What You Should Know:
- MiSalud Inc., a San Francisco-based digital health startup has raised $5M and is launching the beta version of their digital health and wellness platform led by Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company, with Magnify Ventures. MiSalud, which means My Health in Spanish, aims to make healthcare more inclusive by offering personalized healthcare services to US Hispanics through its mobile app and platform.
- MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized
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5-Step Guide to Hiring AI Talent for Digital Health, Biotech & Life Sciences Companies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will disrupt healthcare's destiny for good. Here are five steps digital health startups can take to find the premier talent to get the job done.
Not too long ago, AI was the topic of futuristic movies. What was once a fictional draw at the Box Office is now a reality in offices worldwide. AI is everywhere and rapidly transforming the way we work. What remains scarce though is the technical talent in healthcare to see this tech revolution through.
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Good Health Pass Releases Blueprint for Digital Health Passes to Restore International Travel
What You Should Know:
- The Good Health Pass Collaborative announced the release of the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint, a proposed new set of interoperability specifications which, as they are adopted, will allow airlines and governments to verify travelers’ COVID status (proof of vaccination, testing, and recovery), while simultaneously ensuring that core principles – such as privacy, security, user-control, and equity – are protected.
- Over the past six
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Innovaccer Unveils the Innovation Accelerator Program with 14 Digital Health Innovators
What You Should Know:
- Today, Innovaccer Inc. launched the Innovation Accelerator program, an exciting new partner and marketplace ecosystem aimed at helping digital health innovators rapidly create breakthrough clinical, financial, and operational solutions through the power of the Innovaccer Health Cloud.
- The Innovation Accelerator program empowers partners and digital health innovators to create truly interoperable solutions and enhancements that leverage the Innovaccer
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Leveraging Digital Health to Assist Developing Countries’ Health Systems
Vaccine rollouts are picking up steam and many parts of the world are gradually beginning to relax restrictions and reopen their economies. While this welcome news is cause for celebration, it is crucial for decision-makers in developed countries to understand the reality: for the most part, it is only developed countries that are really moving through this. Less fortunate parts of the world—notably Brazil and India—have practically served these past few months as petri dishes for mutations that
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Philips, Cognizant Partner to Develop Digital Health Solutions to Providers, Researchers and Patients
What You Should Know:
- Cognizant and Phillips announced a strategic collaboration to develop digital health solutions intended to improve patient care and accelerate the clinical trials process by increasing connectivity across patients, providers and clinical researchers.
- The strategic alliance brings together Philips HealthSuite, a cloud-based platform and Cognizant’s digital engineering expertise
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SUD: Can Digital Health Solutions Remove Stigmas Around Addiction?
We can safely take for granted that a doctor treating your back pain isn’t going to determine the course of care based on whether she thinks you’ll fully commit to getting better. She isn’t likely to start treatment with a contract stating that the only way to stay in treatment is to commit to doing everything she requires and reaching total recovery. She isn’t going to set arbitrary parameters for how fast you should recover.
It’s also safe to assume that your quest to get care for back pain
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Providence-backed Tegria Acquires Digital Health AI Platform KenSci
What You Should Know:
- Providence-backed Tegria today announced the acquisition of KenSci, a leader in artificial intelligence platforms and apps for healthcare, with roots in Microsoft's Azure4Research program and the University of Washington. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Founded in 2015, KenSci's digital health AI platform helps organizations bring the power their data and improve health outcomes with advanced analytics. KenSci's customers,
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Pear Therapeutics Goes Public Via $1.6B SPAC Deal – Digital Health IPO
What You Should Know:
- Pear Therapeutics, the leader in developing and commercializing prescription digital therapeutics to treat serious disease, and Thimble Point Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: THMA), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) whose management team is associated with the Pritzker Vlock Family Office, today announced that they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement.
- Pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, upon closing of the
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AWS Healthcare Accelerator Launches for Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know:
- Today, Amazon announced the launch of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Healthcare Accelerator program, delivered by KidsX, a global ecosystem of pediatric innovators.
- The AWS Healthcare Accelerator is a four-week technical, business, and mentorship accelerator opportunity open to U.S.-based healthcare startups or international healthcare startups that have existing U.S. operations.
- A cohort of 10 healthcare startup companies with an established
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