What You Should Know: - Today, Empathy, a digital companion app combining technology and human support to empower bereaved families, is coming out of stealth with $13M in seed funding, backed by major VC firms including General Catalyst and Aleph. - Empathy’s technology streamlines the bureaucracy around loss - freeing families to deal with emotional repercussions and to be there for one another. Launched in 2021 and headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv, Empathy was founded by Ron Gura
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Canadian Online Pharmacy PocketPills Nabs $30M to Fuel Same Day Delivery Nationwide
What You Should Know: -PocketPills, Canada’s largest and fastest-growing online pharmacy, announced it has raised $30M in Series B funding, led by TELUS Ventures. The investment will be used to broaden PocketPills’ product offering and further accelerate its national expansion, with facilities opening in Quebec and Alberta that will help achieve its goal of nationwide same-day delivery. - PocketPills is a technology-first online pharmacy, and its research and development team of 30
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Boston Scientific Acquires Remote Cardiac Monitoring Company Preventice Solutions for $1.2B
What You Should Know: - Boston Scientific announces an agreement to acquire Preventice Solutions, a leading developer of mobile health solutions and remote monitoring services that connect patients and caregivers for $1.2B. - The acquisition of external cardiac monitoring technologies and services providers will expand Boston Scientific’s rhythm management diagnostics portfolio and capabilities. Boston
Scientific today announced that it has acquired
Preventice Solutions, Inc.,
a
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Apple Rolls Out Health Records on iPhone to the UK, Canada
Today, Apple announced
the Health Records feature within the Health app is now available for users in
the UK and Canada to securely view and store their medical records right on
their iPhone, with their privacy protected at all times. Oxford University
Hospitals and Women’s College Hospital has been selected the first healthcare
institutions in the UK and Canada to make this feature available to their
patients. How Health Records Works Health Records creates a direct connection between
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New Voice-Based App Enables Behavioral Health Measurement Anytime, Anywhere
What You Should Know: - Ellipsis Health launches new voice-based Rising
Higher app, enabling behavioral health measurement anytime, anywhere. - The
HIPAA-compliant platform facilitates longitudinal visibility into behavioral health symptoms
for enhanced clinical decision support. Ellipsis Health,
pioneer of the first commercial-grade voice-based vital signs to
quantify and manage depression and anxiety symptoms at scale, has announced
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New CVS Pharmacy App Feature Can Read Prescription Labels Out Loud for Visually Impaired
What You Should Know: - CVS introduced Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the
CVS Pharmacy app that can read important prescription information out loud. It
is vitally important for patient safety and adherence that prescription labels
are clear and visible, but for patients with visual impairments or those who
can’t read standard print labels, that’s not always the case. - Spoken Rx provides an audible label option that reads
important info such as patient name, medication name,
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know: - Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes. - Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa. - Murray Brozinsky
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Colorado Health Plan Deploys Texting for COVID-19 Medicaid Outreach for Its Members
What You Should Know: - Colorado
Access has deployed a text message program to its Medicaid members to quickly
distribute basic facts on COVID-19 and health risk information, as well as
resources for people who might be struggling with their mental health during
the pandemic and information on where to get food and unemployment support. - Through
its partnership with Welltok, the health plan sent more than 700,000 texts over
three weeks in English and Spanish. Using Welltok’s data
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Sharecare Acquires Evidence-Based Behavior Change Apps MindSciences
What You Should Know: - Sharecare announced the acquisition of Boston-based MindSciences, an evidence-based behavior change suite of apps focused on mental health (anxiety, stress management), smoking cessation, and weight loss/binge eating, and more. - The acquisition rounds out Sharecare’s portfolio of mHealth-based therapeutic programs improving chronic disease risk and overall health outcomes by targeting varying aspects of well-being. - Based on the work of Dr. Judson Brewer, now
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UnitedHealth Group, Microsoft Launches Free App That Screens Employees for COVID-19 Symptoms
What You Should Know: UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft team up to launch ProtectWell,
a return to workplace protocol that includes a free smartphone app that screens
for COVID-19 symptoms and clears employees for daily work. Backed by CDC guidelines and the latest clinical science,
ProtectWell provides employers a return-to-workplace framework to support the
health and safety of the workforce and workplace. UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft Corp. have joined forces to
launch
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