What You Should Know:
- H1, the connecting force for global healthcare professional, clinical, science, and research information, announced their Series C extension led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Menlo Ventures, Transformation Capital and Novartis Pharma AG, bringing the total Series C raise to over $120M.
- The news comes at a time when public markets are down and many other companies are doing down rounds. The extension allows H1’s valuation of $773M to stay constant,
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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?
All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program. Meanwhile, Forrester predicts the number of hospitals delivering acute care at home will triple in 2022. The reasons why are compelling: a study
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Health and Social Care Northern Ireland Taps Tegria for National Digital Transformation
What You Should Know:
- Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) has enlisted the support of global healthcare technology specialist, Tegria, and digital health consultancy, Cloud21, in a deal to support its national digital transformation program.
- The organizations will help to deliver Northern Ireland’s Encompass program – a decade-long initiative that aims to deliver improvements to outcomes for patients by making it easier for health and care
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Solve.Care Launches First Crypto Healthcare Device Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Solve.Care, the global healthcare blockchain technology company, has announced the world's first crypto-enabled marketplace dedicated to healthcare.
- Care.Marketplace will allow for the purchase of domestic healthcare devices across the United States. This first-of-its-kind development will work to influence the use of domestic healthcare devices
Crypto-Enabled Marketplace
Solve.Care is creating innovative solutions to long-standing access challenges within
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How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
Although it is well established that diversity improves outcomes and drives excellence, implementing diversity lags behind in many industries, including life sciences and healthcare.
Diversity is lacking across the entire field, from academic research to clinical work, composition of the workforce, and medical practice. This leads to worse health outcomes and fewer professional opportunities for underserved demographics, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with
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3 Predictions for Post-COVID Clinical Trial Decentralization
Prior to COVID, major technological transformation initiatives were already underway at many clinical trial sites, sponsors, and contract research organizations (CROs.) But the move to decentralized trials accelerated dramatically in 2020 and 2021–and it’s not slowing down.
Survey data from WCG Avoca shows that research sites and sponsors expect 89% of clinical trials to qualify as a hybrid, with a mix of decentralized technology and in-person visits.
But what will these
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AmerisourceBergen Launches $150M Corporate Venture Fund
What You Should Know:
- AmerisourceBergen, a global healthcare solutions company, announced the establishment of AB Health Ventures, a dedicated corporate venture capital fund that will invest in and partner with emerging healthcare startup companies working to transform healthcare for people and animals globally.
- AB Health Ventures will build on AmerisourceBergen’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovation for its customers.
AB Health Ventures Investment Thesis
AB Health
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DarioHealth Forms $30M Strategic Agreement with Sanofi U.S.
What You Should Know:
- DarioHealth Corp., a provider of global digital therapeutics (DTx), announced it has entered into a $30M multi-year, strategic agreement with Sanofi U.S., an innovative global healthcare company. The multi-year, $30 million-dollar agreement will help accelerate commercial adoption of Dario's full suite of digital therapeutics and drive the expansion of digital health solutions on the Dario platform.
- As part of the strategic agreement, Dario and Sanofi will
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H1 Acquires London-Based Faculty Opinions to Broaden Global Doctor Network
What You Should Know:
H1, a global healthcare professional data ecosystem to enable life sciences, academic medical institutions, health systems, and payors acquires London-based Faculty Opinions Ltd, formerly known as Faculty of 1000 and F1000 Prime. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- A close partner of H1, Faculty Opinions fuses the comments and opinions of thousands of top researchers in the Life and Medical Sciences to highlight and validate the most
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Novo Nordisk, TetraScience Partner on Cloud-Based Instrument Data Platform
What You Should Know:
- Novo Nordisk A/S, a leading global healthcare company, and TetraScience, the leading global Life Sciences R&D Data Cloud, announce a new partnership to design a cloud-based instrument data platform for drug R&D, built natively on Amazon Web Services.
- Novo Nordisk will leverage the TetraScience Platform for automated instrument data acquisition and scalable in-cloud processing from heterogeneous sources and data streams, including plate readers, robotic
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