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UBC and Seqster partnership aims to speed up clinical trial enrollment

By Emma Bardin Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00 AM

UBC partners with Seqster to leverage the latter's technology to allow patients to gather their own medical records for decentralized clinical trials. This could help speed up clinical trial enrollment.

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New Zealand orthopedic surgery planning startup raises $5M and partners with Zimmer Biomet for global distribution

By Arundhati Parmar Thursday, February 3, 2022 12:37 AM

Formus Labs is expecting to get the regulatory nod from the FDA to be able to sell its fully-automated 3D planning technology for joint replacement surgeries in the second quarter and has partnered with orthopedic surgery heavyweight for a global distribution program.

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Pandemic proves the mother of health innovation as startups raise $9B in NYC

By Michael Schroeder Wednesday, February 2, 2022 7:35 PM

Funding for 2021 was up 150% from the previous record of $3.6 billion raised in 2020, according to the 2022 New York Healthcare Innovation Report. Digital health startups in areas including virtual care, patient engagement and mental health captured 87% of funds.

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Are healthcare investors spending too much too fast? Find out at MedCity INVEST March 28-30.

By Stephanie Baum Wednesday, February 2, 2022 6:04 PM

Register for MedCity INVEST at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago and be part of the conversation on healthcare investment trends. Attendees will also be able to take part in networking opportunities and hear health tech, medtech and pharma tech startups pitch to investors.

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Blue Cross settles class action suit naming 'pharma bro' Martin Shkreli for $28M

By Michael Schroeder Wednesday, February 2, 2022 1:03 PM

Shkreli controversially raised the price of the drug Daraprim, which is used to treat a potentially fatal parasitic infection, by 4,000%, from $13.50 to $750 per pill in 2015. In January, a federal judge banned him from the pharmaceutical industry for life.

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Effective governance: Charting the future of responsible healthcare AI innovation

By Bernadette M. Broccolo and Michael W. Peregrine Wednesday, February 2, 2022 8:30 AM

The power and promise of artificial intelligence comes in a Pandora's box full of novel and multi-dimensional enterprise risks—legal, regulatory, financial, operational, ethical and reputational—that go above and beyond those associated with other technology innovations.

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