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Diabetes care platform Virta scores $93M
By Laura Lovett | 02:46 pm | January 13, 2020
The new funding was led by Caffeinated Capital with participation from Venrock, Obvious Ventures, Creandum, Playground Global and SciFi VC. 
DrChrono closes $20M to grow its mobile-friendly EHR, practice management platform
By Dave Muoio | 02:24 pm | January 13, 2020
The company will be pumping the funds into its tech platform, and will be growing its engineering, sales and support capabilities.
New smartphone camera test could speed up urinary tract infection diagnosis
By Tammy Lovell | 09:25 am | January 13, 2020
Scientists at the University of Bath say the test can help fight the global threat of antibiotic resistance.
Caregiving services platform Homage raises Series B funding from EV Growth
By Dean Koh | 05:59 am | January 13, 2020
New investors Alternate Ventures and KDV Capital, together with existing investor HealthXCapital also joined the round.  
Major reformations of the last decade that will shape US healthcare in 2020
By Abhinav Shashank | 03:04 pm | January 10, 2020
Innovaccer CEO and cofounder Abhinav Shashank reviews the past year's healthcare events and technology trends, and highlights the potential of each to influence the future of care.
Exscientia lands multi-million euro deal with Bayer
By Leontina Postelnicu | 08:56 am | January 10, 2020
Bayer and Exscientia will initially work on three early-stage projects using AI to speed up drug discovery.
Medirom partners with MATRIX industries to deliver world’s first self-powered health monitoring sma…
By Dean Koh | 11:14 pm | January 09, 2020
Medirom, a healthtech company based in Japan, has announced that at CES 2020 it will be working with MATRIX Industries, a Silicon Valley material science company, to deliver the world’s first health monitoring smartband named MOTHER that never requires charging.
US FDA clears NuvoAir's connected spirometer device
By Dave Muoio | 04:18 pm | January 09, 2020
The Air Next is designed for patients with respiratory conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
Women's health-focused provider Advantia raises $45M
By Laura Lovett | 03:29 pm | January 09, 2020
Funding for the tech-enabled provider was led by BlueMountain Capital Management. 
Livongo comes to Higi's health kiosks, Pear's reSET-O rolling out to dozens of treatment centers and more digital health deals
By Dave Muoio | 02:57 pm | January 09, 2020
Also: Doctor on Demand-powered benefit goes live for Walmart associates; Samsung, Sleep Number's CES announcements.