Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, today announced the launch of their Clinical Documentation Improvement Solution. The solution has been specifically designed to help healthcare organizations maintain documentation integrity, improve documentation within the healthcare record, and through this capture missed savings opportunities.Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) has been built on Innovaccer’s proprietary platform ‘Datashop’ and enables clinicians and
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Phil Lands $10M to Expand End-to-End Prescription Delivery Service App
Phil, a San Francisco, CA-based end-to-end prescription management and delivery service connecting patients with local pharmacies has raised $10 million in funding led by Crosslink Capital. The round also includes participation from Eniac Ventures, Softtech VC, Forerunner Ventures, SV Angel, Silicon Valley Bank, and Transmedia Capital.Founded in 2015, Phil connects users with community-based pharmacies to eliminate the frustration that can be associated with the prescription refill process
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Happify Health Raises $9M To Expand Evidence-based Emotional Health Platform for Employers & Health Plans
Happify Health, a New York City-based provider of evidence-based emotional health software solutions for employers and health plans has raised $9 million in funding led by TT Capital Partners (“TTCP”) with participation from existing investors. The company plans to use the funding to increase infrastructure support and expand its digital platform that provides clinically tested, highly personalized behavior change interventions for use across the emotional health continuum. Founded in 2012,
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Google Acquires Mobile Health Monitoring Startup Senosis Health
Google has acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle, WA-based mobile health monitoring startup that develops apps to measure, diagnose, and manage diseases, GeekWire first reports. Co-founded by Prof. Shwetak Patel at the University of Washington’s (UbiComp) research lab, Senosis Health mobile apps collects health metrics to diagnose pulmonary function, hemoglobin counts and other critical health information.Together with four other clinicians, researchers and tech transfer experts, the company’s
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Medisafe Launches “Medisafe Insights” to Turn Medication Data Into Actionable Insights for Pharma
Medisafe, a personalized medication management platform has announced the launch of Medisafe Insights, a proprietary market research tool (HIPAA compliant and ISO secure) for pharma. Eclipsing 4 million users and 1 billion doses managed, Medisafe is turning its database of patient information, combining demographics, medication details, medical conditions and comorbidities, engagement with content and interventions, and other key information, into actionable insights for pharma. The launch of
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Libertana Home Health to Deploy Amazon Echo-based Digital Care Assistants for Patients
Libertana Home Health, a manager of California-based health and housing waivers is teaming up with Orbita to deploy a first-of-its-kind home care solution using Amazon Alexa voice assistant technology. Libertana is using Orbita Voice, an enterprise-grade software platform for creating and maintaining conversational voice apps for Alexa, to engage individuals in managing activities of daily living and self-care, and more effectively inform home care professionals in triaging care needs and
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Newtopia Secures Patent for Hyper-Personalized Disease Prevention Platform
Newtopia, a precision health company focused on building highly personalized disease prevention programs has been awarded a patent for its novel and hyper-personalized disease prevention platform. Newtopia partners with insurers, employers and brands to offer disease prevention and management programs to risk-assessed individuals that deliver proven sustainable outcomes, quantifiable cost savings and a substantive ROI. Newtopia’s patent, U.S. Patent 9,554,754, is a system, method and computer
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Illinois, Hashed Healthcare Launch Healthcare Blockchain Pilot Program to Streamline Medical Credential Data
The Illinois Blockchain Initiative has launched a new healthcare blockchain pilot program with Hashed Health, to leverage blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. The new pilot program with healthcare blockchain-focused innovation company Hashed Healthcare will focus on will leveraging a blockchain-based registry to streamline the sharing of medical credential data and smart contracts to automate workflow related to multistate and interstate licensure in Illinois.“Illinois is committed to
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Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Taps InstaMed to Deliver Integrated Patient Payment Experience
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, a Hartford, CT-based not-for-profit children’s hospital has selected InstaMed to deliver a fully integrated patient experience that allows guarantors to quickly and easily pay their medical bills anytime, anywhere. InstaMed enables providers to collect more money from patients and payers while reducing the cost and time to collect.The organization sought a solution that seamlessly integrated within their Epic system and met the highest levels of security
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Groove Health Lands $1.5M to Improve Medication Adherence Using Predictive Analytics
Groove Health, a Chicago, IL-based digital health startup has raised $1.6 million to help expand its data-driven medication adherence platform for health insurance companies, hospital systems, and self-insured employers. Investors of the seed round were not disclosed.Founded in 2016, Groove Health partners with healthcare enterprises to provide value-added analytical insights and targeted outreach programs that increase medication adherence rates in chronically-ill populations. The company’s
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