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Health Technology

ClosedLoop | May 03, 2021

ClosedLoop.ai, healthcare's data science platform, has won the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge, the biggest healthcare-centered AI challenge ever. ClosedLoop beat down more than 300 of the world's driving innovation, healthcare, and drug associations, including IBM, Mayo Clinic, Geisinger, Merck, Accenture, and Deloitte. The $1.6 million Challenge focused on making "logical man-made reasoning answers for help...

HIT Consultant | March 13, 2020

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard announced the launch of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator with a committed $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 epidemic by identifying, assessing, developing, and scaling-up treatments. The partners are committed to equitable access, including making products available and affordable in low-resource settings. While antiviral drugs are approved to lessen the severity of seasonal flu and treat HI...

Digital Healthcare

Revibe technologies | February 09, 2022

Revibe technologies, a commercial-stage digital therapeutics company, announced today the positive results of their feasibility study examining the efficacy of FokusRx in school aged children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). FokusRx is an investigational SaMD (Software as a Medical Device) that has the potential to provide a new nonpharmacologic approach to treating attention, focus and hyperactivity deficits associated with ADHD, and other mental health conditions. ...

Healthcare Analytics

Businesswire | June 29, 2023

Verséa Health, Inc. a leading provider of diagnostics and medical supplies for urgent care centers, and iRemedy Healthcare Companies, Inc. (“iRemedy” or “the Company”), a pioneer in the medical supply ecommerce industry, are pleased to announce a strategic joint venture aimed at providing an integrated ecosystem of services designed uniquely to serve and enable the continued growth of urgent care facilities nationwide. The venture aims to address i...