Akouos, a Boston, MA-based precision genetic medicine company developing gene therapies that restore and preserve hearing has raised $50 million in Series A funding co-led by 5AM Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investor Partners Innovation Fund and new investors Sofinnova Ventures, RA Capital Management and Novartis Venture Fund. The company plans to use the funding round to advance its lead program to first-in-human clinical trials and bolster its
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Trilliant Health Lands $12M for Intelligent Patient Acquisition Platform
Trilliant Health, a Nashville, TN.-based healthcare analytics company that empowers intelligence patient acquisition has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with participation from existing investors Martin Ventures, Nashville Capital Network, and NueCura Partners. Trilliant Health plans to use the funding to continue building its data science and technology teams to enhance the capabilities of its analytics platformFounded by 2017, Trilliant provides an
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Buoy Health Integrates with Boston Children’s to Improve Pediatric Capabilities
Buoy Health, an AI-focused health technology startup that develops digital tools to help people from the moment they get sick start their care on the right foot, today named Boston Children’s Hospital its first innovation partner. As part of the multi-pronged partnership, Boston Children’s Hospital will integrate Buoy’s advanced AI into its website to help parents around the globe identify the right course of treatment the moment their children’s symptoms hit.Innovation Partnership DetailsAs
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Behavioral Health Startup Praestan Health Raises $12M to Drive Behavioral Health Transformation
Praestan Health, a Minneapolis, MN-based behavioral health technology-focused startup, announced that it has closed a private placement for $12 million to fund completion of its technology platform and build a national organization to serve clinicians, healthcare organizations, employers, and patients. Praestan Health is committed to driving improved health and wellbeing through behavior change at the individual and population health level, In addition, the company has launched hree-way health
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Verana Health Lands $30M for EHR Integrated Data Platform for Life Sciences
Verana Health formerly known as DigiSight Technologies), a healthcare technology developer of a cutting-edge platform for life science innovation that utilizes regulatory-grade specialty data sets has raised $30M in Series C funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from existing investors Biomatics Capital, Brook Byers, founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, GE Ventures, and Lagunita Biosciences.In addition to the Series C funding, the company has appointed
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PatientWisdom Lands $1M to Strengthen Patient-Provider Relationship through Real World Data Collection
PatientWisdom lands $1m to expand the reach of digital health platforms that transform the experience and delivery of healthcarePatientWisdom, a digital health platforms designed to improve health and care by listening to patients, providers, and community members has raised $1M in funding led by OCA Ventures with participation from existing investors. To date, PatientWisdom, Inc. has raised a total of $3.45 million.The company’s three digital solutions – PatientWisdom, ProviderWisdom and
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Zebra Technologies Unveils Barcode Label & Wristband Printers to Reduce Medical Errors
Zebra Technologies Corporation, a market leader in rugged mobile computers, barcode scanners and barcode printers enhanced with software and services to enable real-time enterprise visibility, today announced two new healthcare barcode printing solutions that can identify patients and specimens at the point of care. Zebra’s ZQ600-Healthcare series label printers and ZD510-HC direct thermal wristband printer enable the production of highly durable labels and patient identification wristbands
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Identity Automation Acquires Single Sign-On Technology Provider HealthCast
Identity Automation, a leading provider of Access Management (AM), Identity Governance (IGA), and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) software, today announced its acquisition of Boise, ID-based HealthCast Inc., provider of award-winning enterprise single sign-on (eSSO) and virtual desktop technology for the healthcare industry. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.Increased regulation and the shift from paper-based to digital records has created new challenges in securing and
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XLerateHealth Accelerator Unveils Its Sixth Class of 10 Digital Health Startups
XLerateHealth, a Louisville-based healthcare accelerator, today announced it has selected ten companies to participate in their sixth cohort of companies. The accelerator’s 12-week intensive program will help the early stage healthcare companies build out their commercialization strategy, which includes their intersection with Payers, Providers (hospitals, ACOs, nursing homes, home health and group practices), and customers (employers and/or consumers). At the conclusion of the Bootcamp cohort,
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Madaket Health Raises $10M for Automated Healthcare Provider Enrollment Platform
Madaket Health lands $10M for automated healthcare provider enrollment platform to accelerate its growth, expand platform solutions for payer-provider collaboration.Madaket Health, a Cambridge, MA-based healthcare SaaS platform solution that simplifies administrative data exchange between payers and provider has raised $10 million in Series B funding Qiming Venture Partners. The round also included participation from Experian Ventures, The PNC Financial Services Group, and Salesforce Ventures.
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