Healthsense has received an investment of $10 million to continue expansion of its remote monitoring for seniors in their homes or senior living settings.
Validic has gotten an additional $5 million for its business of aggregating health data from various sources, including wearables and personal medical records.
This is not, I repeat, not a joke. A company called Beam Technologies has raised $5 million for its "smart" toothbrush, which apparently has an IQ higher than the people making this investment. The toothbrush can help users track their dental hygienie.
Privacy analytics has received an additional $3.5 million in financing to advance its business of helping providers anonymize data to comply with privacy regulations.
Mednet Solutions, a provider of clinical trial management and electronic data capture software, has received a $4 million investment to grow its business.
Now here is a spooky one--Emulate makes "organs on a chip" to help drug companies analyze and understand living tissue reactions to experimental compounds and has raised $12 million for that business.
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