What You Should Know:
- Rock Health report reveals Q1 2022 digital health funding closed with $6.0B across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M.
- Q1 2022 digital health funding was significantly behind Q4 2021’s $7.3B and the trailing twelve month quarterly average of $7.1B.
Digital health funding reached a total of $6B in Q1 2022 across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund
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Eleos Closes $20M to Unlock CareOps Automation for Behavioral Health
What You Should Know:
- Eleos Health has announced a $20 million Series A round, co-led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures, bringing their total raise to $28 million.
- Eleos Health is a behavioral health application for voice AI, operating ambiently in the background of mental health clinician-patient conversations. It’s in production use with 20+ care providers and health plans, with a goal of unlocking up to 30% more mental health care provider capacity as the U.S.
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Cardiologs’ AI Dramatically Reduces Inconclusive Apple Watch ECGs
What You Should Know:
- Cardiologs, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) cardiology diagnostics, today announced the results of a new clinical study that showed Cardiologs’ deep learning AI dramatically reduces inconclusive results returned by the latest Apple Watch ECG companion app (Apple ECG 2.0) while maintaining performance (sensitivity and specificity).
- The study included 101 patients in a typical tertiary care hospital who were assessed for atrial arrhythmia (AA). It
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Why Digital Transformation Is Imperative to Combat Healthcare’s Labor Crisis
As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed digital tools to keep the worried well out of hospitals, to keep beds open for COVID-19 patients, and to support and manage conditions like pregnancy from the safety of patients’ homes.
Now the healthcare sector faces a new challenge. The so-called “Great Resignation” is causing workers to leave their
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At-Home Digital Health Innovations Transforming Diabetes Care
If you’re looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19 dark cloud still enshrouding the world, consider this: The pandemic has turbocharged widespread acceptance of at-home digital health solutions. Forced to function in a world of social distancing, healthcare providers and physicians have quickly discovered how easily telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital therapeutics can improve patient care.
Many of these digital health innovations are designed to address
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MLB Taps Cue Health to Expand League-Wide COVID-19 Testing Program for 2022 Season
What You Should Know:
- Cue Health Inc. (“Cue”), a healthcare technology company, and Major League Baseball (MLB) today announced a national partnership that expands Cue’s support of the league-wide COVID-19 testing program.
- Serving As MLB’s trusted at-home testing solution, Cue will provide Major League Clubs as well as the MLB league office with its integrated care platform, featuring both the portable and reusable Cue Health Monitoring
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Dental AI Startup VideaHealth Nabs $20M to Expand AI-Based Diagnostics
What You Should Know:
- VideaHealth, a dental diagnostic AI solution raises $20M in Series A funding led by Spark Capital including existing investors Zetta Venture Partners. Pillar VC also contributed to the round, bringing the company to $26.4M to date.
- The company will use the financing to expand its groundbreaking AI-based diagnostics capabilities to over 6000 dental practices by the end of 2023.
Transforming Dentistry Through AI
Today, more than 40% of dental
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Jeenie Raises $9.3M for On-Demand, Medical Interpreter Platform
What You Should Know:
- Jeenie, an industry-transforming virtual interpreting platform that connects clinicians and patients to live interpreters on-demand raises $9.3M in Series A funding led by Transformation Capital.
- Jeenie is a virtual interpreting platform that connects users to a video or audio call with live, qualified interpreters in 300+ languages for on-demand language assistance, 24/7. Jeenie’s interpreters are accessible through the Jeenie platform from any smartphone,
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Labcorp & Medidata to Co-Develop Digital Biomarkers & Expand Decentralized Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, today announced that Labcorp, a leading global life sciences company, has selected Medidata's technology platform to extend their 14-year partnership, the foundation of their initiative to co-develop digital biomarkers and expand the use and functionality of decentralized clinical trials. Labcorp Drug Development has developed its offerings on Medidata technologies, starting with Rave EDC
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Digital Health Disconnect Creates Unnecessary Roadblock to Patient Engagement
By all accounts, the last two years have accelerated consumer adoption of digital tools for managing nearly every aspect of our lives. Ordering takeout? Odds are good you used a digital payment method, alongside the 93% of consumers who say they’ve used tools like Venmo and Zelle over the last year. Visiting your primary care physician? There’s a good chance you had at least some interaction with a patient portal or telehealth platform. Even the
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