Analytics 4 Life, a digital health startup using artificial intelligence to develop medical imaging solutions has raised $25 million in Series B funding supported by an international syndicate of accredited investors, including physicians, healthcare professionals, and medical device experts. The company will use the latest round of funding to advance its proprietary imaging technology designed to assess coronary artery disease in a revolutionary way. The Series B round brings the Analytics 4
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Backed by Premera Blue Cross, Cardinal Analytx Raises $6.1M for Predictive Analytics Platform
Cardinal Analytx, a Palo Alto, CA-based digital health startup using machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve care and reduce healthcare costs for patients has raised $6.1 million in Series A funding. Spun out of Stanford University, Cardinal Analtyx Solutions was founded by Stanford professors Drs. Arnie Milstein and Nigam Shah, who created the company with lead investor Cardinal Partners. Other investors include the Stanford-StartX Fund and Premera Blue Cross, which also
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Innovaccer Launches Care Intelligence System to Empower Care Teams for Value-based Care
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, today announced the launch of Care Intelligence System to become the bedrock of value-based care. The new platform is designed for care teams to streamline their workflows, reduce IT dependency and yet reach more of their at-risk patients.Innovaccer realized the need for a new value-based care platform while working with multi-hospital systems like Mercy ACO, Osler, Compass, CHI, and Catalyst. CMS has introduced many payments
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Mount Sinai Scientists Reveal Solutions for Opioid Epidemics Using Machine Learning
Mount Sinai researchers have identified unique structural, biological and chemical insights in the way different opioid drugs activate the receptors and specific signaling pathways responsible for the drug’s beneficial and adverse effects, according to a study to be published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Opioid overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. The findings of this study may provide a blueprint for designing improved painkillers.There have been many
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doc.ai Raises $2.3M in Pre-ICO for Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology
doc.ai Incorporated (“doc.ai”), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup building an advanced natural language processing technology platform for quantified biology has raised $2.3 million in pre-ICO (initial coin offering) or initial sale of Simple Agreements for Future Tokens ("SAFTs"). A total of ten purchasers acquired SAFTs led by Pantera Capital.The early pre-sale of doc.ai's SAFTs, which are convertible into digital tokens named Neurons ("NRNs"), was limited to existing investors
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doc.ai Launches First Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology
doc.ai Incorporated ("doc.ai"), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup has announced the launch of its blockchain-enabled natural language processing (NLP) platform for quantified biology. Founded by the entrepreneurial Walter De Brouwer in 2016, doc.ai utilizes the blockchain to timestamp its datasets and decentralize artificial intelligence to generate insights from combined medical data.doc.ai is building a new platform for established medical companies to enable patients to have
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Why The Mental Health Industry Is Ripe For Innovation
Editor's Note: Kouris Kalligas is the CEO and co-founder of Therachat, an automated, intelligent system will reply and save the conversations so you can monitor their mental status in between sessions. Technology has been tested and proven effective in many advanced and innovative industries, and is now extending and applying its benefits to more regulated industries such as healthcare. According to Mary Meeker's Internet Trends 2017 report, healthcare is “at a digital inflection point.” She
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Buoy Health Lands $6.7M to Expand AI-Powered Symptom Checker to Providers, Payers
Buoy Health, a Boston, MA-based digital health startup has raised $6.7M in Series A funding led by F-Prime Capital Partners and an undisclosed strategic investor. The round also included participation from FundRx, Jack Connors, and other angel investors.Formed out of the Harvard Innovation Laboratory in 2014, Buoy Health’s artificial intelligence-powered online symptom and cure checker leverages an intelligent algorithm backed by medical data to diagnose patients. Designed to resemble an
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Mendel.ai Raises $2M to Launch AI-Powered Medical Matching Service
Mendel.ai, a San Francisco-based startup has raised $2 million in seed funding co-led by DCM Ventures and Bootstrap Lab to launch a new artificial intelligence engine for doctors. The company has developed a new artificial intelligence engine that enables doctors and patients to more quickly find the best diagnostic and treatment methods available for their patients’ medical conditions.Founded by Dr. Karim Galil, Mendel.ai has developed a sophisticated algorithm that understands the
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Why Applied Artificial Intelligence Is Here to Replace Healthcare Analytics
Editor's Note: Gurjeet Singh, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Ayasdi, an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform lets you create intelligent business applications and make fundamental discoveries with big data. The combination of electronic medical records, financial data, clinical data, and advanced analytics promised to revolutionize healthcare. It hasn’t happened. The common excuse is that healthcare wasn’t really prepared for the enormity and complexity of the data challenge and that,
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