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Medopad Rebrands As Huma And Acquires Two Healthtech Companies
Apr 16, 2020,06:58am EDT
On 16 April 2020, Medopad announced that it has changed its name to Huma and has acquired two healthtech startups: Biobeats and Tarilian Laser Technologies (TLT) that specialise in AI and wearable technologies. The rebrand and acquisitions give Huma the potential to build on their historical offerings across remote patient monitoring, adding mental health and cardiovascular capabilities and moving into digital biomarkers and therapeutics.
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To build a complete picture of a person’s overall health, Huma is acquiring two healthtech startups that use AI and wearables: BioBeats and TLT, in a mix of cash and options.
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According to Vahdat, the name Huma means“for all of humanity”and the name was chosen “to reflect the company's commitment to working with people, for people.” With its latest acquisitions, its move into digital biomarkers and its population health initiative, Huma has high ambitions to deliver scalable, preventative healthcare at that level. It will be interesting to see the practicalities around how this occurs and what learning will be gleaned from it. In a world currently dominated by COVID-19, an indiscriminate virus ripping through the entire global population, you might wonder what the response would have been from a country with real-time data monitoring of their (consenting) population's digital biomarkers...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2020/04/16/medopad-rebrands-as-huma-and-acquires-two-healthtech-companies/?sh=48a98f6b1d32