| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.10.2024 | Rippl: Virtual Dementia Care Company Raises $23 Million (Series A) | Rippl, a leader in virtual dementia care, announced the closing of its Series A funding round. Tina Hoang-To (Kin Ventures Founding General Partner) led the $23 million round with participation from Rippl’s seed investors ARCH Venture Partn... |
| 03.10.2024 | Virtual dementia care platform Rippl scores $23M | Photo: Halfpoint Images/Getty Images
Rippl, a company focused on providing mental health solutions to seniors with dementia and other cognitive conditions, announced it closed a $23 million Series A funding round.
Tina Hoang-To, Kin Venture... |
| 02.10.2024 | Rippl Secures $23M to Expand its Virtual Dementia Care Platform | What You Should Know:
– Rippl, a provider of virtual dementia care raises $23M ina Series A funding round led by Tina Hoang-To, Founding General Partner at Kin Ventures, with participation from existing investors including ARCH Venture Part... |
| 16.09.2024 | Generative AI Shows Promise in Reducing Bias in Opioid Prescriptions | What You Should Know:
– A groundbreaking study from Mass General Brigham researchers has revealed that large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT-4 and Google’s Gemini, exhibit no racial or gender bias when suggesting opioid treatment plans... |
| 12.09.2024 | Navigating the Healthcare Supply Chain: A Balancing Act of Efficiency and Care | The healthcare supply chain is a complex web, often fraught with challenges. As hospitals and healthcare organizations grapple with rising costs and the need for efficiency, innovative solutions are emerging. One such solution is symplr, a ... |
| 12.09.2024 | Health | High Adderall doses tied to increased psychosis, mania risk: study | People who are taking high doses of Adderall face an increased risk for developing psychosis or mania, according to a new Mass General Brigham study.
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| 12.09.2024 | MNA Faulkner Hospital Nurses to Issue Strike Notice on September 16 if Mass General Brigham Fails to Reach Agreement Respecting Nurses and Protecting Patient Care | Faulkner nurses voted 99.7% to authorize a potential one-day strike because MGB refuses to properly value the excellent patient care Faulkner nurses provide under extremely challenging conditions
BOSTON, Sept. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A one... |
| 10.09.2024 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Nurses Vote to Ratify New Contract that Averted Potential Strike and Seeks to Improve Nurse Staffing and Patient Care Conditions | Brigham nurses negotiated a new MNA contract last month following a 99.4% strike authorization vote motivated by nurses calling on MGB to invest in nurses and improve patient safety
BOSTON, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The 4,000 Brigham a... |
| 10.09.2024 | symplr to Showcase Comprehensive Supply Chain Solution at AHRMM 2024 | symplr.com
Innovative integration and efficiency in healthcare supply chain management drive bottom-line impact
HOUSTON, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- symplr®, a leading provider of enterprise healthcare operations software, will spo... |
| 28.08.2024 | Navigating the Future of Healthcare: Green Security's New Leadership and Immune Health Essentials | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, change is the only constant. Recently, Green Security LLC, a key player in healthcare compliance and access management, announced a significant shift in leadership. Mickey Meehan, a seasoned vet... |
| 26.08.2024 | Healthcare Tech Veteran Mickey Meehan Takes the Reins at Green Security as Chief Executive Officer | Green Security logo
Meehan to serve as innovation catalyst for vendor access and credentialing software
CLEARWATER, Fla., Aug. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Green Security LLC, a leading provider of SaaS healthcare compliance and access ma... |
| 15.08.2024 | Sleep Patterns and Diabetes: A Wake-Up Call for Health | Sleep is the silent architect of our health. A recent study shines a spotlight on its role in diabetes prevention. Conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the findings reveal a startling connection between sleep irregulari... |
| 14.08.2024 | Исследование: продолжительность сна влияет на риск развития диабета | Исследования показывают, что соблюдение регулярного режима сна может помочь в профилактике диабета 2 типа, а нерегулярный сон повышает риск развития диабета на 34%. Это говорит о том, что управление режимом сна может стать ключевой стратеги... |
| 08.08.2024 | MNA: Brigham and Women's Hospital Nurses Avert Potential 1-Day Strike, Reaching Tentative Agreement Aimed at Addressing Unsafe Staffing and Improving Patient Care Conditions | Brigham nurses negotiated a new tentative MNA contract on August 8 after voting 99.4% to authorize a one-day strike after nurses called on MGB to invest in nurses and improve patient safety
BOSTON, Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The nearly 4,... |
| 25.07.2024 | The 911 System: A Ticking Time Bomb in Crisis Response**
** | ** The 911 system is the lifeline of emergency response in the United States. It’s the first call made in a crisis, the bridge between chaos and help. Yet, this vital service is teetering on the edge of a crisis itself. The system, designed... |
| 25.07.2024 | MNA Nurses at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize Strike for Brigham Wage Parity to Address Unsafe Staffing and Patient Care Conditions | Faulkner nurses voted on July 25 to authorize a potential one-day strike because MGB refuses to properly value the excellent patient care Faulkner nurses provide under extremely challenging conditions
BOSTON, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- T... |
| 24.07.2024 | The nation’s 911 system is on the brink of its own emergency | 911 is typically supported by fees tacked on to phone bills, but state and local governments also tap general funds or other resources.
“Now there are haves and have-nots,” said Jonathan Gilad, vice president of government affairs at the Na... |
| 22.07.2024 | Duke launches $20M incubator to turn academic research into industry products | Photo: YinYang/Getty Images
Duke-NUS Medical School is launching a $20 million incubator, LIVE Ventures, to help commercialize academic research projects and transform scientific breakthroughs into clinical applications.
The incubator aims ... |
| 02.07.2024 | Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) elects new leaders to serve terms starting in August 2024 | WASHINGTON, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) is pleased to announce that Paul Jannetto, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, MT(ASCP), has been elected to serve on the ADLM board of ... |
| 02.07.2024 | MGB Home Care Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Vote to Join MNA as they Seek an Independent Voice to Improve Safety for Patients and Staff | MGB Home Care clinicians plan to use their collective strength as union members to secure professional respect and ensure safe patient care conditions
BOSTON, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Mass General Brigham (MGB) Home Care nurses and heal... |
| 28.06.2024 | 23andMe partners with Finnish risk detection company Nightingale Health | Nightingale's platform can measure dozens of biomarkers from a single blood sample
Nightingale Health is a Helsinki-based technology company promoting preventative health through a health risk detection platform. The company has developed a... |
| 27.06.2024 | Introducing the First Statewide Social Prescribing Solution in the United States | Art Pharmacy announces Massachusetts launch of innovative healthcare program in partnership with Mass Cultural Council
...the arts have healing powers – both for physical and mental health. MA is proud to be pioneering a transformative medi... |
| 25.06.2024 | CUNY SPH receives $5.2 million NIH grant renewal for cancer genomics research | NEW YORK, June 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) program of the NIH National Cancer Institute has awarded the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) a competitive rene... |
| 05.06.2024 | Симптомы расстройства пищевого поведения сохраняются до 5 лет, а рецидивы являются обычным явлением | Пятилетнее исследование, проведенное больницей McLean, показало, что расстройство переедания сохраняется дольше, чем считалось ранее: значительная часть людей продолжает страдать от него через 2,5 и 5 лет. Это опровергает результаты более р... |
| 23.05.2024 | Tuesday Health Launches Supportive Care Solution with $60M | What You Should Know:
– Tuesday Health, a leader in value-based care for the seriously ill, has launched its innovative supportive care solution with $60M in partnership with Valtruis, Blue Venture Fund, Mass General Brigham Ventures, and C... |
| 08.05.2024 | Research Results on Jolly Good's Medical VR Will Be Presented for the First Time in the U.S. - Revealing Training VR for HALO Procedures at Large-Scale VR Seminar, SAEM2024 | BROOKLINE, Mass., May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Jolly Good US Inc. is proud to announce the groundbreaking debut of research findings on its Medical Virtual Reality (VR) platform in the United States. This unveiling will take place at the ann... |
| 07.05.2024 | Research Results on Jolly Good's Medical VR Will Be Presented for the First Time in the U.S. - Revealing Training VR for HALO Procedures at Large-Scale VR Seminar, SAEM2024 | BROOKLINE, Mass., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Jolly Good US Inc. is proud to announce the groundbreaking debut of research findings on its Medical Virtual Reality (VR) platform in the United States. This unveiling will take place at the ann... |
| 02.05.2024 | Transcarent raises $126M to accelerate AI capabilities | This round values the company at $2.2 billion
As everyone knows, the amount that the U.S. spends on healthcare is astronomical: in 2022 the number reached $4.4 trillion and it projected to reach $7.2 trillion in 2031, when it will account f... |
| 30.04.2024 | Rippl acquires Kinto | Rippl, a Seattle, WA-based dementia-focused specialty care provider, announced it has acquired Kinto, a Boston, MA-based provider of an AI-enabled dementia caregiver support platform.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
This combinati... |
| 04.04.2024 | InStride Health: A Beacon of Hope for Pediatric Mental Health | InStride Health, a beacon of hope for pediatric mental health, recently secured $30M in Series B funding to expand access to high-quality, evidence-based care for children and adolescents struggling with anxiety and OCD. Led by CEO John Voi... |
| 04.04.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Nighttime gunshots may harm health and sleep of millions, Mass General study finds | Nighttime gunshots and the sirens wailing right after may be a larger factor in the health and well-being of millions of people than previously considered, Mass General Brigham researchers report.
The study looked at 72,236 gunshot reports ... |
| 01.04.2024 | Microsoft and Nvidia announce major new integrations, breakthroughs and more at GTC | Presented by Microsoft
Microsoft’s announcements about brand-new collaborations with long-standing partner Nvidia put the company at the forefront of this year’s Nvidia GTC AI conference in San Jose, March 18 – 21.
The week’s round of AI in... |
| 27.03.2024 | InStride Health Secures $30M to Expand Access to Pediatric Mental Healthcare | What You Should Know:
– InStride Health, a leader in outpatient treatment for childhood anxiety and OCD closes oversubscribed $30M Series B funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from existing investors .406 Ventures, Valt... |
| 21.03.2024 | Pig kidney transplanted into man for first time ever at Massachusetts General Hospital | BOSTON – For the first time ever, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston transplanted a pig kidney into a living human patient.
Mass General said Thursday the procedure was the first successful procedure of its kind in the wor... |
| 20.03.2024 | Google Expands It's AI Footprint in Healthcare with Fitbit Chatbot—Coming Soon | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 20 March 2024, 03:03 am
Google is making strides in the healthcare sector, unveiling plans to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into its Fitbit app with the introduction of a personal health chatbot, among ot... |
| 19.03.2024 | Mass General Brigham Researchers Develop AI Foundation Models to Advance Pathology | What You Should Know:
– Researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed two powerful AI models, UNI and CONCH, that represent a significant leap forward in computational pathology (CPath).
– Published today in Nature Medicine, the two ne... |
| 17.03.2024 | 6 HIMSS Announcements You Don’t Want to Miss | This year’s HIMSS conference in Orlando, which wrapped on Friday, allowed healthcare technology leaders from around the world to convene, have discussions and network. The event also featured a slew of news announcements.
Below are six nota... |
| 15.03.2024 | Health | A promising glioblastoma clinical trial: Cancer researchers say tumors dramatically shrunk | A new glioblastoma study is providing a glimmer of hope for those battling the aggressive and fast-growing brain tumor, as a novel treatment helped dramatically shrink the tumor in patients.
A Phase 1 clinical trial out of Massachusetts Gen... |
| 07.03.2024 | Nightingale Health’s Half-year report: Healthcare implementations progressing in Finland and Singapore | Nightingale Health’s Half-year report: Healthcare implementations progressing in Finland and Singapore
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Nightingale Health Group’s Half-year report 1 July 2023 – 31 December 2023 (unaudited)
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| 07.03.2024 | Senior Experience Leaders Convene to Drive Healthcare Improvement | Representatives from 47 organizations join The Beryl Institute's 2024 Experience Leaders Circle
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Strengthening its dedication to the growth of the patient experience across the continuum ... |
| 25.02.2024 | Abridge Revolutionizes Clinical Documentation with $150M Investment | Abridge, a trailblazer in generative AI for clinical documentation, has secured a massive $150 million Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. This funding, coming on the heels of a $30 million Series B round, solidifies ... |
| 23.02.2024 | Abridge Secures $150M to Expand GenAI, Partners with Yale New Haven Health System | What You Should Know:
– Abridge, the leading force in generative AI for clinical documentation, announced today a staggering $150 million Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding also includes participation fro... |
| 27.11.2023 | RSNA23: Mass General Brigham and Annalise.ai Collaborate to Develop AI-Enabled Diagnostic Products | What You Should Know:
– Mass General Brigham, a healthcare provider, and Annalise.ai, a global medical imaging AI company, today announced a strategic collaboration to develop and implement AI-enabled diagnostic products.
– This strategic p... |
| 19.11.2023 | Tech Times Weekly Wrap: OpenAI Fires Sam Altman, SpaceX's Starship Launch License, Liquid Cancer Treatment | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 19 November 2023, 09:11 pm
Tech Times Weekly Wrap brings you the top news from last week to get you up to date for this upcoming one, centering on the latest developments in the world of tech, with the controversi... |
| 17.11.2023 | This Liquid Gel Promises Treatment to Solid Cancer Tumors | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 17 November 2023, 04:11 am
A liquid gel that solidifies upon injection into solid tumors has been developed by researchers, offering a potential treatment for metastatic cancers.
This innovative gel, visible on CT... |
| 14.11.2023 | Generative AI and Patient Care: It’s All About the Content | AI, and particularly generative AI, remains a provocative topic in healthcare, with many speculating on the potential for this technology to transform everything from medical billing to clinical drug trials. A McKinsey report from earlier t... |
| 08.11.2023 | Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham team up for at-home care | The two companies will first work on scaling and supporting MGB’s Home Hospital service
Best Buy Health has made providing at-home care a key part of its business, first buying Current Health, a platform that combines remote patient monitor... |
| 20.07.2023 | Mass. General totes up its waste in a move to tackle climate change | On an August Thursday in 2021, deep into the pandemic, two Massachusetts General Hospital doctors stood gowned, gloved, bootied up and ready in a retrofitted lounge on the 21st floor of Phillips House, a 20-single-room, inpatient area with ... |
| 27.06.2023 | Radial Analytics announces new customer agreement: Mass General Brigham to deploy Radial’s decision support platform to optimize transitions of care | Concord, MA (PRWEB) June 27, 2023
Radial Analytics, a leading provider of decision support software for transitions of care, has entered into a deployment agreement with Mass General Brigham, starting with an implementation at Newton-Welles... |
| 24.03.2023 | Not the geek squad: How one health system helps patients conquer language barriers — and their smartphones | LAWRENCE, MASS. — Herman Quintero was cracking jokes about the lottery, touching just below his right eye for luck. It came down to the Mega Millions to pay the medical bill he pulled up on the Patient Gateway app on his phone. Or somebody ... |
| 21.09.2022 | UMass, UMass Global, and Mass General Brigham to prepare 1,000 unemployed, underemployed, individuals to serve as MGB front-line healthcare workers | The Ready to Work collaboration, involving UMass Global, UMass, Mass General Brigham, and the City of Boston's Office of Workforce Development, will train aspiring front-line health workers. “At UMass Global, we take seriously the need to e... |
| 16.09.2021 | Using a mix of new technologies, teledermatology is changing how dermatologists provide care during the pandemic | The pandemic has quickly illuminated teledermatology’s specific applications. A hybrid approach may ensure the capture of high-quality images for evaluation. Advances in technology may expand the types of skin conditions assessed with teled... |
| 06.09.2021 | Should we do away with ACOs? The answer depends on who you ask | Though accountable care organizations have been around for more than a decade, their effectiveness at reducing healthcare costs remains a highly debated issue, prompting impassioned condemnations and defenses from experts in the industry. A... |
| 07.01.2021 | Ensuring Healthcare’s Innovation Boom Benefits All Equally | Despite (and in part because of) all of the pain and suffering it has caused, this past year has been a groundbreaking one for medical innovation. From creative treatment protocols to telehealth to vaccine development, the pandemic has give... |
| 14.08.2017 | Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. – A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund |
42: The Answer to the ultimate fund size?
Those of you who have read or watched the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are aware of the pop culture meme around the number 42. Yes, 42: The answer to life, the Universe, and everything. For... |
| - | ‘So much more to do’: A hospital system’s campaign to confront racism — and resistance to change — makes early strides | BOSTON — When a routine cancer screening came back showing an elevated PSA reading, George Brickhouse knew he should take it seriously. His father had been treated for prostate cancer and his brother had dealt with a scare. But the urologis... |
| - | Together we’re revolutionizing medicine through gene and cell therapy | https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Untitled.mp4
The gene and cell therapy industry has experienced rapid growth in recent years. There are more than 30 FDA-approved gene and cell products and treatments. With advancements i... |
| - | Should we do away with ACOs? The answer depends on who you ask | Though accountable care organizations have been around for more than a decade, their effectiveness at reducing healthcare costs remains a highly debated issue, prompting impassioned condemnations and defenses from experts in the industry. A... |
| - | True Ventures III, LP Closes at $205 million | We are pleased to announce the closing of True Ventures III, LP at $205 million. With approximately $600 million under management, more than 100 companies already successfully funded and over 200 founders supported, Fund III will enable Tru... |
