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Bonfire Analytics Raises Oversubscribed $2M Venture Round to Accelerate Digital Health, Medical Device, & Biotech Adoption Across Healthcare Providers

Healthcare IT Today

Already worth $350 billion in 2019, the industry is expected to continue increasing given our rapidly aging population and that national healthcare spend is almost 20% of the GDP , as well as the surge in new digital tools, devices, and therapeutics that can drive better patient outcomes.

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). In pharma and biotech, those “experts” would be scientists doing R&D and those folks who understand the data underneath the discoveries.

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Sanguina Raises $2.8M in Series A Funding to Drive Innovation in Home-Based Testing and Wellness Management

Digital Health Global

Woman-led biotech company, Sanguina, secures funding to advance accessible digital health and wellness platforms PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga.–(BUSINESS Sanguina) is a leading biotech company focused on advancing accessible digital and at-home health platforms for rapid home-based testing and disease management. Series A funding round.

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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

Health Populi

As my friends at #JPM this week are hearing in San Francisco, AI is part of virtually every biotech and med-tech story. The rest of the CES story for 2019 is positive, Shelly optimistically continued. The post Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. Health insurance’s decline from 55% in 2017 to 46% in 2018, recovering in 2019 then falling again to a low of 43% this year in the 2021 Barometer.

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Spring 2019: Healthcare Updates to Know

Advanced Medical Reviews

Sharpless is a proponent of big data and previously founded two biotech companies. percent growth in 2019. CMS Publishes New National Health Expenditures Data. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted new data on projected national health expenditures for 2018-2027. percent of the country’s GDP in 2027, including a 4.8

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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

Health Populi

The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer measured the biggest gap in trust for the healthcare industry between the U.S. In this study, the healthcare industry is comprised of five segments: hospitals and clinics; pharma; biotech (separate from pharma); consumer health (e.g., “informed public” and the mass population.

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