What You Should Know:
- 40 percent of
the global disease burden could be addressed with known interventions, but that
leaves 60 percent unaddressed.
- As part of the recent McKinsey report Prioritizing
health: A prescription for prosperity, the McKinsey Global Institute identified
ten promising innovations that can reduce total disease burden 6-10% by 2040.
- By identifying and estimating the potential scope of
innovations in the pipeline, we find that these technologies could
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Activ Surgical Raises $15M Advance Autonomous and Collaborative Surgery
What You Should Know:
- Digital surgery pioneer Activ Surgical raises $15M in funding led by ARTIS Ventures to accelerate U.S. commercialization and European expansion efforts for its ActiveEdge platform, which enables existing surgical systems, from scopes to robots, to visualize, characterize and track tissue, in real-time beyond today’s human capability.
- ActivSight, is an easy-to-adapt, connected imaging module that seamlessly attaches to today’s laparoscopic and arthroscopic
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Mayo Clinic Performs First Shoulder Arthroplasty Procedure Using Mixed Reality
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN performed the first-ever shoulder arthroplasty procedure using Wright Medical’s groundbreaking BLUPRINT Mixed Reality Technology, which provides surgeons a 3-D holographic view of the patient’s pre-operative plan.
- The Mixed Reality Application is the
latest addition to Wright’s BLUEPRINT ecosystem and enables a surgeon to
maintain a direct view of the surgical site and simultaneously visualize and
manipulate a
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Same-Day Pharmacy Delivery NowRx Raises $20M to Expand into Additional Territories
What You Should Know:
- Same day
pharmacy delivery startup NowRx raises $20 Million in Series B funding to expand
into new U.S. territories and accelerate its technology roadmap, transforming
the way consumers get their prescriptions.
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NowRx’s competitive
advantage is its proprietary pharmacy management system, which leverages AI and
robotics to fill and deliver prescriptions in record time, including
interfacing with insurance, checking for drug
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Wake Forest Baptist Health Launches Drone Delivery for Medicines, PPE for COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Wake Forest Baptist Health will establish a hospital drone delivery network to carry patient-specific time- and temperature-sensitive medicines and PPE for medical professionals treating COVID-19.
- In partnership with Matternet and UPSFF today started
operating on two routes from one location at Wake Forest Baptist Health to two
other health system locations, marking one of the first hub-and-spoke operating
models for the U.S. drone delivery industry.
Wake
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Caption Health Nabs $53M to Commercialize FDA-Cleared AI-Guided Ultrasound Technology
What You Should Know:
- Caption Health raises $53 million series B round to
fuel commercialization and expansion of its FDA-approved AI ultrasound
technology. This is on the heels of its receiving FDA clearance, designated as
a breakthrough technology to fight against COVID-19.
- As ultrasounds, especially cardiac ultrasounds, have
become increasingly important during a time of COVID when resources are
stretched, using AI to help more healthcare professionals take high-quality
images is
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Medly Pharmacy Lands $100M to Expand Digital On-Demand Pharmacy Platform
What You Should Know:
- Medly Pharmacy raises $100M investment co-led by
Volition Capital and Greycroft to propel Medly's leadership in the $500B+
digital on-demand pharmacy market.
- Medly will use the funding to expand its digital on-demand pharmacy platform, enter new markets, and provide category-leading services to patients and partners across the country that is well-positioned to meet new customer needs.
Medly Pharmacy (Medly), an industry-leading full-service digital
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Noteworth Lands $5M to Expand All-in-One Care Delivery Platform
What You Should Know:
- Noteworth, a first-of-its-kind Digital Healthcare
platform for modernizing Digital Medicine delivery operations, secured a $5
million oversubscribed seed funding round led by Laconia Capital Group
- With this investment, the company will continue to
build upon the delivery of Noteworth’s first-of-its-kind Digital Healthcare
platform.
Noteworth,
a Hoboken, NJ-based all-in-one-care delivery platform for modernizing digital medicine
delivery
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HHS Taps Fenway Health as Pilot Site for Precision Medicine Project
What You Should Know:
- Fenway
Health has been selected as the pilot site to participate in the Advancing
Standards for Precision Medicine (ASPM) project.
- The ASPM project
is focused on how healthcare providers can systematically identify the
socio-economic factors that may impact the health of patients in order to
provide more individualized care that reflects patients’ needs.
Fenway Health, a
Boston, MA-based Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQCHC)
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Socialized Medicine Shows its Strengths During COVID-19 – But Only When Paired with Tech
What the US and other
countries can learn from the “Taiwan Example”
Italy has a single-payer medical system, yet it didn’t spare the country from COVID-19. On the contrary, Italy was among the hardest hit and is still struggling. That’s a common talking point one might hear from certain US-based pundits who are critical of so-called “socialized medicine.”
According to international healthcare insurance provider Allianz
Care, “The healthcare system in Italy is a regionally based
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