CHICAGO — During the Venture Connect panel on demystifying digital therapeutics at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition here on Tuesday, panelists provided insights into the state of investments in digital therapeutics, the barriers to adoption, challenging existing standards of care and how success in the sector requires patience and persistence.
"Very recently [investment]...
Last week Avia, a digital health insights and consulting service, announced that it raked in $22 million in new funding. First Trust Capital Partners led the round with participation from Sumitomo Corporation of Americas and Ziegler.
As part of the news, Avia has also named Jon Phillips, the managing director and head of private equity at First Trust Capital Partners, and Darren Dworkin, the SVP...
Roy J.E.M. Raymann, who, as we reported yesterday, left Apple's sleep team a month ago, has moved to SleepScore Labs, a joint venture between ResMed, Dr. Oz Media, and Pegasus Capital Advisors. He will serve as Vice President of Sleep Science and Scientific Affairs.
First announced this year at CES, SleepScore Labs is "currently in the process of examining how people sleep by compiling and...
Chicago-based health accelerator Avia announced that it had partnered with HIMSS to help connect health startups to hospital systems, according to a report in MedCity News. The accelerator plans to announce its first hospital partner by the summer. Avia plans to work with its hospital partners to first understand their needs and then seek out promising startups that might fill them. The obvious...
