Many medical advancements – from life-saving vaccines and treatments to new diagnostic tests like liquid biopsies – are built on research that involves human biospecimens. Biofluids, tissue and cells are indispensable resources for the medical researcher, yet the process of sourcing these biospecimens can be woefully frustrating and inefficient. These challenges can have a direct, negative impact on the pace of discovery, creating urgency for improved access to the biospecimens researchers need
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Healthcare Data Exchange, Integration, and Analytics
Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better
Digital transformation has increased healthcare access, but quality and consistency are lagging behind. A human touch – and some innovative thinking – can get us where we need to be.
We weren’t prepared. But can you blame us?
The healthcare industry has gone digital faster than anyone could’ve expected. Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic. At some point, they would’ve naturally risen to prominence. COVID-19 forced us to stuff a
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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 Joins the CARIN Alliance to Advance Interoperability
What You Should Know:
- Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that it has joined the CARIN Alliance (CARIN), a multisector collaborative working to rapidly advance the consumer-directed exchange of health information to improve the interoperability of healthcare data.
- Innovaccer will participate as a member of the multisector alliance to advance healthcare data sharing, enabling consumers, patients, and caregivers easier access to health
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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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H1 Adds $20M to Series C to Power Democratization of Global Healthcare Data
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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SnapLogic Launches Amazon HealthLake Accelerator to Store, Share Patient Data
What You Should Know:
- SnapLogic, a provider of Enterprise Automation, today launched the SnapLogic Accelerator for Amazon HealthLake, which enables healthcare and life sciences organizations to easily ingest a range of raw data into Amazon HealthLake, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and transform it into healthcare-related insights and actions.
- This new Amazon HealthLake-dedicated integration and automation accelerator will help organizations looking to quickly connect systems,
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Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Will Transform Outcomes
You don’t need another story urging you to “get to the cloud.” That’s old news for healthcare executives, who’ve long understood the necessity of rebooting the way their organizations operate in the digital era.
In a recent McKinsey study, 19 of the 22 healthcare leaders the company interviewed described digital healthcare solutions as “highly relevant” or “relevant” to their businesses. They get it.
In fact, digital healthcare has already become the minimum table stakes: 93% of
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BeeKeeperAI Partners with Microsoft to Accelerate AI-Powered Innovation in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- BeeKeeperAI, a company powering AI-powered solutions that will help to redefine the future of healthcare today announced its expanded collaboration with Microsoft.
- The collaboration will allow algorithm developers and healthcare data stewards to access BeeKeeperAI, operating in the Microsoft Azure confidential computing (ACC) environment, through the Azure Marketplace.
New Frontier for Healthcare AI Research
The enhanced collaboration aims to accelerate the
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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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