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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

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FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Big impact. “This makes the solutions highly scalable and affordable.”

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

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McCloskey thinks that Nanome’s platform has become even more relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, as researchers might be forced to work remotely on occasion, limiting their access to in-lab technology and software. But they have plans to use this new funding to expand into pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic biology, and even education.

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

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Technology has proven important in maintaining the healthcare industry’s resilience in the face of so many obstacles. The healthcare business has embraced numerous technology-based solutions to increase productivity and streamline clinical procedures. Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Emerging Patterns.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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“I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. In one, he mocked up a cover of the Financial Times , showing the company’s stock soaring and praising its technologically enabled innovations. Why tell stories?

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Meet the 11 startups graduating from the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

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Flourish allows these partners to license its technology and takes a fee based on active users. Virtuleap is a diagnostics tool that uses VR to help pharmaceutical companies evaluate the outcome of drugs designed to treat cognitive illnesses. Masonry automates the process of managing multi-family property.

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Digital Therapeutics: How Software Can Treat Diseases

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This article is going to explain what digital therapeutics are, how these products are different from other digital health technologies, when to use them, and why you should care about the topic in the first place. It is an umbrella term for all concepts that bring information technology and healthcare together.

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Custom mHealth App Development: The Ultimate Guide for Businesses.

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A huge variety of mobile technology in healthcare tools and innovative solutions are employed by organizations and medical practitioners to help collect data from health informatics apps and software and implement them in a patient-centered healthcare model. AR/VR Another marked trend in healthcare mobile applications is AR and VR.