What You Should Know:
- Today, CVS Health announced the launch of a new Clinical Trial Services business, driving greater access to clinical trials across the communities CVS Health serves and creating a more efficient, convenient experience to improve participant retention and research effectiveness.
- CVS Health collaborated with the pharmaceutical industry to help facilitate clinical trials for investigational COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Using a specially designed
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Archives for 2021
Best Buy Health Launches Lively Smart for Active Aging Community
What You Should Know:
- Best Buy Health today introduced its new smartphone Lively Smart that is designed to make it easier than ever for older adults to access the phone features they care most about, including one-touch access to Lively Health and Safety Services.
- Users can unlock Lively Smart’s full potential with these Lively Health and Safety Services (available with a Preferred Health & Safety package):
Urgent Response, which
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Anthem, Epic Integrates Bi-Directional Data Exchange with Affiliated Health Plans
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare insurer Anthem has announced a data sharing collaboration with Epic to facilitate secure, bi-directional exchange of health information between healthcare providers and Anthem’s affiliated health plans.
- Epic’s Payer Platform will be integrated with Anthem’s Health OS, which is Anthem’s operating system to enable seamless health plan-provider collaboration.
- The integration will enable Anthem to capture consumer health information
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Why Ransomware Poses a Threat to Both Providers & Patient Health
Ransomware attacks continue to wreak havoc on all types of organizations across almost every industry. The healthcare sector in particular has emerged as one of the top targets for ransomware gangs, and the impact can be more dire than for most others. According to new research by Tenable, ransomware is responsible for 46% of all data breaches in the healthcare sector, compared to 35% of data breaches across all verticals.
Just last month, a major hospital in Maryland lost access to a
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Wheel Secures $50M for White-Labeled Virtual Care Platform
Wheel is Powering the Virtual Care Industry from Wheel on Vimeo.
What You Should Know:
- Wheel, a Austin, TX-based virtual care company, today announced a $50M series B round led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from existing investors CRV, Silverton Partners, Tusk Venture Partners and J.P. Morgan. The round brings its total funding to $66M to date.
- Today Wheel provides its white-labeled service to companies across a wide variety of industries, including publicly-traded
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A Promising New Post-COVID World of Virtual Care
It’s a striking contrast to look at the world as it now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to what life was like prior to March 2020. To pre-pandemic eyes, it may even seem like an unrecognizable alien landscape with people everywhere donning facemasks, limited public gatherings, and tens of millions working from home rather than the office. Up until recently, commercial flights departed with few passengers, movie theaters and sports venues were largely shuttered, and many avoided
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Ro Acquires Modern Fertility to Integrate With Primary Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Ro, today announced the acquisition of Modern Fertility, one of the fastest growing companies in women’s health.
- This acquisition, one of the largest deals in women's health tech yet, will accelerate Ro's position as a leader in women's health and bring Modern Fertility’s fertility tests and reproductive health tools to our vertically integrated primary care platform.
- Like Ro's patient-centric approach, Modern Fertility makes fertility more proactive,
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Zing Health Acquires Medicare Advantage Plan Provider Lasso Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Zing Health Enterprises, a physician-founded and led provider of Medicare Advantage health plans, has signed definitive documents to acquire Harrisburg, PA-based Lasso Healthcare Insurance Co.
- Lasso Healthcare offers Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Its insurance offerings currently cover over 6,000 members. Lasso Healthcare offers a pioneering consumer-directed Medicare Advantage product, called a Medicare Medical Savings
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CommonHealth Integrates with 150 Providers to Power Secure Access to Personal Health Records
What You Should Know:
- The Commons Project Foundation announced this morning that more than 150 new hospital providers have joined CommonHealth, the Android equivalent of Apple Health, including the VHA, Mass General Brigham, ChristianaCare, and UC San Diego Health.
- CommonHealth, which is free and available for download on the Google Play Store, was developed by The Commons Project Foundation in collaboration with UCSF, Cornell Tech and Sage Bionetworks to give people more control over
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Geisinger Health Plan First to Leverage Kyruus-HealthSparq Integration
What You Should Know:
- Kyruus today it announced that Geisinger Health Plan (GHP), serving over 500,000 members in Pennsylvania, is the first organization to leverage the Kyruus-HealthSparq integration and HealthSparq’s new Path to Care provider data and care access solution.
- GHP’s provider profiles now include new provider data that health plans typically don’t have access to, such as the
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