What You Should Know:
- Plume, a provider of virtual care services purposefully designed for the health care needs of the transgender community raises $24M in Series B funding led by led by Transformation Capital with participation from General Catalyst and Townhall Ventures.
- Plume plans to use the latest round of funding to fulfill its mission to transform health care for every trans life by creating access to high-quality, safe gender-affirming care.
Expanding
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Oak Street Health Opens Ninth Center in Arizona
What You Should Know:
- Oak Street Health, a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare and the only primary care provider to carry the AARP name, is now welcoming patients at the new Rolling Hills Square center at 7040 East Golf Links Road in Tucson.
- This is Oak Street Health’s ninth center in Arizona.
Oak Street Health Background
Oak Street Health delivers personalized, preventive primary care through a model that was created to meet the unique needs of
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Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Adds 10 New Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know:
- Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, today announced its eighth accelerator class of ten new digital health startups.
- From digital health mental health services to wearable devices to manage chronic asthma, these innovative healthcare-focused startups are working to transform health and healthcare delivery as part of the Los Angeles-based accelerator program.
Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Overview
During the three-month term, company representatives collaborate with
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Health-Tech C2Q:22 Preview: 5 Key Driving Factors to Watch
What You Should Know:
- David Larsen, healthcare IT and digital health analyst at BTIG published a note highlighting his preview for health-tech Q2 earnings.
- Given high inflation rates, costs for traveling nurses, and light volumes in 2Q:22, he is cautious on stocks that sell into the acute care market in the near term.
An Overview
According to the report, there are many macro headwinds that continue to affect the HCIT sector and the broader market, including inflationary pricing
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POGO Blood Glucose Monitoring Now Available in Kroger Health Pharmacies Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Intuity Medical, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology and digital health company focused on making life with diabetes easier, today announced that the POGO Automatic® Blood Glucose Monitoring System is now available at the more than 2,200 U.S. pharmacies of Kroger Health, the healthcare division of The Kroger Co.
- With POGO Automatic Monitors and Cartridges now available at all Kroger Health pharmacy locations, the simplicity of One-Step testing
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Clarify Health & Datavant Partner to Integrate Real-World Data
What You Should Know:
- Clarify Health, a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, and Datavant, a provider helping organizations securely connect health data expands their relationship to enable life sciences companies to connect their proprietary, first-party data in Clarify’s AI-powered Atlas analytics platform to improve clinical development and commercial operations.
- Datavant’s privacy-preserving tokenization and high-accuracy matching technologies will be used to
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Using AI to Match Patients with Clinical Trials for Proactive Treatment
We are entering a new era of patient treatment options thanks to cutting-edge technologies that are changing the way life science companies approach and execute pharmaceutical research. One of the more significant solutions that support the faster and more efficient development of new pharmaceutical products – such as the COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed faster than any other vaccine in history – is artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data analysis. Thanks to modern life science technology
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EchoNous Alliance with Samsung for AI-Guided Ultrasound
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- EchoNous, a company delivering AI-enabled handheld ultrasound capable of producing diagnostic-quality images, forms an alliance with Samsung that enables its Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Kosmos platform run on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Pro tablets (models 12.0 and higher).
- Made possible through the EchoNous/Samsung alliance, this new compatibility will lower the overall price point of the Kosmos platform, which already costs tens of thousands of dollars less than
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Medication Intelligence Startup Arine Raises $29M
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- Arine, a San Francisco-based next-generation medication intelligence company raises $29M in a Series B round funding composed of equity and debt financing led by 111° West Capital, with participation from new investors MBX Capital and New Leaf Ventures, and continued support from Katalyst Ventures.
- Founded in 2017, Arine helps health plans substantially decrease the cost of care and improve patient outcomes by reducing
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Uber Health Expands Internationally to Australia
What You Should Know:
- Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm is expanding internationally, launching in Australia (its first market outside the U.S.), bringing Uber’s greater mission to healthcare organizations and patients across the country.
- Over 3000 customers use Uber Health in the US. Following a pilot across Australia, the solution is now officially available to providers nationwide.
Uber Health in Australia
By ensuring that more patients and staff are connected with
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