What You Should Know:
- Bioptimus, a French startup developing cutting-edge AI foundation models for biology, has announced a strategic partnership with Proscia, a provider of AI-enabled pathology solutions.
- The collaboration integrates Bioptimus' H-optimus-0 foundation model into Proscia's Concentriq® Embeddings, empowering researchers and data scientists to achieve breakthroughs in AI development at an unprecedented pace.
Unlocking the Power of Foundation
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HLTH: KLAS Research Unveils Top 20 Emerging Healthcare Solutions
What You Should Know:
- KLAS Research, a healthcare research and insights firm, has announced the winners of its 2024 Emerging Solutions Top 20 awards at the HLTH 2024 conference. These awards recognize the most innovative and impactful emerging healthcare companies that are poised to transform the industry.
- While AI and other emerging technologies offer tremendous potential, the KLAS report also acknowledges the challenges of integrating these solutions into existing healthcare IT
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HLTH: OneStep Secures $36M to Establish Gait Analysis as the Sixth Vital Sign
What You Should Know:
- OneStep, a provider of smartphone-based motion analysis technology has raised $36M in funding co-led by Team8 and Vintage Investment Partners.
- The company aims to establish gait analysis – the study of how a person walks – as the sixth vital sign, crucial for understanding and improving overall health.
Transforming Smartphones into Clinical Tools
OneStep's technology turns smartphones into clinical-grade motion analysis tools, making gait analysis as
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HLTH: Essence Healthcare to Offer Free Oura Ring to Medicare Advantage Members
What You Should Know:
- Essence Healthcare, a provider of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans forms a new partnership with ŌURA, the maker of the Oura Ring.
- Starting in 2025, eligible Essence MA members will receive a complimentary Oura Ring and a subscription to the Oura App, giving them access to advanced biometric tracking and personalized health insights.
Empowering Members with Data-Driven Insights
This unique benefit, a first for any MA plan, reflects Essence's
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Zombie Investments: The State of Private Equity in Healthcare
Private equity (PE) firms, once eager investors in the healthcare services sector, are facing a chilling reality. A confluence of factors including challenges recruiting and retaining physicians, reimbursement headwinds, accelerating labor costs and restrictive antitrust policies, have resulted in a string of high-profile failures, and are casting doubt on the future role of PE in healthcare. This shift has profound implications across the healthcare delivery spectrum – from hospitals and health
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HLTH: Walmart Launches Nationwide Same-Day Pharmacy Delivery
What You Should Know:
- Walmart today announced Pharmacy Delivery, an innovative service that saves customers time by bringing prescriptions – along with the rest of their Walmart orders – right to their doorsteps.
- This innovative offering allows customers to seamlessly integrate prescription orders with their regular grocery and merchandise purchases, all delivered to their doorstep.
Expanding Reach and Impact
Currently live in six states (Arkansas, Missouri, New
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HLTH: Amazon One Medical’s AI Tools Help Clinicians Reclaim 40% of Their Time
What You Should Know:
- Today, Amazon One Medical announced new AI tools to ease administrative workload on providers. Integrated into its proprietary Electronic Health Record (EHR), these AI tools simplify provider workflow and help them get back to focusing on patient care.
- By using Amazon One Medical’s AI technology, backed by AWS generative AI services including Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthScribe, doctors can now save time on
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Combining an Omnichannel Strategy with Benchmarking and Metrics to Engage Healthcare Professionals
A critical aspect of any pharma/life sciences commercialization strategy is to develop and deploy effective and meaningful ways to engage, inform and build trust with healthcare providers (HCPs). A brand can best meet its clinical and commercial objectives throughout its lifecycle by offering a well-orchestrated mix of information and resources in different digital and in-person formats that HCPs can easily access.
As with any multifaceted marketing and commercialization strategy, brand
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HLTH: Avandra Launches World’s Largest Federated Network for Medical Imaging and Clinical Data
What You Should Know:
- Avandra, the world’s largest federated network for medical imaging and clinical data, today launched out of stealth. Avandra’s network aims to organize global medical images and create a data ecosystem for research and innovation.
- It utilizes industry-leading de-identification and tokenization solutions to securely deliver aggregated, multimodal data to power the future of health.
Avandra: A Federated Marketplace for Medical Imaging
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HLTH: Zoom and Suki Integrate to Power AI-Generated Clinical Notes
What You Should Know:
- Suki, a leader in AI technology for healthcare, announced a partnership with Zoom Video Communications, Inc., a leading telehealth platform.
- Zoom will integrate Suki's AI engine, Suki Platform, to generate clinical notes, enhancing its user experience and improving patient care.
- The Suki Platform enables companies to build AI experiences with minimal development effort and already supports nearly one million clinicians across the U.S.
- Suki's AI-powered
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