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TELUS Health today released its monthly Mental Health Index which revealed that workers who collaborate with others in the workplace have a better mental health score than those who work exclusively independently. The Index also showed that the mental health scores of workers who do not feel supported in their mental health and wellbeing by their employers scored 10 points below the national average.
Collaboration aligns with better mental health
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Medical AI: AccurKardia Secures $2.7M for Clinical Grade ECG Analytics
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AccurKardia, Inc., a New York-based medical AI software company delivering clinical-grade ECG interpretation software to cardiac monitoring companies raises $2.7M in seed funding led by Popular Impact Fund alongside other private investors. AccurKardia combines proprietary AI and non-AI-based techniques to provide near-real-time ECG analytics in the cloud, on device and at the edge
Clinical-grade, device-agnostic, API-accessible ECG analytics.
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Verana Health Launches RWE-Driven Solution for Clinical Trial Site Selection
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Verana Health®—a digital health company elevating quality in real-world data (RWD)—today announced the launch of VeraSite, a solution for identifying potential clinical trial sites.The new subscription-based tool offers clinical trial sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) a secure way to quickly identify practices with clinical expertise and potential patient populations matched to unique study protocols. This data can guide site selection, ensuring
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DexCare Raises $75M to Accelerate Care Access Platform
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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
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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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