diagnostics – Karma https://karmaimpact.com Advancing people, planet and profit. Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:20:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5 Digital Hearts? Researchers Aim to Create Virtual Twins to Monitor Patients’ Tickers /digital-hearts-researchers-aim-to-create-virtual-twins-to-monitor-patients-tickers/ /digital-hearts-researchers-aim-to-create-virtual-twins-to-monitor-patients-tickers/#respond Sat, 29 Feb 2020 02:36:57 +0000 /?p=15091 Doctors may one day be able to remotely monitor a patient’s heart using software that exactly duplicates the person’s organ — a digital twin. Digital twins are a common tool used in industries ranging from construction to carmaking to aviation. For instance, a duplicate on the ground of a jet engine carrying the proper sensors […]

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]]> /digital-hearts-researchers-aim-to-create-virtual-twins-to-monitor-patients-tickers/feed/ 0 Walgreens to Close 150 Instore Clinics as Effort to Provide Services Struggles /walgreens-to-close-150-instore-clinics-as-effort-to-provide-services-struggles/ /walgreens-to-close-150-instore-clinics-as-effort-to-provide-services-struggles/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:11:24 +0000 /?p=13164 Walgreens, still dealing with the fallout from opening Theranos Wellness Centers inside its stores, is pulling back further on in-store clinics.  Walgreens Boots Alliance by year’s end will close 150, or 40%, of the clinics located in its stores as part of a cost-cutting drive that’s already included job losses at the company’s headquarters and […]

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]]> /walgreens-to-close-150-instore-clinics-as-effort-to-provide-services-struggles/feed/ 1 Chinese Gut Bacteria Developer Xbiome Has Raised $10 Million for Clinical Trials /chinese-gut-bacteria-developer-xbiome-has-raised-10-million-for-clinical-trials/ /chinese-gut-bacteria-developer-xbiome-has-raised-10-million-for-clinical-trials/#respond Mon, 24 Jun 2019 20:21:33 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=9538 Xbiome, which calls itself China’s first AI-based company that specializes in the development of gut microbiome, has raised a total of about $10 million in two venture funding rounds as investors pour money into firms developing products that promote healthy stomach bacteria. The most recent funding closed earlier this year and included Yahui Precision Medical […]

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]]> /chinese-gut-bacteria-developer-xbiome-has-raised-10-million-for-clinical-trials/feed/ 0 DNA Robots May Soon Help Fight Breast Cancer in Humans /dna-robots-may-soon-help-fight-breast-cancer-in-humans/ /dna-robots-may-soon-help-fight-breast-cancer-in-humans/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:03:11 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=9423 Scientists are seen close to delivering on a years-long promise — molecule-scale nanorobots that destroy breast cancer proteins at their most basic, atomic, levels. If successful in tests on large animals like pigs, the technology may fight cancer cells throughout the body. After experiments last year on mice with human breast cancer tumors at Sichuan […]

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]]> /dna-robots-may-soon-help-fight-breast-cancer-in-humans/feed/ 0 Sathya Elumalai: On the Cusp of Revolutionizing At-Home Care /on-the-cusp-of-revolutionizing-at-home-care/ /on-the-cusp-of-revolutionizing-at-home-care/#respond Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:05:11 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=6294 Sound Businesses: Companies we are keeping an eye on. Sathya Elumalai is the CEO of Aidar Health, a digital healthcare company that provides monitoring of health data, cloud-based machine learning and other proprietary technology applications. Improving patient care globally has been the focus of my entire career. After training as a biomedical engineer and graduating from […]

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]]> /on-the-cusp-of-revolutionizing-at-home-care/feed/ 0 Behavioral Health Care Provider US HealthVest Gets $55 Million Secured Loan /behavioral-health-care-provider-us-healthvest-gets-usd55-million-secured/ /behavioral-health-care-provider-us-healthvest-gets-usd55-million-secured/#respond Fri, 05 Apr 2019 19:47:58 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=6273 On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry. US HealthVest (USHV) received a $55 million senior secured term loan from Silicon Valley Bank to finance existing debt and fund expansion and construction of its behavioral health facilities to treat psychiatric illness and substance abuse. The company works with existing medical providers such […]

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]]> /behavioral-health-care-provider-us-healthvest-gets-usd55-million-secured/feed/ 0 Christian Bailey: “I realized there wasn’t someone connecting the solutions that were literally sitting on the shelf.” /christian-bailey-i-realized-there-wasnt-someone-connecting-the-solutions/ /christian-bailey-i-realized-there-wasnt-someone-connecting-the-solutions/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:55:13 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=6234 Sound Businesses: Profiles of companies and business models we are keeping an eye on. Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in America, with melanoma, the deadliest type, seeing a breakneck increase in diagnoses in the last 30 years, according to the American Cancer Society. But one entrepreneur is on a mission to change that. […]

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]]> /christian-bailey-i-realized-there-wasnt-someone-connecting-the-solutions/feed/ 0 Charlie Kim: “Technologies are not looking at healthcare as a whole as a holistic system.” /helping-medical-products-speak-accurately-to-the-end-consumer/ /helping-medical-products-speak-accurately-to-the-end-consumer/#respond Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:20:23 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=6006 Sound Businesses: Profiles of companies and business models we are keeping an eye on. Hands up if, in 2016, you’d just bought new headphones to use with your iPhone, only to discover that Apple had ditched the 3.5 mm headphone jack for a Lightning connector. Seemingly overnight, other tech giants including Google, HTC, Huawei, and […]

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]]> /helping-medical-products-speak-accurately-to-the-end-consumer/feed/ 0 Group K Diagnostics: “The most usable diagnostic will likely win out.” /in-the-race-for-diagnostic-technologies-there-can-be-only-one-winner/ /in-the-race-for-diagnostic-technologies-there-can-be-only-one-winner/#respond Mon, 18 Mar 2019 20:14:38 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=5970 Perspectives: Opinions from our network of advisors, investors, operators and analysts on the risks and opportunities they see. Just two drops of blood is all it takes — that is Sight Diagnostics’ promise to analyze, in a matter of seconds, any anomalies present. This point-of-care blood diagnostics system, called Olo, was launched in late 2018, and […]

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