What You Should Know
- Doctor On Demand raises $75M in Series D
funding led by General Atlantic to expand comprehensive virtual care.
- Doctor On Demand is seeing record usage
this year – up 139% - for COVID-19 screenings, routine health issues, chronic
conditions and behavioral health.
San Francisco, CA-based Doctor On Demand, today announced it
has raised $75 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic, a leading
global growth equity firm,
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Partners
VA, Philips to Create World’s Largest Tele-Critical Care System for Veterans
What You Should Know:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selects Philips to create the world’s largest tele-critical care system, further integrating tele-health and delivering quality care for veterans.
- The ten-year contract, which enables
VA to invest up to $100 million with Philips for
tele-critical care technology and services, leverages Philips history of innovation, including research into
technologies that can better support veterans, telehealth,
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Q/A: Xealth’s CEO Talks Preparing for the Digital Health Avalanche
Xealth’s CEO and Cofounder Mike McSherry explain how healthcare systems can leverage the right data with the right digital health tools.
There’s no
doubt the swell that is big data has been building for some time. However, the
question of how useful and all that data will continue to plague healthcare
providers. The overwhelm of information is real, but so is the potential for providers
to make actionable use of it, according to tech innovators.
With doctors now prescribing more than
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Sun Genomics Nabs $8.65M to Scale Personalized Probiotic Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Sun Genomics raises $8.65M in Series A funding to scale
direct to consumer personalized probiotic solutions based on whole-genome sequencing
diagnostics.
- Flagship product Floré, a microbiome test, and gut probiotics solution utilizes whole-genome sequencing to evaluate different digestive system data points and ensure that customers receive a completely personalized product that is based on their unique gut profiles.
Sun Genomics, a San
Diego, CA-based
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Mayo Clinic to Automate Patient Triage in ED to Reduce Physician Burden, Optimize Emergency Room Visits
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has inked a partnership Diagnostic Robotics
to automate their patient triage system – allowing Mayo Clinic to make quicker,
smarter decisions for patients when limited medical resources are available.
- The new AI-driven platform will supplement the
physician decision-making process in real-time by assisting with the clinical
intake of patients – analyzing a simple questionnaire filled out by patients
and rapidly determining their symptoms, test
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Top 4 Disruptions Healthcare Providers Should Prepare to Address
The past few years have been particularly interesting for the healthcare landscape. We’ve seen a surge in telemedicine and retail clinics, increasing use of personal healthcare devices such as watches and fitness trackers, aggressive attempts to dismantle the ACA, the growing influence of private equity investment firms, and massive mergers with disruptive enterprise market entries such as Amazon. As the ground beneath them continues to shift, many providers are venturing into new territory to
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SwitchPoint Ventures Spins Out AI-Driven Health IT Startup Polaris Health
What You
Should Know:
- SwitchPoint (made up of veteran healthcare leaders with experience at Intermedix/R1 RCM and others) launches a new technology venture, Polaris Health that leverages AI to predict patient demand and create efficient clinician schedules that align with this demand.
- Polaris Health’s solution utilizes
proprietary machine learning algorithms to predict provider demand, distribute clinician resources to meet that
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Philips Partners With Proscia to Accelerate Open Digital Pathology Adoption
What You Should Know:
- Philips inks a collaboration with digital pathology
leader Proscia to advance an open ecosystem that helps laboratories accelerate
and scale digital pathology adoption.
- Proscia will integrate the Philips Pathology SDK to
natively utilize Philips’ iSyntax image format with its Concentriq digital
pathology platform and suite of AI modules, providing users of Philips’ digital
pathology solutions with expanded options to meet their business and
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Brainlab Acquires Medical Video Game Innovator Level Ex
What You Should Know:
- Brainlab, a digital medical technology company based in
Munich, Germany has acquired Level Ex, a digital health startup creating
medical video games designed to advance the clinical skills of physicians and
surgeons.
- The acquisition will accelerate product development, allow Level Ex to enter new clinical areas faster, and expand its footprint in global markets, benefitting more medical professionals across a wider-range of specialties and cases.
- Level Ex
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18 Healthcare Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Companies to Watch
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are redefining what's possible in healthcare, as well as other sectors. The 18 companies listed below are some of the top virtual and augmented reality companies in the medical industry.
Defining Augmented Reality
Augmented
reality is a technology that blends real-world elements with virtual ones. For
example, a person might visit a trade show and aim their smartphone at a
display to activate an AR experience that allows them to see
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