What You Should Know:
- CareAcademy raises $9.5 million in Series A funding to expand its online training platform for senior care professionals to deliver the highest caliber of service and improve the lives of older adults.
- Series A round signals massive market opportunity as CareAcademy seizes a greater share of online caregiver training; brings total company funding to more than $13 million.
CareAcademy, a Boston, MA-based home care & home health workforce empowerment
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know:
- Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes.
- Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa.
- Murray Brozinsky
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Cue Health Lands $100M to Scale Rapid, Portable, Point-of-Care COVID-19 Test
What You Should Know:
- Cue Health raises $100M to commercialize its portable, molecular diagnostic test capable of detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in less than 25 minutes using a simple nasal swab.
- The test is part of the Cue Health Monitoring System, which is designed to be a portable device that can perform a molecular test and connect patients to a mobile health platform that features interventional components such as telemedicine
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How A Virtual Therapist Could Help Overcome Mental Healthcare Demands in Uncertain Times
Over the last few months, our hopes and expectations for 2020 have certainly been halted. There was an air of optimism globally as we entered the New Year and a new decade, but now we have been plunged into a world of uncertainty with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. Future unknowns, both from a human well-being perspective and an economic standpoint are starting to take a toll on many people’s mental health.
Understandably, the situation we find ourselves in is creating concern and worry and
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Siemens Healthineers and Geisinger Ink 10-Year to Drive Digital Health Innovation
What You Should Know:
-Siemens Healthineers and Geisinger announced a 10-year agreement to drive digital health collaborations, including artificial intelligence-enabled applications.
- The partnership will make better health easier throughout Pennsylvania and in all communities that Geisinger serves.
Siemens
Healthineers and Geisinger have
established a 10-year Value Partnership to advance and support elements of
Geisinger’s strategic priorities related to continually improving
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Colorado Health Plan Deploys Texting for COVID-19 Medicaid Outreach for Its Members
What You Should Know:
- Colorado
Access has deployed a text message program to its Medicaid members to quickly
distribute basic facts on COVID-19 and health risk information, as well as
resources for people who might be struggling with their mental health during
the pandemic and information on where to get food and unemployment support.
- Through
its partnership with Welltok, the health plan sent more than 700,000 texts over
three weeks in English and Spanish. Using Welltok’s data
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Novant Health Launches Nation’s First Emergency Drone Operation for COVID-19 Pandemic Response
What You Should Know:
- North Carolina-based health system Novant Health
launches the nation’s first emergency drone logistics operation by a hospital
for its COVID-19 pandemic response.
- The operation provides contactless distribution of
personal protective equipment and critical medical supplies to Novant Health
frontline medical teams in the Charlotte metro area.
- The FAA approved the pandemic response operation
through Part 107 waivers granted to Novant Health. Zipline, which
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UCLA Health’s COVID-19 Swab Shortage Solved With 3D-Printed Swabs
What You Should Know:
- With COVID-19 numbers rising in California, an innovative project has solved UCLA Health's testing swabs shortage with 3D-printed swabs.
- In just over a month, and after conducting rigorous clinical testing of several 3D-printed swab prototypes on patients with COVID-19, UCLA Health was granted permission from the Food and Drug Administration to use the most promising design.
An innovative effort launched in April and led by a fellow in the UCLA
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Israel Aerospace Develops AI-Based Model to Predict Progression of COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) scientists develop an AI-based model to predict the progression of COVID-19 patients using information from the Sheba Medical Center’s cloud database, harnesses advanced AI, big data, and machine learning technologies.
- The predictive capabilities of the model can alert
medical staff on the deterioration of the patient’s condition, thus enhancing
patient care and flagging the cases with higher chances of medical
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Osso VR Brings Film Industry Level Quality VR Surgical Training to OR
What You Need to Know:
- Osso VR rolls out new immersive training experience that has taken a new leap forward in its realism, from the anatomical details of the “patient” to the medical tools and OR environment.
- The training platform is designed for surgeons, sales teams and surgical team trainees to address complexities in learning common procedures and to use new medical devices by providing realistic, haptic-enhanced interactions in an immersive training environment that is
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