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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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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H1 Raises $100M to Expand Healthcare Professional Data Network
What You Should Know:
- Health tech startup H1 announced that it has raised a $100M Series C round of funding. NY-based H1 plans to invest the funds in the expansion of its data and network, product development and hiring, with a goal to make H1 the core global healthcare network for every
medical professional and organization in the world.
The Series C round was led by Altimeter Capital, joined by new investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Flex Capital, with
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H1 Launches Platform Where HCPs Can Now Claim and Update their Profiles
What You Should Know:
- H1, which provides the largest global healthcare platform that connects healthcare professionals, announced today that it has launched H1 Explorer, the first platform that has over 10 million healthcare professional (HCPs) profiles, and is allowing HCPs to claim and update their profiles.
- H1 Explorer is the comprehensive platform of HCPs ever assembled, and HCPs can now claim their H1 profile to use as their digital CV, connect with industry influencers, and
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M&A: Healthcare Data Startup H1 Acquires Carevoyance
What You Should Know:
- H1, a global healthcare platform that connects healthcare professionals has acquired Portland, Oregon based Carevoyance, which offers the best targeting, sales enablement, and physician segmentation platform to medical device sellers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition enables H1 to expand its presence in the medical device market, and allows Carevoyance - which will continue to operate independently, as a subsidiary of H1 -
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Transformation Capital Launches $500M Digital Health Fund
What You Should Know:
- Transformation Capital
Partners, L.P. (“Transformation Capital”) announced the launches of it’s
$500M growth equity fund, Transformation Capital Fund II, L.P.
- The new fund will focus on investing between $10 to $30M in
commercial-stage digital health companies and technology-enabled service
businesses that are improving the healthcare system.
- Led by Todd Cozzens, Dr. Jared Kesselheim and Mike Dixon, Transformation
Capital manages over $800 million across the
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H1 Secures $58M to Expand Global Healthcare Data Platform
What You Should Know:
- H1, the largest database of information on every doctor
in the world raises $58M in Series B funding, just six months after raising its
Series A round during the pandemic.
- H1 is the largest database in the world connecting that
provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 9 million healthcare
professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70-plus countries, all of which are
kept up-to-date weekly.
H1, a global
platform for the healthcare
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2020 H1 Deep Dive on the Global Digital Health Sector Landscape Report
What You Should Know:
Global venture capital firm White Capital publishes its first series of sector reports diving into the global digital health sector focusing on virtual care, mobile health, software, and communication, while also exploring the outlook of the sector from North America, Europe, and Asia.
In Q1 of 2020, $9.8bn of new VC capital was invested in digital health globally, which is 12% more than what was invested in Q1 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an accelerated
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Healthcare Data Platform H1 Raises $12.9M to Fuel Growth
What You Should Know:
- H1, the biggest database in the world connecting healthcare, life science professionals, and companies raises $12.9M in funding.
- Its healthcare data platform provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 8 million healthcare professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70+ countries, all of which are kept up-to-date weekly. The platform enables users to understand and analyze any healthcare professional’s full profile, including expertise, interests,
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Health Data Privacy: Why Eroding Public Trust Harms Medical Research
Using Data Privacy to Empower Health Research
The importance of data security and data privacy policies have recently come under scrutiny due to revelations around Google’s Project Nightingale. The initiative with Ascension, the nation’s largest nonprofit health system, granted Google access to medical records of more than 50 million individuals in 21 states and may hinder the trajectory of health discovery by eroding “consumer” trust.
While historically it might have been a safe harbor to
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