formed a strategic partnership to enhance Hona's AI-driven healthcare solution. Hona is a customizable, HIPAA-compliant artificial intelligence product that searches and converts thousands of health records into one simple patient overview for healthcare providers,
- The collaboration between Particle Health and Hona aims to simplify patient
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Withings Health, Vida Health Partner to Enhance Virtual Cardiometabolic Care
What You Should Know:
- Vida Health, a virtual cardiometabolic care provider and wearables provider Withings Health Solutions has partnered to provide Vida members with state-of-the-art remote monitoring devices, including the Withings Body Pro cellular scale and the BPM Connect Pro cellular blood pressure monitor.
- Eligible Vida members will receive Withings Body Pro cellular scales, BPM Connect Pro cellular blood pressure monitors, or both. Vida's care teams will gain access to
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Empowering Staff, Improving Patient Outcomes, and Optimizing Operations with Digital Transformation
The pandemic took a significant toll on healthcare professionals due to the increase in critical patients, decrease in staff, reduced supplies, and greater safety risks. While these challenges have plagued the industry prior to the pandemic, the effects were greatly exacerbated by the worldwide crisis. According to a recent AMN Healthcare survey focused on the ongoing impact of the pandemic, 30% of nurses say they remain likely to leave their career in healthcare and 18% say they will retire
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Emory Healthcare to Pilot AI-Powered Virtual Inpatient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Emory Healthcare partners with Andor Health to implement virtual patient observer technology to enhance safety interventions and reduce fall risks in hospitalized patients.
- Emory Healthcare plans to pilot the virtual sitter technology at two of its hospitals, allowing for remote monitoring of at-risk patients in medical and surgical floors as well as the emergency department.
AI-Powered Virtual Inpatient Monitoring
Andor Health's ThinkAndor® leverages
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Accenture, Salesforce Partner on Generative AI for Life Sciences Companies
What You Should Know:
- Accenture and Salesforce are investing in the development of Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud, focusing on innovation, assets, and accelerators powered by data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help life sciences companies create sustainable value and drive growth.
- Building on their generative AI collaboration, Accenture and Salesforce will leverage their joint generative AI acceleration hub to develop new solutions and use cases for Salesforce Life Sciences
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Hims & Hers Launches AI Service to Help Providers Personalize Treatments
What You Should Know:
- Hims & Hers Health, the leading health and wellness platform, has unveiled MedMatch, an AI-powered solution designed to revolutionize healthcare by providing providers with a more intelligent and informed way to deliver personalized care to patients, offering more effective and precise treatments and medications.
- The goal of MedMatch is to recommend clinical decisions and treatments informed by the collective knowledge of thousands of providers and
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M&A: Surescripts Acquires Clinical Intelligence Company ActiveRADAR
What You Should Know:
- Surescripts, the leading health information network in the United States, has acquired ActiveRADAR, a clinical intelligence company focused on identifying therapeutic alternatives for prescriptions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition is expected to have a positive impact on medication adherence, patient-provider engagement, and the overall patient experience by providing better alternatives and reducing waste and
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How AI Can Reinvent Nurse Staffing
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way the healthcare industry operates, from clinical decision-making to front-office tasks to financial workflows. Perhaps one of the areas where AI has the most potential is nurse staffing, an issue that has reached crisis proportions as a result of COVID-19.
The pandemic exacerbated existing issues such as short staffing and created new ones like skyrocketing contingent labor costs. Today, nurse turnover rates remain far higher than
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