Talkspace, a telebehavioral health company providing online therapy has raised $50M in funding led by Revolution Growth. Existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Qumra Capital, Spark Capital and Compound Ventures, amongst others, will also participate in the round. Patrick Conroy of Revolution Growth will join the Talkspace board of directors. Additionally, the company announced a new partnership with Optum Health, which will expand Talkspace services to cover 5 million lives.Transforming
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RSIP Vision Launches AI-Driven Solution for Knee Replacement Patients
RSIP Vision, a provider artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and image processing technology, has announced the release of a new AI module that promises a life-changing impact on the millions of patients who undergo knee surgery every year. For most, knee replacement surgery is a difficult option, with a painful recovery and a long, rigorous rehabilitation period. Now the superior accuracy and precision of the RSIP Vision AI solution, unmatched in the market today, revolutionizes knee
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4 Areas in Consumer-Driven Healthcare Ripe for Innovation
Consumer-driven healthcare (CDH) has become pervasive over the last decade as a powerful tool to help address the cost crisis in the American healthcare system. The success of CDH in reversing the cost trend – together with the recent rise in health savings account (HSA) adoption – confirms that CDH will continue to thrive into the future.
Despite its success, CDH, as we know it today, is far from perfect. Employers struggle to effectively design a CDH program (the combination of the health plan
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Canadian Government Awards $49M Grant to Establish Canada-wide AI Health Data Platform
The government of Canada has announced an investment grant of up to $49 million in the Digital Health and Discovery Platform (DHDP), a network of partners that seeks to establish a cutting-edge Canada-wide health data platform. Through this new platform, researchers and doctors will work to accelerate the development of new and personalized treatments to help to find cures for diseases that affect Canadians. While the platform will initially focus on cancer, the plan is to expand to other areas
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Stanford Spinout Cardinal Analytx Lands $22M for AI-Enabled Health Insights
Cardinal Analytx Solutions, an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled health insights company has raised $22 million in Series B funding round led by John Doerr including participation from GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, Blue Shield California and Premera Blue Cross.Getting Ahead of High Cost EventsHealth insurers, accountable healthcare providers and other health industry stakeholders recognize that U.S. health care spending growth and shortfalls in treatment outcomes are not sustainable.
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Alegeus Unveils Smart HSA Solution to Bolster Healthcare Spending and Saving Decisions
Alegeus, the market leader in consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) solutions, today announced that the industry’s first Smart HSA that features machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) was presented for the first time during the 2019 Alegeus Client Conference. Smart HSA: A New Approach to CDH Account SolutionsThis next generation of the existing Alegeus solution provides broader support for the benefits lifecycle and greater influence across the full spectrum of healthcare benefits. It
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Biofourmis Lands $35M for AI-Powered Digital Therapeutics Platform
Biofourmis, a Boston, MA-based digital therapeutics platform, today announced that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital/Sequoia India and co-led by Mass Mutual. The latest funding round will enable the company to advance its proprietary artificialintelligence (AI)-powered digital therapeutics platform and pipeline that treats and manages a range of complex chronic conditions.Digital Therapeutics is Redefining The Healthcare Value ChainFounded in 2015, Biofourmis
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MaxQ AI Launches FDA Cleared, CE Approved Slice-Level Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection
MaxQ AI, an Israeli-based medical diagnostic AI company has launched the company’s new ACCIPIO Ax solution, which features SliceMap, an integrated view that guides clinicians rapidly to CT slices with suspected intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) without leaving their PACS viewer. Slice-Level Intracranial Hemorrhage DetectionACCIPIO Ax is FDA Cleared, CE Approved, and the second component of MaxQ AI’s ACCIPIO ICH Platform, the complete ICH solution for stroke and head trauma assessment. Radiology
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Zebra Medical Vision Granted FDA 510k Clearance for AI Chest X-Ray Triage
Zebra Medical Vision, an Israli-based deep learning imaging analytics company, today announces that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for HealthPNX – an AI-powered alert for pneumothorax (PNX), based on chest X-rays.FDA 510(k) Clearance DetailsReceived in May 2019, the FDA 510(k) clearance focuses on an AI alert for “stat” (urgent) findings of pneumothorax and demonstrates a promising potential to substantially reduce turnaround time and increase the radiologist’s confidence in making this
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MATTER, rMark Bio Launch AI-Powered Healthcare Innovation Matchmaker, Origin
MATTER, a Chicago, IL-based healthcare incubator and innovation hub, and rMark Bio, a life sciences AI company announced the launch of Origin™ — a new product to further accelerate healthcare innovation via collaboration. Exclusively available to the MATTER community of startup members and partner organizations, Origin combines the power of machine learning with MATTER’s expertise in vetting, coaching and convening to match pharmaceutical companies, payers and health systems with the right
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