What You Should Know:
- Fitbit announced it has received clearance from the FDA for its PPG (photoplethysmography) algorithm to identify atrial fibrillation (AFib), a condition that affects more than 33.5 million people globally.
- The algorithm will soon be available to users in the U.S. through Fitbit’s new Irregular Heart Rhythm Notifications feature on eligible heart-rate tracking devices.
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Vytalize Health Raises $50M for Value-Based Care Platform for Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Vytalize Health raises over $50 million to advance its value-based care platform for seniors helping primary care doctors strengthen relationships with their patients through data-driven, holistic, and personalized care.
- Led by Enhanced Healthcare Partners, the financing round signals an enormous opportunity for Vytalize Health to accelerate the adoption of value-based care programs by providers.
Vytalize Health, a leading value-based care platform for
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Diligent Robotics Secures $30M for Robots to Assist Hospital Staff with Routine Tasks
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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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