Nov 5, 2021

MedCity News Check out news from Vivalink, HealthMine, Vitable Health and more. Shares0 Healthmine will host the second webinar in their 3-part 2022 Star Ratings Webinar Series on Tuesday, November 9th. In this hour-long session, Star Ratings leader Melissa Smith and members of her consulting team will provide data-driven guidance on where to focus your quality improvement efforts based on the 2022 Star Ratings for Medicare Advantage plans. Sign up to attend live or receive the on-demand recordings to watch at your convenience. Vivalink , a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions, announces the use of its Biometrics Data Platform to power a variety of remote healthcare applications around the world. Vivalink’s platform, with regulatory clearances including FDA, CE and China’s National Medical Product Administration, integrates physiologically optimized wearable sensors, remote networking technologies, and cloud data services to enable clinicians to conduct medical grade monitoring outside the hospital environment. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, medical wearable sensors in virtual healthcare and telemedicine have become a necessity for tracking and monitoring human vitals such as heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, Sp02 and blood pressure, in real-time. For these patients, it is necessary to have hospital-grade monitoring medical wearable devices, to track symptoms outside of the clinical setting. Vivalink’s technology is currently being used across the globe in 30 countries, from the U.S. to Australia to Vietnam. Its technologies enable care to be delivered remotely, minimizing patient and caregiver contact which is crucial for critically ill patients and during this time of the pandemic. Vitable Health , a Philadelphia-based healthcare startup that provides hourly workers with access to primary and urgent care, has closed a  $7.2 million funding round. First Round Capital led the funding round and First Round Founder and Partner, Josh Kopelman, will join Vitable’s board. Angel investors also took part in the funding including Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice), Michael Seibel (Managing Director at Y Combinator), Daniel Folkman (VP Business Development at GoPuff), and Toyin Ajayi (co-founder of Cityblock Health) and others. Vitable’s approach uses a network of nurse practitioners to provide primary and urgent care to members in their homes and workplaces for $50 per employee per month, The company claims to have 10,000 members in its markets in Philadelphia and Delaware. The company also hired Juli Insinger, co-founder of Carrot Fertility, as Chief Revenue Officer to help the business scale. Vitable has added an employer-sponsored mental health option that provides counseling sessions through licensed clinical social workers. The company plans to use the funding to expand into more markets in the Northeast U.S. in the next 12 months. Valo Health , a technology company using human-centric data and artificial intelligence-powered computation to transform drug discovery, development, and delivery, has appointed Joe Chan as Head of Engineering. Chan previously worked for PathAI to create a machine learning platform for large scale computational pathology. He also worked Google for 10 years. He will be responsible for leading and growing the engineering team, with a focus on building the next generation of web services that power the Valo’s Opal AI platform and integrate and connect the company’s core applications across technology and therapeutics. BeMe Health , a digital behavioral health provider for teens, has raised $7 million in seed financing from Polaris Partners and Flare Capital Partners. The funding will be used to help accelerate and scale operations around BeMe’s approach to teen mental health. BeMe’s co-founders, Scott Cousino and Ron Geraty. Cousino was previously co-founder and CEO of myStrength — a digital behavioral health company acquired by Livongo. Geraty has previously worked for Merit Behavioral Corp, American Imaging Management, and Alere. Two additional co-founders are Nicki Tessler, CEO, and Mandeep Dhillon, Chief Technical and Chief Product Officer. Picture: akindo, Getty Images