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Panelists at Boston Consulting Group event
By  Jessica Hagen 12:54 pm January 16, 2025
At a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) event in San Francisco during the JPM Healthcare Conference taking place this week, panelists discussed the government's role in advancing AI technology and government oversight of the technology with the changing administration.  Micky Tripathi, assistant secretary for technology policy, national coordinator for health IT and chief AI officer for the U.S....
Person wearing a yellow scarf while holding a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 12:43 pm April 3, 2024
Providence, a large not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system, announced the launch of Praia Health, a consumer platform for healthcare systems, alongside the closing of a $20 million oversubscribed Series A investment round.  Frist Cressey Ventures led the round, with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, Providence Ventures and SignalFire. Navid Farzad, partner at Frist Cressey, and Sara...
By  Dave Muoio 03:50 pm March 30, 2020
MyHeritage, a genealogy and health DNA testing company, has teamed up with the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) to establish a COVID-19 testing lab in its home country of Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. The facility is aiming to open its doors by April 9 with a 10,000-tests-per-day capacity, and hopes to scale up to 20,000 per day shortly after. “BGI will ship to Israel in the...