Dealroom, Inkep Capital and MTIP have released a report powered by a database dedicated to mapping and tracking the health innovation ecosystem.
The report looks at 76,275 startups, 38,907 funding rounds, and 8,821 exits of companies addressing aspects of the healthcare value chain and patient journey.
WHY IT MATTERS
The report predicts that over the next two years, the industry will see new...
Climate change has been called the biggest threat that humanity has ever faced yet is being propelled by the very system meant to enhance people's quality of life.
While healthcare institutions continue to contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, some are turning to telemedicine to curb the issue.
"The potential [of telemedicine] is very significant, and it allows us to increasingly treat people...
Mantra Health, a startup providing virtual mental healthcare services to higher education, has closed a $2 million extension to the $3.2 million in seed funding it disclosed late last year, MobiHealthNews has learned.
The startup's newest backers include Canaan Partners, City Light Capital and Baleon Capital, as well as Aligned Telehealth founder Dr. Nitin Nanda as a strategic angel investor....
CirrusMD, a startup offering on-demand, text-first telehealth, has raised $20 million in a new Series C funding round that brings its lifetime funding to $46 million.
Blue Venture Fund led the raise, which also saw support from 7wireVentures, Drive Capital and the Colorado Impact Fund.
WHAT IT DOES
CirrusMD's approach to virtual care is focused on convenient and timely communication.
Offered...
SOC Telemed (formerly Specialists on Call) announced yesterday that it has purchased fellow acute care telemedicine provider Access Physicians.
The cash and stock transaction is valued at roughly $194 million, with the potential for additional considerations based on performance.
WHAT'S THE IMPACT
SOC Telemed was already a major name in the enterprise telemedicine space. The company reported...
Portuguese health insurer, Médis, and AI-triage company, Infermedica have established a partnership which has resulted in the recent implementation of Infermedica's Call Centre Triage tool in Médis' Clinical Contact Centre.
Part of the insurance holding group, Grupo Ageas Portugal, Médis was motivated by its aim to find a more modern solution to the primary issues of its current triage system by ...
One of Poland's largest private healthcare providers, PZU Zdrowie is using AI-driven healthcare startup, Infemedica's AI-enabled Call Centre Triage solution to provide patients with more streamlined healthcare advice.
In 2019, the organisation handled 2.4 million patient calls, with 15,000 coming on a single day.
Building on a three-year partnership, Infermedica’s solutions will implement...
The Orsini Way has been helping train doctors on handling patient relationships for a number of years, and New Jersey's Englewood Health has been a long-time user of the innovative teaching method.
But last year, as doctor-patient interactions overwhelmingly went online, already difficult patient-doctor interactions became even more fraught. In today's episode, host Jonah Comstock welcomes Dr....
IMMERSIVE MINDFULNESS PLATFORM LAUNCHES
Estonia-born MindSpa app, Synctuition has partnered up with haptic sound technology company, Woojer, to create an immersive mindfulness experience for its users.
Synctuition's platform uses 3D sounds recorded in over 2000 locations allowing for accurate replication of those environments. This creates something called environmental psychology, helping its...
Teladoc Health has launched new pilots of its virtual primary care program and hopes to explore its take on a hospital-at-home offering with large health system partners before the end of the year, CEO Jason Gorevic said this week during a J.P. Morgan virtual presentation.
Shortly after the talk, Teladoc also announced a new pilot with continuous glucose monitor (CGM) company Dexcom for eligible...
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