Amazon Launches Amazon Clinic Across 32 States Amazon launches Amazon Clinic, a virtual care option that will operate across 32 states that offers up-front pricing, and treatment within hours, instead of days—helping customers achieve better health. Welcome to easy-to-use, effective care for common health conditions. For customers, the cost of consultations will vary by provider and includes ongoing follow-up messages with their clinician for up to two weeks after the initial
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HLTH22: General Catalyst Adds 10 New Health System Partners
What You Should Know: - Healthcare venture capital firm General Catalyst adds 10 new health system partners, bringing the number to 15 total. - This first-of-its-kind strategic ecosystem will encapsulate 10% of the US population across 43 states (as well as the largest academic health system in the UK), with a goal to promote health assurance and deliver accessible, affordable and effective care. Why It Matters These partnerships will connect health systems directly with
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HLTH22 Day 1 News Summary: Google, Maven, Highmark, LG, Others
Venture Capital, Private Equity Funding Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women’s and family health raises $90 million Series E funding bringing its total funding to $300M. Maven plans to use the latest round of funding to advance its end-to-end family care platform to enable deeper personalization to meet the diverse needs of women and families everywhere. Curavit Raises $5M for Digital Therapeutics
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CVS Health’s Former Chief Strategy Officer Joins VC Firm, LRVHealth
What You Should Know: - LRVHealth, the inside healthcare venture capital platform, announced that Josh Flum joined the firm as a managing partner. Prior to joining LRV Health, Flum served as Chief Strategy Officer and Business Developer Officer at CVS Health. - Flum joins a diverse team of healthcare operators, entrepreneurs, investors and insiders leading healthcare innovation and transformation alongside a network of strategic limited partners that touches half of all
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KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
What You Should Know: - Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes. - A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
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Eclipse and Mayo Clinic Create Nucleus RadioPharma for Cancer Patients
What You Should Know: - Eclipse, a venture capital firm investing in the digital transformation of the world's physical industries, and Mayo Clinic, a leading nonprofit health organization, recently announced the creation and seed funding of Nucleus RadioPharma, a new company built to ensure cancer patients can access potentially life-saving radiopharmaceuticals by developing technologies to modernize the clinical development, manufacturing, and supply chain of these promising new
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FOLX Health Raises $30M, Launches Expert-Led Support Groups for LGBTQIA+ Community
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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Bicycle Health Nabs $5M to Scale Its Virtual Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
What You Should Know: - Bicycle Health, a Boston, MA-based provider of virtual opioid addiction treatment secures $5M from Cobalt Ventures to further accelerate the expansion of its telehealth opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. - The additional capital extends Bicycle Health’s Series B venture capital financing, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $83M. Evidence-based, online suboxone treatment for opioid addiction Founded in 2017, Bicycle
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VC Firm General Catalyst Partners Lands First NHS Trust Partnership in UK
What You Should Know: - Venture capital firm General Catalyst announced a partnership with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT), the largest hospital system in the UK with a diverse patient population and a longstanding commitment to innovation. - As part of the partnership, General Catalyst and GSTT will work together to identify innovative digital solutions that benefit patients and providers by addressing problems such as hospital capacity constraints, long wait times and
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Naveris Raises $51M for Early Detection of Viral-Driven Cancers
What You Should Know: - Naveris, Inc., a commercial-stage life sciences company dedicated to improving patient care through earlier detection of viral-driven cancers, recently announced a $33.4M expansion of its Series A financing, bringing the total investment in Naveris to $51M. - The financing was led by Gurnet Point Capital, joined by TechU Ventures and BrightEdge, the impact and venture capital arm of the American Cancer Society. Using DNA Fragmentomics Technology to Detect
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