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- Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) digital health company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening™ and AI Predictive Biomarkers™, today announced it has secured $26 million in a Series A financing round, bringing the Company’s total funding to over $43 million.
- The capital raise was led by AXA IM Alts and was joined by new and existing investors including T&W Medical A/S, A&C Foelsgaard Alternativer ApS, Kendall
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Philips Expands ClarifEye AR Surgical Navigation in Japan
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- Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, recently announced the expanded rollout of its augmented reality (AR) surgical navigation solution - ClarifEye - to Japan, highlighting positive results in the first patients treated by the International University of Health and Welfare, Mita Hospital using this innovative 3D AR solution.
- Installed on a Philips interventional X-ray system in a hybrid operating room at Mita Hospital, ClarifEye helped the
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Haleon and Microsoft Partner to Help Users Who Are Blind or Low Vision Lead More Independent Lives
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- Haleon, a global leader in consumer health, and Microsoft Corp. announced a new collaboration to make everyday health more accessible for people who are blind, have low vision or have difficulty reading product labels due to low literacy.
- Together, the companies are expanding functionality in the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide consumers with more detailed labeling information for over 1,500 Haleon products across the U.S. and U.K. Seeing AI is a free mobile
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Eclipse and Mayo Clinic Create Nucleus RadioPharma for Cancer Patients
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- Eclipse, a venture capital firm investing in the digital transformation of the world's physical industries, and Mayo Clinic, a leading nonprofit health organization, recently announced the creation and seed funding of Nucleus RadioPharma, a new company built to ensure cancer patients can access potentially life-saving radiopharmaceuticals by developing technologies to modernize the clinical development, manufacturing, and supply chain of these promising new
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Gradient AI Acquires Healthcare Analytics Business Unit from Prognos Health 
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- Gradient AI, a leading enterprise software provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the insurance industry, recently announced that it has acquired Prognos Health’s analytics business underwriting unit to leverage data from the company’s large collection of integrated medical records and lab data via its real-world data marketplace.
- The acquisition will enable Gradient AI to expand its medical database capabilities by integrating Prognos Health’s data
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Beyond DocuSign: How to Upgrade Specialty Drug Patients to a First-Class Experience
Imagine booking a luxury international vacation. A dedicated concierge arranges your hotels, your travel arrangements, and your daily itinerary. You barely lift a finger. From the outset, however, you realize something unusual. You have been booked on a discount airline with seats in the back of the coach section. You must wait at the airport to be picked up by a cramped, dilapidated taxi. Your “luxury” hotel is actually a two-star property in a bad part of town. Why pay for a luxury concierge
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Samsung, HealthTap Partner to Develop Telehealth Capabilities for Smart TVs
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- HealthTap announced a partnership with Samsung to develop new virtual primary care capabilities which would be made available directly to consumers via Samsung Smart TVs.
- HealthTap demonstrates at the 2022 Samsung Developer Conference the ability for owners of future Samsung Smart TVs to easily access their doctor from the comfort of their own home with HealthTap’s high-quality, affordable telehealth services.
Virtual Primary Care Capabilities for Future
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ChristianaCare Spins Out New Gene Editing Company, CorriXR Therapeutics
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- ChristianaCare recently announced it has spun out its first commercial biotechnology private startup company, named CorriXR Therapeutics. The company will use CRISPR gene editing technology to develop new, clinically relevant oncologic therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need, starting with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. Its close relationship with ChristianaCare and the ChristianaCare Gene Editing Institute uniquely positions it to research and develop
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TytoCare Launches Donation Initiative for Global Communities in Need
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- TytoCare, the global healthcare industry’s first all-in-one modular device and examination solution for AI-powered, on-demand, remote physical exams, is announcing today the launch of its new giveback initiative, TytoCareS.
- The program will facilitate and supplement device donations from TytoCare and its partners, including health systems and insurers, to provide increased access to clinic-quality care to communities in need.
Enabling Donations of Devices
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Redesign Health Lays Off 20% of Staff in Restructuring Move
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- Redesign Health, a company that builds other healthcare startups, laid off 67 employees, or about 20% of its workforce, Fast Company reports. The cuts come roughly a month after Redesign raised $65 million in Series C funding.
- A spokesperson for Redesign confirmed the layoffs, calling the cuts a “restructuring move.” “This move by Redesign was not financially driven—or was something that was related, connected to, or a requirement of the recent round
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