Those of us old enough to recall the 1960s TV series “Star Trek” were fascinated by Dr. McCoy when he would simply point a scanner at his patients and analyze their condition. What was once science fiction has now become a reality and the potential future state of medical device technology for the coming decades. This future state has been made possible since the advent of “Transdermal Optical Imaging” or “TOITM”. This novel form of remote photoplethysmography was the first globally to
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FemTech: Evvy Raises $14M to Revolutionize Precision Women’s Healthcare
What You Should Know:
Evvy, a female-founded startup unlocking precision women’s healthcare through biomarker discovery, announced today the closing of a $14 million Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital.The round also includes General Catalyst, Labcorp Ventures, RH Capital, Ingeborg Investments, G9 Ventures, Virtue, and Amboy Street Ventures.
Funding to Improve the State of Precision Women’s Healthcare
Since its 2021 launch, Evvy has prioritized a data-driven approach to
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Augmedix Launches Gen AI Mobile App for Automated Medical Notes
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- Augmedix, a provider of ambient medical documentation and data solutions, announced the early access release Augmedix Go, a clinician-controlled mobile app that uses generative AI to instantaneously create a fully automated draft medical note after each patient visit.
Augmedix Go harnesses proprietary natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), and structured data sets, key components of Augmedix’s tech stack. This powerful technology is
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Baptist Health Adopts Surgical Robot for Weight Loss Surgery
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, a French-American pioneer in collaborative robotics, today announced that Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Florida) performed the first clinical procedures in the United States using the Maestro System. Three surgeons who practice at Baptist Health hospitals used the Maestro System over a week to perform sleeve gastrectomies - the most common bariatric (weight loss) surgery. The surgeons employed by North Florida Surgeons included Steven Hodgett, MD, FACS; Craig
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Cartwheel Raises $20M to Tackle The Student Mental Health Crisis
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- Cartwheel, a platform helping schools tackle the student mental health crisis by delivering affordable, evidence-based telehealth services with no waitlist raises $20M in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures. Reach Capital joined the round, as did earlier investors General Catalyst, BoxGroup and Able Partners.
- The funding will allow Cartwheel to expand mental health services to hundreds of thousands of new students in
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Health Gorilla & Amwell Expands Digital Diagnostic Lab Ordering for Clinicians
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- Health Gorilla, a leading interoperability provider, and Amwell, a global leader in hybrid care enablement, announced a new lab capability within Amwell’s virtual care platform that will enable providers to offer patients a more connected hybrid care experience.
- With this expanded partnership, Health Gorilla’s lab automation system will empower providers on the Amwell Converge platform with access to a broader lab network and enhanced
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iRhythm Launches Wearable ECG Heart Monitor
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iRhythm Technologies, Inc. today announced the U.S. launch of its next-generation Zio® monitor and enhanced Zio® long-term continuous monitoring (LTCM) service.Zio monitor is iRhythm’s smallest, lightest and thinnest cardiac monitor, enhancing the cardiac monitoring experience for patients and healthcare providers together with new service enhancements. The new Zio monitor is a prescription-only ECG monitor, which is an integral part of the Zio LTCM service.
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Solera Launches Omni-Condition Management Platform
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Solera Health, the premier digital health company connecting people seamlessly and easily to solutions that work, today announced the launch of their HALO Platform, a next generation omni-condition management solution.The enhanced platform represents the next step in the company’s evolution – for the first time, creating a seamless and highly flexible method for payers and employers to add and categorize their own contracted solutions to Solera’s platform and curated
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Exo Unveils Handheld Ultrasound Device
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Exo (pronounced “echo”), a medical imaging software and device company, today unveiled a category-redefining handheld ultrasound device, Exo Iris™, to put high-performance medical imaging into the hands—and pockets—of every caregiver.Built on Exo’s advanced silicon technology, Exo Iris delivers versatile imaging performance for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) at a fraction of the size and cost of cart-based systems. Exo Iris is the latest addition to Exo’s
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Anxiety Screening For Adults Under 65 – What About 65+?
The alarm bells sounded when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF) put out guidance that all adults under age 65 be screened for anxiety, but not those over age 65.
So 15 million Americans will not be screened for a potentially devastating condition, left undiagnosed and overlooked for treatment with the effective tools currently available now – needlessly unable to live full, rich lives.
Similarly, in the future, they won’t sufficiently benefit from exciting
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