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Healthcare providers standing in the hallway of a hospital looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 02:30 pm January 11, 2024
Harbor Health, a Texas-based primary care clinic group that offers virtual and in-person care, announced it scored $95.5 million in funding, led by General Catalyst, with participation from Alta Partners and 8VC.  The investment brings the company's total raise to more than $128 million.  The funds will be used to grow its services and expand its specialty care offerings, including designing...
Healthcare provider wearing a stethoscope and looking out a window
By  Jessica Hagen 01:22 pm January 5, 2024
California-based real-world data platform Atropos Health announced that healthcare data analytics company Arcadia has joined its health portfolio, giving Arcadia's provider customers and life sciences users access to Atropos' offerings. Atropos Health offers AI innovations, evidence generation, analytics augmentation and data evaluation to help physicians access real-world evidence to guide...
Healthcare providers in a clinic standing around a desk talking to each other
By  Jessica Hagen 03:09 pm January 3, 2024
Veradigm, a data-driven healthcare technology company, announced it acquired revenue cycle optimization platform Koha Health the same day law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announced it filed a class action lawsuit against the health technology company on behalf of its investors. The class action lawsuit was filed against Veradigm on behalf of purchasers of the company's common stock...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:13 pm January 2, 2024
Diagnostics company LumiraDx announced it signed an agreement to sell its point-of-care technology to pharma giant Roche for $295 million, with an additional payment of $55 million to fund the platform until the acquisition closes.  LumiraDx developed a diagnostic testing system that uses a small, portable instrument and microfluidic test strips to perform multiple lab-quality tests via a single...
A person's arm with a smartwatch on their wrist
By  Jessica Hagen 12:57 pm December 27, 2023
Apple can no longer sell its newest smartwatches, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2, in the U.S. after President Biden declined to veto a product ban implemented by the International Trade Commission (ITC) that cited patent infringement. The ban, which came into effect this week, was implemented by the ITC in October to protect medtech company Masimo, which sued Apple in 2020 for...
Healthcare provider sitting in front of a computer waving at the screen
By  Jessica Hagen 02:29 pm December 6, 2023
Value-based care provider NuvoAir is partnering with the ALS Association to provide virtual pulmonary care to individuals with ALS, starting with two clinics in Texas.  ALS is a nervous system disorder that affects motor neurons, which are nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain that control breathing and voluntary muscle movement. Individuals with ALS often experience respiratory complications...
Two healthcare providers looking at a computer screen
By  Nathan Eddy 04:31 pm November 30, 2023
German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and tech giant IBM are teaming up to harness the power of genAI and foundation models to further biologic drug discovery. The partnership leverages IBM’s foundation model technologies, consisting of pre-trained, large-scale neural network architectures, to accelerate the identification of novel antibodies vital for therapeutic development. These...
Two healthcare providers looking at a brain imaging scan
By  Jessica Hagen 12:33 pm November 30, 2023
RapidAI, a health tech company specializing in imaging analysis software, announced it received Class III Shonin clearance in Japan and launched a hybrid technology platform, Rapid Edge Cloud, and a non-contrast CT offering for stroke identification.   RapidAI offers numerous imaging solutions for stroke, aneurysm and pulmonary embolism. It also provides technology platforms to enable coordinated...
Four healthcare professionals wearing blue scrubs and sitting in a circle with one holding a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 01:58 pm November 21, 2023
Healthcare management platform Laudio announced that Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System has joined its Series B funding round as a strategic investor and will implement its administrative workflows to drive employee efficiency and engagement. Laudio's AI-enabled platform provides healthcare management personnel with recommendations on engaging with their team to reduce burnout and...
Healthcare provider sitting at a desk looking at a screen with their hand on the mouse
By  Nathan Eddy 04:51 pm November 20, 2023
In the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, the healthcare industry continues to grapple with the persistent challenge of a scarcity of professionals equipped with the required information technology expertise, according to a study conducted by analytics firm GlobalData.  The survey, which involved insights from 114 professionals within the healthcare sector, sheds light on the persistent hurdles...