What You Should Know:
- FOLX Health, the first digital healthcare service provider designed by and for the medical needs of the LGBTQIA+ community, today announced $30M in new financing led by 7wireVentures, with participation from new investor Foresite Capital and existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Define Ventures, and Polaris Partners.
- Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner of 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health, will join FOLX Health’s Board
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Partners
Healthfirst and MediSys Launch FHIR Platform, Hyphen
What You Should Know:
- Healthfirst and The MediSys Health Network announced today they are using Hyphen to connect longitudinal data from claims, quality measures and electronic health records (EHRs) to identify gaps in care, making it easier for clinicians to address patient needs in real-time.
- Hyphen is a cloud-based platform that uses Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standards to share member data directly into provider or hospital EHR systems, along with patient- and
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Samsung Expands Its Health and Wellness Ecosystem with New Developer Tools
What You Should Know:
- Samsung Electronics unveiled a series of new tools ahead of the Samsung Developer Conference 2022 (SDC2022) that will aid developers and communities in shaping health, wellness and safety habits for consumers everywhere.
- These developer tools include the Samsung Privileged Health SDK program for select partners, the Fall Detection API to support user safety, Samsung’s new end-to-end research solution for educational, clinical and healthcare programmers,
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Google Cloud Launches AI-Powered Medical Imaging Suite
What You Should Know:
- Google Cloud launches Medical Imaging Suite that addresses common pain points organizations face in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models.
- Google Cloud enables the development of AI for imaging to support faster, more accurate diagnosis of images, increased productivity for healthcare workers, and improved care access and outcomes for patients.
Google Cloud's Medical Imaging Suite Key Features
Key features of the Medical
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SDoH: The Power of Proactive Social Care
As we emerge from a public health crisis that magnified and exacerbated health disparities, the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) has reached a pivotal moment. In both social and healthcare, the pressure is mounting to address key drivers of health and amplify value-based care models.
To succeed, these models need to be effective and measurable as we work to build trust with all stakeholders (e.g., at-risk individuals, health plan members, community
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Grow Therapy Raises $75M to Expand Insurance Coverage for Mental Healthcare Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Behavioral health company, Grow Therapy secures $75 million in series B funding to expand insurance coverage including Medicare and Medicaid in all 50 states.
- This round of funding was led by TCV, co-led by Transformation Capital, with support from existing backers SignalFire and SVB.
Medicare/Medicaid Coverage Expansion
Specifically, the areas that the company will focus on are: expanding commercial insurance and Medicare and Medicaid coverage (which are
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3M, Epicore Biosystems, Innovize Partner to Scale Sweat-Sensing Wearable Tech
What You Should Know:
- Epicore Biosystems, a digital health company developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables to provide real-time personalized hydration insights for performance and safety, today announced a new collaboration with 3M’s Health Care Business, a manufacturer and distributor of medical products and solutions, and Innovize Inc. (Innovize), a custom medical device manufacturer.
- Leveraging 3M’s leading skin-interfacing materials and Innovize’s manufacturing capabilities,
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Qnovia Secures $17M to Advance Inhalable Therapeutics Pipeline
What You Should Know:
- Qnovia (formerly Respira Technologies)—a pharma company developing inhaled therapeutics with an initial focus on nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and cardiopulmonary diseases—has raised $17M in Series A funding led by Blue Ledge Capital and included DG Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Gaingels, TL Capital, and Vice Ventures.
- Qnovia will use the Series A proceeds to advance its NRT drug candidate through an IND submission with the FDA and begin human
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Rippl Launches with $35M to Transform Mental Health for Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Rippl, a new mental health startup focused on caring for seniors with dementia and other neurocognitive conditions, launched today with $32M in seed round funding led by ARCH Venture Partners and General Catalyst. The round also includes investment from GV, F-Prime Capital, and Mass General Brigham Ventures.
- Rippl will use its seed funding to hire and train a team of clinicians, build technology, and open a Washington state-based clinical support center to launch
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BrightInsight Adds Xealth, Woebot Health and Claritas Rx to the BrightInsight Ecosystem
- BrightInsight, Inc., a global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions, recently announced the expansion of its recently launched BrightInsight Ecosystem, a network of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies collaborating to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to drive digital innovation, adoption and engagement.
- In addition, BrightInsight is proud to be a part of General Catalyst’s Health Assurance network—comprised of healthcare technology
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