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Healthcare providers standing next to each other while wearing blue scrubs and looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 01:00 pm September 21, 2023
California-based real-world data platform Atropos Health announced it completed a strategic financing round with participation from Sumitomo Corporation Venture Group's Presidio Ventures, Samsung Next, Audere Capital, Gaingels and other investors.  WHAT IT DOES Atropos Health offers AI innovations, evidence generation, analytics augmentation and data evaluation to help physicians access real-...
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By  Jessica Hagen 11:34 am September 21, 2023
Publicly traded telemedicine company LifeMD announced it is partnering with women's health-focused specialty pharmaceutical company ASCEND Therapeutics to improve access to EstroGel, a hormone therapy for postmenopausal women.  The FDA-approved gel is used to alleviate symptoms associated with a drop in estrogen levels. It is applied directly to the skin once a day and is used to help manage hot...
Healthcare provider in scrubs sitting on a couch in a living room with two people
By  Jessica Hagen 09:33 am September 20, 2023
Inbound Health, a value-based care enablement platform for health systems and plans to provide at-home acute and post-acute care, announced the close of a $30 million Series B funding round led by HealthQuest Capital.  Existing investors McKesson Ventures and Flare Capital Partners participated in the round.  The Minnesota-based company will use the funds to expand into new markets and further...
Healthcare provider talking to a patient while showing them a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 09:07 am September 19, 2023
Employer-focused cancer startup AccessHope announced it is adding Johns Hopkins Medicine's Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Care Center to its network of National Cancer Institute-designated organizational partners.  AccessHope connects employers offering self-funded health plans and employees' treating physicians with cancer-focused expertise from NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers...
Healthcare worker standing beside a pregnant person lying in bed while both are touching the pregnant person's stomach
By  Jessica Hagen 09:04 am September 19, 2023
GE HealthCare has secured a grant of more than $44 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to design AI-enabled applications and tools to help less experienced health professionals in low- and middle-income countries perform ultrasound scans that address fetal and maternal health and respiratory diseases. Caption Health, founded in 2013 and acquired by GE HealthCare earlier this year,...
Healthcare provider talking to a patient while showing them a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 02:01 pm September 18, 2023
Cardiology care platform CardioOne, a company built through Redesign Health, announced it is partnering with healthcare providers Cardiac Associates of New Jersey, Twin Hearts in Florida and Corrieius Cardiology in Pennsylvania, as well as subscription-based cardiology resources company MedAxiom.  Texas-based CardioOne is a cardiology-focused care delivery enablement platform that offers...
Healthcare provider wearing a lab coat and a stethoscope around their neck while sitting at a desk looking at a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 11:39 am September 18, 2023
Virtual specialty care platform Summus announced it secured $19.5 million in funding, bringing its total raise to $70 million.  Summus offers employers, health plans, hospitals and health systems, and medical groups and networks a virtual care platform focused on specialty care, including peer-to-peer solutions that allow primary care and in-plan specialist providers access to a specialist...
Person being rolled into an imaging machine with red lasers scanning their head
By  Jessica Hagen 01:08 pm September 15, 2023
GE HealthCare announced a strategic partnership with Mayo Clinic dubbed the Strategic Collaboration for Innovation in Medical Imaging and Theranostics, through which the pair will collaborate on research and product development focusing on precision care, AI and theranostics. Technology developers, clinicians, scientists and other providers from both companies will work together to advance...
Food and Drug Administration Building
By  Jessica Hagen 11:18 am September 15, 2023
On Thursday, the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health released updated final guidance for its Breakthrough Devices Program, aimed at verifying medical devices on the market are safe and effective, and improve healthcare inequities.  The final guidance defines the FDA's interpretation of "more effective" as encompassing all the information about the device, including the risks and...
AWAK Technologies digital health monitoring platform
By  Adam Ang 10:24 pm September 14, 2023
AWAK bags $20M in Series B funding Despite a challenging market condition, Singapore-based medtech AWAK Technologies has raised more than $20 million in a Series B funding round – one of the biggest funding raises in Southeast Asia this year. The round was co-led by Lion X Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners.  AWAK is developing a portable peritoneal dialysis device that allows users to undergo...