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AI-powered value-based behavioral health company Ontrak and generative AI radiology workflow company Rad AI also garnered investments.
Sonny Shergill, vice president of commercial digital health at AstraZeneca, highlights pharma's perspective on digital health investments and partnerships for sector growth.
Daisy Wolf, investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, joined MobiHealthNews to discuss technology's role in healthcare and provide advice to founders seeking funding.
A GSR Ventures survey revealed 71% of investors believe the tech is changing their investment strategy "somewhat," and 17% say it changes their strategy "significantly."
Phoenix, Arizona-based Orb Health has raised $650,000 from incubator Health Wildcatters, Green Park and Golf Ventures, and others, according to a post from MedCity News.
Together Clinic, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based startup that is working on an app for connecting patients and providers, has raised $500,000 in seed funding, 60 percent of which came from local physician investors.
By the end of the second quarter this year, digital health funding had already surpassed the total funding for 2014, according to a June 2014 report from Rock Health.
Healthcare information technology companies, including mobile and digital health companies, raised more than twice as much in total venture capital funding in the second quarter of 2014 as they did in the first, according to a new report from communications and consulting firm Mercom.