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- Echo Health Ventures, a healthcare strategic venture capital and growth equity investment firm, today announced it is establishing a local presence in Tennessee led by Echo Health Advisors Principal Hayley Hovious, who joined the company in March following seven years as president of the Nashville Health Care Council.
- Echo Health Ventures CEO Rob Coppedge expects the new location to drive innovation by developing connections between its portfolio companies, Echo
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Forge Health Secures $11M for Value-Based Behavioral Health Model
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– Forge Health, a White Plains, NY-based behavioral healthcare provider with a proven, national-payer-validated ability to drive clinical outcomes that span all areas of health, today announced an $11M growth funding round led by HC9 Ventures.
- Innovative behavioral health company works with payers and health systems to enable value-based care for mental health and substance use populations.
Transforming Addiction and Mental Health Treatment
Founded in 2016,
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Viz.ai Raises $100M for Care Coordination Platform at $1.2B Valuation
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- Viz.ai, a San Francisco-based AI-powered disease detection and care coordination platform raises $1000M in Series D funding led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners. The round also included participation from Scale Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Threshold, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Sozo Ventures, CRV, and Susa.
- The new funds will be used to support Viz.ai’s significant growth trajectory, expand the Viz Platform to detect
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C2i Genomics Brings Distributed Cancer Monitoring to Cancer Centers Across Europe
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- C2i Genomics, a cancer intelligence company launches its C2inform minimal residual disease (MRD) test across Europe, after obtaining CE-IVD marking in the EU, UK and Switzerland. The company also announced the completion of several clinical trials across the globe, including leading cancer centers in Europe, U.S. and Singapore.
- The new clinical data will be presented at the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in New Orleans,
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At-Home Testing Is The Future, But Lab APIs Are Stuck In The Past
The rise of telemedicine and virtual care options have primed at-home testing to make a significant impact on the future of healthcare. 70% of today’s medical decisions depend on laboratory test results, but lagging lab APIs hinder the widespread launch of remote diagnostics.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a major increase in telemedicine usage, including a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020 alone. Both patients and doctors
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Doceree Lands $11M for Physician-Only Platform for Precision Marketing
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- Doceree, a global network of HCP-only platforms for programmatic messaging raises $11M in a Series A funding round led by Eight Roads Ventures to enrich programmatic messaging offerings for health information technology (HIT) platforms to improve the distribution of hyper-relevant messages to prescribers. The round also included participation from F-Prime Capital and Alkemi Growth Capital.
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IntelyCare Secures $115M for Intelligent Nurse Staffing Platform at $1.1B Valuation
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– IntelyCare, a leading intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute facilities raises $115M to solve the nationwide nurse shortage.
– IntelyCare plans to build on this momentum by using the new funding to expand its footprint to new states and invest heavily in its AI-based platform and data science technology.
IntelyCare, a Quincy, MA-based tech-enabled nurse staffing platform for healthcare organizations announced it has secured $115M in a Series C
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Q1 2022 Digital Health Funding Reaches $6B Across 183 Deals
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- Rock Health report reveals Q1 2022 digital health funding closed with $6.0B across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M.
- Q1 2022 digital health funding was significantly behind Q4 2021’s $7.3B and the trailing twelve month quarterly average of $7.1B.
Digital health funding reached a total of $6B in Q1 2022 across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund
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Eleos Closes $20M to Unlock CareOps Automation for Behavioral Health
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- Eleos Health has announced a $20 million Series A round, co-led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures, bringing their total raise to $28 million.
- Eleos Health is a behavioral health application for voice AI, operating ambiently in the background of mental health clinician-patient conversations. It’s in production use with 20+ care providers and health plans, with a goal of unlocking up to 30% more mental health care provider capacity as the U.S.
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Cardiologs’ AI Dramatically Reduces Inconclusive Apple Watch ECGs
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- Cardiologs, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) cardiology diagnostics, today announced the results of a new clinical study that showed Cardiologs’ deep learning AI dramatically reduces inconclusive results returned by the latest Apple Watch ECG companion app (Apple ECG 2.0) while maintaining performance (sensitivity and specificity).
- The study included 101 patients in a typical tertiary care hospital who were assessed for atrial arrhythmia (AA). It
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