HealthTap, a digital health company that provides 24/7 query-to-cure individualized care with a network of more than 73k doctors, announced that its Health Operating SystemTM (HOPES)TM is now available for hospitals, clinics, and community-based programs worldwide. Designed to provide "always on" quality healthcare, HOPESTM service enables healthcare providers, large and small, to manage the care for patient populations efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Enlitic Raises $10M to Enhance Deep Learning Medical Imaging
Enlitic, a deep learning medical imaging company dedicated to revolutionizing diagnostic healthcare has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Capitol Health Limited, an Australian public company providing medical diagnostic imaging (DI) services. The two companies will partner to reach a landmark milestone for human health: for the first time, real patients will directly benefit from deep learning, at scale, and across a whole healthcare network in Australian and Asian
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Mobile EMS to ED Response App Twiage Wins 2015 New Ventures Healthcare Challenge
Atlanta-based Twiage, a Blueprint Health company that enables seamless EMS to ED care transitions using mobile technology has been selected by Cleveland Clinic Innovations as the winner of its prestigious 3rd New Ventures Healthcare Challenge at the 2015 Medical Innovation Summit on Monday.
Founded in 2013, Twiage is a comprehensive, interoperable prehospital communication system that delivers real-time situational awareness of incoming ambulances to busy Emergency Departments. Paramedics
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PatientSafe Solutions Acquires Merck subsidiary Vree Health
PatientSafe Solutions, a provider of connected healthcare workflow and care coordination solutions has acquired all assets of Vree Health, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck. The acquisition of Vree Health's service-enabled care coordination technology will help boost PatientSafe’s existing care coordination offerings to provide an end-to-end mobile care network at all points of patient care. As part of the acquisition, PatientSafe plans to maintain Vree Health's office in New Jersey, and the
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Cedars-Sinai, Techstars to Launch LA-Based Digital Health Accelerator
Cedars-Sinai is teaming up with Techstars to launch an LA-based digital health accelerator focused on developing innovative approaches to medicine and science that not only further enhance the quality of the care but ensure it is provided in a patient-centered, cost-effective manner. Together, the digital health accelerator will offer startups $120k in funding, 3 months of mentorship and guidance from senior leadership at Cedars-Sinai and the Techstars network of more than 7,000 founders,
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Amino Pulls In $19.4M to Match Patients with the Right Doctor
After spending more than two years in stealth mode developing a database that includes nearly every practicing doctor in America and experiences from more than 188 million people, digital health startup Amino has launched its consumer healthcare search platform designed to help consumers make confident health care decisions, starting with the doctors they choose. Amino’s new personalized service allows people to find and book an appointment with doctors based on their experience with specific
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Former Epic Employees Raises $3.5M for EHR Integration API
Founded by former Epic engineers, Redox, a health IT startup helping developers integrate with EHRs and health systems manage their connections to the cloud, today announced it has raised $3.5M in Series A funding led by .406 Ventures with participation by Flybridge Capital Partners and HealthX Ventures. The company hopes to solve the EHR interoperability problem with their RESTful API designed to help apps share data with almost any EHR vendor at any health system.
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Collective Health Raises $81M, Goes National with Anthem and Blue Shield of CA
October is open enrollment season across the U.S. when the annual window opens for millions of Americans to change health plans. To make this process less confusing, Collective Health is bringing employer health insurance into the 21s century and shifting the focus from profits to people. Today, the enterprise health insurance software and services leader Collective Health has raised $81 million in Series C funding led by Google Ventures and returning investors NEA and Founders Fund along with
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Welltok Acquires Zamzee to Optimize Children’s Health through Gamification
Health optimization provider Welltok, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Zamzee, an award-winning health program developed by HopeLab, to strengthen its CaféWell Health Optimization Platform™ for children. Welltok’s CaféWell Health Optimization Platform organizes health and condition management programs, apps and digital tracking devices to improve engagement by providing personalized guidance via social, gaming and cognitive technologies.
Zamzee rounds out their offerings to include
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DrFirst Pulls In $25M to Fuel E-Prescribing, Medication Adherence
DrFirst, a provider of healthcare IT solutions has secured $25 million in equity financing from Goldman Sachs to accelerate its sales and marketing resources, as well as its development resources for both existing and new products, and for other strategic initiatives. With this financing, DrFirst has raised $42M in financing during the past year, including a $5M investment commitment from Savano Capital Partners and a $12M credit facility from SunTrust Bank.
DrFirst's software solutions and
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