precision medicine

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By  Jessica Hagen 04:30 pm July 26, 2023
Octave Bioscience, a company focused on delivering precision medicine for neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis, announced it closed a $30 million extension to its Series B round. Hikma Pharmaceuticals' venture capital arm, Hikma Ventures, participated in the round alongside Novartis (dRx Capital) and Intermountain Ventures. Existing investors Echo Health Ventures, Deerfield...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:00 pm June 2, 2023
Healthcare data company ConcertAI announced its expanded partnership with Caris Life Sciences, where the companies will jointly create a database to generate insights to advance precision medicine, clinical trial management and therapeutic development.   ConcertAI is a real-world data and AI company for healthcare providers and life science companies, while Caris Life Sciences offers whole exome...
Frederick Health's Jackie Rice and Dr. Kristin Conley
By  Emily Olsen 02:42 pm April 20, 2023
CHICAGO – Implementing precision medicine programs could allow health systems to diagnose disease more quickly or predict a patient's response to a specific mediation, said panelists at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition. But there are challenges to putting together an effective genomics program, said Jackie Rice, vice president for information technology and chief...
By  Dave Muoio 12:28 pm September 8, 2020
Health research platform maker Vibrent Health announced last week that it has received a $39 million infusion from the National Institutes of Health to continue serving as the hub of the public research organization's All of Us Research Program. Founded in 2009, Vibrent Health's technology handles large-scale data collection, storage, analysis and security for research organizations, and includes...
By  Dave Muoio 02:52 pm July 29, 2020
Sema4, a Mount Sinai spinout developing health-data-analytics platforms, has raised $121 million in Series C funding. BlackRock led the oversubscribed round, which also saw participation from new investors Deerfield Management Company and Moore Strategic Ventures, and also old backers Blackstone, Section 32, Oak HC/FT, Decheng and Connecticut Innovations. With this round, coming less than a year...
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By  PsychU 03:02 pm April 7, 2020
A group of organizations—Amazon, Apple, and Google among others—are blurring the line between the tech field and the healthcare field. One of the key elements in this blurring of the line is the automation of health and human service functions that previously required human work. This tech-enabled automation is frequently accomplished through bots, which are computer applications that perform...
By  Laura Lovett 01:18 pm November 8, 2019
Astronauts face a myriad of health challenges in space, including exposure to radiation, risk of bone deterioration, vestibular issues and various other concerns.  Space health researchers are continuously looking for ways to prevent and treat medical problems before they arise. Enter precision medicine: an increasingly popular strategy that consider specific variations in a patient’s genetic...
By  Dave Muoio 01:33 pm September 19, 2019
Integrated medication dosing platform InsightRX has closed a $10 million Series A funding round headed by HealthX Ventures. Other participants in the round included Rock Health, OSF Healthcare, Leawood Venture Capital and Premier Inc., as well as returning backer GreatPoint Ventures. According to the announcement, this brings the company’s total backing to $13 million. WHAT THEY DO Founded in...
By  Leontina Postelnicu 05:49 am August 30, 2019
In recent years, it has become clear that the growing availability of health data and advances in genetics and technology are starting to support a shift away from the “one-size-fits-all” model for treating a condition, as we learn more about the impact of tailored medical interventions.  Let’s take one example. An area where new approaches will increasingly enable care to be managed according to...
By  Veronika Vartanova 10:42 am August 2, 2019
Veronika Vartanova is a mobility researcher at Iflexion, a software development company based in Denver, Colorado. She writes on the latest trends in mobile app development, AR and VR business integration, and mobile-first digital transformation. Wearables have come a long way from being merely entertaining to bringing in tangible health benefits. Early on, bands with basic functionality were...