What You Should Know:
- IncludeHealth, a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) health company, today announced a partnership with Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) to transform care for patients with musculoskeletal health conditions.
- The partnership aims to deliver a best-in-class hybrid MSK care model for all YNHHS patients. The care model combines Yale New Haven Health’s world-renowned in-person orthopedic services with IncludeHealth’s Musculoskeletal Operating System (MSK-OS™) to deliver
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AI/ML Used for Clinical Trial-Site Identification Simultaneously Improves Enrollment Rates and Diversity
Ethnic and racial minorities are commonly underrepresented in clinical trials. This problem is so severe that in April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded upon existing guidance to further emphasize recommendations to sponsors developing treatments to increase enrollment from underrepresented populations in the U.S., including African-American, Hispanic, Asian and other persons of color, in clinical trials. In the updated guidance, the FDA provided details on what sponsors
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AHI Acquires Canadian-based wellteq Digital Health Inc.
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- Advanced Health Intelligence Ltd acquires Canadian health technology company wellteq Digital Health Inc. This transaction follows the acquisition of South Africa based Vertica Health (Pty) Ltd in August, a biomathematical health risk modelling platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The 3-company combination creates the only company globally capable of offering biometric health screening, health risk stratification, triage into
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Serena Williams-Backed Juno Medical Raises $12M to Expand Tech-Enabled Healthcare Clinics
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- Juno Medical, the modern doctor's office that's designed for the 99% raises $12M in Series A funding co-led by Julian Eison, Managing Partner at NEXT VENTURES, and Serena Williams, Managing Partner at Serena Ventures. Other notable participants include Vast Ventures, which led Juno’s seed round, Empire State Development’s New York Ventures, TXV Partners, Genius Guild, Gaingels, and previous investors Atento Capital and Humbition.
- Juno’s products and services are
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Sonde Health Secures $19.25M for Voice-Based Health Monitoring
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- Sonde Health, a Boston, MA-based health technology company committed to bringing accessible health monitoring to everyone raises $19.25 million in a Series B investment round led by Partners Investment, with participation from NEOM Company, KT Corporation, and existing investors, including co-founder PureTech Health and M Ventures.
- The AI vocal biomarker company will use the funding to accelerate its commercial growth, expand its platform into new health
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CrowdHealth Secures $6M for Community-Powered Alternative to Health Insurance
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- CrowdHealth recently secured $6 million in Series A funding from Next Coast Ventures and Activate Venture Partners. CrowdHealth plans to reinvest that funding back into the company—growing the CrowdHealth community and providing more tools for members that want to take charge of their healthcare and affordably break free from health insurance.
- Operating under a monthly membership model, CrowdHealth is a healthcare technology company that offers a new way to
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How Community Health Investments Will Define The Future of Healthcare
Community health is more than how someone’s physical health needs are being met. It involves all the physical, social, and environmental factors — access to nutritious food, stable income and housing, education opportunities, and more. These social determinants of health, or SDoH, are interconnected and integral to the overall health of communities across the world — and healthcare systems are taking note.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear one person’s health could
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Aetion, FDA to Evaluate Real-World Data Standardization for COVID-19
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- Aetion, a provider of real-world evidence (RWE) technology and analytics, today announced that the FDA has extended Aetion’s contract to evaluate real-world data (RWD) involving COVID-19 medical countermeasures.
- Aetion will be expanding its work to evaluate data standardization in the context of COVID-19. Aetion has been collaborating with FDA since May 2020, providing validated software platform capabilities and RWD/E expertise to contribute to rapid evidence
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Enthea Secures $2M to Expand Psychedelic Healthcare Provider Network
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- Enthea, the first provider of insurance plans for psychedelic healthcare, has announced a $2M Seed Round raise led by Tabula Rasa Ventures to offer psychedelic-assisted therapy as a workplace benefit.
- The funds will be used to launch Enthea’s services into 40 markets across the U.S. in 2023 as well as grow its customer base and provider network to increase access to new, evidence-based healing options that have proven to be very effective in improving symptoms for
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7 out of 10 Healthcare Workers Find it Stressful to Manage Their Finances
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- More than half of all healthcare workers (52%) feel less confident about their personal financial situation now compared to a year ago, according to a recent Harris Poll, among over 2,000 U.S. adults of which nearly 200 are healthcare workers, commissioned by IntelyCare and DailyPay.
- The latest IntelyCare Research Group report, looks at how financial precarity and stress affect healthcare workers and simultaneously explores measures
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