Dr. John Sedor, from the Cleveland Clinic as the Chair of the KidneyX Steering Committee, spoke at the Technology Transfer Society D.C’s https://t2sdc.org virtual Tech Transfer & Innovation Forum Series. (more…)
GoMo Health’s Person-Centered Care
GoMo Health’s https://gomohealth.com, evidence-based digital therapeutic platform called the GoMo Personal Concierge is a telehealth therapeutic platform for use with rare and complex diseases. The Personal Concierge platform provides for interactive, in the moment, and personalized lifestyle and condition support, for people managing a complex medication and medical regimen. (more…)
UNH/Optum to Acquire CHNG
UnitedHealth (UNH/Optum) https://uhc.com recently announced an agreement to acquire Change Healthcare (CHNG) https://changehealth.com for $25.75 (41%premium to 1/5 close), equating to roughly $8.4 bin equity value (based on 325 min FD shares). Taking CHNG’s +$5 bin of debt into consideration, the transaction is valued at ~$13.4 bin and ~11x our CY22 EBITDA estimate. (more…)
USAID Awards $39.5 Million to JHU
The U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) https://www.usaid.gov has awarded $39.5 million to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University https://www.jhsph.edu financied by USAID. (more…)
Wearables to Diagnose COVID
The company eTrueNorth https://etruenorth.com based in the U.S is partnering with HHS, University of Wisconsin, Philips https://www.isa.philips.com, and BioIntelliSense Inc. https://biointellisense.com under an Army Medical Research Development Command (USAMRDC) award. The plan is to validate the BioIntelliSense’s BioSticker https://www.BioStickerCOVIDstudy.com device in a clinical trial to detect COVID-19 symptoms early.
Info Provided on Vaccinations
A software tool enables doctors to absorb a complicated set of information before telling patients which vaccinations to get or when to get them. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) https://www.nist.gov created the tool with the assistance of CDC https://www.cdec.gov to help doctors make better decisions. (more…)
SAMHSA Issues Grant Notice
The Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants Program (CCBHC) within Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) https://www.samhsa.gov, is funding the expansion of CCBHC to increase access and improve the quality of the services offered. (more…)