Operations

Calum Yacoubian, director of healthcare strategy at IQVIA, outlines natural language processing use cases, such as aggregating data for population health initiatives and supporting rare disease diagnoses for precision medicine.

Laudio will use the funds to scale its growth and product development, expand its sales team and invest in its AI and analytics platform.

Telemedicine and digital health expert Dr. Laura Purdy shares how interoperability in virtual care and digital health technologies can improve care delivery for patients and providers, and decrease disparities in health equity.

RxLightning, a digital platform focusing on specialty medication distribution, and Canadian fertility startup Twig also scored investments. 

Virtual mental health platform Sesh and tech-enabled behavioral health platform Lucet also add new leadership.

Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare, talks about how virtual providers free up clinicians' time by handling "triple R" – routine, repeatable and rules-based – care visits that can occupy more than 50% of a physician's day.

Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, highlights announcements from the HIMSS23 cybersecurity forum aimed at helping healthcare practices improve protection as phishing becomes more sophisticated.

Lisa Stephenson, CNIO at Houston Methodist, talks about her work with the HIMSS nursing informatics committee and how informaticists help healthcare leaders focus on adopting technology that will reduce, not add to, clinicians' burdens.

Hyro will use the funds to expand its workforce, grow strategic partners and further build its platform.

Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst, discusses how his company uses AI to automate tasks such as processing prescription refills, which prevents medication errors and reduces clinicians' administrative burden.