Hybrid fertility and reproductive care company Kindbody scored a $25 million investment from JPMorgan Chase's business unit focusing on employer-sponsored healthcare, Morgan Health.
Dr. Cheryl Pegus, managing director of Morgan Health Ventures, will join Kindbody's board of directors.
WHAT THEY DO
The New York-based company offers virtual and in-person services, including egg freezing,...
Using low-tech interventions like a DVD and patient navigation services delivered by phone increases the odds of obtaining cancer screenings among rural women, a new study has found.
The study, published in JAMA Network Open, recruited nearly a thousand women from rural Indiana and Ohio who weren't up-to-date on any or all recommended screenings for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer.
Some of...
Practice Better, a practice management platform for health and wellness practitioners, scored a $27 million growth investment led by Five Elms Capital.
WHAT THEY DO
The Canadian company offers a platform for health and wellness professionals to manage a range of services, including scheduling appointments, managing billing and payments, providing telehealth and messaging.
The funding will help...
Israeli-based Neteera, which offers contactless remote patient monitoring, announced it had closed a Series B funding round worth about $13 million.
Aescuvest led the round, alongside existing and new investors Nanz Family Office, Omega Healthcare Investors, Esas Private Equity and Ankor Holding.
The company also announced its strategic partnership with Omega, which provides technology-enabled...
Oracle has announced that Seema Verma, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will head up its life sciences division.
Verma will serve as senior vice president and general manager for life sciences, where she'll lead the division, as well as the company's data analytics and research arm Cerner Enviza. She most recently worked as a senior advisor to private equity...
Health technology company PicnicHealth, pharma giant Roche and its subsidiary Genentech are expanding their partnership globally to speed up neurological disease research through investments in real-world data.
PicnicHealth allows patients to see their health history and contribute their de-identified medical data to clinical research.
Roche will leverage PicnicHealth's newest real-world...
It's still early days for integrating digital therapeutics into clinical care, said panelists at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition. But they have a role to play when developers consider the different needs of all healthcare stakeholders, including patients, hospitals, clinicians and payers.
Santosh Mohan, vice president of digital at Moffitt Cancer Center, said there are...
CHICAGO – During Venture Connect at HIMSS23 on Wednesday, Holly Maloney, managing director of General Catalyst, discussed responsible AI use in healthcare and what the company looks for in a startup when considering an investment.
"Over the last three to four years, we've put pen to paper of defining truly what is our thesis," Maloney said. "And it is all around this concept of Health Assurances...
CHICAGO — At the HIMSS23 Venture Connect event on Wednesday, panelists how their investment strategies are changing in a slowed funding landscape.
"It is certainly an investor-friendly environment. And it's not to say that we'll take advantage of that, per se, but I think the entire reset brings us to more rational levels," said Milind Parate, managing director of ventures at Northwell Holdings...
Cortica, a hybrid provider that develops care programs for individuals with autism, announced it closed a $75 million financing round led by Deerfield Management and Optum Ventures.
New investors participated in Cortica's recent round, including Echo Health Ventures and RA Capital Management as well as existing investors .406 Ventures, Longitude Capital, Ajax Health, Aperture Venture Partners,...
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