...app based management in a B2B2C model for members of health plans and other payers, self-insured employers, providers, and consumers. Back in January, they completed a $25.6 million private placement of 25,606 shares to extend their cash runway. Release, Mobihealthnews NYC-based CoachCare is acquiring Carrolton, Texas-based VitalTech. Both companies monitor chronic conditions via remote patient monitoring (RPM) and are about the same size. Acquisition cost was not disclosed. VitalTech CEO Jeh Kazimi and the under 50 person VitalTech staff will be joining CoachCare. CoachCare claims that they cover 200,000 patients in 3,000 locations. Release Investor Warburg Pincus sells majority stake... Continue Reading
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Short takes: a guide to HIMSS25, Google Watch clears loss of pulse detection, OpenEvidence’s AI-powered $75M raise, Retrieve Medical to buy Cúratus, HerMD women’s health closes
...content partnerships, to train next-generation LLMs, and grow its team of scientists. With total funding over $100 million, its valuation is now $1 billion. Mobihealthnews, CNBC Retrieve Medical plans to acquire Cúratus LLC. Both seem to be bootstrapped data companies, with Retrieve analyzing patient data from multiple sources using advanced natural language processing (NLP) in its Retrieve Dx product for providers to understand complex clinical histories and diagnose chronic conditions. It integrates with major EHRs. Cúratus provides to health plans and provider groups provider data management, and governance for the Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial payer markets through its ProviderLenz... Continue Reading
The wrapup line on ViVE
...Innovaccer announced seven new AI agents. These ‘agents of care’ automate administrative tasks in scheduling, protocol intake, referrals, prior authorizations, care gap, HCC, and patient access. The agents are designed to support multiple care teams, including clinicians, care managers, risk coders, patient navigators, and call center agents. Release Lumeris launched an AI tool, Tom, that automates tasks like care coordination, chronic disease management and patient outreach in clinical workflows for primary care providers. Release UPMC Enterprises soft-launched a virtual environment, Ahavi, for developers to test and evaluate the efficacy of AI models against UPMC’s patient population data. UPMC Enterprises is... Continue Reading
News roundup 2: RFK Jr. confirmed as HHS Secretary, new MAHA commission formed; Amwell narrows loss by 68%; HEALWELL (CA) nears close of Orion Health (NZ) buy; Summer Health buys Caraway; Spectrum.Life (IE) plans to double users; 2025 NY Digital Health 100 announced
...health crisis, with an initial focus on childhood chronic diseases.” such as autism and fatty liver disease, plus adult asthma and the causes of the low US life expectancy. The EO’s four policy directives focus on reversing chronic disease through: transparency on health data to “avoid conflicts of interest in all federally funded health research prioritizing “gold-standard research on why Americans are getting sick” in all federally-funded health research working with farmers to ensure food is healthy as well as affordable expanding health coverage and treatment options “for beneficial lifestyle changes and disease prevention.” The timeframe is short: 100 days... Continue Reading
News roundup: PSI awarded $156M contract for VA EHR testing; $50M for Fay nutrition; General Catalyst’s wealth management expansion; UniDoc’s HealthCube debuts in Ukraine
...the RDs. In addition, Fay can help RDs build their private practice and get credentialed with insurance. Over half of Americans struggle with diet-related chronic conditions (Frontiers in Public Health). Fay is in an especially sweet spot, as nutrition and quality of food, with the pending confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as HHS Secretary, is front and center. Release, MedCityNews Speaking of General Catalyst, they are expanding beyond being one of the few dominant venture capital groups in a consolidating investment sector by expanding GC Wealth into a wealth management firm for entrepreneurs and others who have Struck It... Continue Reading
News roundup: Precision’s $102M raise, more on BCI; Withings clears BPM Pro 2; Nebraska 1st state to sue Change/UHG, related insider trading update; VA Oracle go-lives may resume; ATA intros CODE; ClearDATA HITRUST certified
...Layer 7 Cortical Interface to treat motor paralysis. At the time of their last funding in January 2023, this Editor noted that their difference was to treat neurological illnesses and events such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia. Their focus remains largely there: severe spinal cord injury, stroke, ALS. So far, the investigational device has been tested its device in 27 patients through research partnerships and was designated by FDA as a Breakthrough Device. More on BCI in this must-read article by Timmy Broderick for STAT. The upcoming issues around BCI now center around the engagement of CMS (Centers... Continue Reading
News roundup: VA’s 2025 EHR budget + vendor breach, Neuralink robot arm study, linking mood prediction to sleep, CoachCare buys Revolution Health RPM/CCM, Seen Health’s $22M launch, Spectrum.Life in Deloitte Ireland’s Fast 50
...offer chronic care management (CCM) services enhanced by remote patient monitoring (RPM) and outsourced teams. CoachCare’s acquisition cost and staff transitions were not disclosed. CoachCare, based in NYC, has raised about $49 million over five rounds in an unusual way–four under $1 million, then in July a private equity round of $48 million from Topmark Partners and Integrity Growth Partners. They claim 150,000 patients and hundreds of healthcare organizations along with five other acquisitions. Revolution Health Solutions, based in Dallas, had no funding rounds listed on Crunchbase. They were founded and led by Jenn Gillette Tompkins who positions it as... Continue Reading
Help fund the NeuroNinja comic–a superhero with Parkinson’s! (Update–it funded!)
...tremors. But NeuroNinja is, in Steve’s words, “a hero who reflects their daily reality, someone who embodies resilience, strength, and hope in the face of adversity. NeuroNinja is more than just a comic; it’s a symbol of perseverance, a reminder that even with a chronic illness, we can be heroes in our own lives. He uses his symptoms and unique abilities to fight evil, navigate challenges, and help others. His ultimate power? The strength to fight through his own struggles, because sometimes the greatest battles are the ones we face within ourselves.” The series, completed through key panels and the... Continue Reading
Babylon Health’s Parsa founds new AI medical assistant venture, Quadrivia, one year after Babylon Health’s failure
...website, and a ‘first-person AI assistant’ narrated demo video embedded in the post and the home page of the website. Qu, the personal medical assistant in beta, is designed to support clinicians in multiple tasks as diverse as type 2 diabetes check-in, daily care coordination, menopause hormone therapy, flu vaccination education, and chronic kidney disease (CKD) follow-up. Quadrivia promises that its “AI agent for healthcare” capabilities will extend across the entire healthcare ecosystem for the clinician and patient, including hypotheses around diagnosis, investigation, clinician selection, treatment plans, monitoring, and more. According to Quadrivia’s information in TechFundingNews, the platform has a... Continue Reading
News roundup 23 Oct: views on a CVS breakup and CEO replacement, Amwell’s interesting new CFO, CopilotIQ/Biofourmis merge (updated), raises by HealthEx, Counsel Health, Oshi Health
...from further comment and wishes the best for Amwell. Healthcare Dive Two home healthcare-focused companies, CopilotIQ and Biofourmis, announced their merger at HLTH this past Monday. CopilotIQ’s focus has been on in-home delivery of connected care including RPM and nursing for chronic conditions through an AI-assisted software platform, while Biofourmis’ system and market has concentrated more on health systems, payers, and pharmaceutical companies for in-home delivery of complex care. The combined company will be headed by CopilotIQ’s CEO David Koretz. Merger transitions and costs were not disclosed. Investors in both companies–General Atlantic, Openspace Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners–are listed as... Continue Reading
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