What You Should Know:
- Sean Slovenski, former Humana and Walmart Health exec
was recently announced as CEO of testing company, BioIQ. Sean turned to testing
when he noticed a massive failure of the industry to adapt during the COVID
crisis.
- The company has the capacity to test 500,000 per day
without ever owning a lab. Instead, they have a national network of labs that
enables them to be more agile and scalable bypassing the challenges others are
facing, including supply chain
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Lyra Health Reaches $1.1B Valuation After $110M Series D to Meet Demand for Teletherapy
What You Should Know:
- Mental health benefits provider Lyra Health raises $110M
in Series D funding, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion.
- Lyra has grown significantly in 2020. So far this year,
the company has added more than 800,000 new members to the population eligible
to receive Lyra benefits, bringing its total member population to more than 1.5
million.
- Amid, the COVID-19 pandemic, Lyra is focused on
expanding its enhanced teletherapy offering — Lyra Blended Care —
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Sonde Health Acquires NeuroLex Lab’s Voice-Based Survey Platform
What You Should Know:
- Sonde Health acquires NeuroLex Laboratories, Inc. to forms
one of the world’s preeminent biobanks focused on vocal biomarkers.
- NeuroLex’s core product, SurveyLex, makes it easy to
create and distribute voice surveys in less than a minute as URL links through
web browsers.
Sonde Health, a
Boston-based digital vocal biomarker technology platform announced it has acquired
NeuroLex Laboratories, Inc., a leading
voice-enabled survey and data acquisition platform.
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Led by Mount Sinai, Trellus Health Nabs $5M for Precision Platform for Complex Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know:
- Trellus Health secures $5M in seed funding and
collaborates with Mount Sinai to deliver resilience-driven, connected care,
integrating expert clinical and behavioral health for better outcomes.
- The first disease Trellus will tackle is IBD, which is
one of the costliest chronic conditions with a high mental health burden.
Trellus Health, a New York City-based provider of resilience-driven care for people with complex chronic conditions, announced it has
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Uber Health Launches Contactless Prescription Delivery in Seattle and Dallas
What You Should Know:
- NimbleRx and Uber Health launches contactless prescription delivery from pharmacies in Seattle, WA, and Dallas, TX, and soon, other parts of the country.
- Following the initial launches in Seattle and Dallas, Nimble and Uber Health are already working to expand the partnership in additional regions across the United States. To date, Nimble has completed over 15,000 deliveries via the partnership with Uber Health.
NimbleRx, a Redwood City, CA-based platform
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One Drop Launches Digital Membership for Whole-Person Approach to Chronic Condition Self-Care
What You Should Know:
- One Drop has expanded its consumer offering beyond
diabetes management with data-driven tools and personalized support for people
living with diabetes, prediabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or
any combination of these conditions.
One Drop, a New
York City-based provider of digital health solutions
for people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, today announced
the launch of its Digital
Membership, a new direct-to-consumer subscription
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CurieAI Launches AI-Driven Platform for COVID-19 Respiratory Monitoring and Management
What You Should Know:
- SRI Ventures spin-off CurieAI announces the launch of
its AI-driven COVID-19 case management platform
- The Curie solution has been deployed to monitor
inpatients and outpatients at San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation (SCAHC).
CurieAI, a Menlo
Park, CA-based healthcare startup spun-off from SRI
Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SRI International, today announced
the release of CurieAI’s first-of-its-kind AI-driven
platform specifically designed for
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XRHealth Appoints Deepa Javeri as Chief Financial Officer
XRHealth appoints Deepa Javeri as CFO and is significantly expanding their US headquarters.
XRHealth, a
Boston, MA-based provider of extended reality therapeutic applications and XR telehealth
services, today announced Deepa Javeri – a seasoned, global
financial expert and executive – has been named Chief Financial Officer
effective immediately. Javeri’s appointment comes at an exciting moment of
global growth and expansion for XRHealth.
“Deepa brings XRHealth a
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Memorial Health Deploys Chatbots to Virtualize Waiting Room Experience
What You Should Know:
- Memorial Health System selects LifeLink Conversational
AI technology to virtualize the waiting room experience for patients
- Mobile chatbots to automate intake for telehealth and
in-person visits, while maintaining COVID-19 social distancing and safety
protocols.
Memorial Health System
, a community-based, not-for-profit corporation serving the people and
communities of central Illinois through five hospitals has selected LifeLink to deploy advanced
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Backed by Johnson & Johnson, Thirty Madison Raises $47M for Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Brands
What You Should Know:
- Direct-to-consumer telehealth company Thirty Madison raises
$47M in Series B round from Johnson & Johnson and Polaris Partners.
- Thirty Madison's three portfolio brands — Keeps, Cove,
and Evens — enables patients to easily access specialist-level care
combined with the convenience of telemedicine and treatment delivery.
Thirty
Madison, a New York City-based digital health
company reinventing the patient experience
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