What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications announced a series of strategic partnership announcements at RNSA 2022.
- Nuance announces that Kentucky-based Baptist Health and Pennsylvania-based Einstein Healthcare have joined the Nuance Precision Imaging Network (PIN). The addition of these healthcare systems will empower collaborative care teams with AI-powered insights from diagnostic imaging at the point-of-care.
- Perspectum, a global medical technology company,
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Microsoft
HLTH22 Day 1 News Summary: Google, Maven, Highmark, LG, Others
Venture Capital, Private Equity Funding
Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform
Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women’s and family health raises $90 million Series E funding bringing its total funding to $300M. Maven plans to use the latest round of funding to advance its end-to-end family care platform to enable deeper personalization to meet the diverse needs of women and families everywhere.
Curavit Raises $5M for Digital Therapeutics
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HLTH22: Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women's and family health, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series E funding round led by General Catalyst, with participation from CVS Health Ventures, La Famiglia, and Intermountain Ventures, as well as existing investors Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, Icon Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Lux Capital. This brings Maven's total funding to $300 million and highlights the growing demand for women's and family
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5 Factors to Consider When Developing a Health Data Platform
The conversation around whether a healthcare startup should build a data platform or buy one isn’t anything new. In fact, this has been a debate since cloud-based technologies rose to popularity—we’re just now seeing more startups enter the space and opt to build their platforms internally.
Startups choose to build their data platforms for several compelling reasons. For example, it could give them greater control over their data security and architecture or they feel they know their data
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Apple Adds Medication Tracking to iPhone. How Will It Impact The Specialty Patient Journey?
Imagine visiting your doctor’s office. Instead of swiping a copay card and filling out a paper form by hand, the receptionist says, “We take Apple Health.” You wave your iPhone over a digital kiosk, instantly uploading your current medical record and insurance information. Your copay is then deducted from a health savings account. Voila! The doctor will see you now.
This scenario is no longer relegated to the distant future.
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KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
What You Should Know:
- Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes.
- A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
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Haleon and Microsoft Partner to Help Users Who Are Blind or Low Vision Lead More Independent Lives
What You Should Know:
- Haleon, a global leader in consumer health, and Microsoft Corp. announced a new collaboration to make everyday health more accessible for people who are blind, have low vision or have difficulty reading product labels due to low literacy.
- Together, the companies are expanding functionality in the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide consumers with more detailed labeling information for over 1,500 Haleon products across the U.S. and U.K. Seeing AI is a free mobile
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Eclipse and Mayo Clinic Create Nucleus RadioPharma for Cancer Patients
What You Should Know:
- Eclipse, a venture capital firm investing in the digital transformation of the world's physical industries, and Mayo Clinic, a leading nonprofit health organization, recently announced the creation and seed funding of Nucleus RadioPharma, a new company built to ensure cancer patients can access potentially life-saving radiopharmaceuticals by developing technologies to modernize the clinical development, manufacturing, and supply chain of these promising new
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Beyond DocuSign: How to Upgrade Specialty Drug Patients to a First-Class Experience
Imagine booking a luxury international vacation. A dedicated concierge arranges your hotels, your travel arrangements, and your daily itinerary. You barely lift a finger. From the outset, however, you realize something unusual. You have been booked on a discount airline with seats in the back of the coach section. You must wait at the airport to be picked up by a cramped, dilapidated taxi. Your “luxury” hotel is actually a two-star property in a bad part of town. Why pay for a luxury concierge
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Building a Healthier Future with Real Wireless Power
One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. In the early days of the pandemic, hard-hit cities like New York and others had to set up mobile hospital units or access additional capacity through military hospital ships.
In an emergency like the pandemic, staffing shortages remain a persistent problem, but expanding facility
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