What You Should Know:
- Buoy Health raises $37.5 million in Series C funding to
expand it’s AI-powered healthcare navigation platform, bringing its total raised
to date at $66.5M.
- Buoy will use the proceeds to further build out its IP with respect to artificial intelligence and other technologies, as well as grow the Buoy team.
Buoy Health, a
Boston, MA-based AI-powered
healthcare navigation platform, today announced the completion of a $37.5
million Series C funding round. Cigna
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M&A: Centene to Acquire AI Healthcare Analytics Platform Apixio
What You Should Know:
- Centene Corporation acquires AI healthcare analytics platform
Apixio to additional data and AI capability to technology portfolio.
- Apixio will remain an operationally independent entity
as part of Centene's Health Care Enterprises group to continue bringing value
to its clients and the industry.
Centene Corporation, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Apixio Inc., an AI healthcare analytics company offering Artificial
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Eko Lands $65M to Expand AI-Powered Telehealth Platform for Virtual Pulmonary and Cardiac Exam
What You Should Know:
- Cardiopulmonary digital health company Eko raises $65M
in Series C funding to close the gap between virtual and in-person heart and
lung care.
- The latest round of funding will enable Eko to expand
in-clinic use of its platform of telehealth and AI algorithms for disease
screening and to launch a monitoring program for cardiopulmonary patients at
home.
Eko, a
cardiopulmonary digital
health company,
today announced $65 million in Series C funding led by
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation Launches 3 Collaborations to Advance Healthcare in China
What You Should Know:
- Johnson & Johnson Innovation announces three strategic
collaborations with a focus on advancing healthcare solutions in China.
- The three strategic collaborations are focused on leveraging advances in science and technology to address areas of high unmet medical need across several areas, including discovery science, lung cancer, and medical devices
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, a division of Johnson & Johnson (China) Investment Limited, today
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How RPA Can Help Get COVID-19 Vaccines to High-Risk Patients First
While most of the public’s attention is focused on the horse race for an approved COVID-19 vaccine, another major hurdle lies just around the corner: the distribution of hundreds of millions of vaccine doses. In today’s highly complex and disconnected health data landscape, technologies like AI, Machine Learning, and robotic process automation (RPA) will be essential to making sure that the highest-risk patients receive the vaccine first.
Why identifying at-risk patients is
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Fern Health Taps 10M Mass General De-Identified Patient Records for Pain Management
What You Should Know:
- Fern Health will reveal a
first-of-its-kind collaboration with Mass General Hospital where it will inform
existing and future digitally-delivered pain management programs through the
marriage of AI + predictive analytics with 10 million de-identified Mass
General patient records.
- MGH will validate emerging Fern Health products and pilot new products in clinical environments, setting the stage for Fern expansion into all aspects of non-invasive multimodal pain
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Northwestern to Deploy FDA-Cleared Deploy AI-Guided Cardiac Ultrasounds
What You Should Know:
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the first in the
nation to deploy FDA-cleared AI-guided ultrasound by Caption Health, including
measurement of ejection fraction – the most widely used measurement to assess
cardiac function.
- Caption Health's AI-guided cardiac ultrasound enables clinicians – including those without experience – to accurately perform diagnostic-quality exams -- accelerating the availability of information and saving lives.
- Caption AI has been
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KēlaHealth Lands $12.9M to Expand AI-Powered Surgical Intelligence Platform
What You Should Know:
- KēlaHealth
announced their Series A round (combined seed and Series A) of $12.9M led by
Sante Ventures and new innovation VC, Intuitive Ventures.
- KēlaHealth, is a surgical intelligence engine that
applies a dynamic cycle of patient-specific predictions, stratified
interventions, and outcomes tracking to reduce surgical complications
- KēlaHealth is the first investment for Intuitive
Ventures, a new innovation fund spun out of Intuitive Surgical,
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Kettering Health to Deploy Nuance’s AI-Driven Physician Documentation for ED
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the Kettering
Health Network has selected ED Guidance for Nuance Dragon Medical Advisor.
- This AI-powered computer-assisted physician
documentation (CAPD) solution will help reduce physicians’ administrative
burden while lowering the risk of adverse safety events, missing diagnoses, and
malpractice litigation – priorities for all physicians, especially in the ED
where the nature of care presents special challenges and
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Holy Name, Sheba Medical Center Partner to Develop Digital Health Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Holy Name Medical
Center based in New Jersey and Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, the largest
medical center in the Middle East announced a strategic partnership to develop
digital health and telehealth solutions, The
Times of Israel reports.
- As part of the partnership, Holy Name’s team will Sheba’s ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate) Innovation
Center with the focus of identifying clinical needs and developing
solutions to medical challenges.
- ARC
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