Maribel Health Raises $25M Series A to Create the Future of Advanced Care at Home
Maribel designs, builds, and operates turnkey advanced home and community care models for health systems facing staffing and capacity constraints
Maribel Health, a turnkey partner for health systems looking to design, build, and operate a full continuum of advanced home and community services, announced today the completion of a $25 million Series A funding round led by General Catalyst. Maribel combines deep operating expertise with novel technology to help its partners design, build, and operate advanced clinical care capabilities in the home and community, including hospital-at-home, to sustainably expand total syste...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adam Groff MD BAYADA Home Health Care CareScience Commure Geisinger General Catalyst GoHealth Urgent Care and Better Life Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Hemant Tan Source Type: blogs
Venture Capital Gives America a Strategic Edge in the Age of Technology Wars
U.S. early-stage hardware startups are seriously disadvantaged by a persistent lack of financing. Congress authorized the U.S. Department of Defense to spend $75 million to invest in dual-use hardware startups. But the Pentagon has proven reticent to embrace a venture capital – style approach, even though research has demonstrated it is optimal for driving innovation. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 20, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Daniel Egel; Michael J. McNerney Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 13th 2023
In this study, we report the extensive and progressive accumulation of misfolded proteins during natural aging/senescence in different models, in the absence of disease. We coined the term age-ggregates to refer to this subset of proteins. Our findings demonstrate that age-ggregates exhibit the main characteristics of misfolded protein aggregates implicated in PMDs, including insolubility in detergents, protease-resistance, and staining with dyes specific for misfolded aggregates. Misfolded protein aggregates with these characteristics are thought to be implicated in some of today most prevalent diseases, including Alzheim...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Lobbying for the Treatment of Aging Leads to a Congressional Caucus for Longevity Science
For those who believe that only governments get things done, it is frustrating to see the lack of interest in human longevity in politics, a mirror of the relative lack of interest in society at large. The past few decades have seen a number of political initiatives, largely the formation of lobbying campaigns and organizations, aimed at diverting more public funding into aging research. Little has been achieved to date as a result, but these efforts are now growing alongside the new longevity industry.
Politicians pay attention to the movement of money in the world, for the obvious reasons; they are nothing if not ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Politics and Legislation Source Type: blogs
Markets at Work: DNA Sequencing
Chris Edwards and Ilana BlumsackTheWall Street Journal recentlyprofiled companies racing to slash the cost of genome sequencing. The progress has been remarkable, and the advances may generate vast benefits for human health. The article says that two decades ago it cost millions of dollars to sequence a genome, but since then one company has led the way in driving costs down:“Illumina in 2010 released a machine enabling genome sequencing for about $10,000… Subsequent innovations dropped the cost to $1,000 in 2014, and to $600 in 2020. Illumina is rolling out a new instrument series, NovaSeq X, that reduces it to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 3, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards, Ilana Blumsack Source Type: blogs
Mental Health and Wellbeing Platform, Spectrum.Life Raises a Further €5 million
Spectrum.Life, a leading provider of mental health and wellbeing services for insurers, employers, employees, and students is pleased to announce the successful completion of a €5 million raise, resulting in a total of €9 million raised for the company. The round, again led by Act Venture Capital, included strong participation from existing and new investors.
This investment comes at a time when alternative and new approaches to mental health provision are of critical importance as traditional channels are increasingly overburdened and waiting lists in the sector continue to grow.
Spectrum.Life has set itself apart fro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ACT ACT Venture Capital Clinical Efficacy Debbie Rennick Digital Health EAP Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Holistic Care mental health Mental Wellbeing Spectrum.Life Source Type: blogs
PrescriberPoint Raises Significant Growth Investment from Lilly, Pfizer, Adobe, and Mastercard with a Mission to Reimagine the Traditional HCP-Pharmaceutical Company Engagement Model
PrescriberPoint, a digital marketplace where Healthcare Providers (“HCPs”) can find all of the resources and support they need in one place to get their patients on therapy, for any FDA or OTC-approved medication, announced its Series Seed investment today. Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer Inc., Adobe Inc., and Mastercard Incorporated participated in the round.
PrescriberPoint is creating a digital ecosystem based on a “pull” (vs. “push”) model where HCPs can access all the support they need from life science, insurance and pharmacy companies industry-wide, on their terms, in one place. Pro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adobe Adobe Inc. Dan Cornwell Digital Ecosystem Diogo Rau Eli Lilly Eli Lilly and Company FDA Hannah Elsakr HCP HCPs Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment healthcare provi Source Type: blogs
Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric
The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area.
Smile CDR Inc. (doing business as Smile Digital Health (Smile)), a leading FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider, announced the closing of approximately $30 million in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises.
Smile’s HDF platform uses industry-leading HDF architecture and ONC-compliant, event-driven FHIR APIs to allow healthcare providers, payers and IT vendors to build secure, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Artificial Intelligence Astrata Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Duncan Weatherston FHIR FHIR API George Rizk HDF Health Data Fabric Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investmen Source Type: blogs
How female physicians are changing the game for women entrepreneurs [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we have Samantha Lai, a medical student as our guest. She will discuss the disparity in venture capital investment for startups led by women, and how this gap can be narrowed by encouraging female physicians to become entrepreneurs. Despite the traditional
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Health IT Medical school Source Type: blogs
Pearl Health Raises $75M Series B Led by a16z to Accelerate Growth and Innovation in Value-Based Care
Pearl Health (Pearl), a leading technology company focused on physician enablement and risk bearing in value-based care, today announced that it has raised $75 million in its oversubscribed Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)‘s Growth Fund and Viking Global Investors, with participation by AlleyCorp, SV Angel‘s Growth Fund, and other leading investors. The round is comprised of $55 million in equity capital and an anticipated $20 million in a line of credit, and brings Pearl’s total funding to date to more than $100M.
“We are grateful to have the support of such esteemed...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT a16z a16z's Growth Fund AlleyCorp Andreessen Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz's Growth Fund Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jeffrey De Flavio MD Kevin Ryan Michael Kopko Pearl Source Type: blogs
Deciphex Secures €3.9m Funding to Boost Digital Pathology and AI Services
The company is seeing a ten-fold increase in demand quarterly and this strategic investment will allow them to grow their capacity, increase headcount, further improve services and expand to new markets
Deciphex, a leading provider of pathology software and services, announced today a further €3.9m in funding bringing its full Series B round tally to €14.4m. The additional investment, led by Seroba Life Sciences and existing Deciphex investors, will allow Deciphex to continue developing its innovative products and services, to expand its presence in the UK, Canada, the Middle East and the US, and to strengthen its posi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Chronic Issues Deciphex Diagnexia digital pathology Digital Pathology Funding Donal O’Shea Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jennifer McMahon Optimal Patient Care Patholyt Source Type: blogs
HPS/PayMedix Closes on $25 Million in New Funding
Credit funds managed by SVB Capital lead new funding round to finance growth of PayMedix Healthcare Payment Solution
Health Payment Systems, Inc. (HPS)/PayMedix today announced it has raised another $25 million of funding to accelerate the growth of its groundbreaking PayMedix healthcare financing solution. Credit funds managed by SVB Capital, the venture capital and credit investing arm of SVB, led the financing, and were also joined by all current HPS|PayMedix investors including SV Health Investors, Hexagon Inc., and Caltius Equity.
PayMedix increases health equity for all consumers by guaranteeing full and prompt ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Caltius Equity Financial Technology Platform Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Health Payment Systems Healthcare Payment Hexagon Inc. HPS HPS/Paymedix J.P. Michael SV Health Source Type: blogs
Industry ’s First Male Fertility Platform Posterity Health Raises $7.5M in an Oversubscribed Funding Round Led by Distributed Ventures
Posterity Health’s funding to accelerate Digital Platform and expedite national expansion
Posterity Health, the only digital male fertility center of excellence that offers personalized advice, educational resources, and effective male fertility treatments, today announced an oversubscribed funding round of $7.5M led by early-stage venture capital fund Distributed Ventures. The funding reinforces the importance of evaluating the male partner when a couple is having trouble conceiving. The new capital will accelerate the company’s Digital Health Platform and provide access to male fertility testing and treatment on a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Accessibility Digital Health Platform Distributed Ventures Dr. James Smith Dr. Peter Schlegel Dr. Stan Honig FCA Venture Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment James J Col Source Type: blogs
Shortening Hospital Discharges: Technical and Workflow Solutions
This article looks at some technical solutions.
Ali Parsa, CEO and founder of Babylon, an AI and digital health platform, says discharge planning doesn’t require “massive amounts of technology” or “rocket science”; just good planning from the beginning of the stay. Indeed, one research study (suggested to me by Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge, Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of HealthTap) achieved a significant time saving through low-tech measures such as checklists.
Other respondents, however, reported that their solutions were making a difference in discharges.
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC ABOUT Ali Parsa AvaSure Babylon Cindy Gaines CipherHealth Cloudticity Cynthia Davis Da Source Type: blogs
Carbon Health Secures Series D Investment to Drive Primary and Urgent Care Expansion
CVS Health Ventures Invests $100 Million to Lead Round
Carbon Health, a hybrid healthcare company that combines expert care with proprietary technology for easy everyday health, announced today that it has received $100 million from CVS Health Ventures, CVS Health’s corporate venture capital platform, as part of an initial close of its Series D round. The funding enables the primary care provider to scale its Connective Care model into new geographies, sign new value-based care arrangements, and invest in technology as it aims to be a national leader in primary and urgent care.
With more than 125 physical locations in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Carbon Health Carbon Health Connective Care Care Coverage CVS CVS Health CVS Health Ventures Eren Bali Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment J.P. Morgan Patient Ex Source Type: blogs
