FOLX Health Raises $30M in Series B Funding Led by 7wireVentures; Launches Expert-Led Support Groups for LGBTQIA+ Community
The New Funding Enables the LGBTQIA+ Digital Healthcare Provider to Launch Mental and Behavioral Health Products and Further Invest in Direct-to Employer Offering
FOLX Health, the first digital healthcare service provider designed by and for the medical needs of the LGBTQIA+ community, today announced $30 million in new financing led by 7wireVentures, with participation from new investor Foresite Capital and existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Define Ventures, and Polaris Partners. Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner at 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer at Livongo Health, will join FOLX Health...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 7wireVentures behavioral health Bessemer Venture Partners Define Ventures FOLX Health Foresite Capital General Health Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 13, 2022 Edition-----In the US the recovery from Hurricane Ian, which will take years is starting as nuclear war sadly seems to be coming closer – I hope this is just sabre-rattling and no more!In China there seems to be more instability as Xi moves to term 3 of 5 years in a week or two.Liz Truss still seems to be there!In OZ we have more floods – again – and we are waiting for a new Budget in 2 weeks or so!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/defence-gets-ready-for-the-fight-of-our-lives/news-story/4ea89108b822df72194742dc3eec0246Defence gets ready for the fight of our livesAlan D...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
General Inception Aims to Ignite New Company Formation
A week ago, a company calling itself General Inception emerged from stealth as a new concept, which they call an “Igniter company”, to promote the formation of new life sciences company. As described to me in a phone conversation with General Inception CEO Paul Conley, General Inception provides a range of science and business expertise and support to enable embryonic ideas to condense into functional st artups. The igniter metaphor Conley offered me is the spark plug of a car: it is required to start the engine and continues to provide a key part of the functioning whole. Conley extended this to say that Gener...
Source: Omics! Omics! - October 6, 2022 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs
Healthtech Startup Doccla Raises £15 Million to Scale up Adoption of its Virtual Ward Technology
Doccla delivers remote patient monitoring solutions to free up hospital beds and help alleviate pressures on the NHS
Sweden-founded and London-headquartered, Doccla, the leading provider to the NHS of virtual ward and patient monitoring technology, has today announced it has closed a £15 million Series A funding round.
The oversubscribed round was led by International venture capital firm General Catalyst, with participation from funds managed by healthcare investors KHP Ventures – a collaboration between King’s College London, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Guy’s and St Thomas’...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Cambridgeshire Community Services Chris Bischoff Dag Larsson Doccla General Catalyst Giant Ventures Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Health IT Funding Health Source Type: blogs
DocSpera Raises $10 Million to Accelerate Commercialization of Automated Surgical Workflow Solutions to Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers
DocSpera, an intelligent surgical coordination SaaS platform between healthcare providers and medical device enterprises, announces close of Series B funding
Today, DocSpera, a leading integrated healthcare surgical data and image communication company, announced a $10 million Series B financing round led by Pier 70 Ventures and JJDC, Inc., with participation of other key strategic investors.
DocSpera’s surgical coordination platform addresses the challenges associated with the manual communication and care workflow between surgeons, health systems, and medical device suppliers by automating care coordination and stream...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT DocSpera Dr. Alex Sah Dr. Peter Callander Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Institute for Joint Restoration and Research Intelligent Scheduler JJDC Inc. Novato-Sutter Health Joi Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 03 October, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Sorry, I had to include this! I am really amazed at the International reach we see from the ADHA – true international citizens!Otherwise too much Optus and not enough good news!-----https://www.financialexpress.com/healthcare/tamil-nadu-keen-on-australian-model-for-beefing-up-digital-healthcare-platform-looks-for-partnerships/26...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Optellum, AI Lung Cancer Diagnosis Innovator, Secures $14M Series A Funding to Accelerate Expansion
Lead investor Mercia, alongside Intuitive Ventures and Black Opal, invests in Optellum’s pioneering AI-powered lung-health technology
Optellum, an Oxford-based medtech company that provides a breakthrough AI platform to diagnose and treat early-stage lung cancer, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round. The investment will enable Optellum to scale its base, operations, and commercial launches in the UK and USA; accelerate research and development; and expand its platform into personalized therapy decisions by integrating imaging data with molecular data, robotics, and liquid biopsies.
This funding ro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Black Opal Ventures GE Healthcare Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Intuitive Ventures IQ Capital Jason Pesterfield Johnson & Johnson Lung Cancer Lung Sc Source Type: blogs
Health Care Execs Behaving Badly
BY KIM BELLARD
In the midst of a pandemic during which health care workers proved themselves to be very bit the heroes we like to think of them as being, it’s sobering to be reminded that the system they work in is filled with perverse incentives that work against patients’ best interests. Four pieces of excellent journalism – two from The New York Times, and two from Kaiser Health News — this week brought that front and center.
If you haven’t read them yet, I urge you to do so, but, while you might enjoy the writing, don’t expect to enjoy their content.
Let’s start with two arti...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Health Care Execs Kaiser Health News New York Times Providence Source Type: blogs
By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Z ócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services
Zócalo Health set to deliver the only Latino healthcare experience focused on the culture of patients’ primary and social health needs
Co-founders Erik Cardenas and Mariza Hardin defy the odds amidst lack of funding for Latino and female-led startups
Zócalo Health, a Latino-founded healthcare service designed for Latino patients, announced today $5M in seed funding co-led by Animo, Virtue, and Vamos Ventures. The round includes other notable investors including Necessary Ventures, Able Partners, and angel investors Toyin Ajayi, Freada Kapor Klein, Nikhil Krishnan, and Erik Ibarra. The funds will support the company&#...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Able Partners Animo Erik Cardenas Erik Ibarra Freada Kapor Klein Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Latino Healthcare Mariza Hardin Necessary Ventures Nikhil Krishnan Toyin Source Type: blogs
AI Startup AESOP Raises $3M to Tackle Medical and Billing Errors
Digital health startup AESOP Technology has raised a $2.95 million series pre-A round to address the growing medical and billing errors problem. The round was led by Taiwania Capital with participation from Colopl Next, 500 Startups, and BE Capital.
Originally from Taiwan, AESOP started as a university spin-off from Taipei Medical University (TMU). Professor Yu Chuan (Jack) Li, the founder and current president at the International Medical Informatics Association, spent ten years before AESOP working on big data approaches to reduce medication errors. He initially applied the model to launch a product, RxPrime (previo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT 500 Startups AESOP AESOP Technology BE Capital Colopl Next Dr. Jeremiah Scholl Dr. Jim Long DxPrime Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment International Med Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 12th 2022
Discussion of Present Drug Development to Target Senescent Cells
Targeting Senescent Cells to Better Address Cancer and Consequences of Cancer Therapy
Calorie Restriction Suppresses Generation of Immune Cells via Changes to the Gut Microbiome
Arguing for an Expansion of the Hallmarks of Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/09/arguing-for-an-expansion-of-the-hallmarks-of-aging/
The hallmarks of aging form a catalog of largely better studied changes in cells and tissues considered relevant, and possibly more important, in the onset and development of age-related degeneration and disease. Thi...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 11, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Hevolution Foundation Plans to Fund Aging Research and the Longevity Industry
Funding for aging research and the development of therapies to treat aging as a medical condition used to be hard to come by. It was a fringe field of medicine. But slow years of bootstrapping incremental progress - hard work, patient advocacy, and philanthropy - eventually led to technology demonstrations, such as the rejuvenation of mice with senolytic therapies, that convinced the first large sources of funding to enter the field. That produced further progress, and the start of a longevity industry, enough to convince deeper pockets to participate. That in turn made slowing and reversing aging a viable investment for a...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 8, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Paubox Raises $10 Million in Funding from Arthur Ventures
Capital raise comes amid rapidly growing demand for the company’s HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions
Paubox, a leading provider of HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $10 million in funding from Arthur Ventures. Paubox is the industry’s top-rated provider of secure, encrypted email for hospitals, medical practices, mental health facilities and other covered entities.
Paubox intends to use the funds to further its mission to become the market leader for HIPAA compliant email.
“At a time when the venture capital market is more restrictive ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Arthur Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HIPAA HIPAA Compliant Email Hoala Greevy Patrick Meenan Paubox Source Type: blogs
Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board
Additional funding brings Series D round to $320M total
Trevor Fetter, MBA, senior lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School and former longtime Tenet Healthcare chairman and CEO, named to Board
Sachin H. Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board
Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has joined its Series D financing in an extension that brings the total funding raised in the round to $320M. The initial Series D funding...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Biofourmis Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Home-Based Care Intel Capital Kuldeep Singh Rajput Mark Rostick NYSE:CVS Sachin H. Jain Trevor Fetter Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 25, 2022 Edition-----The big story this week has been the multiple PM story in Australia with ScoMo. What an amazing saga!In the UK there seems to be an impending collapse of the economy coming unless some-one takes some really smart steps real soon now.Relatively the US has seemed pretty calm this week – just waiting for an impending recession – along with China and Europe.Fair to say things globally are pretty messy!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/every-investing-trend-misfires-as-stock-bears-are-crushed-20220814-p5b9o2Every investing trend misfires as stock bears are crushedD...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
