medCPU Secures $8M Funding to Enhance Clinical Decision Support; NantHealth Acquires Harris Healthcare Solutions

[Today's Headlines]

○ medCPU Raises $8 Million to Help Clinicians See the Complete Clinical Picture of Patients
○NantHealth Acquires Harris' Healthcare Solutions
○ Allina Health to Expand Nursing Guidelines
○ Staring at screens for too long? These glasses can prevent eye damage
○ Failure to use the prescribed tracker is associated with a higher risk of readmission

1. medCPU Raises $8 Million to Help Clinicians See the Complete Clinical Picture of Patients
medCPU, a healthcare company providing clinical decision support solutions, announced the completion of an $8 million financing round, comprising $5 million in Series B-2 equity and $3 million in debt financing. The equity investment was led by the Global Health Innovation Fund and New Richmond Ventures, with debt financing provided by Silicon Valley Bank. The company will utilize the additional capital to further maintain medCPU’s leadership position in the dynamic clinical decision support market.



medCPU provides a comprehensive clinical picture of each patient, from historical records to their current condition. When integrated into a clinician’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, medCPU’s advisory and enterprise platform technologies can capture and process both structured and unstructured data. The processed data offers clinicians a holistic view of the patient, ultimately delivering highly accurate, real-time, and reliable prompts during care delivery.

“Our technology is already used by more than 20,000 physicians and several leading healthcare providers,” Ms. Yehuda added. “This financing will help us continue to grow our market share. This is a new era that moves beyond outdated practices, leveraging evidence-based medical reference tools for clinical decision support.”

2. NantHealth Acquires Harris’ Healthcare Solutions
NantHealth, a subsidiary of NantWorks, announced the completion of its acquisition of Harris Corporation’s commercial healthcare solutions business. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Harris will retain its government healthcare services business.

As part of the acquisition, NantHealth’s existing COS, eviti, and omics platforms will be integrated with the Harris FusionFX product suite. This integration will enable comprehensive health system interoperability, allowing molecular medicine insights to be applied directly at the point of care to help optimize patients’ clinical experiences. The acquisition follows NantHealth’s recent strategic alliance with Allscripts. Additionally, the acquisition brings 170 new colleagues based in Washington, Melbourne, London, and other locations into the NantHealth team.



Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Executive Chairman and Founder of NantHealth, stated in a press release: “The acquisition of Harris Healthcare Solutions brings us unique, mature technology and a large-scale global footprint. This significantly advances our established goal of improving patient outcomes by effectively providing physicians with integrated, clinically centered, patient-focused information. Meanwhile, we have also expanded our extensive customer base, added a talented and experienced leadership team, and gained access to leading health technology intelligence in North America and Europe. This transaction represents a strategic step toward realizing our vision of delivering personalized precision medicine.”

Harris FusionFX’s platform infrastructure and market-disruptive technologies deliver next-generation health information exchange, interoperability, and insights for healthcare institutions worldwide. This solution enables healthcare organizations to integrate disparate data sources and leverage existing investments to create cross-organizational, cross-system care pathways and workflows. Its scalable platform eliminates redundant administrative tasks and enhances the quality of care by streamlining access to the right information.

3. Allina Health to Expand Care Guidelines
When it comes to patient contact solutions, human-body contact is critical.



Allina Health, a healthcare organization dedicated to providing disease prevention and treatment for individuals, families, and communities, has devoted significant time to studying various types of healthcare professionals. Later this year, it will add a new care guideline to its portfolio, with a focus on African American and Hispanic patients, who will be paired with diabetes educators.

Allina found that patients using care guidelines were 31% more likely to achieve health outcomes than typical patients, with a 21% higher success rate in smoking cessation.

4. Staring at the Screen for Too Long? These Glasses Can Prevent Eye Damage

The Vision Council estimates that approximately 93% of adults spend two hours daily looking at a digital screen, and six in ten adults spend five hours a day staring at their mobile phone or computer screens. This can lead to issues such as dryness, eye redness, headaches, and even double vision.

To help alleviate this pressure, high-tech companies have developed specialized eyewear.


Japanese eyewear company JINS has announced the launch of a new line of glasses designed to prevent eye strain, under the initiative known as the JINS SCREEN Plan. According to the company’s statement, these glasses are expected to enter the U.S. market next month.

These glasses prevent eye damage caused by prolonged use of digital devices by filtering blue light, including that emitted from computer screens and smartphones.

Since its launch in Japan in 2011, JINS has sold more than five million pairs of protective eyewear. The glasses will be available in a variety of colors for U.S. consumers. The first U.S. store will be located at Union Square in San Francisco, and the eyewear can also be purchased online.

However, JINS glasses are not the only screen-protection eyewear.

VC Glasses offers four distinct series of eyewear designed to help prevent eye strain caused by digital glare and artificial ultraviolet light.

GUNNAR Optiks also offers protective eyewear. According to the company’s website, GUNNAR Optiks provides the only patented technological solution for computer lenses designed to protect and enhance vision.

Although work in the digital age seems more convenient than using paper and pencil, our eyes are harmed by this convenience. Companies like JINS have recognized the problems of the digital age and created solutions.

5. Failure to Use the Designated Tracker Increases the Risk of Readmission
A research team from the Department of Neurosurgery at Columbia University found that patients who were given a Fitbit upon discharge, without follow-up or with only intermittent monitoring, were more likely to be readmitted.



Medicare penalties have made readmission rates a key concern for many hospitals. In this study, investigators provided activity trackers to 23 discharged neurosurgical patients and monitored them remotely for 30 days post-discharge, during which four patients were readmitted. They found that none of the patients with continuous tracking were readmitted, whereas those without tracking or with intermittent tracking faced a higher risk of readmission.

Studies suggest that a lack of health tracking may be an important signal for predicting readmissions, indicating that more resources, rather than fewer, should be allocated; such direct management approaches warrant further exploration. However, this study had a small sample size, and the data have not yet been formally published; further evaluation is needed to draw definitive conclusions.