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, job opportunities and more.
We have started to announce attendees for this year's event and we are planning our conference tracks - watch this space as the provisional schedule will be released soon. In the meantime, meet a selection of GIANT attendees who you can connect with during our event.
Super Early Bird tickets for GIANT Health 2019 are still on sale but for a limited time only. GIANT 2019 is set to be our biggest event yet so don't miss out.
Barry Shrier, Founder, GIANT Health
@Barry_HealthTec
+44 7776 132 517
PS: we're recruiting for a number of roles, including a Beanstalks curator. View our latest roles here
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Depression is detectable early with AI analysis of social media language
Researchers have demonstrated two machine-learning techniques that, when combined to analyze social-media posts, can boost early detection of clinical depression by 10% over the current state of the art detection models.
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Department of Health aims to drive change through tech innovation
Baroness Blackwood, parliamentary under secretary of state at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), discussed the department’s ambitions to bring more tech-enabled enhancements to patients and clinicians. She believes that it will genuinely drive change within the NHS.
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Neurotrack, USA
- $21 million
- Series C
- Khosla Ventures led the funding round
Neurotrack’s platform was designed with the dual purpose of assessing memory loss and cognitive decline, as well as preventing these conditions from progressing. It provides a baseline assessment, tracks disease progression, offers cognitive training exercises and includes a memory health programme, designed to help users manage exercise, diet, sleep and stress.
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Quartet, USA
- $60 million
- Series D
- Led by major insurer, Centene
Quartet has raised a total of $153 million from investors. The company has developed a central technology platform that allows for physicians, mental health providers and payers to coordinate care and drive down health costs. Quartet’s theory is that by sharing treatment plans, clinical notes and assessment results, care providers will be more informed and attuned to individual patient needs.
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Reasons to be grateful for Health-Tech:
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At least 10 million deaths were prevented between 2010 and 2015 thanks to vaccinations! (World Health Organisation)
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Announcements and updates
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Spectrum appointment Non-Exec Director for GIANT
Spectrum was retained by GIANT's Founder and CEO, Barry Shrier, to search for a Non-Executive Director - which would represent GIANT's 1st board appointment. Find out more
Looking for sponsorship
Sadia Zaman, a friend of GIANT, is a 4th year medic at Imperial with an intercalation in Healthcare Management. She is attending the Harvard Medical School & MIT's Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp and is seeking sponsorship to help with the fees to attend. If you are interested in helping Sadia, please share your contact details with her: bit.ly/sponsorbootcamp In exchange for sponsorship, she can offer internships, conference speeches, research reports, audits, social media promotion and more.
Future Excellence International Medical Summer School 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 Healthy Innovators was broadcast on Friday 14th June, featuring our guests Bijendra Patel, Founder of Surgical Simulation and Keith Errey, CEO of Isansys Lifecare Ltd
Bijendra Patel explains how the Medical Realities Platform delivers high-quality surgical training using Virtual Reality.
Keith discusses Isansys' patient monitoring platform, focused on delivering patient-centered technologies and data-driven methods into hospitals and healthcare organisations globally.
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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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