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Finni Health, a Santa Monica, CA-based company empowering autism care providers to go independent raises $3.2M seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from YCombinator, Wayfinder Ventures, Andrew Adams (Headway), and Divya Bhatt (Virta). According to the CDC, 1 in 36 kids are diagnosed with autism in the US today, and this is growing at 12% each year. There’s about 40K autism providers in the US, growing 10% year over year, but this is still not
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Simple HealthKit Launches At-Home Testing Kits on Walmart.com
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Simple HealthKit, which provides the first human-centric, complete diagnostics platform with access to follow-up care for respiratory health, sexual health and chronic conditions partners with Walmart to make Simple HealthKit’s at-home HbA1c (Diabetes), Respiratory Wellness and Sexual Wellness Tests available at Walmart.com*.Simple HealthKit’s HbA1c (Diabetes) Tests identify key markers for Type 2 diabetes. Its Respiratory Wellness Tests identify Influenza A,
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Pregnancy Care: Withings Partnership to Address Maternal Mortality
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Maternal healthcare tech innovator Emagine Solutions Technology announces an exciting partnership with Withings Health Solutions, the business-to-business division of Withings, the global leader in connected health.The collaboration is an effort designed to improve maternal mortality by giving pregnant users of Emagine’s The Journey Pregnancy App access to premium blood pressure monitoring tools.
Enabling a Data-Driven Approach to Blood
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FemTech: Pomelo Care Secures $33M for Value-Based Virtual Maternity Care Platform
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Pomelo Care, an NYC-based value-based virtual maternity care platform that improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, announced $33M in Seed and Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The latest round brings its total capital raised to date to $33M. The company supports its patients from preconception through an infant’s first year with personalized and proactive 24/7 care from a dedicated, multispecialty team.
Pregnancy & newborn care,
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CDC Launches Fentanyl Dashboard to Monitor Nonfatal Overdose Trends
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released its Fentanyl Study Dashboard, an innovative tool that utilizes data from the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), to track and monitor nonfatal overdose trends associated with fentanyl. The dashboard, “Fentalog Study: A Subset of Nonfatal Suspected Opioid-Involved Overdoses with Toxicology Testing” went live in May of 2023 aims to provide vital insights to healthcare
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Lessons From Oncology – How We Can Better Utilize AI for GI
Oncology is seen as an early adopter of machine learning in healthcare, and as a doctor who has been working in medical oncology for over a decade, I have seen firsthand how technology has advanced the field. Now, I work at a computer vision company that is using artificial intelligence (AI) in gastroenterology and although these areas of medicine differ, I am struck by the similarities in opportunities that technology has to help advance care and improve outcomes for patients afflicted by
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Syntax Health Launches with $7.5M to Accelerate Value-based Care Alignment for Healthcare Plans and Providers
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Syntax Health, Inc., an NYC-based enterprise SaaS-based solution for health plans and providers that accelerates alignment in value-based care (VBC) launches out of Redesign Health with $7.5M in initial funding.Syntax Health’s new dynamic platform removes friction in the contracting process using analytics, infrastructure and a collaborative Virtual Workspace. The team-centric enterprise solution drives transparency, collaboration and consistency, and facilitates
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Google Cloud, Mayo Clinic Partners on Generative AI Focused on Enterprise Search
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Today, Google Cloud announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to transform healthcare with generative AI, starting with enterprise search. Enterprise Search on Generative AI App Builder (Gen App Builder) is designed to improve the efficiency of clinical workflows, make it easier for clinicians and researchers to find the information they need, and ultimately to help improve patient outcomes. In addition, Google Cloud announced today that its Enterprise Search
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Care.ai Partners with Samsung to Power High-Fidelity Virtual Care Experiences
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care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments. care.ai can deliver an elevated experience for both clinicians and patients by offering health systems integrated solutions combining care.ai's Smart Care Facility Platform with
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Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires AI Drug Diversion Detection Company Invistics
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Wolters Kluwer Health today announced the acquisition of Invistics Corporation (Invistics), a U.S.-based provider of cloud-based, AI-enabled software for drug diversion detection and controlled substance compliance. Invistics will join the company’s Clinical Surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions unit, part of Clinical Solutions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Invistics’ solution, Flowlytics, uses predictive analytics to detect
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