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 Lucem Health Announces Series A Funding Round | Healthcare IT Today
Healthcare IT Today - (Friday May 19, 2023) Venture Capital Commitment for Mayo Clinic Platform Portfolio Company Underscores Promise of Clinical AI to Transform Healthcare Delivery  EarSwitch wins grant to develop hearing aids with medical monitoring
Digital Health - (Friday May 19, 2023) EarSwitch has won the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge Grant, which will allow it to develop its EarMetrics technology into standard hearing aids, allowing for a range of medical monitoring.Once developed the EarMetrics hearing aid… |
 EHRA takes issue with HTI-1’s burdens, competing requirements
Healthcare IT news - (Friday May 19, 2023) During a virtual media briefing this week, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association outlined some of the comments it plans to send the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT about its draft…  Vitality members benefit from AI-powered mental health support
Digital Health - (Friday May 19, 2023) Vitality has completed a pilot that found its health insurance members who used conversational AI support through the Wysa app demonstrated clinically significant reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms.A cohort of 60,000 UK VitalityHealth… |
 Kingston Hospital selects OX.DH to support assisted conception unit
Digital Health - (Friday May 19, 2023) Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with cloud-native tech specialist OX.DH to support its assisted conception unit with the introduction of its OX.ar solution and healthcare platform. The solution will be used at…  FTC Under Fire for Aggressive Enforcement of Antitrust Laws
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday May 19, 2023) The American Hospital Association and five other hospital associations have urged the Federal Trade Commission to abandon its policy of enforcing the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act against state-approved mergers and acquisitions. The groups argue that the… |
 Ontologizing health systems data at scale: making translational discovery a reality
npj Digital Medicine - (Friday May 19, 2023) Common data models solve many challenges of standardizing electronic health record (EHR) data but are unable to semantically integrate all of the resources needed for deep phenotyping. Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry…  Patients Increasingly Trust Non-Traditional Primary Care Settings
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday May 19, 2023) A new survey by Wolters Kluwer finds that trust in non-traditional primary care settings continues to grow, with more and more patients opting for retail pharmacies and clinics over traditional doctor’s offices. The survey… |
 Singaporean telehealth startup ORA nets $10M in Series A funding
MobiHealthNews - (Friday May 19, 2023) Singapore-headquartered telehealth company ORA has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round – touted to be the largest telehealth funding in Southeast Asia to date – led by TNB Aura and Antler….  Kaiser Permanente Announces New AI Initiative to Improve Patient Outcomes
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday May 19, 2023) Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest health systems in the US, has announced a new initiative to use AI to improve patient outcomes. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has given the project, known… |
