Providence, a large not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system, announced the launch of Praia Health, a consumer platform for healthcare systems, alongside the closing of a $20 million oversubscribed Series A investment round.
Frist Cressey Ventures led the round, with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, Providence Ventures and SignalFire.
Navid Farzad, partner at Frist Cressey, and Sara...
ORLANDO – During a fireside chat style discussion at HIMSS24 on Wednesday, "Achieving Equity through Coordinated Healthcare," experts discussed how exchanging health information can bridge gaps in health equity and the innovations transforming healthcare access.
Michael Jackson, VP and global head of industries at DocuSign. moderated a discussion with Luis Belen, CEO of the National Health IT...
Healthcare data exchange startup Moxe Health raised $25 million in growth capital from Trinity Capital.
WHAT IT DOES
The company offers payers and providers tools for sharing patient health record information. Moxe's convergence product allows payers to input their insights into the EHR for providers.
For providers specifically, the company offers its digital release of information product, which...
Blockchain startup Avaneer Health scored $50 million in seed funding from large healthcare industry players.
Its first network participants include insurers Aetna, Anthem and Health Care Service Corporation, providers Cleveland Clinic and Sentara Healthcare, and the PNC Financial Services Group.
WHAT IT DOES
Founded in 2020, Avaneer offers a network using blockchain and FHIR technologies to allow...
Singapore-based healthcare data exchange platform Smarter Health announced Monday it had raised $5.15 million SGD ($3.8 million USD) in Series A funding.
The round was led by East Ventures, with participation from Citrine Capital, HMI Group and Emtek.
WHAT IT DOES
Smarter offers a platform that allows for easier data exchange between payers, providers and patients.
That includes products that...
Datavant, a data sharing technology startup for providers and life science companies, last week closed $40 million in Series B funding. Transformation Capital headlined the raise, which saw contributions from new backers Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC and Cigna Ventures in addition to those of prior investors Roivant Sciences and Flex Capital.
All told, the new funding brings Datavant's...
A new company called LunaDNA has created an avenue for people to donate their health data in exchange for shares in the company. The novel platform seeks to serve the needs of nonprofit and for-profit researchers as well as everyday people willing to share their health data.
“What we aim to do is create a human health database, inclusive of DNA data, clinical, medical, contextual information....
Lonnie Rae Kurlander has seen the healthcare system from a lot of angles: as a doctor-in-training, as a health tech CEO, and twice as a patient with a serious condition — once with a broken hip in a city far from home, and once with a mystery disease that left her too weak to walk or think.
All her experiences have one thing in common: they’ve led her to the same conclusions about the biggest...
