Microsoft Expands Healthcare Cloud Strategy with New Solutions
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Today at HIMSS22, Microsoft announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
Azure Health Data Services
Azure Health Data Services is purpose-built for protected health information (PHI) and brings together diverse datasets — like clinical, imaging and streaming data
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Foresite Capital Raises $173M Fund for Foresite Labs Incubated Companies
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- Foresite Capital is announcing their latest, oversubscribed $173M fund, which will be used to support Foresite Labs’ incubated life science companies.
- Foresite Labs was created in October 2019 to found, build, and scale life sciences companies at the intersection of healthcare and data science. One of Foresite Capital’s core beliefs is that by combining machine learning, big data, and genomics, life sciences companies can accelerate commercialization from decades
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Black Female Co-founders CancerIQ Raises $14M to Improve Cancer Early Detection and Prevention
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- CancerIQ, a Chicago-based platform powering early cancer detection and prevention across broad patient populations, announced today it closed a $14M Series B financing round.
- The Series B round was co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures with participation from McKesson Ventures, OSF Ventures (the investment arm of OSF HealthCare, a current CancerIQ customer), and HealthX Ventures.
Inequality in
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Mount Sinai Selects Accenture and Microsoft on Five-Year Transformation Journey to Cloud
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- Accenture and Microsoft will assist the Mount Sinai Health System (Mount Sinai) with its transition to the cloud to help enable innovation at a much faster pace.
- By modernizing its infrastructure, Mount Sinai will be able to reinvest cost-savings and focus on its healthcare mission.
The migration to Microsoft Azure could deliver millions in savings
Accenture will collaborate with New York City’s largest academic medical system to help devise and securely
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Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future
Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of healthcare data will reach 36% – that’s 6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial services, and 11% faster than media and entertainment.
In addition to information captured during visits with healthcare professionals, personal health information is being created by an increasingly
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H1 Acquires London-Based Faculty Opinions to Broaden Global Doctor Network
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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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7 Burning Questions from Life Sciences Companies on Using AI Agents
Each day life science companies respond to numerous medical information inquires – many of which are similar in nature or can be simply addressed. However, as we have seen in the news reports with the Great Resignation and many workers searching for new careers, the number of individuals interested in working in a medical information contact center may be waning. When you combine this with the rising volume of inquiries or medical inquiries and patient expectations for a real-time response to
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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.
AI
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ARTIS Ventures Announces 2021 Class of Healthcare and Life Sciences Fellows
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- ARTIS Ventures (“AV”), a venture firm focused on pioneering investments in biotech, health, and life sciences, today announced the candidates chosen for the AV Fellows program. The year-long program includes a diverse group of nine fellows from across the world, chosen from more than 150 applicants currently enrolled in a Ph.D. or MD program (or postdoc/residency) with technical expertise ranging from computational biology, synthetic biology, microbiome engineering,
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Qualio Secures $50M for Quality Management System Platform for Life Sciences
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- Qualio — the trusted cloud quality management system software for the entire life sciences ecosystem announced their $50M Series B funding round led by Tiger Global. Menlo Ventures also joined this round, alongside the following current Qualio investors: Frontline Ventures, MHS Capital, Operator Partners, Sorenson Ventures, and Storm Ventures.
- This latest round of funding will support Qualio’s efforts to expand accessibility of their electronic quality management
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