What You Should Know:
- Laguna Health, an AI-powered care management platform launched its Caregiver Companion app, a fully-digital care experience for caregivers supporting patients throughout their post-hospital care journeys.
- The app provides caregivers with greater visibility into the patient’s care pathway and access to the patient’s digital-first care team so caregivers can more easily manage the health and well-being of
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Q/A: LookDeep Health CEO Talks AI Adoption & Tackling Clinical Staff Skepticism
The potential of AI in clinical settings is clear, yet adoption of the technology continues to lag. Despite the myriad ways it can alleviate the burden placed on healthcare professionals, there is still significant staff skepticism to embrace AI. Narinder Singh, co-founder and CEO at LookDeep Health, believes that this reluctance and skepticism is a result of ambiguity over what AI even means. We recently spoke with Nardiner to discuss how clinical executives can address the hesitation to
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Arcadia Launches Point of Care Generative AI Assistant to Improve Care Team Efficiency
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare data analytics company Arcadia launches a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by Open AI, that will help boost productivity and improve care team efficiency.
- Care managers play a critical role in the healthcare delivery system, but they are stretched thin, having to quickly review and interpret massive amounts of information from complex medical records. Arcadia’s AI assistant does the heavy lifting with the ability to catch
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Amenities Health Closes $10M to Modernize Health System Digital Front Doors
What You Should Know:
- Amenities Health, a Dallas, TX-based healthcare digital front door platform secured an additional $6.25M, putting Amenities' total Series A amount raised to date at $10M.
- The Series A round was led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund, and Epic Ventures with additional participation from HealthTech CEOs Chris Gibson, Blake Marggraff, Kyle Robertson, Tom White, Kulmeet Singh, Harjinder Sandhu, and Buzz White.
- Amenities plans to use the additional
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M&A: Avel eCare Acquires Virtual Hospitalist Provider Fident Health
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Avel eCare, a provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services acquires Fident Health, a Texas-based virtual hospitalist provider dedicated to delivering high-quality telemedicine care to rural and suburban communities.
- The acquisition strengthens Avel eCare’s existing clinician network and builds on the company’s successful acute and post-acute telemedicine solutions to help hospitals, health systems and senior care facilities throughout the
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Google Searches for “AI in Healthcare” Up by 300% in 3 Years
What You Should Know:
- An analysis of “AI in Healthcare” related Google search data from 2020 to 2023 increased by over 300%, according to a study conducted by Dataconomy Media in August 2023.
- From a mere 12,100 queries in 2020, the enthusiasm surrounding AI's role in healthcare has surged to an impressive 33,100 searches in 2023. This seismic leap underscores a momentous shift in public curiosity about AI's capacity to transform healthcare, as monthly average searches achieve
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Roundups: 16 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships
Walgreens and Pearl Health, a provider enablement company has announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the expansion of value-based care in collaboration with community-based primary care physicians. As part of the strategic partnership, Walgreens will provide complementary services, including prescription fulfillment, medication adherence, immunizations, care gap closure and diagnostic testing. In addition, Walgreens will also work with providers to help patients discharged from the
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Mayo Clinic, GE HealthCare Partner on Medical Imaging and Theranostics Innovation
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Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare has formed a strategic healthcare collaboration for research and product development programs aimed to transform the experience of patients and clinicians in the practice of radiology and the delivery of novel therapies.The Strategic Collaboration for Innovation in Medical Imaging and Theranostics comprises Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare scientists, technology developers, clinicians and other healthcare providers. The partnership seeks to
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Q/A: DocStation CEO Shares How AI Will Help Pharmacies Use the DIR Fee Changes to Their Advantage
Early next year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will remove the application of retroactive DIR fees and move DIR fees to the point of sale instead. The major issues with the DIR fees, which are paid by pharmacies to pharmacy benefit managers, are the fact that they drive up the costs of prescriptions for patients and delay reimbursement of care to the pharmacies.
Now, a brand new issue will arise in early 2024 - namely, pharmacies will be facing a DIR “cliff” where
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Summus Raises $19.5M to Revolutionize Virtual Specialty Care Access
What You Should Know:
- Summus, a New York City-based virtual health company focused on specialty care, has raised $19.5M in its latest funding round to support the company’s continued growth and work to tackle the access problem in healthcare.
- With a total of $70 million raised to date, Summus aims to expand its innovative approach to care, and this new investment will support the company in its efforts to revolutionize how patients and healthcare professionals share and access
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