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- TytoCare, a global all-in-one modular device and examination platform for AI-powered, on-demand, remote medical exams, announced today its partnership with Al-Futtaim Electronic-Techserve, a group company of Al-Futtaim. The partnership with TytoCare will enable Al-Futtaim to broaden its reach across the healthcare spectrum, covering all touchpoints, from specialists to local clinics.
- Al-Futtaim Group is a large
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Digital Health Funding Tops $29.1B Across 729 Deals in 2021
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- Digital health funding in the U.S. reached $29.1 billion across 729 deals, according to latest research from Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. The total nearly doubles 2020’s $14.9B record with an average deal size of $39.9M.
- The findings signal both the cause and effect of trends in the healthcare landscape as the digital health sector deals with major changes to its infrastructure, business models, and talent pool
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Elsevier Acquires Digital Health Education Platform Osmosis – M&A
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- Elsevier acquires Osmosis – a digital health education platform that has simplified the complex learning journey for millions of medical students and healthcare professionals around the world.
- A growing demand for healthcare workers and medical education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is driving the need for digital healthcare education solutions. The highly engaging visual learning offerings of Osmosis will be applied to other areas in Elsevier’s
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Alira Health Acquires Digital Health Engagement Platform Patchai
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Alira Health acquires Italy-based Patchai, a cognitive platform embedding an empathetic virtual assistant for patient engagement and real-time data collection.
This marks Alira Health’s second digital health acquisition, furthering the company’s rapid expansion into patient-centric, technology-enabled solutions for healthcare providers, payers, and suppliers.
Alira Health, a Framingham, MA-based health care consultancy, announced that it has acquired Italy-based
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Trinity Health Invests in Xealth to Expand Digital Health Engagement Between Clinicians and Patients – HLTH21
What You Should Know:
- Xealth, a Seattle-based provider enabling digital health at scale, today announced at HLTH21 that Trinity Health, one of the nation’s largest Catholic health care systems, has invested in the company, bringing the total Series B funding to $25 million.
- The announcements mark Trinity as one of 15 health system investors for Xealth: Advocate Aurora Enterprises, Atrium Health, Banner Health, ChristianaCare, Cone Health, Memorial Hermann, Nebraska
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15 HLTH 2021 Predictions from Digital Health Executives to Watch
Before HLTH 2021 kicks off in Boston on October 17th, here are 15 predictions from digital health executives to watch:
"The explosion of telehealth will certainly be a hot topic at HLTH. I expect the other trend will be focusing on mental health, especially in the context of the post-Covid era. And of course, we will continue the conversation on interoperability, data, and AI."
“We’re looking forward to hearing about the acceleration of technology-driven performance and accountability
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AlleyCorp Launches $100M Healthcare Venture Fund for NYC Early-Stage Digital Health Startups
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- AlleyCorp, a NYC firm dedicated to founding, funding, and building transformative companies across industries today announced the launch of the AlleyCorp Healthcare Fund, an $100M early-stage venture capital healthcare fund and incubator. The physician-led healthcare fund builds on AlleyCorp’s momentum in digital health and responds to the growing need and opportunity, made all the more urgent by the pandemic, to enable higher-quality, lower-cost healthcare for
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3 Ways Digital Health is Transforming Decentralized Clinical Trials
Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs) have been gaining steam over the last decade, but it was the COVID-19 pandemic that cast its advantages into the limelight. Sponsors benefit by creating efficiencies virtually throughout drug discovery, research, and treatment phases. However, the greatest long-term benefactors will ultimately be the patients.
Many aspects of traditional clinical trials are inconvenient for potential candidates, including the commute distance to trial sites, time
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PreciseMDX Launches Digital Health Platform to Automate Diagnostic Testing Experience
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- PreciseMDX, the leading end-to-end digital health platform, introduces a cloud-based solution that automates and simplifies the diagnostic testing experience, empowering labs to deliver a transformative journey to providers and patients. PreciseMDX dramatically improves connectivity between clinical labs, providers, and patients during every step of the diagnostic testing process for any type of test.
- Their first-of-its-kind platform enables labs of any size to
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Olive Launches In-House Venture Studio for Digital Health Startups
Olive Launches In-House Venture Studio for Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know:
- Olive, the $4B healthcare automation company, today announced Olive Ventures, a new in-house venture studio that works hand-in-hand with early-stage entrepreneurs to create digital health companies through Olive’s platform.
- Olive Ventures offers visionaries a secure, compliant tech environment (i.e. Olive’s tech stack) that’s designed to rapidly validate, deploy, distribute and
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