Medigate, an Israli-based digital health startup has raised $5.35M in seed funding to expand its dedicated medical device security platform that protects all of the connected medical devices on healthcare provider networks. The seed round was led by YL Ventures, with additional funding from Blumberg Capital. The company will use the seed funding to continue to accelerate its development efforts of its medical device security platform. The Medigate Security Platform is currently in limited
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Catalia Health Raises $4M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Robot to Increase Medication Adherence
Catalia Health, a San Francisco, CA-based patient care management company that provides an effective, scalable, AI-powered patient engagement platform has announced a $4M lagniappe funding round (French Cajun for "a little something extra") led by Ion Pacific to power the rollout of Mabu, the cute, AI-enabled personal healthcare robots to patients. The funding builds on the company’s $2.5M seed extension raised earlier this year and a $1.25M seed round led by Khosla Ventures. The startup plans
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Syapse Lands $30M to Expand Precision Oncology to More Healthcare Providers
Syapse, a a San Francisco, CA-based provider of precision oncology solutions, has raised $30 million in Series D financing. Participants include existing investors Ascension Ventures, GE Ventures, Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund, Safeguard Scientifics, and Social Capital, as well as new investors Amgen Ventures, Medidata Solutions, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, and Roche Venture Fund.The company plans to use the latest round of funding to expand operations and bring its precision
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HeyDoctor’s New Telemedicine App Allows Doctors to Prescribe Low-Cost Treatment Via Text
HeyDoctor, a medical app developed and backed by Sappira Inc., a San Francisco-based telemedicine firm has announced the launch of its new app that allows its doctors to prescribe low-cost treatment over text in minutes. HeyDoctor is designed to care for many common ailments without the hassle of video conferencing at over 50% lower cost than leading online competitors. The app is available on both the Apple iOS and Google Android mobile platforms.The app was developed by Dr. Brendan Levy, a
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Welkin Health Raises $8M to Expand Digital Patient Relationship Platform
Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in digital patient relationship management has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital. The company plans to utilize the funding to continue expanding their team which includes talent from Google, Facebook and Microsoft, as well as Practice Fusion, Medtronic, Sutter Health and Medicaid. In addition, Welkin company plans to accelerate partnerships with patient-centered digital health, life science, and
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Mount Sinai Taps MuleSoft to Create API Economy to Share Patient Data
MuleSoft, an application network company, announced Mount Sinai, New York’s largest integrated health system is leveraging Anypoint Platform to broaden its ability to share data beyond the four walls of its hospitals. Historically, Mount Sinai struggled to share patient data across its massive health system which includes 7,100 primary and specialty care physicians, 12 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers, more than 140 ambulatory practices and 31 affiliated community health centers.Mount
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Advance Care Planning Startup Vynca Wins Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced advance care planning solution company, Vynca as the first place ($25k) winner of the Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge. ONC selected the winning submissions from over 140 competing teams and almost 7,000 submissions using an ONC-provided dataset. Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge Overview“Patient matching” in health IT describes the techniques used
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Accenture Launches Patient Experience Manager to Provide Single View of Patient Interactions
Today at Dreamforce in San Francisco, Accenture launched the Patient Experience Manager, a new solution that leverages advanced analytics capabilities to help life sciences companies aggregate, monitor and measure patient data from multiple sources, such as nursing support providers, specialty pharmacy services, and affordability programs.As part of the Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform, the Patient Experience Manager is fully integrated with Salesforce Health Cloud, allowing life sciences
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Twine Health Lands $1.5M to Expand AI-Powered Health Coaching Platform
Today, Twine Health, a four-year-old spinoff of the MIT Media Lab has raised $1.5 million in Series A1 funding led by Qiming Venture Partners USA. The company plans to used the latest round of funding to accelerate the development of its AI-powered health coaching platform, continued market expansion in the US, and early international sales, including in China. Twine has received a total of $8.3 million in venture funding to date including investment fromKhosla Ventures, Provenance Venture
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Report Reveals 2017 A Challenging Year for PHM Vendor Market
The first half of 2017 proved a challenging period for some North American population health management (PHM) vendors, according to recent data from Signify’s Research report “Population Health Management IT – Q3 2017.” The report reveals that after consistent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) market growth over the past eight quarters, Q1 17 saw theNorth American PHM market decline for the first time since Signify Research started tracking themarket. Q1 2017 revenues were estimated to be down 7.1%
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