What You Should Know:
- HealthQuest Capital, a sector specialist capital firm focused on companies optimizing value in healthcare, today announced the close of HealthQuest Partners IV, L.P., at its hard cap of $675M .
- The oversubscribed fund will enable HealthQuest to continue to invest in growth-stage companies that are revolutionizing the healthcare industry.
Providing Growth Capital to Companies Transforming Healthcare
Founded in 2013 by Garheng Kong, a physician, scientist, and
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Eli Lilly Partners with Yseop to Expedite Drug Approval Process
What You Should Know:
- Eli Lilly and Company partners with Yseop, an AI software company and pioneer in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to deploy Yseop’s world-class enterprise automation platform, Augmented Analyst, to accelerate bringing Lilly’s medicines to patients.
- Yseop’s platform uses Natural Language Generation (NLG) to augment human analysis with automated insights. With Yseop’s powerful AI automation technology, teams can shorten the time spent on specialist medical reports
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Analysis: Seeking Balance in the Hyperactive Mental Health Tech Market
The prevalence of mental and behavioral health conditions has been on the rise in recent decades, further aggravated by the pandemic in the last two years. Social isolation, grief from the loss of loved ones, fear of contracting the virus, and financial worries were all major stress factors that increasingly affected the mental wellbeing of the population, and the resulting statistics are startling: the average share of adults with symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorders jumped from 1
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Bon Secours Mercy Health Launches Digital Holding Company Accrete Health Partners
What You Should Know:
- Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) today announced the launch of Accrete Health Partners, a digital holding company, that will function to further expand the organization's digital health services as well as new and ongoing programs and partnerships.
- New digital holding company will coalesce a continuum of leading solutions and services to connect the technology, data and people needed to streamline healthcare and ultimately help improve
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The Academy and Nuance Partner to Launch The AI Collaborative
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- The Health Management Academy (The Academy) has partnered with Nuance, a Microsoft company, to launch The AI Collaborative, which brings together senior leaders from the nation’s Leading Health Systems (LHS) who are deploying these technologies in the clinical and operational settings, as well as planning for future use-cases.
- The collaborative brings together physician executives from leading hospital systems and other key stakeholders across the healthcare
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OncoHost Raises $35M for AI-Powered Precision Oncology Platform
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- OncoHost, an AI-powered precision oncology platform, today announced a $35M Series C funding round led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech VC, as well as other prominent investors. Additional investors included leading Israeli financial firm Leumi Partners, Israel’s largest pension fund Menora Mivtachim, OurCrowd and other existing investors.
- The funding will go towards expanding OncoHost’s ongoing multicenter PROPHETIC trial as well as support its upcoming
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Cerner & AKASA Partner on AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Automation
What You Should Know:
- Health IT leader Cerner and AI developer for healthcare operations AKASA announce a partnership to scale automation within the revenue cycle at hospitals and health systems using AI and machine learning.
- The collaboration offers Cerner customers access to AKASA’s AI-based Unified Automation® platform which is purpose-built for healthcare.
Growing Need for Revenue Cycle Automation
Staff shortages are particularly concerning for healthcare revenue cycle
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Serenity Engage Integrates with Amazon Alexa Senior Living
What You Should Know:
- Serenity Engage announces new, innovative technology integrated with Amazon's Senior Living solution from Alexa Smart Properties.
- By marrying Amazon's Alexa voice AI and video technology with Serenity's platform, Serenity's custom Alexa deployment serve as a personalized, digital concierge - bringing simplicity and connection to an otherwise complex, siloed system.
Bringing Simplicity to the Complex Senior Care Ecosystem
Senior care providers and
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Element5 Secures $30M to Expand Automation for Post-Acute Care
What You Should Know:
- Element5, the world’s first Automation-as-a-Service solution purpose-built for post-acute care, today announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. With the closing of the Series B funding round, Element5 has raised $48.5M in total capital to date.
- This investment will strengthen Element5’s position and enable the company to continue the disruption of the health care industry’s $400B post-acute
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Hello Heart Raises $70M to Expand Heart Health Solutions
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- Hello Heart, the only digital therapeutics company focused exclusively on heart disease, announced a $70M Series D funding round led by Stripes to support its rapid growth in the employer market
- The funding round will specifically support the increase in employer market demand for Hello Heart’s technology as a focus on heart health sharpens. The company has experienced massive growth in the employer market, doubling the number of clients in the last three
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