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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Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health Closes $64M Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Startups
What You Should Know: - Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health (Wavemaker 360), the nation’s leading venture fund focused on early-stage (primarily seed) healthcare disruptors and innovators, recently announced its Fund II news, closing at $64M, surpassing its first fund nearly four times over. - The goal for Fund II is to invest into 40-50 early-stage companies, with several investments already made into some of the most compelling healthcare start-ups in the areas of health-tech, digital health,
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BrightInsight Launches Digital Disease Management Solution for Biopharma
What You Should Know: - BrightInsight, Inc., provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions launches its Disease Management Solution. - This configurable suite of digital applications includes a Patient App, Analytics Dashboards and Healthcare Provider Interfaces. The Disease Management Solution, built on the compliant BrightInsight® Platform on Google Cloud, meets biopharma and medtech customers’ core needs out-of-the-box to support
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Buried Under Dirt or Under Debt: Can Patients Survive the Struggle of Getting Care?
New patients at a cancer center in Michigan receive a 79-page handbook when their treatments commence. The handbook includes needed advice on what to eat and the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. One double-sided page features information about how to navigate the financial aspects of cancer treatment, including who to contact for help with medical bills. For Leslie Vreeland-Corpe of Michigan, one double-sided page couldn’t contain all the information she needed. After being diagnosed
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NotiSphere Raises $3.6M to Scale Medical Recall Platform
What You Should Know: - NotiSphere, a healthcare technology startup focused on transforming the medical recall alert process by directly connecting suppliers to recall coordinators at healthcare organizations, today announced a $3.6 million Series Seed round led by Royal Street Ventures, with participation from Okapi Ventures, Stage Venture Partners, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Coelius Capital, Supernode Ventures and Cedars Sinai Health Ventures. This latest financing brings
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Philips and Prisma Health Partner to Drive Enterprise Interoperability & Imaging Solutions
What You Should Know: - South Carolina’s largest health system Prisma Health adopts Philips software solutions for patient monitoring and enterprise imaging, helping to drive interoperability and data analytics, and deliver on Quadruple Aim. - The partnership reflects today’s growing trend of long-term strategic partnerships (LSPs) within hospitals and health systems to better manage the cost and complexity of their technology investments over a defined period of time while expanding
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Blue Spark Technologies Raises $40M for AI-Based Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know: - Blue Spark Technologies, Inc., a Cleveland, OH-based provider of wearable remote patient monitoring solutions, announced that it has raised $40 million in growth funding led by Ghost Tree Partners with support from Aon. - The funding will go towards scaling the company’s sales and marketing functions and the continued advancement of Blue Spark’s wearable remote patient monitoring solutions. Continuous, Real-Time Body Temperature Monitoring System TempTraq®,
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FundamentalVR Adds Endovascular Surgery Procedures to Haptic VR Medical Simulations
What You Should Know: - FundamentalVR, global pioneers in immersive VR surgical simulations, today announces the addition of endovascular surgery to its suite of haptic VR medical simulations. In addition, it’s also showcasing its new virtual showroom that would accelerate the ability of medical device manufacturers and life science companies to get new endovascular products into the hands of sales representatives and clinicians. Creating High-Fidelity Simulations In creating
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9am.Health Nabs $16M to Expand Virtual Diabetes Clinic Nationwide
What You Should Know: - 9am.health, a San Diego, CA-based virtual diabetes clinic that delivers personalized, affordable, and compassionate care directly to consumers raises $16M in Series A funding co-led by 7Wire Ventures and Human Capital and included participation from new investors StartUp Health, Leaps by Bayer, and existing investors Define Ventures and Founders Fund. The latest round brings its total funding to date to nearly $20M. - Innovative virtual care provider is now
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Viz.ai Raises $100M for Care Coordination Platform at $1.2B Valuation
What You Should Know: - Viz.ai, a San Francisco-based AI-powered disease detection and care coordination platform raises $1000M in Series D funding led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners. The round also included participation from Scale Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Threshold, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Sozo Ventures, CRV, and Susa. - The new funds will be used to support Viz.ai’s significant growth trajectory, expand the Viz Platform to detect
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