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AI-powered medical billing firm Procode Inc. announced a $10M Series A funding round led by Health Velocity Capital, bringing total venture funding to $14M.Funds two upcoming acquisitions of private practice billing agencies, mirroring its rollout following the acquisition of The Auctus Group (serving over 350 plastic surgery and dermatology providers).Combines Procode (automated CPT/ICD coding copilot), Procollect (billing team OS for AR acceleration), and the Auctus
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The Silent Signals of Burnout: What Workplaces Miss About Employee Mental Health
The Federal Aviation Administration restricts how long commercial pilots can be in the air, mandates minimum rest between flights, and caps hours flown per month and per year. The science of fatigue played a large role in the development of these rules to protect pilots.
Fatigue isn’t the only factor in a pilot’s mental well-being. Imagine if, just before a long flight, they learned their best friend died. That kind of news could raise a person’s stress response in a measurable way.
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Aurenar Raises $5.7M to Scale Wireless V-Link Neuromodulation
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St. Louis-based Aurenar has closed an oversubscribed $5.7M seed financing co-led by the Go Red for Women Venture Fund™ (part of American Heart Association Ventures™) and Solas BioVentures, with participation from BJC Health and Kaleida Capital.Funds the clinical advancement of V-Link™, a non-invasive, single-use transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) platform engineered to curtail life-threatening inflammatory responses in ICU patients.WashU clinical trials
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Oxford Spinout Mirae Secures $5.4M to Scale AI Chronic Care Platform
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AI-driven continuous care platform Mirae has officially launched with $5.4M in funding led by Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE).Built directly on computational health research from the University of Oxford’s Computational Health Informatics Lab, co-founded by Dr. David Clifton and CEO Anuj Patel.Targets inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—a complex autoimmune condition characterized by unpredictable flare-ups, variable treatment responses, and high annual medical
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UC San Diego Engineers Develop Battery-Free Wearable Patch for Real-Time Parkinson’s Dosing
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Engineers and neuroscientists at UC San Diego have developed a soft, sweat-powered fingertip patch that continuously monitors levodopa levels in patients with Parkinson’s disease without requiring external batteries or blood draws.Features a specially engineered absorbent gel packed with salts and benign solvents that passively draws sweat from the fingertip's dense network of sweat glands via osmosis.Embedded enzymes react with levodopa in sweat to generate both the
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Flourish Health Raises $26M to Expand In-Home High-Acuity Pediatric Mental Health
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High-acuity pediatric mental health provider Flourish Health announced a $26M Series A funding round led by B Capital, F-Prime, and Cherryrock Capital, bringing total capital raised to $46M.Health plan studies show Flourish’s in-home care model achieves a 70%–96% decrease in hospitalizations, a 69%–90% reduction in residential stays, and an 80%–95% sustained reduction in higher levels of post-discharge care.Multidisciplinary care teams unite a child and adolescent
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Labcorp Launches Marker Genetic Health Panel on Labcorp OnDemand for 100+ Actionable Conditions
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Labcorp has unveiled the Marker by Labcorp™ Genetic Health Panel, an integrated consumer offering evaluating 163 genes associated with over 100 medically actionable hereditary conditions (including cancer, cardiovascular, and metabolic risks).Leverages Labcorp's clinical testing infrastructure and newly integrated Invitae genetic assets to shift direct-to-consumer testing away from recreational ancestry toward clinical-grade, actionable disease prevention.Integrates
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HealthEx Unveils TEFCA-Accredited HealthEx Wallet & Partners with Sharecare to to Ground AskMD in Whole-Health Clinical Context
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At the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Technology Ecosystem event, HealthEx introduced HealthEx Wallet (a TEFCA-accredited personal health record app) and announced a major integration with Sharecare's AskMD.HealthEx operates as a federally accredited Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Individual Access Services (IAS) provider. It verifies identities using the IAL2 standard and manages records under enterprise-grade HIPAA
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Inner Logic Raises $11.5M to Build Simulation Infrastructure for Procedural Devices
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Baltimore-based Inner Logic (formerly Semaphor) has secured an $11.5M seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Bison Ventures, with participation from J2VP, Defined, PTX, Valia Ventures, Page One, Alumni Ventures, and Flare.Replaces costly physical cadaver labs and animal testing by giving device manufacturers a virtual testing environment to design, iterate, and validate procedural devices across thousands of virtual patient anatomical models overnight.Provides the
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Medidata Launches Medidata Plus AI Layer to Standardize Clinical Trial Data and Workflows
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Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes brand, has launched Medidata Plus, an embedded clinical artificial intelligence layer designed to unlock scalable AI capabilities across the entire Medidata Platform.While 92% of life sciences decision-makers plan to increase AI spend, only 29% report AI meets their expectations. Medidata Plus eliminates disparate point solutions, providing a predictable, standardized data layer across the trial lifecycle.Automates Electronic Data Capture
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