Pediatric Telehealth Startup Kismet Health Seeks to Improve Access to Care
In response to emailed questions, Kismet Health Co-founders CEO Dr. Cierra Gromoff and COO Christie Sander talked about why they started the business.
In response to emailed questions, Kismet Health Co-founders CEO Dr. Cierra Gromoff and COO Christie Sander talked about why they started the business.
As new information around vaccines and children continues to evolve and surface, maintaining a single point of entry for this information, that is updated in a timely fashion, can be incredibly helpful to caregivers.
Brave Care leverages its technology and data platform to provide primary and urgent care for children. It provides care remotely and through its five brick-and-mortar clinics, which it plans to expand to 100 in the next few years.
The company, which provides telemedicine and digital programs focused on maternal health, will use the funds raised to expand its services to new populations, including international patients and Medicaid members.
Ginger, a startup that provides therapy, coaching and other mental health services through an app, is expanding its service to teens ages 13-17. The company plans to roll out the service to some of its members starting next month.
Register for the INVEST Precision Medicine conference, which kicks off today. Over the next three days industry experts will talk about precision medicine developments across pediatrics, bioinformatics, startups and more.
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.
The agency reported that child vaccination rates fell 22% between March and May. CMS said vaccination rates have increased since, but still not enough to make up for the gap.
The startup connects students to a physician during a telehealth consult while they’re at the school nurse’s office or at home. It plans to use the funding to expand its services this fall, when it will be integrated with districts representing 1.5 million students
Clinically Integrated Networks for pediatric organizations hold promise to respond to the shift towards value by creating a structure where independent primary care pediatricians and specialty pediatricians can come together to focus on innovation, care coordination, quality, and patient/family experience.
Sobi buys US rights to Synagis, currently the only drug approved for treating RSV, along with 50 percent of US earnings for its successor, the Phase II MEDI8897.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Six years after the Providence, Rhode Island-based business got its start with a focus on the plush, robotic Jerry the Bear to help children newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Sproutel has moved into the pediatric cancer space in a collaboration with Aflac.
CHIP, which covers 9 million children from low-income families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, is mostly federally funded. But states operate the program within federal guidelines.
With the Series B, the business added two new investors to its latest funding round — AI Life Sciences Investments LLC, which is affiliated with Access Industries, and 7wire Ventures.
Are people wary of genomics and biotech companies, or just what a clinical study might reveal? Two case studies of consent rates for newborn sequencing might shed light on the answer.
Nfant Labs developed a connected baby bottle for use in nenonatal intensive care and is currently developing a tool to harness data generated from the device to help decide when infants should be discharged from the hospital.