Monday Morning Update 3/13/23
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Silicon Valley Bank, a major player in tech company financing, collapses and is taken over by federal regulators in the biggest US bank failure since 2008.
SVB has business relationships with half of…
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Gen Z-Focused Mental Health Platform Founded by Stanford Psychologist Raises $6M
Gen Z — those born between 1997 and 2012 — may be the youngest working generation, but they’re expected to comprise 30% of the workforce by 2030, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics….
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Wave Life Secures $6M to Increase Mental Health Access For Gen Z
What You Should Know:– Wave Life, the science-backed mental health platform aimed at supporting Gen Z raises $6M in seed funding led by Santé Ventures. The seed round also included participation from Hannah Grey,…
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New Artificial Intelligence-Based App Detects Mpox Rashes
By Mark Melchionna
March 07, 2023 – Researchers from Stanford University and other institutions have created an artificial intelligence (AI)-based app, called PoxApp, that can capture photos of skin lesions and provide insight as…
Neko Health cofounded by Daniel Ek, VinBrain partners with Stanford, UnitedHealthcare Reward Program
February brought lots of news in digital health. Some of them aren't that exciting since companies continue laying off their employees but hopefully, soon this trend will go down. Here is some more positive…
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With New Kind of CAR, Cancer Startup Cargo Refuels With $200M for Cell Therapy Race
Patients whose blood cancer advances after initial treatments have one last therapeutic option: the engineering of their immune cells into a living medicine. But cancer is crafty and it often finds a way to…
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Ambience Healthcare Launches Fully Automated AI Medical Scribe to Address Burnout Across Major Provider Organizations
Ambience AutoScribe technology, custom-built for medicine, works in real time without human scribes
Providers using the technology reduce their documentation time by 76% on average
Company backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Human Capital, Kleiner…
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The Sequoia Project Adds DoD, EHR Vendor Officials to Board
The Sequoia Project, a non-profit for nationwide health interoperability, has added four new members to its board of directors, including representatives from EHR vendor OneRecord and the Department of Defense (DoD). The new board…
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VinBrain harnesses Stanford data to improve radiology AI
Vietnamese healthcare AI developer VinBrain has started a new partnership with Stanford University to enhance AI medical imaging.Based on their latest data use agreement, Stanford will initially provide VinBrain access to about 240,000 anonymised medical images and reports to train and test the AI on its DrAid clinical decision support platform while also helping improve the accuracy of an information extracting method for structuring radiology reports called RadGraph.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to VinBrain, its latest partnership with Stanford aims to enhance efficiency in radiology reports while “tackling complexity, ambiguity, and limitations in medical image interpretation.”
Through Stanford’s support, the company will be able…
Iman Abuzeid, MD, CEO & Co-Founder of Incredible Health, on helping healthcare workers find and do…
Iman Abuzeid, MD, CEO & Co-Founder of Incredible Health, on helping healthcare workers find and do their best workSubscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Apple, Spotify, or Twitter.Iman…
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