What You Should Know:
- Deacon Health, Inc., a specialty care management provider, today announced the public launch of its specialty care management platform supportive to polychronic patients.
- Deacon Health is powered by a technology that it acquired through an asset purchase that drives over 13.5% in MLR reduction.
Deacon Health Secures $7M Seed Funding to Advance Coordinated Specialty Care for Polychronic Populations
Deacon Health, a provider of coordinated care solutions for
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Archives for April 2025
Virta Health Cuts GLP-1 Use for Weight Loss Over 50%, Driving Cost Savings for Payers
What You Should Know:
- Virta Health, a leader in diabetes reversal and sustainable weight loss through its nutrition-first methodology, has announced early results from its recently launched Sustainable Weight Loss GLP-1 prescribing capabilities.
- These outcomes signal a potentially transformative shift in obesity and weight loss management, offering organizations a responsible framework for covering GLP-1 medications while actively reducing reliance and controlling overall
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United Digestive CEO Launches AI-Powered healow Genie with 24/7 Services and Multilingual Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- eClinicalWorks®, the largest ambulatory cloud EHR, today announced that United Digestive has selected healow® Genie – a first-of-its-kind, EHR-agnostic, AI-powered contact center solution – for implementation across its practices.
- The soon-to-be-launched integration will provide patients round-the-clock access to crucial health information through text, chatbot, or voice call. The AI medical receptionist’s role includes arranging appointments,
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Heart Failure’s Hidden Price: Understanding the True Cost of Cardiac Events and AI’s Role in Reducing Expenses
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death and a growing financial strain on the U.S. healthcare system, costing an estimated $252.2 billion annually. With one in every eight healthcare dollars spent on cardiac care, the urgency to control costs while improving patient outcomes has never been greater.
As traditional care models struggle to keep up with demand, we are faced with an important question: How can we make cardiac care more sustainable, ensuring the healthcare
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19Labs Deploys Telemedicine Smart Clinics in Yucatán, Mexico
What You Should Know:
- Building on a successful pilot, 19Labs and its partners have officially launched a transformative telemedicine program in Yucatán, Mexico, bringing crucial healthcare services to underserved rural communities.
- The initiative, fueled by momentum from a U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)-funded pilot project, has already connected ten remote communities to high-quality medical care through the deployment of GALE eClinics, with plans to expand to
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Report: Not-for-Profit Hospitals See Margin Improvements in 2025
What You Should Know:
- Fitch Ratings has released a report revealing an improvement in the median financial performance of Fitch-rated not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals and healthcare systems with early fiscal year ends (FYE) in 2024, compared to the previous year.
- While this positive trend suggests a potential stabilization, full calendar year (CY) 2024 medians are expected to remain below pre-pandemic levels.
NFP Median Operating Margin for Providers
Specifically, the
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Simplifying Clinical Trials: Addressing Technology Challenges for Site Teams
In recent years, clinical research and development stakeholders have put tremendous effort into improving patient-centered clinical trials, where patients feel valued as partners in the processes and approaches to care that impact their health. Clinical trial sponsors are keenly aware that, to do so, the use of advanced clinical technologies, including decentralized solutions, has been necessary to improve patient experience and accelerate drug development. But as sponsors implement multiple
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Daymark Health Launches with $11.5M to Redefine Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- Daymark Health, a company aiming to redefine the cancer care experience, has publicly launched with an $11.5M in seed funding co-led by Maverick Ventures and Yosemite, with additional participation from Oncology Ventures. Daymark was launched out of Healthcare Foundry, with Robert Pahlavan and Jonathan Rhodes as co-founders leading thesis development.
- The company began operations this year in partnership with a leading payer in the Northeast, providing
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Suki Launches AI Prescription Order Generation from Ambient Visits
What You Should Know:
- Suki, the leader in artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, today announced the industry’s first-ever capability to generate and stage prescription orders from ambient visits.
- This new feature will be available within its flagship product, Suki Assistant, and was developed at the request of clinicians. Orders are among clinicians' most time-consuming administrative tasks and can take up to 1.4 hours every 8-hour shift, making the
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GoodRx Launches E-commerce Experience for Retail Pharmacies
What You Should Know:
- GoodRx, a platform for medication savings in the U.S., today announced a new e-commerce experience for retail pharmacies, designed to improve how consumers obtain their medications through the GoodRx platform. The company is initially launching this experience with the Midwest-based retailer Hy-Vee.
- GoodRx's e-commerce capability bridges online consumer engagement with prescription fulfillment, demonstrating the company's commitment to reducing
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