Boston Children’s Hospital and Klick Health, today unveiled a virtual reality (VR) platform to bring patients’ individual medical findings to life in an immersive, 3D environment. The proof of concept VR platform named HealthVoyager is a medical education and patient experience platform. The first iteration of the tool, HealthVoyager™ GI, has been designed for pediatric gastrointestinal (GI) patients and is being used at Boston Children’s as part of a clinical study to validate its effect on
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Cardiac Monitoring Startup Eko Devices Raises $5M to Bring Intelligence to Heart Sounds
Eko, a San Francisco, CA-based platform of non-invasive cardiac screening devices, care coordination software, and machine learning algorithms has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by ARTIS Ventures. The round also included participation from Strategic Partners, Dreamlt Ventures, 1812 Ventures, and FOUNDER.org. Eko plans to utilize the funding to accelerate its commercial team and to expand clinical studies on the use of Eko's platform for valvular heart disease screening and heart
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Mayo Clinic Partners With Orbita to Transform Patient Journey Through Voice First Experience
Orbita, Inc., a provider of digital experience management solutions for voice and conversational AI technologies in health and wellness applications, and Mayo Clinic have formed a relationship to deliver Mayo Clinic health and wellness content to help transform the patient journey through education, engagement and improved quality of care. The partnership between Orbita’s powerful voice platform and Mayo’s leading content gives organizations the ability to reach, engage and empower audiences in
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Mindstrong Health, Takeda Partner to Develop Digital Biomarkers for Mental Health Conditions
Mindstrong Health, a digital health startup transforming the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, has entered into a partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to explore the development of digital biomarkers for selected mental health conditions, in particular schizophrenia and treatment-resistant depression.In this decade, neuropsychiatric disorders represent the largest source of medical disability for people under age 50. The costs are among the highest of all
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Inova Personalized Health Accelerator Expands Entrepreneur Education Program
The Inova Personalized Health Accelerator (IPHA) announced today that it will expand its free educational program designed to teach first-time healthcare technology entrepreneurs how to grow successful companies.The spring 2018 session will build on the curriculum provided during the fall 2017 program. Inova’s fall program supported 57 enrolled participants over a 14-week training period. Entrepreneurs interested in participating in the program are encouraged to apply via the IPHA web site .The
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Nomad Health Lands $12M to Expand Freelance Platform for Clinicians
Nomad Health, a NYC-based freelance platform for doctors and nurses has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Polaris Partners. The Series B round include participation from existing investors First Round Capital, RRE Ventures, and .406 Ventures.Founded in 2015 by a team of entrepreneurial doctors and Kevin Ryan (the founder of Business Insider and Gilt Group), Nomad is a marketplace for short-term clinical work where medical facilities post shifts they need filled. Nomad hopes
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Healthcare Blockchain Startup BurstIQ Secures $5M Investment
BurstIQ, Inc., a healthcare blockchain data company, announced it has secure a $5 million investment from Millennium Blockchain marking it the first of BurstIQ’s $20M private placement offering. The company initiated its private placement offering at the 2018 World Economic Forum (DAVOS 2018) in Davos, Switzerland, and expects to complete the offering by March 31, 2018.Millennium Blockchain is a specialty diversified holding company focused on next-generation blockchain use-cases and
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Cota Lands $40M to Accelerate Value-based Precision Medicine
Cota, a NYC-based healthcare data and analytics company bridging precision medicine to population health has raised $40 million in Series C funding led by QVIA and was contributed to by EW Healthcare Partners. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also participated in the round, along with existing Cota investors which include, Boston Millennia Partners, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Hackensack Meridian Health and Atoc Holdings.The funding will go towards rapidly scaling its
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M*Modal Closes $70M to Accelerate Investment In NLP/AI Tech Platforms
M*Modal, a Franklin, TN-based provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding solutions, today announced that its largest investors have completed an investment of $70 million in the company by converting debt into equity. This transaction will allow M*Modal to further accelerate its investment in technological innovation in its natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence platform as well as client acquisition. M*Modal’s artificial intelligence (AI) and
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Cedars-Sinai, Emulate Partner on ‘Patient-on-a-Chip’ Program to Predict Disease Treatments
Scientists at Cedars-Sinai and Boston-based digital health startup Emulate are pioneering a Patient-on-a-Chip program to help predict which disease treatments would be most effective based on a patient's genetic makeup and disease variant—a new approach to advance precision medicine.Researchers know that people respond differently to foods, drugs, and chemicals. For example, a medication may be effective in one individual, while it makes another even more ill. Until now, we’ve had no way to test
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