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This week, AmerisourceBergen announced plans to launch DTx Connect, a fully integrated ordering, dispensing and fulfillment platform that aims to facilitate patient access to physician-ordered digital therapeutics and diagnostics.
- Several developers plan to pilot DTx Connect, which aims to reduce barriers that physicians and patients face across the ordering and fulfillment of digital therapeutics and diagnostics.
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Elevation Oncology Secures $50M Loan Facility with K2 HealthVentures
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Elevation Oncology, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of precision oncology products for patients with genomically defined cancers, today announced that it has secured a $50M senior secured loan facility from funds managed by K2 HealthVentures.
Elevation plans to use the funding from the facility will primarily support the exclusive license of EO-3021 (SYSA1801) outside of Greater China from CSPC Pharmaceutical Group and the
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Caption Health, Heartbeat Health Partner to Provide Access to Cardiac Care
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- Caption Health and Heartbeat Health today announced a partnership that will enable providers to offer their patients earlier access to cardiovascular care than ever before possible.
- Together, the partners are increasing access to early cardiac evaluations and care by providing these two innovations as a value-based bundle for health providers, payers, and value-based care organizations.
Improving Access To Cardiac Care
Limited access to cardiac diagnosis and
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Linus Health Launches AI Platform to Detect, Delay Dementia
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- Linus Health launches the first iPad-based cognitive screening platform able to detect cognitive decline such as dementia years before the human eye could ever do so.
- Linus is now offering a solution to empower PCPs to not only pinpoint cognitive issues in just minutes but also leverage AI to provide patients with evidence-based early interventions
IPad-Based Brain Health Platform
Projections estimate that the number of people in the US with Alzheimer's
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The Mounting Provider Burden of Patients Disconnected from Their Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs)
The first implantation of a pacemaker in a human occurred in 1958. Since then, the technology behind permanent cardiac rhythm management has steadily evolved, enabling a variety of implants known collectively as cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). Today, CIEDs are the standard of care for a range of cardiac arrhythmias, and researchers estimate that 1.2–1.4 million of these devices are implanted annually worldwide. And experts predict that number will continue to increase in years to
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NeuroSense Therapeutics and NeuraLight Collaborate to Detect ALS Oculometric Biomarkers
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- NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd., a company developing treatments for severe neurodegenerative diseases, and NeuraLight, a company developing objective and sensitive biomarkers for neurological disorders, today announced a collaboration to advance the science of digital biomarkers in the detection and monitoring of neurological diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
- This agreement marks NeuraLight’s first clinical trial and comes on the heels of
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Syapse Raises $35M to Expand Learning Health Network
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- Syapse raises $35M led by an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC (Innovatus)to tackle the challenge of understanding, preventing, and treating complex cancers.
- The investment will allow Syapse to expand its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, making it more efficient to uncover meaningful insights from real-world oncology data.
Syapse, a San Francisco, CA-based real-world evidence company accelerating the
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UCLA Research Uses Saliva to Detect Cancer Biomarkers
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- Spectrum Solutions, LLC announced the publishing of findings from their research collaboration with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Dr. David Wong, UCLA School of Dentistry that successfully demonstrated a superior ability to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from saliva.
- Specifically, amplified EGFR mutations associated with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using Spectrum’s saliva collection and preservation system with the Electric
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Intel & Sheba Partner to Develop AI Solution to Improve Detection of Crohn’s Disease
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- Sheba Medical Centre, Israel’s largest medical center, today announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to help doctors improve the diagnosis and treatment of people with Crohn's disease.
- Sheba developed a new, first-of-its-kind application capable of quickly and accurately analyzing extensive video data of a patient’s digestive system, providing valuable insights to aid medical professionals.
AI-driven Solutions to Diagnose Crohn’s Disease
The
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VC General Catalyst Closes $675M Health Assurance Fund II
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- Early-stage venture capital firm General Catalyst closes $670 million Health Assurance Fund II.
- The new fund comes on the heels of the Health Assurance Fund I closed in April of 2021 at $600M. To date, General Catalyst has invested $1.7B in companies aligned with the health assurance thesis.
Health Assurance Fund II Investment Thesis
This new fund will allow us to continue to accelerate General Catalyst’s work on building a value-oriented system and focus
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