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- AppliedVR, a Los Angeles, CA-based company advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced $29 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funds raised to date to $35 million. The round, which includes key investors F-Prime Capital, JAZZ Venture Partners, Sway Ventures, GSR Ventures, Magnetic Ventures and Cedars-Sinai, will fuel the company’s growth as it pursues full FDA approval over the next year.
- Founded in 2015, AppliedVR provides
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Evidation Health Nabs $153M to Expand Virtual Health Programs
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- Evidation Health announced it has raised $153 million in Series E funding co-led by OMERS Growth Equity and Kaiser Permanente Group Trust. Existing investors including McKesson Ventures and B Capital also joined.
- Founded in 2012, Evidation measures health in everyday life and enables anyone to participate in ground-breaking research and health programs.
- Evidation, which works with nine of the 10 largest global biopharma companies, already delivers research
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Bright.md Expands Solution to Automate Pre-Visit Workflows
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- Bright.md today announced the launch of its expanded solution to automate pre-visit workflows to drive efficiencies in care delivery
- Bright.md new three offerings include Navigate, Interview, and Treat.
- Navigate: Healthcare systems can now engage their patients and coordinate care delivery through the platform's new offering, Navigate. This product captures the symptoms and chief complaints from patients to instantly route them to the optimal care pathways
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Glooko Raises $30M to Expand Digital Diabetes Management Platform
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- Glooko, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring and chronic care management solutions including diabetes and obesity, today announced that they have raised a $30 million Series D round of funding. The funding was led by Health Catalyst Capital along with participation from existing investors Canaan Partners, Georgian, Novo Nordisk, Insulet and Mayo Clinic.
- Glooko plans to use these proceeds from this funding to accelerate organic growth and
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Grand Rounds Merges with Doctor on Demand to Create New Virtual Care Company
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- Grand Rounds, a leader in healthcare quality and clinical navigation, and Doctor on Demand, the nation’s leading virtual care provider, announced their merger agreement, creating a first-of-its-kind integrated virtual care company.
- These two premier platforms will offer a patient and provider experience unmatched elsewhere, providing a full suite of digital and interactive solutions to help people address the $300 billion problem of uncoordinated care in the
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Intel, Samsung Partner on AI-Based Ultrasound Solution for Anesthesia Administration
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- Samsung Medison and Intel are collaborating on NerveTrack™, a real-time nerve tracking ultrasound feature that helps anesthesiologists identify nerves in a patient’s arm to help administer anesthesia quickly and accurately. Leveraging the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit for computer vision and annotation, Samsung Medison’s NerveTrack™ can reduce scanning time by up to 30 percent in an extremely
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AI-Powered COVID-19 Solution Reduces Report Turnaround Times by 30%, Study Finds
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- The Moscow Center for Diagnostics & Telemedicine found that the introduction of RADLogics’ AI-Powered solution into radiology workflow to analyze Chest-CT scans during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced report turnaround time by an average of 30 percent, which is equivalent to 7 minutes per case.
- The study was conducted over two separate phases with the first taking place between April 30, 2020 to June 18, 2020 and the second taking place between June 18, 2020 to
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Yale New Haven Health Deploys Virtual Clinic for Pediatric Patients with Diabetes
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- After taking part in proving the clinical benefit of using AI-based decision support tools, as was recently published in Nature Medicine, Yale New Haven Health System and DreaMed Diabetes announced a collaboration that will explore what it would take to adopt such a solution into a real-world health system.
- As part of the collaboration, Yale New Haven will utilize DreaMed’s Advisor Pro platform to create a virtual clinic, this real-world evaluation will assess the
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Moderna, IBM Partner on COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain & Distribution Data Sharing
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- Moderna and IBM announced their intentions to explore technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid cloud, that could help support smarter COVID-19 vaccine management. Central to the effort will be a pilot of open, standardized, technology-enabled vaccine distribution approaches aimed to improve supply chain visibility and foster near real-time tracking of vaccine administration.
- The goal of the partnership is to identify ways
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Reperio Health Raises $6M to Expand At-Home Wellness Kits to Employer Market
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- Portland, Oregon-based Reperio Health announced it has raised $6M in seed funding co-led by Caduceus Capital Partners in Nashville, Tenn., and Rogue Venture Partnersin Portland, Ore., with additional investment from Liquid 2 Ventures and G Ventures, both out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Reperio’s patent-pending at-home health assessment brings a broad range of screenings right to peoples’ doors.
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