What You Should Know:
- Proscia, the leader in digital and computational pathology solutions, and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., a leading provider of whole slide imaging systems, today announced a collaboration to accelerate digital pathology adoption at an enterprise scale.
- The cooperation agreement increases the availability of the companies' best-of-breed, unified solution that combines Proscia's Concentriq® platform and Hamamatsu's NanoZoomer® series of whole slide scanners to deliver
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To Engage and Activate Patients, CRM Alone Isn’t Enough
We talk about patient engagement a lot in healthcare today. But the reality is, we often don’t just want a patient to engage with a piece of content or information; we want them to take action. The traditional CRM and marketing automation are great tools for the former – keeping patients and their healthcare providers connected. But it does little to move beyond a digital connection.
Today’s patients (or, consumers) expect more from all of their relationships, especially their healthcare
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Aetion and Cognito Team Up for Predictive Modeling in Alzheimer’s
What You Should Know:
- Aetion, real-world evidence (RWE) tech and analytics provider, and Cognito Therapeutics, a pioneer in neuromodulation therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, are partnering to develop an AI-driven predictive model to help payers and providers identify patients with rapidly progressing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s who may benefit from earlier treatment.
Impact of MCI & Alzheimer’s Disease
There are approximately 13.5
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BrightInsight & UCB Partner to Build Digital Care Solutions for Rare Diseases
What You Should Know:
- BrightInsight, provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions, announced a partnership with global biopharma, UC to build digital care solutions for rare diseases.
- BrightInsight will build and bring to market a digital disease management solution to support patients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a rare autoimmune disease that disrupts how nerves communicate with muscles, affecting more than 700,000 people
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GoodRx Acquires Pharmacy Services Platform VitaCare for $150M
What You Should Know:- GoodRx announced that it will acquire vitaCare Prescription Services, a tech-enabled pharmacy services platform that expands GoodRx’s offering to pharma manufacturers while improving patient access and adherence to affordable brand drugs.
- Over 500 million brand prescriptions are written every year, yet only half are ever filled. This acquisition will give GoodRx the tools we need to help address this problem and facilitate the brand
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Amazon Launches New Symptom Checker for Alexa Devices
What You Should Know:
- This week, Amazon announced the launch of its new Symptom Checker for Alexa devices and provide a list of possible medical conditions for common ailments like fever, rash, stomachache, runny nose, and headaches to help you make better-informed decisions about your health.
- This symptom checker experience was inspired by the COVID-19 self-checker feature that Alexa teams was launched in March 2020.
Alexa, Check My Symptoms
As part of this
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Flume Health Secures $30M for Health Plan Administration Platform
What You Should Know:
- Flume Health, an NYC-based Health-Plan-as-a-Service platform announced today a $30M round of Series A funding led by Optum Ventures with participation from Cigna Ventures is participating, bringing its total raise to date at $40M.
- Flume gives all U.S. health insurers the option to build personalized healthcare plans–what Stripe or Plaid did for digital banking is what Flume is doing for digital health.
Launch Next Generation Health Plans in
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Black Female Co-founders CancerIQ Raises $14M to Improve Cancer Early Detection and Prevention
What You Should Know:
- CancerIQ, a Chicago-based platform powering early cancer detection and prevention across broad patient populations, announced today it closed a $14M Series B financing round.
- The Series B round was co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures with participation from McKesson Ventures, OSF Ventures (the investment arm of OSF HealthCare, a current CancerIQ customer), and HealthX Ventures.
Inequality in
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Lynx Launches with $17.5M for API-Connected Healthcare Payments
What You Should Know:
- Lynx, a Boston-based API-connected healthcare payments, banking, and e-commerce platform announced today that it has emerged from stealth with $17.5M in equity financing led by Obvious Ventures and .406 Ventures with participation from Frist Cressey Ventures. Other investors include Winter Street Ventures (an investment subsidiary of Commonwealth Care Alliance), Shields Capital, and Huntington Avenue Ventures.
- Lynx’s goal is to introduce modern fintech to
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DarioHealth Forms $30M Strategic Agreement with Sanofi U.S.
What You Should Know:
- DarioHealth Corp., a provider of global digital therapeutics (DTx), announced it has entered into a $30M multi-year, strategic agreement with Sanofi U.S., an innovative global healthcare company. The multi-year, $30 million-dollar agreement will help accelerate commercial adoption of Dario's full suite of digital therapeutics and drive the expansion of digital health solutions on the Dario platform.
- As part of the strategic agreement, Dario and Sanofi will
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