PathAI, a Boston, MA-based provider of AI-powered pathology platform has raised $60M in Series B funding led by General Atlantic with strong participation from General Catalyst and other existing investors. General Atlantic Managing Director Dr. Michelle Dipp will be joining PathAI’s board of directors.Advanced Learning Towards Faster More Accurate Diagnosis of DiseaseCo-founded by Chief Executive Officer Dr. Andy Beck in 2016 with the mission to offer faster, safer and more powerful solutions
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CHLA Announces 10 Semi-Finalists from Gamifying Pediatrics Hackathon
The Innovation Studio at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), today announced10 semi-finalists from the first ever Gamifying Pediatrics Hackathon, which took place April 12-14, 2019 at BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV) in Manhattan Beach (CA), the global corporate venture and incubation arm of the Boston Consulting Group. This hackathon brought together 185 enthusiastic participants, including physicians and nurses on the front lines of pediatric medicine, engineers, developers, and experts in
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Medidata Launches New Life Sciences Company, Acorn AI
Life sciences digital transformation company Medidata, today announced the launch of Acorn AI, a new company designed to provide actionable insights across the entire drug continuum – from R&D to commercialization. In addition, the company has appointed Rama Kondru, Ph.D., as the chief information officer for Medidata and Acorn AI’s first CIO to lead the company’s enterprise data strategy, architecture and future platform development – all helping the company to accelerate the creation of
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5 Disruptive Technologies Driving The Future of Patient Monitoring Solutions
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The patient monitoring market is expected to be worth more than $350 billion by 2025, as the focus is likely to move beyond device
sales to solutions, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan's report.
The report, Patient
Monitoring Industry—Analysis of Investment and Trends outlines the
future of patient monitoring across the continuum of care, the shifts in the
market, and investment opportunities.
Evolution of
Patient Monitoring
Patient
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Disruptive Dozen: 12 Emerging AI Technologies Impacting Healthcare
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Today during the 2019 World Innovation Forum, Partners HealthCare unveiled its selections for the fifth annual “Disruptive Dozen,” an annual list of 12 emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with the greatest potential to impact healthcare in the next year.
Disruptive Dozen Overview & Criteria
The annual 12 most disruptive technologies are selected through a rigorous process by Partners HealthCare thought leaders, clinicians, and
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NVIDIA, American College of Radiology Partner to Accelerate AI for Diagnostic Radiology
NVIDIA and the American College of Radiology are teaming up to enable thousands of radiologists nationwide to create and use AI for diagnostic radiology in their own facilities, using their own data, to meet their own clinical needs. The announcement follows a successful three-month pilot program by both parties, ACR is integrating the NVIDIA Clara AI toolkit into the newly announced ACR Data Science Institute ACR AI-LAB.ACR AI-LAB BackgroundACR AI-LAB is a free software platform that will be
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Deep Lens Lands $14M to Scale AI-Driven Digital Pathology Platform
Digital pathology startup Deep Lens lands $14M in Series A funding to scale AI-driven digital pathology platform
Deep Lens, Inc., a Columbus, OH-based AI-driven digital pathology company focused on clinical trial recruitment at the time of diagnosis has raised $14 million in Series A funding. The Series A round was led by Northpond Ventures with participation from existing investors Rev1 Ventures, Sierra Ventures, and Tamarind-Hill Partners. The funding comes months after Deep Lens emerged
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March 2019 News, Merger & Acquisition, IPO, Public Company Performance Summary
A brief summary of noteworthy news, health IT M&A activity, IPOs, and public company performance during the month of March.
Noteworthy News
Amazon, JP Morgan, Berkshire Names New Joint Venture Haven
Amazon, J.P. Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway name joint venture Haven. In January 2018, the three founding companies announced plans to create this independent organization, now called Haven, which is free from profit-making incentives and constraints. Haven’s focus is the 1.2 million
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Innovaccer Launches AI-Assisted Solution to Address the Social Determinants of Health
Innovaccer's new solution empowers care teams to identify and effectively manage social determinants of health to enhance population health across the continuum.
Innovaccer Inc., the leading San Francisco-based data activation company, announced today the launch of its SDOH Management solution tailored to capture SDOH data and leverage it to deliver enhanced care, powered by its Data Activation Platform. Created after months of extensive research & development (R&D), Innovaccer's
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Healthgrades Launches AI-Powered CDP Platform to Improve Patient Experience
Today, Healthgrades announced the first Customer Data Platform (CDP) built for healthcare. Healthgrades CDP – powered by AI & Deep Learning tech - will allow health systems to bring together once disparate data into a single platform. It will provide health systems with a holistic view of patients, with the long term goal of transforming and personalizing the patient experience. Healthgrades Benefits Healthgrades CDP will also serve as the underlying data management solution for powering CRM
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