What You Should Know: - AppliedVR, a Los Angeles, CA-based company advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced $29 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funds raised to date to $35 million. The round, which includes key investors F-Prime Capital, JAZZ Venture Partners, Sway Ventures, GSR Ventures, Magnetic Ventures and Cedars-Sinai, will fuel the company’s growth as it pursues full FDA approval over the next year. - Founded in 2015, AppliedVR provides
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COVID-19: How Hospitals Can Create Better Inpatient Bed Capacity through Math
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, key elements of hospital operations such as managing inpatient bed capacity, and access to ventilators and PPE have taken center stage. The general public got a crash course on what hospitals need in order to function successfully when disaster hits, and daily news and discussions were centered around ICU bed capacity as cases accelerated across the country. The nightmarish predictions and reality led to the development of creative measures to
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CommonHealth App Connects to 230 Health Systems to Share Health Data – including COVID Test and Vaccine Status
What You Should Know: - CommonHealth has connected to 230
health systems in the United States, allowing patients to gather, manage and
share their health and test data, including COVID test and vaccination status. By
the end of this month, CommonHealth will connect to more than 340 health
systems - CommonHealth extends the health data
portability and interoperability model pioneered by Apple Health to the 55
percent of Americans with Android devices (85 percent globally) The Commons
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FDA Grants AppliedVR Breakthrough Designation for Virtual Reality Chronic Pain Treatment
What You Should Know: - FDA awards AppliedVR Breakthrough Device designation for
treating treatment-resistant fibromyalgia and chronic intractable lower back
pain - AppliedVR’s EaseVRx program helps patients learn self-management skills grounded in evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and other behavioral methods. AppliedVR,
a pioneer advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced
its EaseVRx product received Breakthrough Device designation
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UCSF, Fortanix, Intel, Microsoft Team Up to Accelerate Development of Clinical AI Algorithms by 1000X
What You Should Know: - UCSF, in partnership with Fortanix, Intel, and Microsoft, will announce BeeKeeperAI, a Privacy-Preserving Analytics Platform that will accelerate the development of clinical AI algorithms by 1000X (from 30 months to 1 day). - This will help get life-saving clinical applications to
all patients faster, such as predicting the need for blood transfusions or
detecting tumors on X-rays, while maintaining patient privacy using
Confidential Computing technology. UC
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know: - Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes. - Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa. - Murray Brozinsky
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Welkin Health Appoints Dr. Adrian Rawlinson Chief Medical Officer
What You Should Know: - Wellkin Health appoints former him and hers executive Dr. Adrian Rawlinson as the company’s new Chief Medical Officer. - In his new role as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Rawlinson will focus on establishing a Clinical Advisory Board and Clinical User Group. Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company, announced the appointment of Dr. Adrian Rawlinson to the company as Chief Medical Officer. In his role as Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
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Coronavirus Drives Teladoc’s Daily Virtual Medical Visits Up 50%
What You Need to Know: - In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Teladoc Health reports that its daily virtual medical visit volume has spiked 50% over the prior week. - Teladoc Health has provided approximately 100,000 virtual medical visits to patients in the United States in the past week. Virtual
care provider Teladoc Health
announced that the company is experiencing unprecedented daily visit volume in
the United States as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues
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GHX Names 50 Best Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
GHX Names 50 Best Healthcare
Providers for Supply Chain Excellence - Today, GHX recognized the top 50 performing U.S. and Canadian providers for supply chain excellence chosen from a pool of more than 4,100 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada based on their operational performance, ability to drive down costs through the supply chain. - After labor, the supply chain is the second largest cost for hospitals and health systems. Improving supply chain processes and
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Advanced Healthcare Supply Chains: Why It’s All in the Data
During the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone an unprecedented technological transformation. The industry, once defined by manual processes, has moved squarely into the digital age. As patients, we’ve all become accustomed to seeing physicians as well as clinical staff use laptops during office visits. And behind the scenes, hospitals and health networks have made substantial investments in financial and HR systems, among others. One of the more significant digital
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