Augmedix goes public through reverse merger
The company, which offers a remote scribe services, secured $25 million in private placement financing and began trading publicly on the OTC markets after a reverse merger with Malo Holdings.
Investors pour $19M into medical-scribe company
Augmedix anticipates doubling the number of doctors who use its transcription service, which blends natural language processing and human oversight.
Behavioral Health, Interoperability and eConsent: Meeting the Demands of CMS Final Rule Compliance
In a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET, Aneesh Chopra will moderate a discussion with executives from DocuSign, Velatura, and behavioral health providers on eConsent, health information exchange and compliance with the CMS Final Rule on interoperability.
Google’s Launchpad Studio reveals first class of machine learning startups
Earlier this week, Launchpad Studio, an acceleration program, unveiled its first cohort of machine learning-focused startups. Throughout the six-month program, the four companies will work with experts from Silicon Valley and Google.
Google Glass gains headway in healthcare
Google Glass is back, and systems like Dignity Health and Sutter Health are making use of it to help providers save valuable time.
Couple donates $20 million to encourage innovation at Sutter Health
Michael and Judith Gaulke, a Silicon Valley couple, has given $20 million to establish the Michael and Judith Gaulke Innovation Hatchery Endowment Fund at Sutter Health.
Health systems join $17M investment in Augmedix
Among those providers investing undisclosed amounts are Sutter Health and Dignity Health from Augmedix's home turf in Northern California, plus Englewood, Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives and Cincinnati-based TriHealth.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Google Glass startup Augmedix raises $16M
In a sign that Google Glass is perhaps not dead yet, San Francisco-based Augmedix said it has raises $16 million in a Series A round, enabling the company to target physicians with Glass combined with EHRs. The funding was led by the company’s seed investors, Emergence Capital and DCM Venturs. Augmedix has now raised $23 […]
With Augmedix-Dignity Health deal, has Google Glass gone mainstream?
Healthcare startup Augmedix raised $4.1 million for its Google Glass platform to help physicians more easily enter and retrieve data from patients electronic health records.
Google Glass hits the healthcare bigtime: Philips + Accenture make patient data delivery proof of concept
http://youtu.be/djVMu8kL_po Heavyweight Philips announced it partnered with Accenture to bring a Google Glass patient data delivery proof-of-concept to life. This means it’s not just startups investing and innovating in the Google Glass space in healthcare anymore. Above, watch the (highly disclaimed) video of the proof-of-concept. It’s the early days, but this is the first bold […]