What You Should Know:
- PointClickCare, a cloud-based healthcare software for the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) market) announced a new partnership with Sound Physicians, a national physician partner to hospitals, post-acute providers, physicians' groups and payers to offer a fully integrated virtual health solution to U.S. LTPAC providers.
- The partnership between PointClickCare and Sound Physicians will deliver
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Protai Nabs $8M for AI-Powered Drug Discovery Platform
What You Should Know:
- Protai, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based AI-powered drug discovery startup, today announced its emergence from stealth, along with an $8 million seed financing round co-led by Grove Ventures and Pitango HealthTech.
- Protai empowers drug discovery with proteomics and artificial intelligence to unlock new layers of biological insights and to combat complex diseases.
Proteomics-based Platform for Faster and More Accurate Drug Discovery
Despite the significant
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Carenet Health Acquires Provider Scheduling Platform OpenMed
What You Should Know:
- Carenet Health – a provider of 24/7 healthcare engagement and on-demand telehealth solutions—announced today that they have acquired OpenMed, a digital innovator in closing care gaps, enabling access to care and supporting real-time collaboration between healthcare payers/risk-bearing entities (RBOs) and providers.
- The acquisition will add a state-of-the-art communications and scheduling
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symplr Acquires Midas Health Analytics Solutions for $340M
What You Should Know:
- symplr, a global leader in enterprise healthcare operations including governance, risk management, and compliance (“GRC”) SaaS solutions announced it has agreed to acquire Midas Health Analytics Solutions (“Midas”) from Conduent Incorporated for $340M. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
- The acquisition
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Aetion Acquires Synthetic Data Platform Replica Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Aetion, a real-world evidence (RWE) tech platform, has just announced its acquisition of Replica Analytics, a pioneer in using ML to generate synthetic data. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- This acquisition allows Aetion to solve for one of the toughest problems in RWE: access to fit-for-purpose data. Synthetic data acts as a “digital clone” of real-world data by maintaining the source data’s statistical properties, while also protecting
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CareMetx Acquires Patient Adherence Platform Human Care Systems
What You Should Know:
- Strategic acquisition of leading patient adherence technology and services provider to complement CareMetx current suite of patient access products.
CareMetx, LLC, a leading technology-enabled hub services company focused on improving patient access to specialty medications, announced today the acquisition of Human Care Systems, Inc. (HCS), a company focused on helping patients adhere to and benefit from pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. Details of the
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4 Rural Healthcare IT Predictions to Watch in 2022
What You Should Know:
- Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (Azalea Health or Azalea), a leading provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions shares 4 predictions for the new realities of rural healthcare in 2022 and how IT solutions can help them rise to the challenges.
- Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare system is in a precarious position as labor shortages and ever-increasing cyberattacks threaten hospitals’ recovery from COVID-19. However, there are
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Quidel Corporation Acquires Ortho Clinical Diagnostics for $6B
What You Should Know:
- Quidel Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEL) (“Quidel”) and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Holdings plc (NASDAQ: OCDX) (“Ortho”) jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement in which Quidel will acquire Ortho.
- The acquisition will create a global leader in diagnostics, bringing together two highly complementary portfolios with world-class technologies and platforms spanning high-throughput systems to near-patient and at-home testing.
Financial Terms of
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Understanding an Individual’s Uniquely Personal Health Beliefs & Behaviors to Drive Better Outcomes
When it comes to health and wellness, everyone has an approach as unique as they are. What’s more, is that an individual’s approach to their health can – and most likely will – evolve over the course of their lifetime.
A decade ago, people weren’t dabbling in CBD to ease their stress, having Zoom calls with their doctors or riding a cycle with thousands of other people from the comfort of their living room. People’s health behaviors, including diet, exercise, and wellness visits, continue to
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Northwell Launches Virtual Clinical Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease in Black Community
What You Should Know:
- The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the science arm of Northwell Health, recently received a $150k grant from TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, to launch a new research program and the first clinical trial to reduce cardiovascular disease in the Black community and determine the best behavioral interventions to lower Cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Impact of Cardiovascular Disease in Black Community
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major driver
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