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Posted: 22 june 2021

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Inspiring Interns & Graduates has some of the best applicants in the UK - ready & keen to join you! Take a look at how they can help here. #digitalhealth #healthcare #GIANT2021

Posted: 18 june 2021

Healthcare Startup pulseData Raises $16.5M To Help Lower Costs To Treat Kidney Disease

The U.S. healthcare system is more reactive than proactive in promoting good health to its patients. Essential care is only delivered for chronic diseases after a critical illness strikes an individual and not before. The shift from a fee-based healthcare system as it currently exists today to a “value-based” or “outcome-based” care model is slowly happening. Teddy Cha and Hai Po Sun recognize this gradual change occurring and are working to accelerate proactive treatment of chronic diseases with their startup, pulseData. pulseData aggregates patient medical data, uses machine learning to predict who is most likely to experience chronic kidney disease (CKD) and proactively matches these high-risk patients with the necessary renal care needed. The healthcare startup raised $16.5M in their Series A from Bain Capital and Two Bear Capital leading the round. "The future of healthcare will depend on leveraging advanced technologies that keep patients healthier and costs lower. pulseData is focused on having exactly this impact on renal disease, a chronic condition that affects millions of patients and costs the healthcare system over $100 billion a year," said Mike Goguen, Founder and Managing Partner of Two Bear Capital. "We're excited to continue our partnership with such a brilliant and mission-driven team of entrepreneurs."

Posted: 17 june 2021

Join Barcelona Health Hub today at 6 PM CET for the #BHHSeries online event

Join Barcelona Health Hub for the next #BHHSeries online event about “Hospital Platforms & Apps for Surgical Patients”. Mark your agenda now and check the #BHHSeries out here.

Posted: 16 june 2021

Viewing Healthcare Through A Geographic Lens

The U.S. healthcare system is a study in complexity. The best medical treatments on the planet exist within a complicated medical marketplace. The most cutting-edge technology is often tethered to heavily siloed patient data that can't be accessed or shared, and the spatial and social determinants shaping our local behaviors — by far the greatest contributors to our overall well-being — receive far less attention than the clinical and financial components accompanying them. How to transform the U.S. healthcare ecosystem to benefit all stakeholders is key for reform. Enter Haven Healthcare, a collaboration between Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan and Amazon that began in January 2018 to reinvent employer-based insurance and address the high costs of healthcare for more than 1 million employees scattered across the country. It's the perfect example of the growing need for location-based intelligence to become fully integrated into the mindset of how we view healthcare solutions and successes.

Posted: 16 june 2021

Why Healthcare Marketers Will Continue To Play A Vital Role In The Vaccine Rollout

There’s light on the horizon. After a stumbling start, the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines has accelerated in recent weeks. At the time of writing, there are 139 million people (41.9% of the total population) fully inoculated. Public figures from Michelle Obama to Dolly Parton have taken to social media to share photos of themselves getting their shots, much like Elvis Presley shared his polio inoculation with the world more than half a century ago. And yet, so much work remains. A recent University of California, Davis study revealed that one-third of adults in the U.S. are still either unlikely or hesitant to receive the vaccine. There are as many entities responsible for changing this resistance: the federal and state government, healthcare practitioners, public health advocacy groups and the legitimate press. Healthcare marketers, too, play a vitally important role in this life-or-death mission. One could argue that marketers have one of the most critical jobs on the planet at this moment. They need to ensure that the public receives the most accurate, timely messaging around vaccine safety, all while battling misinformation. Accurately targeting segments of the American population, pharma marketers can deliver relevant, resonant messages in order to persuade more people to get vaccinated while appealing to different people’s concerns. With so much of the public still riding the fence, marketers must be empathetic while keeping steadfast to their focus of educating and informing populations with concerns. Chief among those is that there have been clear inequalities in the healthcare system for far too long, especially among minority communities. This disparity has created less access to quality healthcare for those who desperately need it and more skepticism toward those who provide healthcare and messages about wellness. That is a damning indictment of our society and something healthcare marketers have a responsibility to help repair. Never has there been a more apparent opportunity to do so than around the Covid-19 vaccines. It is not just a matter of public health but also one of social responsibility.

Posted: 15 june 2021

There's a new version of the Hospify mobile app out

This new version is not just a normal upgrade; it is a completely new app with lots of cool new features. More info on their website.

Posted: 14 june 2021

French Healthcare Company Alan Raises €185M At €1.4 Billion Valuation

French healthcare platform Alan, cofounded by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve and Charles Gorintin, announced today that it has raised a €185M Series D which puts the company in the unicorn club, at a €1.4 billion valuation. The funding round was led by Coatue, along with Dragoneer, Exor, and existing investors Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Temasek. Alan is a fully licensed health insurance company, which allows members to access various types of health-related content. The platform sends notifications appointments to its users, helps them find doctors through their map, books them, and offers interactions like chatting with doctors and other patients. “For more than 50 years they have tried to industrialize our healthcare system, and as a result they it a bit inhuman, non-personal, where you have to fit with the system, while it should be the contrary — the system should fit to you,” Samuelian-Werve, who serves as the company’s CEO, says. “We want to be the place where you get your information in a personal way, offering you an integrated experience from A to Z where healthcare is no longer pain you have to go through, but it can even be joyful in some way because it’s preventative and cheaper.” Roughly 85% of Alan’s customers are companies (when they sign on a company they cover 100% of their employees) so its a B2B2C model, while the remaining 15% are self-employed. At the moment Alan counts 9,000 companies that use it with 160,000 members. The company originally started in France, and as of six months ago expanded to Spain and Belgium. While not profitable yet, the company recently surpassed €100m in annual revenue. Prior to cofounding Alan, Samuelian-Werve started another successful company called Expliseat, a manufacturer of the light aircraft seats. However, after his grandfather passed away, Samuelian-Werve (who as a kid built websites for Japanese anime, local shops, and a French movie) sold his shares in it and decided that he wanted to focus on healthcare. He teamed up with college classmate Charles Gorintin, who had previously worked for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (and is now Alan’s CTO), and the two worked on the idea for one summer in Gorintin’s San Francisco apartment prior to moving back to their native France.

Posted: 14 june 2021

London insurance company HealthyHealth rebrands to Qumata, picks up £7M funding

HealthyHealth, based in London, is a startup focused on transforming the life and health insurance underwriting journey through digital data. In a recent development, the company has just announced that it picked up $10 million (nearly £7 million) in a Series A funding round. Also, along with the latest investment, the firm has been rebranded Qumata.

Posted: 12 june 2021

Gait Up - Born in research, Made in Switzerland, Used in clinics

Gait up's products revolutionize sensor-based analysis with meaningful metrics and accuracy of the highest standards. As a spin-off of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) and the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Gait Up benefits from world-leading scientific…

Posted: 10 june 2021

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