MedTech Pulse

Which recent investments have been made in the MedTech ecosystem? 💰 Here's our roundup of the latest deals: 👉Stepful – $31.5 million 👉Alloy Women's Health – $16 million 👉Medeloop – $15.5 million 👉Upheal –  €9.52 million  👉Biolux Technology – €4.26 million Visit the slideshow for more details about the deals. Also, make sure to get the next newsletter straight to your inbox. Subscribe here: medtechpulse.com/subscribe #medtech #startup #venturecapital

💉Childhood vaccination rates are continuing to drop—in the U.S. and globally. Yes, a majority of eligible American children are getting their vaccines. But the number of young students reporting exemptions to their schools has been steadily rising over the past few years 📈 As vaccine misinformation and scientific mistrust continue to spread, this trend is also reflected globally. Per the WHO and UNICEF, across the world, 2.7 million more children lack the vaccine protections they need when compared to pre-2020 childhood vaccination rates. As medtech innovators, we need to pay attention to the rise in vaccine hesitancy among parents. It’s up to us to help communicate the value, safety, and importance of these and other life-saving medical products. 👉 Stay ahead in MedTech and join our newsletter now: https://lnkd.in/ga6gEkw

🗣️ One of the most distressing parts of psychosis is auditory hallucinations. Now, a digital therapy may be able to change that. A new study suggests that externalizing the voices people with psychosis hear may be a useful therapeutic approach. How to externalize those voices? By digitally animating them. Read the article to learn more about how digital avatars are helping psychosis patients 👉 https://lnkd.in/eRRj827S

If you simplify healthcare down to the basic elements, it consists of this: 🧑 a patient 👩⚕️ a provider 🩺 the provider’s tool(s) A lot of health IT innovators work on improving workflows surrounding those first two elements: the provider and the patient. But what about all the operational inefficiencies around a provider’s tools and devices? To learn about that, we spoke with Jinesh Patel for today's edition of our newsletter. Jinesh is the co-Founder and CEO of UptimeHealth. UptimeHealth develops cutting-edge technology to automate medical device management. In our interview, we discussed where exactly medical equipment management can go wrong, why he loves healthcare data companies, and how he brings an experimental attitude to all of his work. Check out the interview below, and make sure to follow Jinesh Patel here on LinkedIn. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eKyD_Uzw

After leaving his post as President of Neuralink, Max Hodak founded brain-computer interface (BCI) company Science Corporation. He then saw a video that led him to acquire Paris-based Pixium Vision earlier this year. 👀 What was in that video? A blind person reading—with the help of Pixium’s retinal implant, the Prima. Now, Science Corporation has released preliminary data from their late-stage, multi-center trial of the implant. The results are promising. Read the article to learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e485sieQ

Which recent investments have been made in the MedTech ecosystem? 💰 Here's our roundup of the latest exciting deals: 👉 Bright Uro – $32 million 👉 Counsel Health – $11 million 👉 Vara – $8.9 million 👉 Definition Health –  £5.75 million  👉 Persperity Health, Inc – $1 million Visit the slideshow for more details about the deals. Also, make sure to get the next newsletter straight to your inbox. Subscribe here: medtechpulse.com/subscribe #medtech #startup #venturecapital 

It seems like more and more people are growing more accepting of - and even excited about - generative AI in healthcare. But one demographic group remains wary. Americans age 50+ overwhelmingly reported not trusting AI-generated health information. While healthy skepticism is important for identifying misinformation, these results must be taken into account for innovators creating patient-facing GenAI healthcare products. After all: 🤝 trust is core to product uptake 📈 and the population is aging more and more each year. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZNvWNjH

⏰ When it comes to diagnosing and treating infertility, time is the most precious resource. LEVY Health takes that ticking clock seriously. The startup has built a clinical decision support tool to help fertility doctors diagnose women with infertility and underlying endocrine conditions faster. The team says this has led to a 50% reduction in time to diagnosis. Read the article to learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eRM2AVEM

Autumn means it’s football season in America. Which means touchdown dances, Taylor Swift sightings at Chiefs games, and… Concussions 🤕 Brain injuries have plagued athletes forever. But over the past few years, the dangers of these injuries have been publicized more and more. So what can schools, professional teams, providers, and players do? The answer might be looking to digital health and medtech. We were lucky to speak with HEADCHECK Health’s Harrison Brown for this week’s Pulse Check Interview. In our interview, we discussed why compliance is the most important frontier in concussion safety, why medtech innovators need to know the size of the problem they’re solving, and how digital health is accelerating sports medicine research. Check out the interview below, and make sure to follow Harrison Brown here on LinkedIn. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eiDj6va7

When you think of smart glasses, you probably think of how technology augments or analyzes what you look at through them. 👀 But what if smart glasses watch you? emteq labs has launched Sense, its emotion-sensing smart glasses. Paired with Emteq’s software, the glasses’ sensors, placed along the rim, can detect minute differences in facial expressions with up to 93% accuracy. Why are smart glasses making a resurgence? And what do we need emotion-sensing smart glasses for? Read the article to learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHsaA4Xa