Tempus, a technology company focused on helping doctors personalize cancer care by collecting, sorting and analyzing clinical and molecular data, will provide Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health with molecular sequencing, analysis and decision support tools to enable further research on immune checkpoint inhibitors across cancer types. Tempus provides molecular sequencing and clinical analytic solutions to top academic centers, hospital systems, associations, and healthcare
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Nightingale Health Obtains CE Mark for Blood Analysis Platform
Finnish biomedical startup Nightingale Health has obtained CE marking for its blood biomarker analysis platform. The CE mark enables the clinical use of the analysis service and the analysed measures of creatinine and glucose in the EU region.Nightingale Health's blood biomarker analysis platform is based on NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy. It captures over 228 metabolic biomarkers from a single blood sample, transforming the possibility to understand molecular mechanisms and
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Roche Acquires Mobile Diabetes Management Platform mySugr
Roche has acquired mobile diabetes management platform mySugr to form a leading open platform for digital diabetes management. For Roche, the acquisition will allow the company to expand its position in the diabetes management market.As part of the acquisition, mySugr will remain as a separate legal entity with an open platform for all diabetes devices and services. Users will continue to have the ability to automatically upload blood glucose data from their preferred device into the mySugr
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Baxter Announces Bi-Directional Integration With Epic Willow Pharmacy
Baxter International, a technology provider of medication preparation and delivery has announced a new bi-directional integration between the DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow Manager and the Epic Willow Inpatient Pharmacy System. The integration will help hospitals efficiently comply with requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other insurers that call for accuracy in the documentation of the drugs used to compound doses for patients.DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow
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Cleveland Clinic Lands $3.4M NIH Grant to Develop Prediction Tool for Epilepsy Surgery
Cleveland Clinic has been awarded a $3.4 million 5-year grant from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a prediction tool for individual outcomes in epilepsy surgery. Led by Lara Jehi, M.D., the project is five-year collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute's Epilepsy Center and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute's Quantitative Health Sciences team with Mayo Clinic and the University of Campinas.Epilepsy currently affects 3 million people in the
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Babyscripts Lands $5.7M to Expand Virtual Prenatal Care Platform for Expecting Mothers
Babyscripts, a Washington, DC-based digital health startup has raised $5.7 million in funding led by Ysios Capital. The funding round also included participation from Chemo Group, CG Health Ventures, Aurora Health Care Ventures, and P5 Health Ventures.Founded in 2013, Babyscripts is a virtual care platform for obstetrics that allows OBGYNs to deliver a new model of prenatal care. Babyscripts end-to-end solution embeds evidence-based care plans, approved by the patient’s own Provider, into
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CareCloud Launches Pay-Per-Visit Telemedicine Solution for Physician Practices
CareCloud, a practice management platform for medical groups has announced the launch of their new fully integrated pay-per-visit telemedicine solution. The integrated solution features a fully integrated solution that includes built-in insurance eligibility checking and scheduling tools, a unique pay-per-visit pricing model, and one-click activation. Simplifying clinical workflows, this approach to telemedicine seamlessly connects the dots between efficient practice management and secure video
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PatientPoint Lands $140M to Expand Patient Education & Engagement Solutions
PatientPoint, a provider of patient and physician engagement solutions at the point of care has raised $140 million in funding from Searchlight Capital Partners and Silver Point Capital. The company plans to use the funding to expand the digital footprint of its point-of-care networks.PatientPoint programs provide engaging content through a host of delivery channels including digital waiting room screens in physician offices and hospitals and interactive touchscreens in the exam room. Unlike
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Zipnosis Forms Advisory Council to Establish Virtual Care Standards
Zipnosis, a virtual care-focused company has announced the formation of the Clinical Quality Advisory Council, a group of healthcare leaders across the U.S. that are committed to providing clinical and strategic guidance to the virtual care industry.The Council will perform reviews of Zipnosis’ current evidence-based clinical guidelines,support ongoing quality assurance efforts, and help to establish best practices for clinical quality for outpatient virtual care. During the inaugural meeting in
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Mediktor Launches AI App to Identify A Patient’s Symptoms in Real-Time
Digital health startup Meditkor, which initially launched in Europe at the Health 2.0 conference in Barcelona in May, today announced the launch the U.S. availability of the first scientifically validated health checker based on artificial intelligence (AI). Mediktor is the first pre-diagnosis tool that uses AI to identify a patient's symptoms in real-time and suggests next steps based on medical needs including recommendations for a specialist or doctor.Mediktor combines artificial
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