Recruitment is mainly from the US UPMC hospitals parallel expected to purchase some shares to existing investors hold more than half of the share capital of MedCPU ■ enterprise value of the acquisition of the controlling interest will be not exposed ■ The company has developed a system that supports physician decision making while treating a patient

Not only of cyber or software or application populates the list of Israeli start-up companies that raised capital this year is quite nice. There are several companies including BioMed / medical equipment , and today learned about one such that raising her, as of this moment, is recruiting biomedical / medical biggest this year.

medCPU raised $ 35 million from the American UPMC hospitals. In addition, this network intends to make a tender offer to acquire part of the shares of existing shareholders to reach at least half of the share capital of MedCPU. Namely, the acquisition of a controlling interest but not buying any company. Enterprise value of the new investment will be carried out and the tender offer has not been revealed. Since the beginning of this year Israeli start-ups raised $ 788 million 3.1 billion.

Global Innovation Fund of the global pharmaceutical company Merck, which is a shareholder in MedCPU, also participated in the current round of investment.

medCPU was established in 2008 and so far has raised $ 27.3 million. The company has developed a system that supports physician decision making while treating a patient. MedCPU technology overcomes the many barriers currently impeding the collection and normalization of medical data between different information systems, operating in almost complete isolation between them. The solution of medCPU see the full clinical picture of the patient at any time, and analyzes it according to the latest protocols found in medicine today.
“The result is the production of alerts, most accurate, while diagnosed deviation from the quality of access and patient care. High Accuracy provides system reliability, which leads to cooperation significant medical staff with alerts and directing them produces. Success that has far-reaching implications on the computer’s ability to significantly reduce the current large gaps in the quality of medicine given to most patients in the world, “reads the company statement.

UPMC, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a network of world-renowned hospitals, which develops new models for patient-centric health care, and with respect to the optimal cost efficiency. UPMC is the largest non-governmental employer most Pennsylvania, and employs more than 60,000 employees, operates more than 20 hospitals, more than 500 outpatient clinics, medical insurance department insurer 2.9 million people as well as commercial and international projects.

To UPMC collaboration with the School of Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh and is ranked 13th on the prestigious list of the best hospitals in the United States of US News and World Report.

As part of the cooperation between the two companies, UPMC will become a client of medCPU thus joins the 60 existing customers, hospitals across the US. Days to open additional offices in Israeli society in the city of Pittsburgh, which is located at UPMC, and they employ more than 20 software engineers. However, to work closely with UPMC to develop additional products together and optimize existing solutions. MedCPU development activities carried out in its offices in Israel, which has 80 employees, most of them doctors and nurses.

According to Sonia Ben Yehuda, president and co-founder at MedCPU, “We are very excited about network health prestigious as UPMC stands beside us as an investor and partner in the executive. Access to expertise in clinical, technological and operative of one of the networks of hospitals leading US will enable us to expand our capabilities present, leverage our technology and greatly increase market recognition of the significant value of the Company’s products and services. ”

According to Tal Hfnstl, president of UPMC Enterprises, “a partnership with medCPU provide us with technology and solutions likely to have immediate value for crews clinical and for our patients alike. In the longer term, technology will enable the development of applications based information, in critical areas such as management of medical care, health public involvement in their own care and quality medicine they receive “.

medCPU

Established: 2008
What does: medical decision support systems

Founder and president Sonia Ben Yehuda

Founder and CEO: Dr. Eyal Efrat

Number of employees: over 100

Existing investors: Chief Scientist, the BIRD Foundation, Merck (US pharma giant) and more

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גיוס הביומד הגדול מתחילת השנה: medCPU גייסה 35 מיליון דולר

הגיוס הוא בעיקר מרשת בתי החולים האמריקאית UPMC שצפויה במקביל לרכוש חלק ממניות משקיעים קיימים כדי להחזיק בלפחות מחצית מהון המניות של medCPU ■ השווי לפיו תתבצע רכישת גרעין השליטה לא נחשף ■ החברה פיתחה מערכת שתומכת בקבלת החלטות של רופא תוך כדי טיפול בחולה

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