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💰 rounds and deals:
🇺🇸 👁 Digital Diagnostics scores $75M to advance AI-backed diagnostic tech
Formerly known as IDx, the company received FDA De Novo clearance in 2018 for its IDx-DR system used to detect diabetic retinopathy.
MobiHealthNews
🇺🇸 🧠 Mental Health Platform Alma Raises $130M During Therapist Shortage
crunchbase
🇺🇸 ⚗️ Nanopath raises $10M Series A for women’s health diagnostics
Mass Device
🇺🇸 👴🏽 Senior Companionship Startup Naborforce Secures $9M In Series A
Home Health Care News
🇺🇸 💊 Dr. B reels in $8M, offering online consultations for prescription drugs
Axios
🇺🇸 🥼 Trial Library pulls in $5M to improve patient recruitment and diversity in cancer clinical trials
The Wall Street Journal
🇺🇸 👩🏽⚕️ Violet secures $5.3M for its digital cultural competence training for clinicians
Forbes
🇰🇷 ⚛️ South Korean AI imaging startup AIRS Medical scores $20M in Series B funding
Its flagship product, SwiftMR, is an AI-powered MRI reconstruction software that enhances MR images. Since its launch last year, the software as a medical device has been used in more than 130,000 MRI examinations in South Korea.
MobiHealthNews
🇯🇵 🥽 Japanese medical AI startup Ubie snaps up $26M in Series C funding
Founded in 2017, Ubie offers two AI-powered solutions: the Ubie AI Symptom Checker for patients and the AI Patient Intake for healthcare providers.
MobiHealthNews
🗞 news:
Amazon Care is shutting down at the end of 2022.
Three years after it began piloting a primary care service for its employees that blended telehealth and in-person medical services, Amazon plans to cease operations of its Amazon Care service.
FIERCE Healthcare
ADHD digital therapeutic maker Akili goes public
The newly public digital health firm said the deal brought in more than $163 million before paying transaction expenses and advisory fees. Akili plans to use the cash to launch EndeavorRx, its FDA-cleared therapeutic for kids ages 8 to 12 who have attention issues. It's scheduled to become available in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of this year.
MobiHealthNews
Amwell to power CVS Health's virtual care offering
Healthcare Finance News
🤓 nerd cool news:
Fitbit debuts afib detection in health-tracking smartwatch
FIERCE Biotech
FDA clears Point Robotics' hand-held spinal surgery system
FIERCE Biotech
Singapore clears Australian firm Hydrix's AI-powered implantable cardiac monitor
MobiHealthNews
🤯 wtf??
(notícias absurdas, inesperadas ou minimamente intrigantes…)
Signify Health gains 38% as Amazon, UnitedHealth spark bidding war
The shares of Signify Health (NYSE:SGFY) jumped ~38% in pre-market trading Monday amid reports that the home health service provider plans to conduct a board meeting to evaluate multiple buyout offers.
The bidders include tech giant Amazon (AMZN), health insurers UnitedHealth (UNH), CVS Health (CVS), and home healthcare provider Option Care Health Inc. (OPCH).
Seeking Alpha
🤯 this should not be here
(notícias que não eram pra estar aqui, mas estão…)
Amar Assist quer popularizar conceito de pós-saúde e mira série A
“este é o termo que a Amar Assist utiliza para repaginar os serviços de assistência funerária, utilizando tecnologia como o fio condutor desta modernização.”
Startups.br
(alguém pensou Funerals.com ?????)
📖 readings:
Who are the most active early-stage investors in digital health?
In direct-to-consumer digital health, advertising is a pricey equation
Modern Healthcare Digital Health
🔬 papers:
The Impact of Telemedicine on Physicians’ After-hours Electronic Health Record “Work Outside Work” During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Cohort Study
JMIR Medical Informatics
A framework for digital health equity
Nature Digital Medicine
Effectiveness of delivering evidence-based eating disorder treatment via telemedicine for children, adolescents, and youth
The Journal of Treatment & Prevention
📰 tl;(i did)r
(leitura selo TJ da semana 👍)
Trying To Reduce Churn Rate? Avoid These 3 Common Myths
Reforge
🐦 tweet da semana:
⚜️ old but gold:
Do Things that Don't Scale
(um clássico de 2012 que envelheceu bem…)
Paul Graham
📚 resources:
Lenny's Newsletter (newsletter INCRÍVEL do meu professor de Growth do Reforge @lennysan)
🐦 data plot:
(healthcare is HARD…)
🔍 enquete da semana:
(ajuda nóis…)
📺 for the funz:
🌵 Grande Sertão: Veredas (edição em quadrinhos) - versão comic ESPETACULAR do clássico de João Guimarães Rosa, com roteiro poderoso de Eloar Guazzelli e ilustração impecável do Rodrigo Rosa.
🐀 Tributo Punkabilly aos 40 anos de Ratos do Porão - Spotify (primeiro escuta, depois reclama me fala o que vc achou…)
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