GIANT Health weekly Update
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Hello GIANT community member
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GIANT's latest update includes a summary of the latest health-tech and funding news, announcements, details about upcoming HealthTech events and more.
This year's 2-day GIANT Health event features full-day tracks on:
- Great British HealthTech
- Immersive
- Financing HealthTech
- Wearables, Ingestibles, Implantables
- 5G Future of Health
GIANT 2019 is set to be our biggest event yet so don't miss out. Get your Super Early Bird tickets
Barry Shrier, Founder, GIANT Health
@Barry_HealthTec
+44 7776 132 517
PS: we're recruiting for a number of roles, get in touch if you're interested: View our latest roles here
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Collaboration is key to tackling healthcare challenges in the NHS
Collaboration, rather than competition, is a better way for the NHS and the wider health and care system to respond to today's challenges, says the Health and Social Care Committee in its report on the NHS Long-Term Plan: legislative proposals. Collaboration is a better way to manage the rising demands on health and social care, improve joined-up care for patients and deliver better value for taxpayers.
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Facebook posts can help to predict medical conditions
The language used in a Facebook post can predict if a user has a certain medical condition, according to a new study. The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine set out to research if Facebook posts could predict conditions that were already recorded in a patient’s medical record and found that Facebook language was able to predict 21 medical conditions “beyond chance.”
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Genome, USA
- $23 million
- Series B
- Led by Echo Health Ventures
Genome Medical partners with hospitals, payers and employers to make genomic medicine more accessible through its cloud-based platform, which allows for virtual, on-demand access to genetic experts and consultants as well as genetic wellness assessments and screening. The funds raised will help scale up its patient counseling services and expand its team of clinical genomics specialists.
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Cure.Fit, India
- $120 million
- Series D
- Epiq Capital, Unilever Ventures, Innoven Capital and Kotak Mahindra Bank
Cure.fit has built an integrated health platform that has over two million downloads. With its four verticals, Cult.fit - focusing on the physical strength and fitness, Eat.fit - in the healthy and nutritive food, Mind.fit - offering mental well-being, and Care.fit - primarily focusing on healthcare, the three-year-old startup ensures customers are offered a holistic preventive healthcare experience.
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Reasons to be grateful for Health-Tech:
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Colorectal cancer death rates declined by 52% from 1970 to 2015 among men and women because of increased screening and improvements in treatment (American Cancer Society)
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2nd Annual Pharma AI and IoT, 10th - 11th July 2019
It provides an insight into the vital role of technology impact in the sustainability of pharma and healthcare systems.
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Digital Healthcare show, 26th - 27th June 2019
The Digital Healthcare Show harnesses the huge opportunity to improve services and patient experience through digital transformation.
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Future Excellence International Medical Summer School, 5th - 9th August 2019
GIANT is pleased to be supporting Future Excellence's 11th International Medical Summer School this August. We are offering our readers an exclusive discount of 10% off tickets using this code: GHEA10
It's the largest student medical event of it's kind and a fantastic opportunity to interact with cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking research to enable future doctors to help lead the way in personalised medicine. Find out more
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GIANT's Healthy Innovators Live TV
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Our latest episode of GIANT's Healthy Innovators Live TV was broadcast on Thursday 20th June. Barry was joined by Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva USA, Silja Litvin, Founder & CEO of PsycApps and Thomas Cooke, UK Clinical Services Manager for LivaLife.
BioViva targets cellular aging and develops therapies to regenerate muscle and tissue.
LivaLife provides an innovative platform connecting patients and health professionals digitally to drive behaviour and lifestyle change - and manage diseases and care plans.
PsycApps is an Emotional Fitness Game that teaches psychological skills that everyone needs in order to be able to deal with emotional and mental stress.
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GIANT Health reaches thousands of members of the global HealthTech community.
Get in touch to discuss partnership opportunities.
Barry Shrier, Founder, GIANT Health
@Barry_HealthTec
+44 7776 132 517
PS: If you're recruiting, looking for a hospital trial partner, in fundraising mode, looking for a job...please get in touch and we'll be happy to support you in this newsletter.
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GIANT would like to thank our sponsors for their support, you guys are great!
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