What You Should Know:
- Carenet Health, a leading provider of 24/7 and on-demand patient engagement solutions, today announced it has acquired Stericycle Communication Solutions, an industry leader in patient engagement technology and solutions and a service of Stericycle, Inc. The companies’ combined capabilities create the industry’s most comprehensive patient experience platform.
- This acquisition emphasizes Carenet’s commitment to providing better healthcare for all, as the combined
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M&A: NextGen Healthcare to Acquire TSI Healthcare for $68M
What You Should Know:
- NextGen Healthcare today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TSI Healthcare, a privately held value-added reseller located in Chapel Hill, NC. The acquisition will expand NextGen’s presence in specialties including rheumatology, pulmonology and cardiology.
- TSI Healthcare® is a national leader in the sales and support of customized NextGen® Practice Management and Electronic Health Record software. TSI Healthcare delivers innovative,
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St. Luke’s Health Deploys Epic-Integrated I-PASS Solution for Standardized Handoff Communication
What You Should Know:
- Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System today announced it is implementing Epic-integrated standardized communication tools across the health system and have selected the I-PASS Patient Safety Institute to implement the I-PASS solution.
- The I-PASS handoff bundle enables industry-leading health organizations to rapidly adopt and implement a common language for care transitions across specialties and continuum of
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Rgenta Therapeutics Raises $52M for Integrative RNA-Targeting Discovery Platform
What You Should Know:
- Rgenta Therapeutics Inc. raises a $52M Series A round led by AZ-CICC Healthcare Investment Fund with participation from all existing investors and new investors including Korean Investment Partners, Delos Capital.
- Rgenta Therapeutics is focusing on developing RNA-targeting medicines for historically undruggable disease targets.
Targeting the “Undruggables”
Only a quarter of the proteins implicated in human diseases are currently druggable by traditional
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Collective Health Appoints Chief Financial Officer
What You Should Know:
- Collective Health has appointed Chris Newman as its new Chief Financial Officer. Under this leadership, he will be responsible for leading the finance team at Collective Health, while ensuring the company continues to grow in a way that delivers on its brand promise.
Prior to joining Collective Health, Chris served as CFO and Chief Operating Officer for over five years at Rodan + Fields. Over the duration of his career, Chris served as COO and CFO for a number of
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Nuance Announces Strategic Collaborations at RNSA22
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications announced a series of strategic partnership announcements at RNSA 2022.
- Nuance announces that Kentucky-based Baptist Health and Pennsylvania-based Einstein Healthcare have joined the Nuance Precision Imaging Network (PIN). The addition of these healthcare systems will empower collaborative care teams with AI-powered insights from diagnostic imaging at the point-of-care.
- Perspectum, a global medical technology company,
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RSNA: Flywheel Builds Data Platform for Unbiased Breast Imaging AI
What You Should Know:
- Today, at RSNA, Flywheel, a leading data management platform for biomedical research and collaboration announces the creation of a federated data platform for the development of unbiased breast imaging AI.
- Funded in part by the NIH, the federated network will support breast imaging AI research and collaboration—on a scale not previously possible.
Leveraging Flywheel Discovery & Exchange
Two Flywheel technologies underpin the project. Flywheel
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RSNA: Konica Minolta Transforms The Future of X-Ray in Latin America
What You Should Know:
- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas unveils KDR® Primary U-arm Digital Radiography (DR) and mKDR Xpress™ Mobile X-ray systems in select Latin American countries.
- Chosen by numerous healthcare facilities throughout North America, the KDR Primary and mKDR Xpress will complement Konica Minolta’s existing portfolio of CR systems, DR retrofit solutions and PACS throughout the region. Additionally, both systems are designed for future integration of Dynamic
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HLTH22: 6 Digital Health Executives Share Key Takeaways
We reached out to six digital health executives for their key takeaways and reflection from attending the recent HLTH22 conference.
Sunny Kumar, MD, Partner at GSR Ventures, a $3B AUM venture firm investing in early-stage digital health companies.
The most fascinating element of HLTH 2022 were the concurrent contrasts. Set against a challenging macroeconomic environment with decreases in venture funding and near-daily headlines of large layoffs cutting across the tech ecosystem,
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PayZen Nabs $200M for Personalized, No-Cost Patient Financing
What You Should Know:
- PayZen, the fintech company tackling healthcare affordability with personalized, no-cost patient financing solutions raises a $220 million growth round. The round is composed of $20 million in equity financing and a $200 million credit facility led by 7wireVentures, while Viola Credit provided a $200 million warehouse credit facility to support continued market expansion.
- PayZen will use the funds to scale its operations and product development as the interest in
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