Health tech funding snapshot--Google joins $50M round in Viz.ai, Augmedix raises $19 million, and more

Emergency response data: RapidSOS, a startup whose software platform automatically transmits data from 911 callers to emergency responders, secured $25 million in new funding, led by the investment firm Energy Impact Partners in its Series B funding round. The company closed the round with $55 million in funding including $30 million collected last year. The funding accelerates RapidSOS's work partnering with thousands of public safety agencies, most major public safety software providers, and connected device companies to transform emergency response and disaster management Remote medical documentation: Tech-enabled remote documentation company Augmedix uses natural-language-processing technology and remote medical documentation experts to help reduce the burden of medical documentation for physicians. The San Francisco-based company landed $19 million in Series B funding that included investments from Redmile Group, McKesson Ventures, DCM Ventures, Wanxiang Healthcare Investments, and others. Augmedix provides clinicians with hardware, smartphones or Google Glass, to stream the clinic visit to a cloud-based platform.