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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LG Launches LA Business Innovation Center for Medical Environments
What You Should Know:
- LG Business Solutions USA has opened its new Los Angeles Business Innovation Center, the first comprehensive LG technology and education hub to focus on commercial displays and devices designed for medical environments, led by LG’s diagnostic and clinical review monitors, digital X-ray detectors and smart hospital TVs.
- The new Los Angeles Business Innovation Center is LG’s third in the United States (the others being in Chicago and Atlanta). They serve as
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CPQ: Optimizing MedTech Operations and Sales to Accelerate Cash Flow
The lead-to-cash process in most B-to-B organizations––particularly those operating in the medical device industry––is often complex and lengthy. This is even more apparent when operations, sales and customer success teams operate in manual and siloed environments.
In this all-too-common scenario, not only does it slow cash flow velocity, it also leaves the organization vulnerable to inconsistencies, inaccuracies and more errors every time a handoff occurs between
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NVIDIA Launches AI Computing Platform for Medical Devices
What You Should Know:
- NVIDIA today introduced Clara Holoscan MGX, a platform for the medical device industry to develop and deploy real-time AI applications at the edge, specifically designed to meet required regulatory standards.
- Clara Holoscan MGX expands the Clara Holoscan platform to provide an all-in-one, medical-grade reference architecture, as well as long-term software support, to accelerate innovation in the medical device industry.
Clara Holoscan MGX Overview
As part
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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France
Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform
OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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Philips Capsule Surveillance Receives 510(k) Clearance
What You Should Know:
- Philips Capsule Surveillance solution has received 510(k) market clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), paving the way for widespread deployment across healthcare systems in the USA.
- Capable of utilizing streaming data from virtually any connected medical device, the solution aggregates patient data, analyses it to generate actionable insights and alerts, and sends timely notifications to the patient’s caregivers so that they can
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