What You Should Know: - CVS Health launches of its new Virtual Primary Care solution on a single digital platform for a more coordinated and consumer-centric health care experience. - The new offering, which is being sold to Aetna fully-insured, self-insured plan sponsors, and CVS Caremark clients now, will become effective for eligible Aetna members starting January 1, 2023, and for eligible CVS Caremark members during the second quarter of 2023. It
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Fred Pennic
Fred Pennic is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of HIT Consultant. Fred is a seasoned health IT strategist with fourteen years of experience in providing advisory services to executive leadership at hospitals and health systems. Some of his previous clients include Mayo Clinic, Stanford Hospital and Health Clinics, Northwell Health, Trinity Health.
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland Taps Tegria for National Digital Transformation
What You Should Know: - Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) has enlisted the support of global healthcare technology specialist, Tegria, and digital health consultancy, Cloud21, in a deal to support its national digital transformation program. - The organizations will help to deliver Northern Ireland’s Encompass program – a decade-long initiative that aims to deliver improvements to outcomes for patients by making it easier for health and care
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Genetics Startup Pleno Launches Out of Stealth with $15M
What You Should Know: - Pleno, a multi-omics startup, is emerging out of stealth with a $15M Pre-Series A financing and Greg Lucier as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Founded by Pieter van Rooyen, a well-known biotech engineer who built and sold his last company, Edico Genome, to Illumina for $100M. Edico's Dragen technology has become a staple in genetics research. - Pleno's Hypercoding technology has the potential to revolutionize biological target detection for
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AWS, Deloitte Power Virtual Rapid Health Assistance Solution
What You Should Know: - This week at AWS Summit, Washington D.C., Deloitte discussed its use of AWS Private 5G and Wickr secure technology to enable the National Emergency Tele-Critical Care Network (NETCCN) – a virtual rapid health assistance solution that allows defense teams to connect with medical teams remotely. NETCCN is managed by the US Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), which is an integral part of the U.S. Army
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Geisinger Selects AWS as Strategic Cloud Provider to Migrate Over 400 Apps to AWS
What You Should Know: - Geisinger has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its strategic cloud provider and will transition its entire digital portfolio of more than 400 applications and numerous workflows to AWS. - The project will be one of the largest electronic health record (EHR) cloud migrations to AWS to date, expected to enable life-saving technologies and save Geisinger several million annually. Geisinger's Cloud Migration to AWS The decision comes after a detailed multi-year
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KAID Health Raises $4.25M for AI-Powered Provider/Payer Whole Chart Analysis Platform
What You Should Know: KAID Health,makers of anartificial intelligence-enabled clinical analysis and provider engagement platform,today announced its $4.25M in Series A funding bringing their total capital raised to $6.45M. - The funding will fuel growth of the provider/payer platform that integrates with the electronic medical records (EMR) to identify high-value tactical care and coding interventions. The company will also expand its Boston, MA office and will hire new team
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Homethrive Raises $20M for Next-Gen Caregiving Platform
What You Should Know: - Homethrive, a tech-enabled healthcare service company that’s disrupting and revolutionizing how employers, insurers, and affinity groups support unpaid family caregivers and their loved ones raises an additional $20M in Series B funding led by Human Capital. The round also included participation from Allianz and existing investors 7wireVentures and Pitango HealthTech. - The funding round fuel Homethrive’s aggressive expansion with self-insured employers and
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Olive Partners with Magenta to Revolutionize Risk Adjustment Process
What You Should Know: - Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today announced its partnership with Magenta Care Continuum, a HIPAA-compliant health records vault that includes care gap analytics. - Through the Olive Library, payers and providers can access Magenta's solutions to help close care gaps, improve billing and claims occurrence and ensure compliance and revenue integrity for value-based population management. Automating the Risk
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Tempus Launches Psychiatric Real-World Data Collaboration
What You Should Know: - Tempus, an $8B precision medicine company, announced the launch of a new psychiatric real-world data program to leverage real-world data to inform mental health treatment. - Tempus N+ is a collaboration between provider institutions across the country and Tempus to build an infrastructure for data-driven research – providers can seamlessly and securely contribute molecular and clinical data, and in turn, their clinicians and researchers can access a
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Solve.Care Launches First Crypto Healthcare Device Marketplace
What You Should Know: - Solve.Care, the global healthcare blockchain technology company, has announced the world's first crypto-enabled marketplace dedicated to healthcare. - Care.Marketplace will allow for the purchase of domestic healthcare devices across the United States. This first-of-its-kind development will work to influence the use of domestic healthcare devices Crypto-Enabled Marketplace Solve.Care is creating innovative solutions to long-standing access challenges within
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