Retail pharmacy and healthcare giant Walgreens Boots Alliance has completed a majority share acquisition of home healthcare company CareCentrix.
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Boston Medical Center is remotely monitoring new mothers for conditions like postpartum hypertension to keep the women well and out of the hospital.
Chief innovation officers' priorities include delivering the key principles behind innovation including leadership, creating networks, harnessing idea development, leveraging the right incentives and building and managing an effective, transparent and efficient innovation process.
Human resources company Questco is partnering with employee assistance program company Espyr to help small businesses retain employees and combat burnout.
Artificial intelligence wound care company Spectral MD has been awarded $8.2 million in funding from the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
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Medical device company Iantrek has closed on $23 million of series B financing.
After leading a $6 million investment for CuriMeta, St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare is embarking on a collaboration with the analytics startup that aims to use deidentified patient data to cure illnesses like heart disease, cancer and neurodegenerative conditions.
Digital wearable therapeutics company Theranica has closed a $45 million series C funding round.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine have jointly launched a kidney innovation center aimed at advancing research for early detection, prevention and treatment of kidney disease.
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is collaborating with General Catalyst on digital health and innovation, the fourth such partnership for the venture capital firm that's rapidly expanding into healthcare.