What You Should Know:
- The Commons Project Foundation announced this morning that more than 150 new hospital providers have joined CommonHealth, the Android equivalent of Apple Health, including the VHA, Mass General Brigham, ChristianaCare, and UC San Diego Health.
- CommonHealth, which is free and available for download on the Google Play Store, was developed by The Commons Project Foundation in collaboration with UCSF, Cornell Tech and Sage Bionetworks to give people more control over
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Cynerio Raises $30M to Expand Healthcare IoT Cybersecurity Platform
What You Should Know:
- Cynerio, a leading provider of Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, today announced it has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund, Israel's pioneering HealthTech investment fund. Existing investors, global VC Accelmed, RDC, Elron’s joint venture with Rafael, and Swiss-based growth investor, MTIP, also participated in the funding round.
- Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a nearly 50% increase in the
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MITRE Proposes a National Strategy for Digital Health
What You Should Know:
- MITRE has published a draft National Strategy for Digital Health that identifies a set of national priorities and guides the government and industry toward common goals.
- MITRE has researched and identified candidate actions in the full version of the strategy, which leaders may consider for achieving each of these goals.
Six Strategic Goals for a Healthier Population
The six strategic goals MITRE has identified to revolutionize the health and well-being of
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Wellstar Health System Launches Global Digital Health And Innovation Center
What You Should Know:
- Wellstar Health System has launched Catalyst by Wellstar, a global digital health and innovation center to connect and collaborate with industry-leading corporations, enterprise startups, and universities to fuel innovation.
- To foster meaningful discussion, action, and philanthropy around healthcare innovation, the Catalyst by Wellstar leadership team will participate in a Wellstar Foundation-hosted Innovation Series virtual event on June 15.
- The first
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DarioHealth Acquires Digital Behavioral Health Platform wayForward for $30M
What You Should Know:
- DarioHealth Corp., a pioneer in the global digital therapeutics market, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire PsyInnovations, Inc. (dba wayForward), a behavioral health digital platform that includes AI-enabled screening to triage and navigate members to specific interventions, digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), self-directed care, expert coaching and access to in-person and telehealth provider visits.
- The wayForward platform
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7WireVentures Launches $150M Connected Consumer Health Fund
What You Should Know:
- Digital health venture capital firm 7WireVentures today announced it has closed a $150M Connected Consumer Health Fund to invest in early-stage digital health businesses that empower an Informed Connected Healthcare Consumer.
- In addition to the fund, 7WireVentures announced the addition of new healthcare organizations to the Connected Consumer Health Coalition, a partnership of top health plans, health systems, employers, and life science organizations. Select
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Cue Health Raises $235M to Scale Connected, Molecular Diagnostic System
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- Cue Health Inc., a health technology company, today announced the closing of a $235 million private financing round. The investment includes participation from new investors Perceptive Advisors, MSD Capital, and Koch Strategic Platforms, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, existing investors Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), Decheng Capital, CAVU Ventures, ACME Capital, and others.
- In March, the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization for
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CVS Health Expands Return Ready Vaccine Clinics to Accommodate Small Business & Schools
What You Should Know:
- Today, CVS Health announced that it will expand Return Ready, the company’s comprehensive COVID-19 solution that helps employers and schools return and maintain healthy communities, with scalable vaccine clinics to accommodate smaller workplaces/communities and schools given the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for adolescents ages 12 to 15.
- Small businesses and schools with more than
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Redesign Health Spinout Jasper Health Launches AI-Driven Cancer Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Jasper Health launched today as the first end-to-end care experience that navigates, connects, and provides actionable insights throughout the cancer journey for individuals with cancer, their caregivers, and providers.
- Jasper combines an easy-to-navigate user interface with leading oncology support to help guide Jasper Members and caregivers through the myriad of challenges that arise post-diagnosis. United by a team of digital health experts, specialized
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FDA Approves First Ortho-K Contact Lens to Manage Myopia
What You Should Know:
- Today, Johnson & Johnson Vision announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ACUVUE® Abiliti™ Overnight Therapeutic Lenses, the first and only orthokeratology (ortho-k) contact lens for the management of myopia.
- Myopia, or ‘nearsightedness,’ is a chronic and progressive disease. Research shows that myopia will affect half of the world’s population by 2050,
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