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Catalia Health Raises $4M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Robot to Increase Medication Adherence
Catalia Health, a San Francisco, CA-based patient care management company that provides an effective, scalable, AI-powered patient engagement platform has announced a $4M lagniappe funding round (French Cajun for "a little something extra") led by Ion Pacific to power the rollout of Mabu, the cute, AI-enabled personal healthcare robots to patients. The funding builds on the company’s $2.5M seed extension raised earlier this year and a $1.25M seed round led by Khosla Ventures. The startup plans
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Zebra Medical Vision Enables Radiology Algorithms on Google Cloud With AI1 All-in-One Offering
Zebra Medical Vision, a leading deep learning imaging analytics company, is announcing that all its current and future radiology algorithms will be enabled on the Google Cloud as part of its new AI1 offering to global health providers . A pioneer in the field of machine and deep learning for medical imaging, Zebra-Med is driving transparency in its business model to encourage faster global adoption of advanced tools that can improve health. With over 450 new petabytes per year in imaging data ,
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Collective Medical Raises $47.5M to Expand Care Team Collaboration Network
Collective Medical, a Utah-based network for care collaboration has raised $47 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Maverick Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Providence Ventures, Peterson Ventures, and Epic Ventures. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand and advance the company’s care team collaboration network accelerating efforts to drive better patient outcomes nationwide.As a part of this effort, Collective
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Nomad Health Expands to Telemedicine Market, Launches Telehealth Jobs Marketplace
Nomad Health, a NYC-based freelance platform for doctors and nurses today announced that it is broadening its innovative technology to connect doctors directly with telehealth employers - making it the first online marketplace for telemedicine jobs. Starting today, doctors nationwide can now apply to telemedicine jobs, which are digitally transforming healthcare delivery and helping to solve doctor shortages in the United States.Telemedicine is an increasingly important mechanism to increase
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Syapse Lands $30M to Expand Precision Oncology to More Healthcare Providers
Syapse, a a San Francisco, CA-based provider of precision oncology solutions, has raised $30 million in Series D financing. Participants include existing investors Ascension Ventures, GE Ventures, Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund, Safeguard Scientifics, and Social Capital, as well as new investors Amgen Ventures, Medidata Solutions, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, and Roche Venture Fund.The company plans to use the latest round of funding to expand operations and bring its precision
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Partners Healthcare Closed $171M Innovation Fund for Life Sciences Startups
Partners HealthCare System has closed a $171 million innovation fund to invest in early stage life sciences startups. The innovation fund includes $66.1 million in outside capital for Partners Innovation Fund II and a $105 million commitment from Partners institutions to Partners Innovation Fund to focus on medical innovation created in the Partners system. The capital commitments to Partners Innovation Fund include two $50 million commitments each from The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
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drchrono Leverages Face ID on iPhone X to Unlock EHR for Physicians
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc., today announced that it has leverage Face ID on iPhone X for physicians to unlock electronic health records (EHRs). By simply launching the drchrono app, Physicians can save time using new Face ID recognition technology to log into the drchrono EHR.On iPhone X, doctors now can simply raise their phone to login to the EHR app, unlike using Touch ID, a passcode or entering a username and password. drchrono has thousands of medical professionals and over 10
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Welkin Health Raises $8M to Expand Digital Patient Relationship Platform
Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in digital patient relationship management has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital. The company plans to utilize the funding to continue expanding their team which includes talent from Google, Facebook and Microsoft, as well as Practice Fusion, Medtronic, Sutter Health and Medicaid. In addition, Welkin company plans to accelerate partnerships with patient-centered digital health, life science, and
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ResMed Integrates Remote Patient Monitoring Platform With AirMini CPAP Device
ResMed announced that it has added cloud-connectivity to the AirMini, the world's smallest, portable CPAP device- through its AirView platform. The connectivity between AirMini and AirView enables clinicians to see patients' nightly data, verify adherence, and spot therapy issues – giving them a great opportunity to educate and engage patients to reach the best possible health outcomes. AirMini is available in 15 countries across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, with more countries to
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