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PatientPing, a comprehensive care collaboration platform focused on behavioral health and substance use disorder., today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire care coordination platform Appriss Health.
- Together, PatientPing and Appriss, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., and Insight Partners, will represent the largest and most diverse care collaboration network connecting nearly 1 million healthcare providers to one another and
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Archives for 2021
AKASA Raises $60M to Automate Revenue Cycle Operations for Health Systems
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- AKASA (formerly known as Alpha Health), a South San Francisco, CA-based Unified Automation™ company for revenue cycle management in healthcare, announced it has raised $60 million in its series B round of funding.
- Founded in 2018, AKASA uses the same machine learning approaches that made driverless cars possible to provide health systems with a single solution for automating revenue cycle operations. AKASA’s unique expert-in-the-loop approach combines modern
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AppliedVR Lands $29M for VR Platform to Treat Chronic Pain
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- AppliedVR, a Los Angeles, CA-based company advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced $29 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funds raised to date to $35 million. The round, which includes key investors F-Prime Capital, JAZZ Venture Partners, Sway Ventures, GSR Ventures, Magnetic Ventures and Cedars-Sinai, will fuel the company’s growth as it pursues full FDA approval over the next year.
- Founded in 2015, AppliedVR provides
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Innovaccer Launches Provider Network Management Solution for Payers on the Innovaccer Health Cloud
- Innovaccer, Inc., a leading healthcare technology company, announced the launch of its Provider Network Management solution to assist healthcare payers access complete view and exercise control over their provider network performance.
- The Provider Network Management solution is powered by the Innovaccer Health Cloud and an integrated, modular, flexible platform that centralizes data and analytics to create a “single source of provider truth” for all network management needs.
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How NLP Can Uncover Social Determinants of Heart Disease
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Cardiovascular disease-related deaths—which occur every 36 seconds—cost our country about $219 billion each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People with poor cardiovascular health are also at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19, so the time to act is now. There’s no time like the present to look at major risk factors—from obesity and
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Novo Nordisk, TetraScience Partner on Cloud-Based Instrument Data Platform
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- Novo Nordisk A/S, a leading global healthcare company, and TetraScience, the leading global Life Sciences R&D Data Cloud, announce a new partnership to design a cloud-based instrument data platform for drug R&D, built natively on Amazon Web Services.
- Novo Nordisk will leverage the TetraScience Platform for automated instrument data acquisition and scalable in-cloud processing from heterogeneous sources and data streams, including plate readers, robotic
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Long-Time Cerner Board Member Linda M. Dillman Passes Away
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- Linda M. Dillman, a long-time and trusted Cerner Corporation board member, passed away on Saturday, March 13.
- Dillman retired from QVC in January 2017, having served as its Chief Information Officer since January 2012. Previously, she held positions as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Walmart and Senior Vice President, Global Information Technology at Hewlett-Packard. She served on the Board of Directors for Cerner, GS1 US Board of
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Ro Nabs $500M to Strengthen Vertically Integrated Primary Care Platform
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- Ro, the healthcare technology company, today announced it has raised $500 million in Series D fundraising round led by existing investors General Catalyst, FirstMark Capital and TQ Ventures, with significant participation from existing investors SignalFire, Torch and BoxGroup as well as new investors Altimeter, Baupost, Dragoneer, Shawspring, Radcliff, and 776. The Series D brings Ro’s total fundraising since its founding in 2017 to $876 million.
- This news
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Evidation Health Nabs $153M to Expand Virtual Health Programs
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- Evidation Health announced it has raised $153 million in Series E funding co-led by OMERS Growth Equity and Kaiser Permanente Group Trust. Existing investors including McKesson Ventures and B Capital also joined.
- Founded in 2012, Evidation measures health in everyday life and enables anyone to participate in ground-breaking research and health programs.
- Evidation, which works with nine of the 10 largest global biopharma companies, already delivers research
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Komodo Health Secures $220M for Life Sciences Data Platform at $3.3B Valuation
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- Komodo Health announces $220M Series E investment to advance its enterprise healthcare and life sciences platform. At a $3.3 billion valuation, the investment underscores the company's rapidly growing role as a foundational enterprise technology platform helping to drive digital transformation across the healthcare industry.
- Founded in 2014, Komodo Health’s Healthcare Map™ is the industry’s largest and most complete record of
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