Over the last decade, AI has transformed from a futuristic, hype-driven tool, to now being a daily part of our lives. We use AI for everything from unlocking our smartphones, to evaluating our credit scores, to helping clinicians make patient care decisions. In particular, the potential of AI to transform drug development and patient care is unparalleled – its ability to gather objective insights can help elevate a clinical trial’s data and bring potentially life-saving drugs to people in need
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Little Otter Raises $22M to Expand Pediatric Mental Health Platform
What You Should Know:
- Little Otter today announced a $22 million Series A raise - one of the largest rounds for a children’s mental health company at this stage - led by CRV.
- The mental health startup provides a full umbrella of services to children and their families in a number of states and will use the investment to scale nationally by 2023.
Little Otter, a San Francisco, CA-based digital mental health company to provide tools and treatment for both children and their
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What Are Digital Wallets and What Do They Mean for Healthcare?
Digital wallets are a payment option that continues to gain traction among consumers due to their simplicity and ease. Many providers, however, may be unfamiliar with the technology and how it can benefit their practices and patients.
At the most basic level, a digital wallet is a digital, mobile version of patients’ financial accounts that is easily accessible via a computer or smartphone, eliminating much of the need to carry an actual wallet. Digital wallets can be used by consumers
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PointClickCare & Sound Physicians Partner to Drive Fully Integrated Virtual Health
What You Should Know:
- PointClickCare, a cloud-based healthcare software for the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) market) announced a new partnership with Sound Physicians, a national physician partner to hospitals, post-acute providers, physicians' groups and payers to offer a fully integrated virtual health solution to U.S. LTPAC providers.
- The partnership between PointClickCare and Sound Physicians will deliver
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Protai Nabs $8M for AI-Powered Drug Discovery Platform
What You Should Know:
- Protai, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based AI-powered drug discovery startup, today announced its emergence from stealth, along with an $8 million seed financing round co-led by Grove Ventures and Pitango HealthTech.
- Protai empowers drug discovery with proteomics and artificial intelligence to unlock new layers of biological insights and to combat complex diseases.
Proteomics-based Platform for Faster and More Accurate Drug Discovery
Despite the significant
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Illumina and Syapse Partner on Biomarker Testing Research Across Oncology Practices
What You Should Know:
- Syapse, a real-world evidence company that informs cancer care, announced a partnership with Illumina aimed at assessing the real-world uptake and actionability of comprehensive genomic profiling in the community oncology health system setting.
- Together, the two companies will work to better understand biomarker testing patterns among clinicians, which have become foundational in identifying treatment options for cancer patients. The insights gleaned from this
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Caira Surgical Secures $5M for Robotic Solutions for Joint Replacement Surgery
What You Should Know:
- Caira Surgical, a revolutionary computer-assisted navigation system for joint replacement surgery raises $5M from series seed investors to include a leading OUS Strategic and several MedTech venture funds. These include U.S.-based Mountain State Capital; Amsterdam-based Snowboat BV, a Dutch fund formed by the founders of Avania Clinical (previously Factory-CRO); and Grenoble, France-based Haventure, founded by Stephane Lavallee, Ph.D. Dr. Lavallee is also the Founder
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Clear Arch Health Acquires Life Care Solutions to Expand RPM Marketshare
What You Should Know:
- Clear Arch Health, a division of MobileHelp and a leading provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) solutions, today announced the company acquired Life Care Solutions (LCS), a division of Resideo.
- Life Care Solutions has been a global leader in the remote patient monitoring industry for two decades, with a complete RPM solution to help streamline care coordination and improve outcomes.
Life Care Solutions
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CareMetx Acquires Patient Adherence Platform Human Care Systems
What You Should Know:
- Strategic acquisition of leading patient adherence technology and services provider to complement CareMetx current suite of patient access products.
CareMetx, LLC, a leading technology-enabled hub services company focused on improving patient access to specialty medications, announced today the acquisition of Human Care Systems, Inc. (HCS), a company focused on helping patients adhere to and benefit from pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. Details of the
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Blockchain Privacy Innovations Can Let Healthcare Focus On What Matters
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the major impact that data has on our lives, especially when it comes to healthcare. From track-and-trace systems to digital Covid vaccination passports, to patient data, to the medical supply chain, there has been a huge increase in data collected by governments and healthcare providers. This massive increase in healthcare-related data collection brings with it significant privacy concerns. Now, more than ever, data protection must be front and center in
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