What You Should Know:
- Virtual care company Wheel acquires GoodRx Care’s backend virtual care technology, including its clinician-centric EMR, powerful clinical management tools, and flexible patient experience software for $19.5M in cash.
- As part of the acquisition, Wheel will integrate GoodRx Care’s underlying technology to expand its existing virtual care platform capabilities and GoodRx will continue to own the consumer-facing GoodRx Care website and mobile app. GoodRx will continue
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AngelEye Health Raises Funding to Expand Patient Engagement Platform
What You Should Know:
- AngelEye Health (“AngelEye” or the “Company”), a provider of patient and family engagement solutions for hospital neonatal, pediatric intensive care, and nursery units, announced the completion of its Series B funding, bringing the Company’s funding to date to approximately $20M. The Series B round was led by by Brad Whitmore and Mountain Group Partners (“MGP”), with participation from SeedtoB Capital and the Rash Family Office.
- The Nashville, TN-based company
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Elation Health EHR Integrates with Ribbon Health to Deliver Referral Management
What You Should Know:
- Elation Health and Ribbon Health announced a partnership to integrate Ribbon's provider data solution into Elation Health's primary care electronic health record (EHR) platform.
- More than 24,000 clinicians across the Elation community will gain access to Ribbon's provider directory data to power their referral management workflows while decreasing administrative burden and giving physicians greater time for patient care.
- Elation's customers will also have the
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18 HLTH 2022 Predictions from Digital Health Executives to Watch
Before HLTH 2022 kicks off next week in Las Vegas, we asked 18 digital health executives for their predictions and major themes to expect at HLTH.
1. Keith Reynolds, Chief Operating Officer at Welldoc
Access to care is a central focus for healthcare given several factors: a growing population being impacted with chronic conditions, increased resourcing constraints, and growing fatigue and workload among providers. A recent study indicated that it would require a PCP 26.7 hours/ day
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From Physician to Innovator: Surfacing the Inventor In All Of Us
As a physician, we have the unique privilege of having complete strangers share the most personal aspects of their lives and trust us to make their lives better.
While we find successful ways to help a majority of our patients, frustration begins to set in when we encounter a handful of patients we cannot assist. Sometimes, the root cause is something as simple as lack of timely communication, but often, it’s the technology, or the solution, that’s not available.
When the
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PocketHealth Launches Tool for Sourcing Prior Diagnostic Imaging From Any Provider, Anywhere
What You Should Know:
- PocketHealth, a patient-centric, no-network medical image-sharing platform launches Record Retrieval to solve challenges that hospitals and imaging centers face while requesting and retrieving prior imaging from patients, referring physicians, or healthcare sites.
- Record Retrieval streamlines patient intake by creating an easy workflow that auto-imports data into PACS and fills the gaps left by CD-ROMs, VPNs and legacy networks.
Challenges Sourcing &
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Zelis Acquires Healthcare Payment Reimbursement Solutions Payspan
What You Should Know:
- Zelis, a company modernizing the business of healthcare, announced today the completion of its acquisition of Payspan, a leader in healthcare electronic payment and reimbursement automation services. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
- The acquisition will accelerate Zelis' mission to modernize the business of healthcare through a connected platform and expansion of offerings for healthcare insurers, providers, and their members.
Improving
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ChristianaCare Partners with Hims & Hers to Expand In-Person Healthcare Access in 4 States
What You Should Know:
Health system ChristianaCare is partnering with Hims & Hers Health, a consumer-first platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers to expand access to healthcare services.
- The partnership will help ChristianaCare create a more seamless patient journey for patients in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and expands the Hims & Hers’ partnership network with providers to now include 10 states and
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ConcertAI CEO Talks COVID-19 & The De-Risking of Technology to Keep Trials Moving
Nothing like it had ever happened before – a global slowdown in new study starts and a massive decrease in trial accruals for open studies. The turn of events was a shock for sponsors and providers. Sudden disruptions on that scale rarely hit multiple players in an ecosystem at the same time. But that’s exactly what happened at the intersection of clinical care and clinical development during the pandemic. Researchers and clinicians were forced to change how they operated trials, and
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5 Trends Driving the Future Growth of Digital Health & MedTech
What You Should Know:
- Today Accenture published Digital Health and MedTech – New Signals for Transformation to understand the impact consumers, patients and healthcare professionals’ experiences and expanding care settings will have on the medtech industry.
- In a global survey of Medtech executives, five key trends were identified, including Care Anywhere and Everywhere with over 75% of executives saying that the expanding care settings and models will significantly
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