EchoPixel, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of an interactive virtual reality software solution that assists healthcare professionals in detailed interpretation of medical images has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding led by Intel Capital The round also included participation from existing EchoPixel investors Aurus Capital, Runa Capital and Harris & Harris Group and new investors LAM Research and Binomial. EchoPixel plans to use the funding to support the commercialization of True
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BaseHealth Lands $8.5M for Predictive Analytics Platform to Uncover ‘Invisible Patients’
BaseHealth, a predictive, evidence-based, and data-driven population health management solution that targets the unknown risk by identifying the “Invisible Patients” has raised $8.5 million in Series C funding led by HBM Healthcare Investments. The Sunnyvale, CA-based digital health startup plans to use that latest round of funding to further develop BaseHealth’s analytics engine, which is based on peer-reviewed medical literature, curated by physicians and scientists, and enhanced with
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Anthem Launches Digital Health Platform to Deliver Personalized Member Experience
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has announced the launch of Engage, a new integrated digital health platform designed to create a personalized member experience. Anthem’s Engage offers employers access to a single web and mobile digital solution that brings all of their employees’ key health and benefits together in one place, providing employees with personalized messaging based on their individual clinical and claims data.Anthem plans to roll out Engage to large groups in Colorado and a
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6 Best Practices for Providers to Attract and Engage Millennial Patients
PatientPop, a practice growth technology designed for healthcare providers to grow, modernize and streamline their patient experience has unveiled six best practices that healthcare providers can implement to grow their business with the $200B millennial market.Defining Millennials & Their Differences Millennials—defined as those born between 1980 and 2002—make up more than 25 percent of the population in the United States. 80 million potential patients from this market segment are leaving
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Health Tech Startup iCoreConnect Joins StartUp Health’s Global Army of Transformers
iCoreConnect, a provider of secure, HIPAA-compliant communications and cloud-based practice management has been chosen to join the elite StartUp Health Academy for Health Transformers and digital health entrepreneurs. Through StartUp Health, iCoreConnect gains long-term access to a global network of peers, partners and promotion. StartUp Health’s platform is focused on coaching and supporting entrepreneurs to foster digital innovation to transform health on a global scale. provide video remote
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SAP: Digital Innovation Will Fuel Next Wave of Healthcare Breakthroughs
Nearly 70 percent of healthcare companies who transition to the digital economy are expected to see their growth significantly impacted over two years, according to an SAP/Oxford Economics survey of almost 400 global C-level healthcare executives. The survey was designed to track the progress of digital transformations of healthcare companies as they strive to gain a competitive advantage and are able to provide the best care for their patients. While lacking substantial impact from
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Orbita Unveils Enhancements to Amazon Echo-based Voice Assistants for Integrating Chatbots, AI into Healthcare Apps
Orbita, Inc. has unveiled major upgrade enhancements to its Orbita Voice platform that enables healthcare organizations and service providers to create and maintain powerful apps for voice-assistants and conversational AI platforms like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Orbita Voice is the first healthcare-centric solution designed to easily create and manage intelligent, conversational skills for voice-powered assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Home. Clinical trial investigators and
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JDRF Launches Initiative Encouraging Manufacturers to Build ‘Open’ Diabetes Devices
JDRF, a global organization funding type 1 diabetes research has announced a new initiative that will support the development of 'open' diabetes devices. The initiative is focused on making sure diabetes device manufacturers build management tools – such as continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps – that can connect with others and give people the option to “hack” their own devices and create an automated insulin delivery system. JDRF believes that both proprietary and open-protocol
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Cleveland Clinic Selects PierianDx Platform to Accelerate Precision Medicine
Cleveland Clinic has selected PierianDx to utilize its integrated “one space” workflow and analysis solution, Clinical Genomicist Workspace (CGW), to advance precision medicine for patients. By joining the PierianDx customer network, Cleveland Clinic can now access the shared constitutional and somatic genomic data within CGW’s knowledge base, a robust database comprised of millions of biomedical findings driven by public and highly curated sources.PierianDx enables clinical labs to deliver
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Circuit Clinical, ePatientFinder Partner to Establish New Data-Driven Clinical Research Site Model
ePatientFinder, a research delivery network and leader in EHR patient identification, and Circuit Clinical, a practice-based clinical research site network, today announced a partnership that will create the largest and highest-performing clinical research site network in the U.S. Together the two companies serve more than 200 clinical sites. ePatientFinder and Circuit Clinical offer complementary services that together create a seamless digital experience for patients interested in
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