What You Should Know:
- Today, Eko, a digital health company advancing heart and lung disease detection, has announced the FDA has issued clearance for its Eko Murmur Analysis Software (EMAS), the first and only machine learning algorithm to screen for valvular heart disease (VHD).
- The next generation of Eko’s murmur detection capabilities grants Eko the first and only smart stethoscope on the market that can identify and
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Particle Health Raises $25M to Scale Health Data Exchange API Platform
What You Should Know:
- Particle Health, a New York-based API platform for advanced healthcare data exchange, , today announced its Series B financing of $25 million led by Canvas Ventures with participation from Menlo Ventures, Story Ventures, and Pruven Capital. The financing brings the organization’s total capital raised to $39.3M.
- From a healthcare infrastructure perspective, the company is leading the industry in applying the next-generation FHIR data format to make interoperability
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Innovaccer Launches Connected Digital Health Solution for Biopharma & Medtech
What You Should Know:
- Today Innovaccer, the Health Cloud company, announced its Connected Digital Health solution, a new way for life sciences companies to rapidly deliver next-generation digital apps that surround therapeutics and devices with highly engaging patient experiences, improve clinical outcomes, and generate valuable real-world evidence (RWE).
- The new solution will allow life sciences companies to realize the promise of digital health with holistic, “around-the-brand”
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Merck Digital Sciences Studio Launches to Support Biomedical Startups
What You Should Know:
- Merck, today announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development.
- MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct investment, access to powerful Azure Cloud computing and opportunities to pilot their technologies in collaboration with discovery and clinical scientists at Merck.
MDSS Accelerator Program Focus
The MDSS is a collaboration between
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When It Comes to Digital Health, Experience Is Everything
Thanks to COVID-19 and numerous other factors, the adoption of digital health technologies used by patients in the home has skyrocketed. Accenture reported in 2021, for example, that remote patient monitoring technology adoption tripled among patients. Whether it is streaming video telehealth appointments with a provider, a remote patient monitoring platform, or a prescribed digital therapeutic to manage a chronic condition, the emphasis must be on the patient and caregiver
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Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?
Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included:
- Developing a solution for a national EHR database.
- Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug
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Turquoise Health Integrates Price Transparency Data with Ribbon Health
What You Should Know:
- Ribbon Health, an API data platform for the healthcare industry that powers care decisions, and Turquoise Health, a provider of structured data on the cost of care to make pricing data both transparent and accessible to patients, announced an integration partnership.
- By integrating Turquoise Health's price transparency data into the Ribbon Health platform, healthcare companies will be able to effectively navigate patients to cost-effective and high-quality
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New Hospital-At-Home Study Focuses on Rural Health Deserts
What You Should Know:
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), based in Lexington, Ky., will use Biofourmis’ virtual care and AI-based predictive analytics technology to support a new Rural Home Hospital program delivering acute hospital-level care inside patients’ homes--including a clinical trial studying this care model in rural areas.
- ARH joins Blessing Health System—which is also using Biofourmis’ solution—as one of only two U.S. participants
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How IoT Data Integration Helps Deliver Improved At-Home Healthcare in 2022
When it comes to your health and treatment, hospitals leverage a variety of sensors and instruments to collect the necessary information to monitor and diagnose your health status. With essential health data integrated into one platform, healthcare professionals are able to quickly and easily monitor critical care parameters, which allows them to make decisions and deliver the best possible patient care.
Comprehensive big-picture insight into various health parameters, such as a patient’s
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Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health Closes $64M Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Startups
What You Should Know:
- Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health (Wavemaker 360), the nation’s leading venture fund focused on early-stage (primarily seed) healthcare disruptors and innovators, recently announced its Fund II news, closing at $64M, surpassing its first fund nearly four times over.
- The goal for Fund II is to invest into 40-50 early-stage companies, with several investments already made into some of the most compelling healthcare start-ups in the areas of health-tech, digital health,
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