TailorMed, a platform that allows healthcare providers to manage their finances, check health plans and estimate out-of-pocket costs for uninsured patients, announced a $40 million financing round, combining equity and debt, led by Windham Capital Partners.
Samsung Next, BrightEdge, Citi Impact Fund and the investment arms of OSF Healthcare, Ballad Ventures, Inception Health, UnityPoint Health...
Vuno receives second 510(k)
South Korean medical AI company Vuno has obtained a 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration for its chest X-ray analysis AI software.
The VunoMed Chest X-ray Triage quickly screens for pneumothorax and pleural effusion in chest X-ray images.
This FDA win is a second for Vuno, who first received a 510(k) for its brain image analysis AI in...
Synapticure, a telemedicine company focused on people and caregivers living with neurodegenerative diseases, announced it has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by B Capital.
New investors CVS Health Ventures, RA Capital Management, CommonSpirit Health and Nexus NeuroTech Ventures participated in the round, with participation from existing investors Google Ventures, Rock Health...
Pregnancy and postpartum care startup Ruth Health is closing its business after reflecting "on challenges ahead in a fragmented maternity care space where [it] failed to find scalable product market fit," the company's CEO said.
Ruth offered virtual pelvic floor physical therapy and lactation support, which could be accessed during pregnancy and after birth, as well as C-section recovery, which...
Venture capital firm General Catalyst announced the expansion of the General Catalyst Institute into India, focusing on five key pillars, including using AI to address societal challenges and working with policymakers and entrepreneurs to build on India's strengths in telemedicine and pharmaceuticals in order to impact the healthcare sector.
The General Catalyst Institute, launched in September,...
Digital biology company Optic is collaborating with early-stage oncology therapeutics venture, Vindur Tx, to use Optics proprietary generative AI platform to find novel highly selective kinase inhibitors and develop more effective cancer treatments.
Vindur Tx agreed to pay Optic as much as $17.5 million for its proprietary technology to search for new ways of addressing what the company called...
Precision Neuroscience, a brain-computer interface company that connects AI with human intelligence, has scored $93 million in a planned $100 million funding round, with the deal valuing the startup at around $500 million, according to a Bloomberg report that attributes the information to "a person familiar with the situation."
WHAT IT DOES
Private company Precision Neuroscience offers a brain...
Ohio-based Summa Health and General Catalyst's Health Assurance Transformation HATCo, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Summa for $485 million.
Summa Health is a nonprofit healthcare system with over 30 locations throughout the Akron and Canton areas.
The purchase price, when added to Summa Health’s current cash, will allow the health system to dispose of $850 million in existing...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the Digital transformation handbook for primary health care, a roadmap to help countries digitize their health information to improve how health services are delivered.
The 98-page roadmap was codeveloped through years of collaboration with the Human Reproduction Program and the Department of Digital Health and Innovation.
It was written with the...
Health Catalyst, a U.S.-based provider of healthcare data and analytics for care organizations, signed a definitive agreement to acquire all equity interests of cybersecurity provider Intraprise Health for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $43 million.
Intraprise offers an end-to-end cybersecurity risk management and services platform, while Health Catalyst's healthcare data and...
