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Matternet M2 first delivery drone to receive FAA design safety approval
Matternet’s M2 drone delivery system has achieved type certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. This is the first time the FAA has approved the design of a drone specifically for package delivery. Until this point, all other drones that have received type certification from the FAA were built for...
Investor in Action: 5 Questions for Andrew Dudum of Hims & Hers
Wharton’s Global Youth program allows high school students to meet Wharton School graduates working in a variety of industries. Recently, Wharton Global Youth student Marissa Sawicki was able to have a chat with Hims & Hers Founder and CEO Andrew Dudum (Wharton 2011). Dudum completed his Wharton degree with...
Augmedix Launches New Service, Augmedix Prep, to Significantly Reduce Physician Chart Prep Burden
Augmedix, a provider of automated medical documentation solutions, has announced the launch of Augmedix Prep, a new service that significantly reduces the burden on medical staff from preparing charts prior to a patient visit. The new service features specialized technology that prepares a patient note structure and...
An inside look at a national, bilingual telemedicine service
Galileo is a telehealth service that delivers 24/7 primary and specialty care in both English and Spanish. It operates across all 50 U.S. states and enjoys support from regional and national health plans, Fortune 500 organizations, and employers of a variety of sizes. The fact that Galileo offers fully bilingual...
Augmedix Reports Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
On August 8, 2022, Augmedix reported its financial results for the three-month period that ended on June 30, 2022. Manny Krakaris, chief executive officer of Augmedix, noted that “we continued to see good momentum and are pleased with our strong start to 2022. We remain focused on our path to profitability as we...
Augmedix Announces Expanded Partnership with Adventist Health
Augmedix has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Adventist Health. The data-driven partnership aims to utilize Adventist’s experience as a nonprofit health system integrated into more than 80 communities in the western United States. The partnership was reached as a piece of a scalable plan to aid physicians...
The Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2022
Augmedix has made the Healthcare Technology Report’s Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2022. “The awardees on this year’s list represent the absolute best in the healthcare technology space,” the Healthcare Technology Report wrote. “These companies are changing the face of the industry.” What all the...
C-Path and Replica Analytics Collaboration Aims to Accelerate Rare Disease Research
Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and Replica Analytics, an Aetion company, have announced a partnership that uses synthetic data to help researchers more easily develop drugs to treat rare diseases. Replica Analytics will help generate synthetic datasets across rare and orphan indications in which patient-level...
Merck Announces the Launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio to Help Healthcare Startups Quickly Bring their Innovations to Market
Merck, known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, has announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development. MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct investment, access to Azure Cloud computing, and...
McKesson Ventures Takes the ParityPledge to Commit to Increasing Representation for Women and People of Color
McKesson Ventures has signed the Parity.org ParityPledge® in Support of People of Color and in Support of Women. The ParityPledge simply asks that companies commit to interview and consider at least one qualified woman and person of color for every open role, VP and above, including the C-suite and the board of...
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Aster Insights Names Dr. Anand Shah as Chief Executive Officer
Aster Insights has announced the appointment of Dr. Anand Shah as chief executive officer, effective immediately. He succeeds Jim Gabriele, who has stepped down from his position. Gabriele and Shah have collaborated closely on a number of strategic, operational, and...
Twist Bioscience and Aster Insights Partner on Launch of Next Generation Oncology Panel for Cancer Research
Twist Bioscience Corporation, a company that offers high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, along with Aster Insights, has announced the availability of the AsterExome panel, which can simultaneously enable whole exome sequencing (WES) with additional...
Clinical ink Announces New Continuous Glucose Monitoring Solution
Clinical Ink, a global life science technology company, now offers continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) within its integrated digital biomarker solution. The new modules enable remote collection, central storage, and analysis of sensor data from commercially available...
RCT-DUPLICATE Findings Demonstrate Capability of Real-World Evidence Studies to Reach Conclusions Similar to Randomized Clinical Trials
Real-world evidence (RWE) technology and analytics company Aetion has announced the culmination of the RCT-DUPLICATE demonstration project, with complete findings published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). This three-year initiative tested...
Replica Analytics unveils Replica Synthesis 3.0
Replica Analytics, an Aetion company, has released Replica Synthesis 3.0, its privacy- and utility-preserving synthetic data generation software that has been updated with an enhanced user experience. This makes it easier for analysts to train generative models and...