What You Should Know:
- Syapse raises 68M in equity investment led by Ally Bridge Group (ABG), with Northpond Ventures to expand delivery of real-world evidence through Syapse’s Learning Health Network.
- The Syapse Learning Health Network is a global precision oncology data sharing network, improving cancer care across communities by using real-world data to support clinical decisions.
Syapse, a San Francisco, CA-based real-world evidence company accelerating the delivery
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Oncology Technology Solutions, Services Impacting Patients and Providers
Volpara Acquires Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Platform CRA Health for $18M
What You Should Know:
- Volpara Health, an integrated breast care platform assisting in the delivery of personalized patient care has acquired breast cancer risk assessment platform CRA Health.
- CRA Health, LLC, is a breast cancer risk assessment company spinoff from Massachusetts General Hospital — a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. Today the company delivers more than two million assessments annually to women’s imaging clinics.
- CRA software is cloud-based
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Biobeat Launches Home-Based Remote Patient Monitoring Kit
What
You Should Know:
- Today, Biobeat, developer of AI-powered remote patient monitoring solutions, announced the launch of its home patient monitoring kit.
- The kit, which includes chest-monitors, compatible adhesive units, and a user-friendly manual, allows healthcare providers to bring hospital-level care to patient homes by empowering health staff and patients with proven wearable AI-powered remote patient monitoring technology.
Biobeat, an Israeli-based continuous remote
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Conversa Health Expands Series B to $20M with Additional $8M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- Conversa Health raises an additional
$8M, expanding its Series B round to $20M for its automated virtual care
platform, totaling $34M in funding to date.
- The Series B round, first announced at $12 million in
June, was co-led by Builders VC and Northwell Ventures, the corporate venture
arm of Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider with 23
hospitals and 800 outpatient facilities.
- Founded in 2014, Conversa enables health systems
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Frenova Begins Patient Enrollment to Build World’s Largest Genomics Registry for Kidney Disease
What You Should Know:
- Frenova Renal Research, a global division of Fresenius
Medical Care, announced today that it has started to enroll patients in its
new endeavor to build the world’s largest genomics registry targeting kidney
disease.
- The registry will be used to help advance understanding
of the genetic drivers of kidney disease and shape more precise, individualized
therapies.
Fresenius
Medical Care, the world’s leading provider of products and services for
people
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2020’s Top 20 Digital Health M&A Deals Totaled $50B
Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge
The combination of Teladoc Health and Livongo creates a
global leader in consumer-centered virtual care. The combined company is
positioned to execute quantified opportunities to drive revenue synergies of
$100 million by the end of the second year following the close, reaching $500
million on a run-rate basis by 2025.
Price: $18.5B in value based on each share of Livongo
will be exchanged for 0.5920x shares of Teladoc Health plus cash consideration
of
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M&A: Cerner to Acquire Health Division of Kantar for $375M in Cash
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announces it will acquire Kantar Health, a leading data, analytics, and real-world evidence and commercial research consultancy serving the life science and health care industry.
- This acquisition is expected to allow Cerner’s Learning
Health Network client consortium and health systems with more opportunities to
directly engage with life sciences for funded research studies. The acquisition
is expected to close during the first half of
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Mount Sinai to Deploy Current Health’s RPM Solution to Enhance Oncology Patient Care
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai Health System will implement Current Health’s
remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution to allow oncology patients to recover
at home while being continuously and passively monitored by their care team.
- The implementation will reduce hospitalization events and prevent potential patient exposure to infection while bridging the digital health divide as more and more patients engage in telehealth.
Current Health
today announced that its remote patient
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COTA Lands $34M to Drive Innovation in Oncology Using Real-World Data
What You Should Know:
- COTA, Inc., a healthcare technology company that uses
real-world data to bring clarity to cancer care, has secured $34M in funding.
- Access to over one million patient data records and additional
funding support enhanced real-world data and analytics services in oncology.
COTA, Inc., a Boston, MA-based healthcare technology company that uses real-world data to bring clarity to cancer care, today announced it has raised $34 million in Series D funding led by
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M&A: RxVantage Acquires onPoint Oncology to Expand Offering to Oncology Practices
What You Should Know:
- RxVantage has acquired onPoint Oncology to provide cancer care teams with on-demand access to educational resources, reimbursement data, and analytics.
- The acquisition of onPoint Oncology builds on
RxVantage’s rapidly expanding digital offerings for providers. In April,
RxVantage launched Virtual Meetings to help providers reestablish access to
life science experts amidst the disruptions caused by COVID-19.
RxVantage, the
leading digital
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