What You Should Know:
- Mission Bio raises $70 million in Series C funding led by
Novo Growth to accelerate the development of cancer therapies with single-cell multi-omics.
- Mission Bio’s Tapestri Platform, the first single-cell platform capable of detecting DNA and protein changes simultaneously, gives a profound insight into the mutations that drive disease to accelerate the development of novel treatments and save patient lives.
Mission Bio,
Inc., a South San Francisco,
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Ciox Health Acquires Biomedical NLP Company Medal
What You Should Know:
- Ciox Health has acquired Medal, Inc., a biomedical
Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP) technology company.
- The acquisition will lead Ciox to better and more
quickly enable real-world data in support of research that advances patient
care.
Ciox
Health, a leading health technology company, today announced its acquisition
of San Francisco-based biomedical Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP)
technology company, Medal, Inc., a
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In-Depth: 32 FDA-Approved COVID-19 Testing Kits
What You Should Know:
- In-depth look list of FDA-approved COVID-19 test kits
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offers emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for unapproved products or new uses for approved items in urgent situations where no suitable alternatives exist. Dozens of companies have sought and received EUAs for their testing kits that screen for SARS-CoV-2 — more commonly referred to as COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus.
The FDA makes a
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Amazon, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain, Others Form COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
What You Should Know:
The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition is a
collaborative private-industry response to the novel coronavirus.
Its mission is to save lives by providing real-time
learning to preserve healthcare delivery and protect U.S. populations.
Coalition partners include Arcadia.io, athenahealth, Buoy
Health, the CommonWell Health Alliance, Epic, HCA Healthcare, Intermountain
Healthcare, LabCorp, Leavitt Partners, MassChallenge, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft,
MITRE, Rush
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Microsoft, Adaptive, Providence Partner to Decode COVID-19 Immune Response
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies have expanded their partnership to map the human immune response to COVID-19 and advance our understanding of the disease.
- Data from this study will be made available through an open-access portal to help researchers, public health organizations and industry improve diagnostics, help triage patients based on the immune response to the disease, and inform vaccine discovery for COVID-19.
- Other industry leaders including
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Health Gorilla Launches EMR-Integrated Electronic Ordering for COVID-19 Testing for LabCorp and Quest
What You Need to Know:
- Health Gorilla announces the launch of electronic ordering for COVID-19 testing for LabCorp and Quest that will allow thousands of providers, who currently rely on Health Gorilla to place lab orders, to seamlessly order COVID-19 tests for their patients.
- Providers and developers can begin placing orders through API and web-based interface, expanding access to COVID-19 testing within their existing product/EMR workflow.
Health
Gorilla, a Sunnyvale,
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Navigating Cancer Lands $26M to Expand Oncology Patient Relationship Management Platform
- Navigating Cancer raises $26M in Series D funding in an over-subscribed round (TTCP) for its comprehensive oncology patient relationship management solution.
- Navigating Cancer’s PRM platform helps providers manage patient interactions, improve the patient experience, and deliver value-based care more effectively – increasing the flow of communications between in-office visits, which, in turn, boosts patient engagement in their own care.
- Funding will enable NC to accelerate innovation of
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Mount Sinai, Philips, LabCorp to Launch Digital & AI-Enabled Pathology Center of Excellence
Mount Sinai, LabCorp, and Philips announced they are collaborating to establish the Mount Sinai Digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Pathology Center of Excellence. The new center will feature the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution, the first digital pathology system FDA approved for primary diagnostic use, which will help the organizations enhance the quality and lower the costs of patient care.Role of LabCorpLabCorp will lead the integration of Philips’ system at Mount Sinai,
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LabCorp Confirms 7.7M Customers Exposed by Data Breach from AMCA Payment Portal
Just a day after Quest Diagnostics confirmed a data breach, LabCorp has confirmed that nearly 7.7 million customers’ personal information may have been exposed due to a data breach from third-party collections firm American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionOpens a New Window. (SEC) filing, unauthorized activity on AMCA’s web payment page occurred between August 1, 2018, and March 30, 2019.The exposed data could include first and last name,
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HealthQuest Capital Closes $440M Fund to Invest in Innovative Growth-Stage Companies
HealthQuest Capital, a Silicon Valley-based growth capital firm has closed a $440 million fund to invest growth-stage companies delivering innovation across all sectors of the healthcare industry to improve patient outcomes, enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Fund III was oversubscribed and closed at a hard cap. Target markets for Fund III include growth- and commercial-stage companies focusing on medical technologies, diagnostics, digital health, and innovative services.HealthQuest Capital
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