Why Clear wants to get into health care market

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From STAT’s Brittany Trang: As we speak Clear — sure, the individuals with the quick lanes on the the airport — introduced the outcomes of a examine it did with e-prescriber-turned-health-information-network Surescripts. The case examine focuses on how Clear’s biometric-based identification verification expertise boosted the effectivity of Surescripts’ identification verification for the well being care suppliers accessing its community.

However what’s Clear doing in well being care, broadly? The corporate’s head of healthcare, David Bardan, defined it to me like this final month: An individual dwelling in New York Metropolis would possibly get care at any mixture of CityMD, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, Northwell, and many others., however their info isn’t hooked up to them. It’s caught in every well being system’s EHR. “What CLEAR can do is we will confirm that you’re the identical you that exists throughout all these completely different contexts, and we will help you carry alongside your info as you go from system to system,” he stated.

That form of information-corralling is beneficial for sufferers who want all of their information in a single place for care, enrolling in scientific trials, or simply to extend the extent of identification verification when logging right into a affected person portal or selecting up a prescription, stated Bardan. In an age the place well being information breaches are rising so quick, such a promise would possibly sound too good to be true.

Mind implant breakthrough hurries up processing time

A group of researchers from College of California, Berkeley and College of California, San Francisco had been capable of resolve a key downside for a lot of brain-computer interfaces: lag. Their Nature Neuroscience examine describes how their experimental system was capable of shrink the time between when a examine participant had a thought, and when the phrases had been broadcast.

In a brand new story, STAT’s Rose Broderick unpacks how the researchers managed to get the mind interface to broadcast as many as 90 phrases per minute. If the expertise is confirmed out and commercialized, the tech works quick sufficient that it would allow individuals with paralysis to hold on actual time conversations. Learn extra right here

Huge AI fundraises draw consideration

Rock Well being this week printed its carefully watched quarterly tally of fundraise bulletins, reporting $3 billion in digital well being raises. At a high-level, the quantity is barely above final 12 months’s Q1 quantity, however now that the marketplace for well being tech fundraising has stabilized, the intrigue lies within the nuance. The authors specifically name out “the return of bigger late-stage funding offers” together with $100+ mega offers for Qventus, Abridge, and Innovaccer. It’s in no way stunning that these offers had been all about AI. Rock Well being’s submit additionally consists of an attention-grabbing evaluation of “leapfrogging” methods firms can make use of to get forward throughout turbulent occasions.

Trade information

Daymark Well being, an organization offering digital and different care providers to individuals with most cancers, introduced it raised $11.5 million from Maverick Ventures and Yosemite.

Thatch, a startup that helps firms supply ICHRA advantages to their staff, introduced a $40 million Collection B ed by Index Ventures with Andreessen Horowitz, Normal Catalyst, The Normal Partnership, ADP Ventures, and SemperVirens.

Digital care large Teladoc Well being this morning introduced a brand new Cardiometabolic Well being Program.