Healthcare data analytics company Socially Determined announced a partnership with data sharing technology startup Datavant to provide life sciences companies with data on social risk drivers to improve health equity and patient outcomes.
Washington D.C.-based Socially Determined uses data to offer insights into the social determinants of health, including factors like access to food, housing...
Hume AI scored $3 million from Northwell Holdings, the investment arm of New York-based health system Northwell Health, to continue developing machine learning models that aim to understand speech and expression.
WHAT IT DOES
The startup builds natural language-understanding tools that take text, audio, video or images and try to capture meaning, as well as emotion and other expressions....
AI-enabled medical documentation startup Abridge announced Thursday it had scooped up $12.5 million in Series A-1 funding.
The round was led by Wittington Ventures with participation from existing investors including Union Square Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Pillar Venture Capital and UPMC Enterprises. New investors Canadian computer scientist and AI expert Yoshua Bengio and Whistler...
Cardiovascular disease-focused Cleerly scored $192 million in Series C financing, a little more than a year after the company launched with a $43 million Series B.
The latest round, led by T. Rowe Price and Fidelity Management and Research Company, brings Cleerly's total raise to $248 million.
Other participants in the round include Sands Capital, Piper Sandler’s Merchant Banking and Heartland...
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...
Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said using APIs for sharing healthcare information will “empower totally new business models” in digital health.
The 21st Century Cures Act, originally passed in 2016, although full implementation was delayed due to COVID-19, enables patients to access their health record through APIs on apps of their choice.
“In...
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is expanding its portfolio of data services for the healthcare and life sciences industries.
Azure Healthcare APIs, formerly named the Azure API for FHIR, allows users to input health data and map it to the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), allowing the information to be easily searched and shared or managed with machine learning and artificial...
Third-party digital health companies can now integrate Dexcom’s continuous glucose monitoring data into their platforms and devices in real-time thanks to a new FDA clearance for the company’s Partner Web APIs.
The data integration capabilities are available to companies on an invite-only basis. So far, wearable device-maker Garmin and chronic-condition-management company Livongo have entered the...
