Despite falling from its prominent place in the headlines, America’s opioid crisis is still raging. Anxiety, stress, depression, and isolation caused by the pandemic have contributed to substance use disorders. At the same time, the Drug Enforcement Administration has loosened prescribing restrictions, including waiving the requirement for in-person visits and allowing clinicians to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine alone.
Given these conditions, it is not surprising that over
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Vital Raises $15M to Expand AI-Powered Emergency Department Platform
What You Should Know:
- Vital, an Atlanta-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solution improving patient experience and follow-up visit loyalty in hospital emergency departments (ED) and into inpatient stays, has secured $15M in Series A funding led by Transformation Capital, with a strategic health system joining the round alongside existing investors First Round Capital and Threshold Ventures. Vital’s new ERAdvisor application gives patients and their caregivers in the ED real-time,
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Walmart to Deploy Epic EHR Platform in 4 New Health Centers
What You Should Know:
- Walmart announces a new partnership with Epic to deploy a single enterprise EHR platform in four new Walmart Health Centers opening in Florida in early 2022.
- The Epic deployment will engage patients, healthcare professionals, insurance carriers and other stakeholders while enhancing communication, personalization and information sharing amongst healthcare professionals and patients utilizing a patient portal.
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Innovaccer, Roche Partner to Develop Clinical Decision Support Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc. the Health Cloud company, announced it has entered into a three-year collaboration with Roche to partner in the development of innovative clinical decision support solutions on the InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud for the U.S. market.
- As part of the strategic collaboration, the Innovaccer Health Cloud and its core Data Activation Platform will be used to integrate disparate data from EHRs, labs, claims, pharmacy—virtually any healthcare data
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Augmedix Partners with Google Cloud to Rehumanize the Patient-Clinician Interaction
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- Augmedix, Inc., a provider of virtual medical documentation and live clinical support, today announced that it has partnered with Google Cloud to optimize and integrate automated speech recognition (“ASR”) technology for use in real-world clinical settings. ASR technology is a critical component in the Augmedix technology stack, and Augmedix is now integrating Google Cloud Speech-to-Text into its Notebuilder technology platform, which provides natural language
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TailorMed Raises Additional $5M to Close $25M Round for Patient Financial Navigation Platform
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– TailorMed Medical Ltd., a New York City-based patient financial navigation technology company, today announced it has raised an additional $5M of funding, increasing the overall investment to $25 million. The new strategic investors, American Cancer Society’s impact investment fund, BrightEdge, OSF Healthcare’s corporate investment arm, OSF Ventures, and Citi via their Citi Impact Fund, seek to reduce medical costs through TailorMed’s platform across all treatments and
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4 Ways 5G is Transforming Healthcare & Patient Care
We hear a lot about 5G technology, but for many of us, it's link to our lives goes as far as our smartphones and mobile service providers. But to think that 5G technology is only valuable for making our data speeds faster is like saying that electricity is great because it allows us to read books before bed. Sure, both are favorable side effects, but the impacts of each invention are far more widespread than that.
A lot of industries have been disrupted by 5G technology — the video game
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M&A: MMIT/Evaluate Acquires Healthcare Analytics Company Panalgo
What You Should Know:
- Panalgo, a leading healthcare analytics company, has been acquired by MMIT and Evaluate, which joined forces last month to become a $1.6 billion global pharma commercial intelligence provider. Panalgo provides software that streamlines healthcare data analytics by removing complex programming from the equation. Panalgo's Instant Health Data (IHD) software empowers teams to generate and share trustworthy results faster, enabling more impactful decisions
- With
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UArizona Awarded $60M to Launch Precision Aging Network
What You Should Know:
- The University of Arizona has been awarded a five-year $60 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create and lead a Precision Aging Network that could transform the way we think about the aging brain.
- The network will bring together researchers from across the country to better understand how and why people experience brain aging differently, with the ultimate goal of developing more effective treatments and interventions targeted to the
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NovaSignal Secures $37M for Capture Blood Flow Data in Real-Time
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- NovaSignal Corp., a Los Angeles-based medical technology and data company specializing in the assessment and management of brain health, announced today it has closed $37M in a Series C1 round of funding led by Alpha Edison and Reimagined Ventures.
- By applying robotics and artificial intelligence to cerebral ultrasound, NovaSignal uniquely captures blood flow data in real time. The NovaSignal Platform empowers the clinical team with critical, real-time
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