What You Should Know: - Noom, a New York City-based digital health platform focused on behavior change, today announced its $540 million Series F funding led by Silver Lake. The round also included participation from new investors Oak HC/FT, Temasek, and Novo Holdings and existing investors Sequoia Capital, RRE, and Samsung Ventures also participated. - The company sits at an interesting intersection of several trends in healthcare: digitally-empowered health consumers; the rise of chronic
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PatientKeeper Integrates with MEDITECH Expanse EHR for Physicians’ Mobile Devices
What You Should Know: - PatientKeeper, a provider of electronic health records (EHR) optimization software solutions, today announced it has integrated its mobile app with the MEDITECH® Expanse™ hospital EHR system, enabling healthcare providers to view inpatient data stored in Expanse on their iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. - Physicians using the Expanse acute-care EHR will now have access to patients’ vital signs, test results, medications and more -- all from their iOS or
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Digital Companion App Empathy Raises $13M to Help Families Deal with Death
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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