Global healthcare AI platform Ubie and the American Kidney Fund (AKF) will collaborate to fine-tune Ubie's AI-enabled symptom checker for kidney disease detection with the aim of accelerating a patient's time to treatment.
Ubie's AI is trained on clinical research papers, and then its physician review panel analyzes the prediction pathways and symptoms associated with a disease.
At this point,...
Kidney care company Strive Health scored a whopping $166 million in Series C funding led by NEA alongside strategic investor CVS Health Ventures.
Existing investors CapitalG (Alphabet), Town Hall Ventures, Redpoint, Echo Health Ventures and Ascension Ventures also participated in the round.
WHAT IT DOES
The Denver-based company offers a value-based care platform that integrates chronic kidney...
A team of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and California-based medical research institute Sanford Burnham Prebys has come up with a new computational model to predict whether a patient with Type 2 diabetes will develop kidney disease.
The said model, according to a press statement, measures markers of DNA methylation – a process that occurs when subtle changes accumulate in...
Tech-backed chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease management company Monogram Health announced it had scored a whopping $375 million in growth funding.
Strategic investors in the round include CVS Health, Humana, SCAN Health Plan, Cigna Ventures and Memorial Hermann Health System. Other participants include First Cressey Ventures, TPG Capital, Pura Vida Investments, Northwest...
Smartphone urinalysis and wound-care company Healthy.io received FDA 510(k) clearance for home use of its Minuteful kidney-damage test.
The test is used to determine the increased presence of a protein called albumin in the urine, which can be an early sign of chronic kidney disease. The kit includes a testing strip, a sample cup and color board. Patients dip the test strip into their urine...
Dialysis care solutions developer Baxter Asia Pacific has rolled out an online resource portal to support patients living with chronic kidney disease in Indonesia.
The My Kidney Journey website hosts information on CKD, such as symptoms, causes, and stages, as well as the latest information on multiple treatment options to manage the disease, including Peritoneal Dialysis at home, in-centre...
Kidney care company Strive Health landed $140 million in a Series B funding led by Alphabet’s growth fund CapitalG, bringing its total funding to $223.5 million. The deal is expected to give the company “unique access” to Google and Alphabet assets.
Redpoint, NEA, Town Hall Ventures, Ascension Ventures and Echo Ventures also participated in the round.
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The company’s platform is able...
Pharma giant Otsuka is rolling out a new kidney focused platform called NephU that provides online resources about nephrology conditions and a place for clinicians to collaborate and share information amongst themselves, and with patients.
Users will be able to tap into an online library of resources that include video, audio, webinars and podcasts. According to the site, the “community”...
As 2020 gets underway, the federal government has set its sights on bringing innovation to an area of health that affects one in seven Americans and costs the government more than NASA and the Department of Commerce combined, yet hasn’t seen major innovation since the 1970s.
That area is kidney disease. Both HHS Chief Technology Officer Ed Simcox and HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan addressed the...
Scanwell Health, the maker of a smartphone-based platform for home urinary tract infection screening, announced last week that it will be playing a role in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study, an ongoing, multicenter investigation of chronic kidney disease and other comorbid chronic conditions sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
As a result of the partnership, up 1,250...
