Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. is returning to global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) as a Special Partner on the firm’s healthcare investment team. Dr. Gottlieb was a Venture Partner at NEA from 2007 to 2017 before being appointed the 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he served from 2017 to 2019.Dr. Gottlieb is a physician, policy expert, and advocate for healthcare entrepreneurship, innovation, and access. He is focused
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Bioelectronic Medicine Startup Cala Health Nabs $50M for Wearable Neuromodulation Therapies
Cala Health, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based bioelectronic medicine company developing wearable therapies for chronic disease has raised $50 million in Series C funding. New investors in the Series C funding round include Novartis, Baird Capital, LifeSci Venture Partners, TriVentures, and others. All existing investors participated in the round, including Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), Lux Capital, Lightstone Ventures, Action Potential Venture Capital, dRx Capital, and
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Survey: 83% of Consumers Are Interested in Receiving Virtual Care, But Only 17% Have Access To It
Virtual care received an essential boost in November 2018 when CMS Administrator Seema Verma addressed the Alliance for Connected Care Telehealth Policy Forum for Health Systems. Verma told the audience, "Telehealth is changing the very face of healthcare.” This shift is apparent in the behaviors of healthcare consumers. While consumers may love the idea of virtual care, a new study shows few are taking advantage of it.Patients Hungry for Virtual CareThat’s the core message coming out of a
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Alegeus Unveils Smart HSA Solution to Bolster Healthcare Spending and Saving Decisions
Alegeus, the market leader in consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) solutions, today announced that the industry’s first Smart HSA that features machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) was presented for the first time during the 2019 Alegeus Client Conference. Smart HSA: A New Approach to CDH Account SolutionsThis next generation of the existing Alegeus solution provides broader support for the benefits lifecycle and greater influence across the full spectrum of healthcare benefits. It
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Glooko Appoints Dr. Mark Clements as Chief Medical Officer
Glooko, a provider of diabetes data management solutions, today announced the appointment of Mark Clements, MD, Ph.D., CPI, FAAP, as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Clements joins the senior management team of Glooko having served on its medical advisory board since it was formed in 2015 to provide expertise to the organization in the areas of clinical studies and diabetes analytics.
Dr. Clements comes to Glooko from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, where he is Associate
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Biofourmis Lands $35M for AI-Powered Digital Therapeutics Platform
Biofourmis, a Boston, MA-based digital therapeutics platform, today announced that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital/Sequoia India and co-led by Mass Mutual. The latest funding round will enable the company to advance its proprietary artificialintelligence (AI)-powered digital therapeutics platform and pipeline that treats and manages a range of complex chronic conditions.Digital Therapeutics is Redefining The Healthcare Value ChainFounded in 2015, Biofourmis
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MaxQ AI Launches FDA Cleared, CE Approved Slice-Level Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection
MaxQ AI, an Israeli-based medical diagnostic AI company has launched the company’s new ACCIPIO Ax solution, which features SliceMap, an integrated view that guides clinicians rapidly to CT slices with suspected intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) without leaving their PACS viewer. Slice-Level Intracranial Hemorrhage DetectionACCIPIO Ax is FDA Cleared, CE Approved, and the second component of MaxQ AI’s ACCIPIO ICH Platform, the complete ICH solution for stroke and head trauma assessment. Radiology
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3 Challenges of Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) Performance Testing
There’s no doubt that the internet of things (IoT) creates a new technological ecosystem in healthcare, helping organizations manage bottlenecks in care and bridging the gap between patients and providers. The list of applications for connected devices in hospitals keeps growing from real-time staff tracking across facilities to ensuring preventive equipment maintenance and 24/7 patient vitals monitoring in ER and resuscitation departments.But care delivery doesn’t stop after discharge. A range
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Miraki Innovation Launches $175M Medical Technology Breakthrough Fund
Miraki Innovation has announced the launch of the Medical Technology Breakthrough Fund, a $175 million fund that will help finance and build the next generation of innovative medtech companies.Marking the third fund for Miraki’s founder, Chris Velis, Miraki's Medical Technology Breakthrough Fund will help support the company’s mission of identifying and solving the world’s most pressing health challenges through technology. Miraki leverages Chris’ unique, efficient and proven approach to
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As More Americans Suffer from PTSD, Digital Health Solutions Offer Hope
With deadly attacks in our communities and schools becoming more commonplace, increasingly more common natural disasters, and a number of military conflicts in the last decade, it’s no surprise that 70 percent of U.S. adults have experienced a traumatic event in their lifetime. Of those, twenty percent go on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health disorder that affects a person’s thoughts, emotions, and even physical wellbeing.
PTSD—which occurs when people experience
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