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Wefight answers questions about chronic illness with its virtual assistant

TechCrunch

They’re all based on the same virtual assistant called Vik. When it comes to the business model, Wefight works with pharmaceutical companies to finance new apps. It’s a convoluted sales strategy for pharmaceutical companies. The startup recently raised a $11.6 Wefight has developed a different app for each chronic illness.

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

TechCrunch

One company that is planning to drive the wave of telemedicine across the continent, as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, is mPharma , a Ghanaian health tech start-up that is set to open 100 virtual centers across seven markets in Africa over the next six months. This is what makes mPharma’s telemedicine unique,” Rockson told TechCrunch.

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K Health expands into virtual childcare and raises $132 million at a $1.5 billion valuation

TechCrunch

K Health , the virtual healthcare provider that uses machine learning to lower the cost of care by providing the bulk of the company’s health assessments, is launching new tools for childcare on the heels of raising cash that values the company at $1.5

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Online events platform Delegate Connect gets $10M AUD led by AirTree

TechCrunch

Delegate Connect is the latest virtual/hybrid events platform to land funding. Founded in 2017 and bootstrapped until its seed round, Delegate Connect’s business grew during the COVID-19 pandemic, like many other virtual event platforms. Delegate Connect founders Jordan Walsh and Jacob Thomas.

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

TechCrunch

San Diego-based startup Nanome uses virtual reality to solve that problem. Nanome streamlines this process by bringing researchers to the same virtual reality space to work on molecule development together. But they have plans to use this new funding to expand into pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic biology, and even education.

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Allego Delivers Smarter Virtual Selling and Enablement for Finance, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing Industry Leaders

DevOps.com

Forward-thinking brands like Fannie Mae, Recordati Rare Diseases and Johnson Health Tech select Allego for personalized, agile learning in a virtual environment NEEDHAM, Mass. The post Allego Delivers Smarter Virtual Selling and Enablement for Finance, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing Industry Leaders appeared first on DevOps.com.

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

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Modern technical advancements in healthcare have made it possible to quickly handle critical medical data, medical records, pharmaceutical orders, and other data. In addition, pharmaceutical businesses can generate more effective drugs and improve medical research and experimentation using machine learning.