Gathering round the table
Thanksgiving week is the perfect time to reflect on how coming together can create something special—at the dinner table and beyond. In healthcare, this is playing out as health consortiums work together to scale capabilities and make headway on shared innovation and data-driven transformation goals. Recent headlines include Aegis Ventures’ Digital Consortium adding its 10th and 11th health system members, Longitude Health hiring its first CEO just weeks after launching as a health system co-investment group, Thera4Care debuting in Europe as a consortium of 29 partners revolutionizing cancer care diagnostics and therapy, and consortium SysBio receiving its first NIH award for centralizing disease biology research.
As families unite to break bread, consortiums like these are breaking barriers and combining resources to improve healthcare. While there are questions about how consortiums should intersect with national and global standards-setting, we’re thankful for collaborative steps in the right direction.
Headlines
DEA Finalizes One-Year Extension Of Telehealth Prescribing
Timely DEA rule involving scheduled substances can only be repealed by Congress Fierce Healthcare
Trump Names Dr. Mehmet Oz To Head CMS
Cardiothoracic surgeon TV personality would be responsible for Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA CNN
Regulating Generative AI: FDA’s Challenges Laid Bare By Digital Health Advisory Committee
Regulatory leaders conclude inaugural two-day meeting focused on genAI in healthcare STAT
FDA Still Undecided About Shortage Status of GLP-1s
Court status report signals that compounders remain tentatively safe from legal action Biospace
Hims & Hers Adds Bars & Shakes For GLP-1 Users
Virtual care platform with weight loss offering expands into adjacent food as medicine space Athletech News
23andMe Inks New Research Partnership As It Winds Down Drug Development
Biotech company Mirador Therapeutics gains access to 23andMe genetic data Endpoints News
Instacart Makes Getting Groceries Even More Accessible
New SNAP eligibility screener streamlines access to benefits via online platform Forbes
Recent Funding
- Financial management and patient support platform TailorMed locks in $40M
- Rock Health port co Synapticure lands $25M to expand care for neurodegenerative diseases
- Seen Health launches with $22M to help AAPI adults age at home and access PACE programs
- New Lantern collects $19M for its AI-driven imaging and workflow solution for radiologists
- Alloy, a telehealth platform and digital pharmacy for menopause care, nabs $16M
- Medeloop adds $15.5M for its AI-powered clinical research platform
- Citizen Health reels in $14.5M for its consumer health solution for rare disease patients
- Jimini, a platform bringing together virtual mental health services and AI agents, scores $8M
- World Class Health bags $8M to offer concierge medicine as an employee benefit
- Calmwave seeds $5.3M to optimize hospital alarms and reduce alarm fatigue in the ICU
- Revisto inks $4M to streamline medical, legal, and regulatory workflows in pharma
- DANNCE.ai grabs $2.6M for its digital phenotyping platform for neurology