San Francisco-based health data analytics company Innovaccer scored $275 million in a Series F funding round, which was a combination of primary and secondary funding.
The round brings the company's total funding to $675 million.
WHAT IT DOES
Innovaccer, founded in 2014, works with life sciences companies, government organizations, providers and payers.
Its Healthcare Intelligence Cloud is a...
San Francisco-based data intelligence and AI provider Databricks has raised $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing in a Series J funding round, completing $8.6 billion to date. The new funding brings the company's valuation to $62 billion.
Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, WCM Investment Management, Insight Partners and DST Global coled the round, with participation from existing...
Selfii, a company that provides privacy-preserving health data, announced it is partnering with secure identity company CLEAR to streamline and strengthen patient access to health records via Selfii's patient data network.
The aim of the partnership is to align healthcare organizations with 21st Century Cures Act demands by allowing patients to quickly request and acquire their data without...
Japanese ICT provider Fujitsu has unveiled a new cloud-based platform that allows the secure collection, storage, and leverage of health and health-related data.
HOW IT WORKS
Based on Microsoft Azure, the new platform features automatic conversion of medical data from EMR systems to conform with current HL7 FHIR standards for easy utilisation and data exchange.
It also allows the secure...
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) is the most common heart rhythm disorder, affecting more than 40 million people worldwide.
The condition poses a five-fold increased risk of stroke, yet is often difficult to detect.
Until now, studies have shown the potential of smart devices for large-scale AFib screening but have made no comparison with conventional screening.
However new research presented at the...
The advantages of telehealth beyond enabling physician/patient relationships to continue virtually are now driving adoption in many aspects of care provision that were critically disrupted by the pandemic – most notably preventive healthcare, remote patient monitoring and chronic disease management.
While clinicians derive great value from the flexibility and efficiencies enabled by these digital...
Tohoku University's Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, pharmaceutical firms Daiichi Sankyo and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., and medical IT company MICIN have started a collaborative research project to track long-term lifestyle habits to drive the creation of new drugs.
According to a press statement, the organisations will loan wearable tracking devices to about 2,000 participants. Over a year...
Omron Healthcare, maker of health monitoring and therapy devices in Japan, has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based telehealth startup Doctor Anywhere.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Under the partnership, Omron will enable the sharing of health records tracked on its connected devices with the DA platform. The integration involves the following Omron health monitoring devices: OMRON Smart...
Ribbon Health, which offers a health data API platform, scored $43.5 million in a Series B funding round led by General Catalyst.
Other investors participating in the round include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), BoxGroup, Rock Health, and SCAN Group and Health Plan CEO Sachin Jain.
Ribbon said the Series B brings its total raise to $55 million.
WHAT IT DOES
Ribbon provides an API layer that...
In Germany, the public health insurers are in charge of the ePatient record (ePA) app delivery. MobiHealthNews asked Sandra Hoyer, ePA project manager at one of Germany’s main insurers, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), how the implementation works - and how it has been used so far.
Q. The payers are responsible for providing the national ePA in Germany. How does that work?
At the moment we provide...
