What You Should Know:
- Cerner and Xealth announce a collaboration to foster
tighter physician-patient relationships by giving patients easier access to
digital health tools.
- These assets will be prescribed directly within the physician’s EHR workflow to manage conditions including chronic diseases, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery preparation.
- Cerner and LRVHealth have together invested $6 million
in Xealth as part of this agreement, with Cerner and Xealth planning
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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.
Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge in $18.5B Deal: 5 Things to Know
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health to merge with Livongo for $18.5B in cash
and stock to create a powerhouse leader in consumer-centered virtual care.
- Teladoc Health shareholders will own approximately 58
percent and existing Livongo shareholders will own approximately 42 percent of
the combined company.
- Jason Gorevic, current CEO of Teladoc Health, will be
the CEO of the combined company.
Teladoc Health
(TDOC) and Livongo (LVGO), today
announced that they have entered
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Sight Diagnostics Nabs $71M to Expand FDA-Cleared Finger-Prick Blood Analyzer
What You Should Know:
- Sight Diagnostics, the company behind the first
FDA-approved fingerstick Complete Blood Count analyzer, announced it has raised
$71 million in Series D funding from leading strategic investors including Koch
Industries, OurCrowd, and others.
- The Series D round – which more than doubles the
company’s total funding to date – will support the expansion of Sight’s
commercial operations globally, with a specific focus on the US and UK, and
advance its R&D into the
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Centauri Health Acquires AppRev to Enhance Hospital Revenue Cycle Optimization
What You Should Know:
- Centauri Health Solutions acquires Applied Revenue
Analytics (AppRev) for undisclosed terms to enhance Centauri’s market
leadership in hospital revenue cycle optimization.
- AppRev delivers technology-enabled revenue cycle
optimization services in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
Centauri Health
Solutions (“Centauri” or the “Company”), an innovative healthcare
technology and services company, announced today that it has acquired
Applied Revenue
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Innovaccer, CareSignal Partner to Enable Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with CareSignal to
address healthcare’s urgent need amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: to create and
maintain solid, clinically actionable relationships with patients in a new set
of predominantly virtual care.
- CareSignal offers evidence-based end-to-end support services for chronic medical conditions such as asthma, CHF, COPD, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and hospital discharge support, and maternal health monitoring.
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DAS Health Acquires Managed IT Services and CyberSecurity Company Technology Seed
- Both companies’ clients will gain an increased depth of IT and security support, and Technology Seed’s healthcare clients will now have a substantially improved value proposition
DAS Health Ventures, Inc., a provider of health IT and management, announced today it completed the acquisition of Technology Seed, LLC, a managed IT and cybersecurity services company based in Salem, NH. This acquisition strengthens DAS’ position in the MSP sector and significantly advances its growth strategy to
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Hinge Health Expands Capabilities to Launch First Digital Musculoskeletal Clinic
What You Should Know:
- Hinge Health announces the expansion of its digital MSK
clinical capabilities to be the first Digital Musculoskeletal Clinic from
prevention to post-surgery care.
- Nearly 200 employers expand healthcare access with
digital clinic covering the full MSK care continuum; Hinge to add 100+ physical
therapists and doctors.
Hinge Health, the top-selling musculoskeletal (MSK) solution
for employers and health plans, is announcing an expansion of clinical
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Lemonaid Health Raises $33M to Expand On-Demand Consumer Telehealth Platform
What You Should Know:
- Lemonaid Health, a direct to consumer telehealth company raises $33M in Series B funding to expand the company’s medical team and number of services being offered to patients.
- To date, the company has treated more than a million patients
online for a variety of medical conditions ranging from erectile dysfunction to sinus infections
to depression and anxiety for roughly $25/visit (less than a typical co-pay).
Lemonaid Health,
a convenient,
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Cerner Integrates Nuance’s Virtual Assistant Platform with Millennium EHR to Reduce Physician Burnout
What You Should Know:
- Cerner expands its AI collaboration with Nuance to
provide joint customers with more advanced natural language virtual assistant
technology to navigate electronic health records (EHRs) using just
their voice, giving clinicians more time to spend with patients and less time
with a computer.
- As part of the expanded collaboration, Nuance will
offer Cerner deeply embedded virtual assistant technology that
delivers sophisticated conversational
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Philips Launches Pre-Hospital Wireless Monitoring Solution for Emergency Medical Response
What You Should Know:
- Philips receives 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its pre-hospital
wireless monitoring solution (Tempus LS- Manual), now offering its remote
monitor and defibrillator solution (Tempus ALS) to EMS customers in the U.S.
- Solution delivers real-time bidirectional data transfer
for remote patient monitoring, giving EMS responders a new approach to
pre-hospital care.
Philips, today announced the launch of its
remote monitoring and defibrillator solution
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