ob/gyn
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Allara Snags $10M to Scale Its Platform for Women’s Chronic Hormonal Conditions
Allara raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by GV. The startup offers membership-based virtual services to treat women’s chronic hormonal conditions, such as PCOS and endometriosis. CEO Rachel Blank — former executive at Ro and investor at General Catalyst — founded the company partly due to the difficulty she experienced arriving at her own PCOS diagnosis.
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Diana Health Snags $34M to Grow Its Network of Women’s Health Practices
Diana Health, which partners with hospitals to operate a network of maternity practices, closed a $34 million Series B funding round. The startup currently operates three women’s health practices in Tennessee. With its new funding, the company plans to open new practices in Tennessee, Florida and one other yet-to-be-announced state.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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HerMD Snags $18M to Open More Menopause-Focused Health Centers
HerMD recently raised $18 million in a Series A-1 funding round. The company offers in-person and virtual women’s healthcare that focuses on menopause and sexual health. It is using its new capital to open more brick-and-mortar women’s health centers across the country.
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Startup Sues Athenahealth, Alleging Trade Secret Theft & Deceptive Practices
Digital health startup Dorsata filed a lawsuit against EHR provider athenahealth and women’s health company Unified Women’s Healthcare. The startup alleged that athenahealth stole trade secrets, used deceptive business practices and breached its contract — and that Unified aided and abetted these purported practices.
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Iron Health Launches With $4.5M to Reduce Fragmentation in Women’s Healthcare
Women’s healthcare platform Iron Health recently launched with a mission to decrease the fragmentation of women’s care and provide OB/GYNs with a more full-spectrum view of their patients’ health. Iron also announced a $4.5 million seed investment round led by March of Dimes’ innovation fund.
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Tia Adds Cedars-Sinai as 3rd Health System Partner to Advance Women’s Primary Care
Tia — a startup providing hybrid primary care, OB/GYN services and mental health care to women — is now partnered with Cedars-Sinai in addition to UCSF Health and CommonSpirit Health. Under Tia’s partnership model, the company combines its primary care with health systems’ specialty care to reduce fragmentation and advance preventive health.
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How Mirvie is building an RNA platform to predict pregnancy complications sooner
Personalized pregnancy care startup Mirvie is building an RNA testing platform it says will be the first to predict preeclampsia and preterm labor months before they occur. These tests are meant to help care teams to create tailored treatment plans that account for women’s unique pregnancy risks.
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Women’s health startup Tia strikes partnership with CommonSpirit
The two companies plan to open a clinic in Phoenix this fall, and additional locations over the next five years. To start, Tia will offer virtual care services in Phoenix.
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Can health tech innovation reduce risks for expectant mothers?
Maternal-fetal Early Warning Systems in obstetrics are associated with improved compliance related to treatment with prompt use of medications and protocols known to prevent maternal complications and death.
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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Health Systems
Arcadia recently partnered with HIMSS Market Insights to survey executives, IT, technology, and clinical leaders. Here’s what we found.
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Texas Medicaid payment reform initiative curbs elective early deliveries
Reducing preterm births generally, and early elective deliveries in particular, is a priority for many groups, including health care providers, hospitals and patient-advocacy organizations.
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AirStrip website crashes after Apple Watch exposure
“I have to confess, I didn’t know we were going to be right after Tim Cook,” AirStrip CEO Alan Portela told MedCity News.
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OB Hospitalist group raises $8M
South Carolina-based OB Hospitalist Group has raised a nearly $8.1 million line of equity, according […]