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Health tech focused on diagnosing women’s infections quicker closes $10M Series A

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A health care testing company focused on quicker diagnosis of women’s pelvic and gynecologic infections has closed $10 million in Series A funding.

Nanopath Inc. said the funding will support development and commercialization of its biosensing platform, which it says has the potential to simultaneously test for multiple pathogens based on presenting symptoms and reduce delivery time of test results from days to just 15 minutes. read more

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Research Reveals Health Tech Industry Primed for a Pendulum Swing from Consumer-facing Technologies to Backend Solutions

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New research released today by Allison+Partners, a global marketing and communications agency, examines the impact of the record-breaking boost in digital health investment and tech adoption during the pandemic for health tech brands. The research also uncovers the barriers and opportunities for marketing and communications professionals charged with telling their stories across the healthcare ecosystem.

After conducting a meta-analysis of existing trend reports, interviews with health tech founders and private equity firms, and surveying 500 senior and C-suite health leaders about the seismic shifts taking shape across the sector, Allison+Partners’ Health practice concluded the health tech industry is primed for a pendulum swing from B2C to B2B solutions. read more

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Mayo Clinic, Israeli hospital partner to help health tech startups

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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has signed an agreement with Israel-based Sheba Medical Center that will make it easier to share healthcare technology and help early stage startups.

The two health systems will create an environment that will increase rapid product development in the U.S. and Israeli markets, according to a June 27 press release. The aim is to transform patient care using technology and to do it globally.

The partnership will initially kick off with the health tech companies in Mayo Clinic’s Platform_Accelerate program and Sheba Medical Center’s ARC Innovation Center. read more

Why tech companies still haven’t fixed our ‘broken’ healthcare system

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Silicon Valley has been talking about how “broken” U.S. healthcare is for years. Tech companies haven’t been shy about promising to “transform,” “disrupt,” and “revolutionize” the current system. But so far, they haven’t made much of an impact, despite Americans spending $3.8 trillion, or nearly 18% of our GDP, on healthcare in 2019.

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5 Takeaways From Big Tech’s Misinformation Hearing

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Big Tech taking questions from Congress is becoming a quarterly event.

The latest edition came Thursday, when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Google’s Sundar Pichai appeared virtually before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The hearing was centered around misinformation. It was the first time the executives took questions from lawmakers since the riot at the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump supporters on Jan. 6 and since the widespread rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine began.

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11 Ways To Identify The Best Tech Solutions For An Agency

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With the volume of technology available, agency leaders face a tough challenge in figuring out what the best solutions for their organizations are. Introducing new technology that doesn’t meet your needs, or adopting tools without properly training the employees who will use them, is a waste of money.

Whenever a company invests in technology, it should bring an immediate benefit to the employees and the business as a whole. Below, 11 leaders from Forbes Agency Council offer their best advice on how to identify the most viable and valuable technological solutions for your agency.

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Home Health Tech You Need To Watch in 2021

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Some of the most interesting health tech trends at the outset of 2021 point to a future that merges healthcare with consumer electronics, two trends that have barely touched so far. At CES 2021, CNET’s Senior VP of Content & Strategy Lindsey Turrentine asked if they can provide better healthcare than in the doctor’s office when merged. Here are some of the most interesting health tech products that may bring us to that point.

Continuous monitoring

Health tech that knows you’re having an issue is just a tree falling in the forest unless there’s a connection to the healthcare system. Omron has taken an important step in that direction with its VitalSight connected blood-pressure monitoring system. It’s not a slick watch, nor does it take your readings passively, but when you do take a reading it automatically logs it into your electronic medical record and can notify your care provider if you need attention. Vitalsight is being made available through physicians.

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How Tech Helps Healthcare Providers Administer the COVID-19 Vaccine

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With the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines (one from Pfizer and the other from Moderna) for public use, healthcare organizations in December began participating in a massive national inoculation program, the largest in more than half a century. The federal Operation Warp Speed initiative aims to produce and deliver 300 million doses of the approved vaccines. As with nearly every other aspect of the pandemic, the vaccine rollout requires organizations to operate far more quickly than they may be accustomed to. Details regarding every aspect of the program are still being determined, which creates confusion and uncertainty.

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Health Tech Unveiled at CES: New High-Tech Ways To Monitor Blood Pressure, Detect Alzheimer’s and Crush Germs

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Good news, I have a heart. Bad news, it’s beating faster than it should. I know this for two reasons: I can feel it take a battering ram to my ribcage and the new OptiBP smartphone app just told me so.

Swiss startup Biospectal unveiled the beta version of its app at CES last week. The company sent me an Android phone preloaded with the app along with an Omron blood pressure cuff to try it out. Before you take your first reading, you need to calibrate the app with a traditional cuff. Then, you live your life.

To take a reading, I touch the camera lens and the flash lights up, measuring the blood flow in my fingertip. The app uses algorithms to figure out my pulse and blood pressure – in about the same amount of time it takes me to complete two big deep breaths.

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Hospitals’ In-Room Cameras Enable Seamless Visits and Better Safety

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As COVID-19 swept across the country last spring, teams at Banner Health quickly acquired more tablets so doctors could conduct virtual rounding and other critical communications from a distance.

The solution, though effective, wasn’t good enough for James Roxburgh, the organization’s CEO of telehealth.

The approach still required a nurse to enter a patient’s room with the tablet to facilitate each telehealth session. “The doctor could remain safely outside, but the nurse was still at risk, which seemed unnecessary,” Roxburgh says.

Convinced that Banner Health could do better, he reached out to his previous employer, VeeMed, a California-based telemedicine solutions company, as well as Intel to convert existing televisions in nearly 1,200 patient rooms into “virtual care endpoints” across the Phoenix-based system, which operates 28 hospitals in six states.

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