Clinical and business intelligence

Woman checking glucose level with a remote sensor and mobile phone.
By  Emily Olsen 10:27 am July 18, 2022
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) on Monday revealed four toolkits to help healthcare and life science organizations use data from sensors like wearables and remote patient monitoring systems at scale.  The four toolkits are based on resources derived from the society's Sensor Data Integrations project, which includes organizations like Amazon Web Services, Oracle, the Moffitt Cancer Center,...
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By  Emily Olsen 11:33 am July 13, 2022
New York-based health system Northwell Health is partnering with Google Cloud to use cloud technology and artificial intelligence to automate administrative workflows and identify patient risk factors for early intervention. The collaboration will use Google's tech for scheduling, automating contact with payers and creating summaries of patient medical information. It will also use machine...
A doctor showing his colleague information on a laptop
By  Emily Olsen 01:23 pm June 30, 2022
Clinical support tool Regard, formerly known as HealthTensor, scooped up $15.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Calibrate Ventures and Foundry Group. Other participants in the raise include TenOneTen Ventures, Susa Ventures, Brook Byers of Byers Capital and Dropbox cofounder and CEO Drew Houston. The startup had previously announced it had raised $5 million in seed funding in early 2021...
A woman sitting on a hospital bed with her back to the camera
By  Nathan Eddy 12:13 pm May 3, 2022
The adoption of a unified framework for the prediction of patient length of stay (LoS) could provide more reliable estimates of the LoS and lead to improvements in patient care, increased service efficiency and more closely controlled hospital costs. These were the results of a study published in PLOS, which examined 93 studies from 1970 to 2019 to identify efforts to predict and reduce the LoS...
Dentist and his assistant using tablet in the process of treating teeth of patient
By  Emily Olsen 01:44 pm March 31, 2022
AI-enabled dental care startup VideaHealth scooped up $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Spark Capital.  The round included participation from existing investors Zetta Venture Partners and Pillar VC, bringing the company's total raise to $26.4 million. WHAT IT DOES VideaHealth offers AI-backed tools to dental care providers and insurers, including practice management, claims analysis...
A woman presents in front of a group of colleagues
By  Emily Olsen 01:19 pm January 18, 2022
Real-world clinical data analytics company Verana Health scooped up $150 million in Series E funding. The round was led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Novo Growth, with participation from GV, Casdin Capital, Brook Byers, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, THVC and Breyer Capital. Verana plans to use the influx of capital to expand its life sciences products across the drug development...
A doctor scrolling through a tablet
By  Adam Ang 04:16 am September 8, 2021
Sydney-based firms Synapse Medical Services, an automated clinical coding tool provider, and EBM Analytics, a clinical research consultant, have recently collaborated to integrate their technologies. WHAT THEY DO Aside from clinical coding, Synapse also offers a transcription service and an app-based online medical billing system. It also runs the healthcare training organisation, Australian...
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By  Mallory Hackett 11:25 am July 1, 2021
Healthcare automation company Olive announced today the closing of a $400 million investment round led by Vista Equity Partners. The new capital boosts Olive’s valuation to $4 billion, the company said. The Base10 Advancement Initiative also participated in the funding round, which helped create the Olive Scholarship, a series of financial aid awards for America's Historically Black Colleges and...
Sage Khanuja and Nikolas Ioannou, the developers of Spira.
By  Mallory Hackett 12:08 pm May 18, 2021
When Seattle natives Nikolas Ioannou and Sage Khanuja met at an early entrance program for the University of Washington after dropping out of high school after 10th grade, they quickly bonded over their interest in health and technology. Both come from families with a background in health, and both came to UW to study computer science. Right away, the two began brainstorming ideas for a joint...
By  Dave Muoio 12:32 pm March 22, 2021
Healthcare data analysis startup Komodo Health has announced a $220 million Series E funding round and a subsequent $3.3 billion valuation. The raise was headed by Tiger Global, with additional support from new backer Casdin Capital and prior investors ICONIQ Growth, Andreessen Horowitz and Silicon Valley Bank. WHAT IT DOES Founded in 2014, Komodo offers providers, pharma and other life sciences...