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- Koda Health, a Houston, TX-based advance directives platform empowering patients to take control of their healthcare journey raises $3.5M in seed funding led by Ecliptic Capital alongside participation from Headwater Ventures, Sigmas Capital, CRCM, and a number of angel investors. The funding will be used to double the size of Koda's team over the next six months and expand operations to all 50 states.
- Most commonly found Advance Directives are not detailed
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CVS Health Taps Medable to Bring Decentralized Clinical Trials to Pharmacies Nationwide
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- Medable and CVS Health announced a strategic collaboration that will make clinical research more accessible to patients of all demographics. Using Medable’s decentralized trial platform available to CVS Health’s thousands of community MinuteClinics nationwide, most people will be within just five minutes of a decentralized clinical trial research site – finally busting the longstanding barrier to research for millions of Americans
- Where applicable, CVS Health will
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Medidata, Parexel Expands Partnership to Enhance Decentralized Clinical Trial Delivery
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- Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company and Parexel, a global clinical research organization (CRO) focused on development and delivery of innovative new therapies to advance patient health extends their 15-year global strategic partnership. This extension includes gaining access to Medidata’s continued innovations in clinical trial technology solutions with its unified platform, support of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), the myMedidata patient portal, Sensor
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UBC Partners with Seqster to Advance Patient-Centric Clinical Trials
- UBC, late-stage research and patient support services organization partners with Seqster PDM, Inc. ("Seqster"), a patient-centric healthcare technology company, to provide nationwide health record interoperability with patient engagement.
- UBC will utilize the technology to enable clinical and observational research to transition from traditional site-based studies to decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). Seqster's turnkey white label solution facilitates the rapid move to a fully
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Hackensack Meridian Health Launches Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center
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- Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's largest and most integrated health network launches of Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, a program that delivers high-quality acute care in the home of a Medicare patient and may ultimately be scalable to the larger patient population. The program was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals struggling with bed capacity. In November 2020, the Centers for
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Science 37, physIQ Collaborate to Enhance Clinical Trial Data Collected from Connected Devices
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- Science 37, a leader in agile clinical trials, and physIQ Inc, a leader in digital medicine, announced their alliance to help researchers use remote biosensors and machine learning to build more robust data sets.
- The partnership will help boost the number of digital biomarkers and generate insights from continuous data streams to indicate the safety and efficacy of new clinical treatments more quickly and objectively.
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Withings Acquires Health and Fitness App 8Fit to Strengthen Personalized Wellness Capabilities
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- Withings, the leader in at-home connected health, today announced the acquisition of 8fit, worldwide health, fitness, and wellness app with more than 40 million downloads. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition is part of a $30M investment Withings is announcing over the next three years in its strategy to combine cutting-edge medical devices with personal health and wellness plans. This news follows last month’s announcement of
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Neura Health Raises $2.2M to Expand Virtual Neurology Clinic
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- Created to close the massive access and quality gap in neurological care, Neura Health announced it has raised $2.2M in seed funding from investors Pear VC (Doordash, Guardant Health), Norwest Venture Partners (Calm, Talkspace), Global Founders Capital, Index Ventures (Figma, Robinhood), digital health expert Nikhil Krishnan, and Next Play Ventures, the fund of former LinkedIn CEO Jeff
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Butterfly Network & Ambra Health Partner to Enhance Ultrasound Data Integration
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- Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, and Ambra Health, an Intelerad Company, and maker of a leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate and simplify interoperability for bedside imaging data.
- Working together, Butterfly and Ambra will empower providers and departments across
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AliveCor Launches KardiaMobile Card, World’s First Credit-Card-Sized Personal ECG
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- Today, AliveCor is launching KardiaMobile Card, the latest generation of personal electrocardiogram (ECG) technology that, at the size of the credit card, is the thinnest, lightest ECG device ever created and fits in any wallet.
- The FDA-cleared KardiaMobile Card detects six of the most common heart arrhythmias in 30 seconds – something no other personal ECG can do – making it the most important card in your wallet.
KardiaMobile Card: Instant Feedback on Heart
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