Simple Contacts, a New York City-based telemedicine startup for eye care has raised $16 million in funding led by Waypoint Capital Partners, with participation from returning investors Goodwater Capital, Steven Cohen, executives from Flatiron Health and a number of the nation’s top ophthalmologists. The company plans to use the new funding to invest in marketing and customer service, open new offices, and eventually expand the business to address additional healthcare categories. The latest
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What Clinical Nurse Leaders Do
In the health care community, much lip service has been paid to growing and attracting clinical leaders. After all, hospitals and other facilities with recognized clinical leaders seem to function better and provide better medical care than those that lack such high-powered medical professionals. Yet, a problem has arisen: Who are clinical leaders, and what do they do?A handful of peer-reviewed articles have argued that any professional within the medical field has the potential to claim
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OurCrowd Launches Israel’s First $50M Digital Health Fund
OurCrowd, an Jerusalem-based global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors has launched Israel's first $50 million fund to invest in digital health startups. The new fund called OurCrowd Qure will focus on digital health startups at seed and series A stages in Israel, the US and the Asia Pacific region. Allen Kamer and Dr. Yossi Bahagon has been appointed to lead the fund.OurCrowd Qure has established a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University to provide validation of value,
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Welkin Health, Serotonin-Plus Partner to Create “Coach in a Pocket” App for Weight Loss
Serotonin-Plus, a Virginia-based medical weight loss program structured around a patented serotonin formula, has partnered with Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in patient relationship management, to scale the most important component of their program: human coaching. Welkin's configurable technology will enable Serofit coaches to build relationships with patients and engage and support them in their weight loss goals, all at the patient's convenience.This
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3M 360 Encompass System Expands with Professional Fee Coding
3M Health Information Systems is expanding its 3M 360 Encompass System platform to introduce encounter-based professional fee coding solution. The new solution brings the power of 3M’s computer-assisted coding, physician query capability and reporting to coding and billing for physician services, helping professional coders improve productivity, boost compliance and decrease claim denials.The University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH), a five-hospital system and New Mexico’s only academic medical
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Stanford University to Implement Virtual Reality Platform for Enhanced Patient Engagement
Stanford University, Department of Neurosurgery has announced it will implement Surgical Theater’s Virtual Reality (VR) medical visualization platform to help enhance patient engagement. Precision VR™, Surgical Theater’s VR medical visualization platform, combines leading-edge fighter jet flight simulation technology with the patient’s own anatomy scans, using medical imaging such as MRI and CT, to create a VR reconstruction of the individual patient anatomy and pathology. The technology builds
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StartUp Health Launches ‘Longevity Moonshot’ to Change Face of Aging
StartUp Health, a New York-based global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, today announced the launch of StartUp Health’s Longevity Moonshot, a mission to extend and enhance healthy life by 50+ years and change the face of aging. Building off its participation in the White House Cancer Moonshot and The Cancer Moonshot 2020, the Longevity Moonshot is the first moonshot of focus that StartUp Health is organizing for its community of Healthcare Transformers.
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Oschner Health Pilots Apple Watch to Manage Chronic Diseases
After being the first Epic client to integrate with the Apple HealthKit, Ochsner Health System has announced it is now the first hospital in the nation to use the Apple Watch for managing patients suffering from chronic diseases. As part of the Ochsner Hypertension Digital Medicine Program pilot program, the New Orleans-based provider will utilize the Apple Watch to track several hundred patients who are struggling to control their blood pressure. How It Works Through wireless blood
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