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Clinical Collaboration Platform Doc Halo Rebrands As Halo Communications

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Halo Communications

Clinical communication and collaboration platform Doc Halo announced it has rebranded as Halo Communcations. Founded in 2010 by Dr. Barreau and Dr. Amit Gupta, Halo provides secure messaging, VoIP calling, alert management and system-wide on-call scheduling to some of the most prestigious health systems in the country. “Our vision for the company remains the same: Simplify clinical communication so clinicians can focus on care,” said Dr. Jose Barreau, CEO and Co-Founder of Halo
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Allscripts to Acquire Mobile Patient Engagement Platform HealthGrid for $60M

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Allscripts to Acquire Mobile Patient Engagement Platform HealthGrid for $60M

Allscripts has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HealthGrid Holding Company, a mobile enterprise patient engagement platform business for $60 million. Once the The acquisition will expand the Allscripts FollowMyHealthplatform portfolio, the company’s patient engagement solution focused on connecting patients with providers. The added functionality will enable providers to reach 100% of their patient populations without requiring patients to sign up for a portal. Instead, the new
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7wireVentures Launch $100M Connected Consumer Health Fund with Coalition of Healthcare Organizations

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7wireVentures Launch $100M Connected Consumer Health Fund with Coalition of Healthcare Organizations

7wireVentures is an early stage healthcare venture firm based in Chicago has closed a $100 million fund and formed a coalition with eight healthcare provider and plans dedicated to investing in companies that use technology to help consumers get and stay healthy. The coalition of leading healthcare service organizations include Allina Health, Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield, Bon Secours Health System, Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Memorial Hermann Health System, Rush
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HHS Launches KidneyX to Drive Innovation in Kidney Disease Treatment

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HHS Launches KidneyX to Drive Innovation in Kidney Disease Treatment

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is teaming up with American Society of Nephrology to launch the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX), a a public-private partnership to accelerate innovation in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of kidney diseases. KidneyX will engage a community of researchers, innovators, and investors to enable and accelerate the commercialization of therapies to benefit people with and at risk for kidney diseases through a series of prize
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iBeat Closes Additional $5.5M to Bring Wearable Heart Monitoring Smartwatch to Market

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iBeat Extends Seed Round to $4.5M for Wearable Heart Monitoring Smartwatch

iBeat, makers of the heart monitoring smartwatch wearable that perpetually monitors and detects cardiac arrest, heart attack, and atrial fibrillation has closed another $5.5 million in seed funding, bringing to the total funding round to $10 million. The second tranche of funding includes new investors Kairos, 8VC, City Light Capital, Plug and Play Ventures, ChinaRock Capital Management, as well as angel investors Tony Robbins, Josh Kazam, Shlomo Ben-Haim, Dr. Fred St. Goar, and Dr. Uma
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SwipeSense Acquires Mobile App iScrub Lite for Recording Hand Hygiene Observations

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SwipeSense Acquires Mobile App for Recording Hand Hygiene Observations

SwipeSense, a Chicago-based healthcare technology company, today announced the acquisition of iScrub Lite, the leading mobile app for hand hygiene observation. Originally conceived and developed by the Computational Epidemiology Research Group at the University of Iowa, iScrub Lite was launched to simplify the time-consuming and error-prone process of recording hand hygiene observations and sharing the results with health care professionals. In fact, the CDC has recommended iScrub Lite as a part
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Catchwind Innovations Partners with VantEdge Ventures to Foster Medical Innovation

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Catchwind Innovations Partners with VantEdge Ventures to Foster Medical Innovation

Catchwind Innovations, a Minneapolis-based healthcare innovation company, and VantEdge Ventures, a Chicago-based innovation firm and venture fund, have announced a strategic partnership to foster medical innovation. Catchwind Innovations accelerates and provides visibility to the development path for healthcare technology and medical device startups from concept to commercialization. Its proprietary system and revolutionary approach connects entrepreneurs at any stage to the expertise, resources
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Suki Lands $20M to Create AI-Driven Alexa for Doctors Platform

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Suki Lands $20M to Create AI-Driven Alexa for Doctors

Suki, an n AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors that lifts the burden of documentation has raised $20 million that comes from a Series A round led by Venrock with participation from First Round and Social Capital, as well as individual Googlers and angels, Nat Turner of Flatiron Health, and Marc Benioff. Venrock also led the seed round.Founder by former Google and Salesforce executives Punit Soni and Karthik Rajan, Suki's AI-driven voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors
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GHX and Hashed Health Partner on Healthcare Blockchain Solutions for Supply Chain

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Healthcare Supply Chain Market Private Equity Firm Acquires GHX, Healthcare Supply Chain Leader

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC(GHX), a healthcare business and data automation company, announced today that it is partnering with Hashed Health, a leader in blockchain innovation for healthcare. As part of the partnership, the companies will collaborate on blockchain and distributed ledger innovation projects for the healthcare supply chain.  GHX and Hashed Health share an interest in using blockchain technologies to solve unmet needs across healthcare. Blockchain is widely believed to have
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Health2047 Nabs $27.2M from AMA to Ramp Up Innovation Incubator

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AMA Invests $15M to Launch Innovation Studio, Health2047

Health2047, a Silicon Valley-based healthcare innovation enterprise has announced a $27.2 million follow-on investment from its founding partner, the American Medical Association (AMA). Health2047 plans to utilize the funding ramp up development and commercialization of promising new technology-based solutions in the areas of chronic disease reduction, radical productivity change, and value-based healthcare. Launched in 2016, Health2047’s mission is to transform U.S. healthcare at the system
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