What You Should Know: - Exai Bio and researchers at UCSF released data demonstrating that Exai’s novel, RNA-based liquid biopsy platform accurately detected breast cancer at the earliest stages and smallest tumor sizes. - Earlier detection of breast cancer is crucial for optimal patient outcomes but cannot always be achieved based on symptoms or mammography. Non-Invasive Blood-Based Platform Delivers Promising Data on Detecting Breast Cancer At It’s Earliest Stages Exai Bio is a
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4th Annual UCSF Health Hub: Digital Health Awards Announced
What You Should Know: - UCSF Health Hub and the Digital Health Awards team announces the ten Best in Class winning companies, 40 Rising Stars, three Rising Star Champions and two Hall of Fame inductees for the 2022 Digital Health Awards. - The winning companies were chosen from more than 1,200 submissions based on a rigorous judging criteria. In the first round of judging, the priority was on reviewing every aspect of
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Carta Healthcare Secures $20M for AI-Enabled Clinical Data Solutions
What You Should Know: - Carta Healthcare, a pioneer in harnessing the power of clinical data, today announced it closed a $20 million series B round led by South Korean firm Paramark Ventures. Other contributors to the round include Memorial Care Innovation Fund (MCIF) and Frist Cressey Ventures, led by heart surgeon, incoming chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Board of Directors and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.- Carta will use the
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COVID-19 Pandemic Boosted RPM Adoption in Cardiac Rehab
What You Should Know: - The pandemic forced many cardiac rehab clinics to limit and sometimes terminate in-person rehab, leaving Vivalink - a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions - with questions: How did they conduct at-home rehab? Did it work well for them? What were some of the barriers to implementation? - Vivalink has announced a new study of cardiac rehabilitation clinicians that reveals the current landscape of remote patient monitoring technology (RPM) in their field,
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UCSF Health & Tia Partner to Open Flagship Women’s Clinic in SF
What You Should Know: - UCSF Health, and women's healthcare provider Tia announced a partnership to transform women's healthcare in the Bay Area -- while also demonstrating a model for how a traditional health system and an upstart can work together to improve health outcomes and experiences for 51% of the population. - The flagship Tia Clinic will provide Bay Area women with a first-of-its-kind medical home designed to make every woman feel seen, heard and cared
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GHX Names The Top 50 Hospitals for Supply Chain Excellence
What You Should Know: GHX today announced its annual list of the Best 50 supply chains, which recognizes the highest performing healthcare provider organizations in North America. These honorees set the standard for supply chain excellence by improving operational performance while driving down costs through supply chain automation. Healthcare Providers Modernizing Supply Chain Operations Selected among more than 4,100 hospitals connected to the GHX digital trading network (Exchange) in
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UCSF, Philips Partner to Enhance Digital Patient Experience & Interoperability
What You Should Know: - Today, Philips announced its collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop technology that will enable a more streamlined patient experience and set a new standard for healthcare delivery. - As part of the strategic collaboration, UCSF will use Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform to enable patient care personalization and make it easier for patients to select providers, access their health information and receive virtual
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AppliedVR Lands $29M for VR Platform to Treat Chronic Pain
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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