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- Professor George Church, co-founder of Nebula Genomics and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, will be partnering with GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum selling artist, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Akon and his NFT platform, AkoinNFT, to auction off Professor George Church’s full genome as the world’s first genomic NFT.
- The acclaimed singer and face of Akoin Cryptocurrency and its affiliate AkoinNFT, is thrilled to be collaborating on
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PE Firm Thoma Bravo Acquires Clinical Trial Financial Platform Greenphire – Health M&A
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- Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenphire, a financial lifecycle management software for clinical trials, from The Riverside Company. Financial details were not disclosed for the pending transaction.
- The acquisition, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the second quarter of this year.
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UCSF, Philips Partner to Enhance Digital Patient Experience & Interoperability
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- Today, Philips announced its collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop technology that will enable a more streamlined patient experience and set a new standard for healthcare delivery.
- As part of the strategic collaboration, UCSF will use Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform to enable patient care personalization and make it easier for patients to select providers, access their health information and receive virtual
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Grand Rounds Health & Doctor On Demand Acquires Included Health to Support D&I for LGBTQ+ Community – Health M&A
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- Today, Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand announced they acquired Included Health, the first comprehensive healthcare navigation platform for the LGBTQ+ community. Together, they will address LGBTQ+ health challenges and improve outcomes.
- The LGBTQ+ community disproportionately experiences discrimination and health-related stigmas. In a national study with over 1,500 LGBTQ+ employees from
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Geisinger Launches Virtual Chronic Disease Monitoring System Powered by Noteworth
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- Geisinger today announced the launch of ConnectedCare365, an innovative care delivery model for patients with chronic diseases like diabetes, heart failure and hypertension available on Google Play and App Store. Powered by Noteworth, a digital health startup dedicated to rethinking healthcare delivery, this first-of-its-kind virtual care delivery platform uses remote patient monitoring, artificial intelligence and powerful data analysis tools to improve
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Omada Becomes First NCQA-Accredited Virtual Provider
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- Omada Health’s Type 2 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes+Hypertension programs have been awarded the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) Population Health Program (PHP) Accreditation, becoming the first fully-virtual healthcare provider to earn this accreditation.
- This certification marks a significant milestone in Omada’s ongoing commitment to transforming chronic care treatment through behavior science.
- At the crest of the digital health wave of
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Noom Secures $540M to Expand Behavioral Change Platform for Healthier Habits
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- Noom, a New York City-based digital health platform focused on behavior change, today announced its $540 million Series F funding led by Silver Lake. The round also included participation from new investors Oak HC/FT, Temasek, and Novo Holdings and existing investors Sequoia Capital, RRE, and Samsung Ventures also participated.
- The company sits at an interesting intersection of several trends in healthcare: digitally-empowered health consumers; the rise of chronic
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Intermountain, UT Health, Rush U Joins PhysIQ’s COVID-19 Digital Biomarker Study
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- Today, physIQ announced that three more health systems have joined the NIH-funded DeCODe study to develop an AI-based COVID-19 digital biomarker. Intermountain Healthcare Utah, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Rush University Medical Center will serve as recruiting centers and key partners in the Phase II validation stage of this study.
- Realization of this biomarker may provide early detection of a
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US Orthopedic Alliance Taps 2bPrecise to Power Precision Medicine Program
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2bPrecise, a precision medicine company, announced that the US Orthopedic Alliance (USOA) is leveraging 2bPrecise’ pharmacogenomics (PGx) solution to help physicians identify potentially dangerous drug-gene interactions.
- The 2bPrecise platform will deliver workflow, data management and clinical decision functionality to USOA providers ordering pharmacogenomic tests (PGx). Specifically, doctors can leverage test results to make informed decisions
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Telehealth Averted Healthcare Collapse During COVID – Will Inertia Kill Further Adoption?
Major, deep-rooted problems in the healthcare system were brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare organizations in many regions – already stretched to near-full capacity before the pandemic – have been pushed to the brink of collapse. While they scrambled to respond, they began to lean heavily into the nascent tools and techniques of telehealth to keep the public safe. This shift has been corroborated by a recent Parks Association study identified significant increase in
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