Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com hosted Select Quote’s https://selectquote.com CEO, Tim Danker and the CFO Raff Sadun for a virtual NDR. Select Quote (SLQT) sees a massive opportunity across all three segments, and believes the company is well positioned to take advantage of that opportunity given the company’s technology stack and agent force. (more…)
Virtual Connected Health Summit Coming
Parks Associates https://www.parksassociates.com are highlighting virtual care solutions at their 7th Annual Connected Health Summit: Consumer Engagement and Innovation to be held September 1-3, 2020. Parks Associates research finds that the use of telehealth services has nearly tripled year-over-year with 41% of U.S broadband households having used telehealth services in the last 12 months. (more…)
USM Fund Invests in KaloCyte
KaloCyte, Inc., http://kalocyte.com, a preclinical-stage healthcare biotechnology company has developed ErythroMer™, a synthetic, bio-inspired red blood cell substitute for use when stored red blood cells are not available. The company received a $300,000 investment from the University System of Maryland Momentum Fund (USM) https://www.momentum.usmd.edu, as part of a $750 K to 1 Million target funding with more than $600K raised to date. (more…)
Cloud SecOps Contract Awarded
CMS https://www.cms.gov awarded Halfaker and Associates LLC https://www.halfaker.com a three year contract for $18 million for Cloud Security Operations and Maintenance (Cloud SecOps). Halfaker is, a technology solutions provider within the Federal government’s health, intelligence, defense, and security sectors. (more…)
Pandemic Response in Rural Iowa
Residents in 70 rural Iowa communities are being asked to fill out surveys to help state and federal officials better respond to COVID-19. Researchers at Iowa State University https://www.iastate.edu and the University of Iowa https://uiowa.edu received a $200,000 rapid response grant from the National Science Foundation https://www.nsf.gov to conduct the survey. (more…)
Funding for the eMERGE Network
NIH’s https://www.hhs.nih.gov $75 million in funding will be shared by a coordinating center and a network of 10 other top academic medical centers. The funding will be used to launch a five year effort to improve genomic risk assessments for diverse populations to then integrate the data into clinical care. (more…)
VA Awards Philips 10 Year Contract
The Department of Veterans Affairs https://www.va.gov just awarded a ten-year contract which will enable the VA to invest up to $100 million with Royal Philips https://philips.com to expand the VA’s tele-critical care technology and services. (more…)