What You Should Know: - Virgin Pulse, a global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company, announced that Jeffrey Jacques, MD, has joined the company as Chief Medical Officer. - As chief medical officer at Virgin Pulse, Dr. Jacques will advance the company’s clinical strategy, providing insight and guidance to product and commercial teams. He will also lead the company’s Science Advisory Board, which helps ensure that Virgin Pulse’s technology and the experiences it supports
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6 Executive Health Data Predictions to Watch in 2023
Kevin Agatstein, CEO at Kaid Health In 2023 I predict that unstructured medical data, which makes up the majority of a patient’s chart, will become too valuable to ignore by both providers and payers. Driven in part by the growth of Medicare Advantage and oncology, both of which require the data within medical notes rather than just claims and labs data, organizations will start to use their unstructured EMR data in entirely new ways. Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health In today’s
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Monogram Health Secures $375M to Expand In-Home Kidney Care
What You Should Know: - Monogram Health, a Nashville, TN-based kidney disease benefit management and care delivery company announced a $375M growth funding round that will drive the company’s continued rapid expansion as the leading solution for high-quality, in-home care for polychronic patients living with chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease in the U.S. - Investors in the round include CVS Health, Cigna, Humana, Memorial Hermann Health System, SCAN, TPG Capital, Frist Cressey
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Backed by CVS Health, Array Behavioral Care Raises $25M for Virtual Psychiatry/Therapy
What You Should Know: - Array Behavioral Care, the nation’s leading virtual psychiatry and therapy practice, announced today the closing of its latest $25M equity round to further scale modern behavioral healthcare across the continuum, with CVS Health leading the round. Existing investors also joined the round and contributed additional capital. - The financing builds upon a long history between Array and CVS Health and opens doors to new levels of collaboration to expand access to
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Caris Life Sciences and ConcertAI Partner to Accelerate Drug Development and Novel Research
What You Should Know: - Caris Life Sciences®(Caris), a molecular science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, and ConcertAI, an oncology real-world evidence data and AI technology company, announced a unique partnership to align the two companies' oncology capabilities. - The strategic partnership will create one of the largest translational and clinical
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KeyCare Completes $27M Round to Expand Epic-based Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know: - KeyCare, Inc., the nation’s only virtual-first care platform built with Epic, announced the completion of its Series A funding round following new investments from Ziegler and two additional health systems. This expanded backing brings KeyCare's total Series A raise to over $27 million. - These investors join 8VC, LRVHealth, Bold Capital, and Spectrum Health Ventures in support of KeyCare's mission to improve patient access, expand
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Teladoc Health Launches Fully Integrated Whole-Person Care Experience App
What You Should Know: - Teladoc Health launches a fully integrated healthcare experience through a new comprehensive digital application enabling personalized whole-person care to individuals. - The app will enable consumers to seamlessly access Teladoc Health’s full range of services, including primary care, mental health and chronic condition management from one place and under a single portable account. - In addition, Teladoc Health’s full suite of services will be available in
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Real-World Data Startup Crescendo Health Launches with $3.2M
What You Should Know: - Crescendo Health, a real-world data startup that's drastically reshaping how clinical researchers get access to hard-to-reach patient data to support their clinical research today officially announced its launch with $3.4M in seed funding from Define Ventures as well as the founders and CEOs of many other well-known organizations. - Founded by the co-founder of Datavant (merged with Ciox in a $7 billion deal), and a top product-management leader from Grand
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Virtual Reality to Improve Kidney Education to Dialysis Patients in Rural Mississippi
What You Should Know: - Fresenius Medical Care North America was awarded more than $130k grant from the Mississippi Department of Health's Office of Rural Health and Primary Care to provide local dialysis patients the opportunity to virtually experience a day-in-the-life of a home dialysis patient – helping them to better understand what this form of treatment entails. - The grant allows FKC to provide its dialysis centers in Mississippi with virtual reality headsets and initially offers
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Liver Cancer Awareness – Here’s What You Need to Know in 2023
By the end of 2022, nearly 42,00 new cases of primary liver cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. In fact, liver cancer incidence rates have more than tripled since 1980, marking an increased need for better detection and diagnosis. We might not talk about liver cancer as much as we do breast or lung cancer, but it’s a real threat to millions of Americans – and we need to continue spreading awareness. Early detection is especially critical in treating liver cancer.
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