Seattle-based UW Medicine is teaming up with digital platform Delve Health to improve the care of Type 2 diabetes patients through the use of remote monitoring and artificial intelligence.
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Sequoia Consulting Group has acquired 42 North Solutions, a company that provides project management and consulting services to biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Augusta (Ga.) University Health signed a four-year agreement with Biofourmis to expand its home-based virtual care program.
When patients get discharged from a Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health campus and into the health system's hospital-at-home program, medical equipment, tech devices and internet are already set up in their homes, the Hartford Courant reported Feb. 21.
Link Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, launched its third fund focusing on early-stage technology companies, including digital health companies, with $150 million to invest.
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Ken Frazier, the former CEO of Merck, is joining digital health company Transcarent as the chair of the board.
Waterville, Maine-based Northern Light Inland Hospital and Purdue Global School of Nursing are partnering to create a simulation center that will provide nursing students and hospital staff with immersive learning.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has invested in a $3.6 million oversubscribed seed funding round for augmented reality startup Healium, Startland News reported Feb. 20.
The first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence are being tested in clinical trials, MIT Technology Review reported Feb. 15.
Synchron, a brain-computer interface company backed by the venture capital arms of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is halfway through a trial designed to show its brain implant is safe for humans, CNBC reported Feb. 18.