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- Diligent Robotics raises over $30M to deploy its collaborative robots to healthcare systems across the nation.
- Company plans to use the funding will accelerate product development to meet the demand for healthcare service robots and enhance interoperability, integrations and efficiency in healthcare institutions.
Diligent Robotics, an Austin, TX-based robotic automation company today announced it has closed over $30 million in Series B funding led by Tiger
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4 Keys to Delivering A Retail-Like Patient Experience Journey
When it comes to the quality of their healthcare journey, patients, it seems, are losing patience with their healthcare providers.
In Cedar’s latest Healthcare Consumer Experience Study, for example, the share of consumers who said they won't pay a bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience tripled from 2020 to 2021, to 37%. A vast majority (93%) indicated the quality of the billing and payment experience is important to their decision to return to a healthcare provider in
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AmerisourceBergen Launches $150M Corporate Venture Fund
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- AmerisourceBergen, a global healthcare solutions company, announced the establishment of AB Health Ventures, a dedicated corporate venture capital fund that will invest in and partner with emerging healthcare startup companies working to transform healthcare for people and animals globally.
- AB Health Ventures will build on AmerisourceBergen’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovation for its customers.
AB Health Ventures Investment Thesis
AB Health
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FemTech Startup Conceive Raises $3.7M for Outcomes-Oriented Fertility Solution
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- Conceive, a New York City-based femtech startup on a mission to transform fertility, today that the public beta of its integrated solution is now live.
- The company's launch is fueled by a $3.7M seed round led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Founder Collective, Great Oaks, and 40+ founders and angels. The majority female and 42% BIPOC cap table includes the founders of Natalist, Tia, Forward, Cityblock, Pillpack, Dia&Co, along with the deep
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Arterys Receives FDA Clearance for Next-Gen Cardiac MRI App
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- Arterys, the world's leading vendor-neutral artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has announced several new modules to its already robust Cardio AI clinical application and an additional FDA AI clearance based on deep learning.
- Cardio AI is a comprehensive, cloud-based post-processing solution that leverages AI and deep learning to provide extremely accurate, automated, fast, repeatable analysis of cardiac MRI images.
Cardio AI: AI-Assisted Cardiac MRI
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PathAI and GlaxoSmithKline Partner to Accelerate Research and Drug Development
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- PathAI and GSK announced a multi-year strategic artificial intelligence (AI) partnership today with a focus on accelerating research and- building drug development programs in oncology and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
- As part of the partnership, GSK will leverage both PathAI’s expertise and models to advance GSK’s proprietary AI models and focus on designing better models to deliver improved treatment options for patients with cancer
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MedTech: Transforming Healthcare with Medical Imaging AI
Healthcare providers and their patients stand to benefit dramatically from AI technologies, thanks to their ability to leverage data at scale to reveal new insights. But for AI developers to perform the research that will feed the next wave of breakthroughs, they first need the right data and the tools to use it. Powerful new techniques are now available to extract and utilize data from complex objects like medical imaging, but leaders must know where to invest their organizations’ resources to
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Echo Health Ventures Expands Investment Model to Nashville
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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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