London-Based Phare Health Raises €2.8 Million Seed to Bring Invisible AI to Healthcare Back Offices
Phare Health, a startup working on developing cutting-edge AI products to help hospitals better understand the state of their finances and track cashflows, announced today the closing of a €2.8 million seed round led by General Catalyst.
Strategic backers, KHP Ventures and Bertelsmann Investments also invested in this funding round, bringing with them profound industry insights, expansive networks throughout Europe, and substantial healthcare resources. The funding will be used to drive AI innovation and development while building partnerships in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) and abroad.
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bertelsmann Investments Chris Bischoff Dr Martin Seneviratne General Catalyst Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment KHP Ventures Phare Phare Health Thorsten Wirkes Source Type: blogs
Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Source: SharpBrains - December 14, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimer’s biological Brain-Fitness cognition cognitive engagement cognitive-abilities cognitive-reserve dementia depression exercise inflammation lifestyle neuroplasticity optimize cognition Stress Source Type: blogs
A cardiologist ’ s COVID-19 frontline journey [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! We sit down with Marissa Lombardo, a cardiologist, to delve into her deeply moving experiences on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Join us as Marissa shares her journey, from delivering heart-wrenching news to families over the phone to coping
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A cardiologist’s COVID-19 frontline journey [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast COVID Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
RSNA Panel Emphasizes Link Between Radiology and Quadruple Aim
A panel of radiology experts at RSNA23 put the spotlight on the important role radiology plays in achieving the quadruple aim. The panelists unanimously agreed that radiologists have a significant impact on a patient’s care journey and population health.
At the 2023 RSNA Conference in Chicago, PocketHealth hosted a lunch and learn event on Day 1. This special event featured a panel of radiology and data sharing experts:
Rishi Nayyar – Co-Founder & CEO at PocketHealth (moderator)
Aimee Langan – Director, Diagnostic Imaging and Laboratory Services at William Osler Health System
Ajay Kohli, MD, MBA – ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Interoperability Aimee Langan Ajay Kohli Frank Manole Image Exchange PocketHealth Population Health Quadruple Aim Radiology Radiology IT Raleigh Radiology Ram Chada Source Type: blogs
Bertelsmann Investments Invests €5 Million in Doccla’s European Expansion
Europe’s Virtual Hospital Raises Fresh Funds to Accelerate European Expansion, with Focus on Germany
Leading virtual ward technology provider Doccla has received a strategic investment of €5 million Euro from Bertelsmann Investments, the global venture capital arm of Bertelsmann Corporation.
The funding (received in the form of a convertible loan) will be deployed for Doccla’s European expansion – with a focus on Germany, which Doccla views as a priority market during the next phase of their expansion. The fresh cash follows September 2022’s Series A round (participants included General Catalyst, KHP Ventures...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bertelsmann Investments Carsten Coesfeld Dag Larsson Doccla General Catalyst Giant Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment KHP Ventures Martin Ratz Speedinvest Stefan Z Source Type: blogs
Post-pandemic nursing workforce challenges continue to mount
The nurse and clinician workforce crisis in the United States is a complex issue with multiple contributing factors that include clinical staff burnout, unmanageable workloads, the departure of nurses reaching retirement age, and the pandemic’s lingering impact on health systems. A 2023 study by the American Hospital Association (AHA) found that the U.S. will face
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Karlene Kerfoot, PhD, RN Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
The arrogance of expertise
Here is a thoughtful essay by NYT reporter Ed Yong. (Free Gift link! [as opposed to a not free gift]) It ' s long, but worth it. Yong was assigned the Long Covid beat and he found -- as I already knew -- that people who tell their doctors about long-term fatigue, pain, and cognitive difficulties, for which the physicians could find no specific biophysical explanation, commonly found their complaints dismissed or even ridiculed:Covering long Covid
solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force it
is often misconstrued as. It is instead a human endeavor, relentlessly
buffeted by our culture, values an...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 11, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Courage of Corporate America is Needed to End America ’ s Opioid Crisis
By RYAN HAMPTON
A Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll published in July found that three in ten U.S. adults (29%) said they had someone in their family who struggled with opioid dependence. Also surprising, and encouraging, was the statistic that 90% support increasing access to opioid use disorder treatment programs in their communities.
As a person in recovery from opioid use disorder and advocate, my read on this data set is that the public support is there. Now more than ever, we need leaders in healthcare, public policy, and corporate America to have the courage to advance effective treatment options. T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy addiction Albertsons DEA Opiods Ryan Hampton Source Type: blogs
Executive Accountability in Emergencies: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Janina Boughey (University of New South Wales), Executive Accountability in Emergencies: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (UNSW L. Rsch. Paper No. 23-45) (2022): The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many things about our society —both negative and positive. One thing that the past... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 9, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The toll of health care: suicide risk among professionals
Our health care workers—nurses, physicians, and support staff—are at a heightened risk of committing suicide. Plain and simple. The emotional and physical toll on our health care professionals has been ever-increasing, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic but still remains long after the official title “pandemic” has faded into the background. Over 20 percent of the
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The toll of health care: suicide risk among professionals originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michele Luckenbaugh Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Embracing life ’ s purpose in the face of inevitable death
“I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.” – Epictetus I wish more people knew that quote during the pandemic. I write this on November 1st, celebrated as Dia de Muertos or “Day of the Dead.” Epictetus and the other Stoics knew that death is inevitable, that life can
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Embracing life’s purpose in the face of inevitable death originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
The Most Overhyped Technologies in Healthcare
The hype about technological development in healthcare should not blind us in terms of the probabilities and possibilities of today’s healthcare and the future of medicine. To remain objective and conscious but still optimistic, let’s look at the most overhyped technologies and keep in mind the realistic development opportunities in healing.
You know the saying: the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the optimist says it is half full, and, well, the cynic asks who drank the other half? I’m truly an optimist – especially when it comes to the future of medicine and healthcare, but we need to ask the uncom...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing robotics virtual reality wearables GC1 hype organs Source Type: blogs
Efficient staffing partners for health systems
Although the health care workforce has begun to normalize following the historic lows of the pandemic, according to Staffing Industry Analyst’s most recent Healthcare Staffing Report, health care employers across the board still struggle with a tight labor market, high turnover, and continued attrition. In fact, the health care sector continues to rank last for
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Efficient staffing partners for health systems originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Patrick Dotts Tags: Policy Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Can generative artificial intelligence help clinicians better manage patient messages?
In today’s digitized, on-demand world, patients frequently use portals to send their physicians questions and requests. Today, physicians receive 57 percent more patient messages than before the pandemic. They spend the highest proportion of their inbox time on these messages, often responding after hours. While messaging is an essential care access point, high volume strains
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Can generative artificial intelligence help clinicians better manage patient messages? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Spencer D. Dorn, MD, MPH and Justin Norden, MD, MBA Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
