What You Should Know:
- Health insurer Humana has expanded its partnership with Cohere Health to streamline the prior authorization process for cardiovascular care and surgical specialties. Both these care pathways are clinically complex, involving multiple exchanges between primary care physicians and specialists, which can contribute to costly and unnecessary variations in care.
- For surgical services, Humana staff will use the Cohere Unify™
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Headway Expands to California for In-Network Mental Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Headway, a tech-enabled company that has built the easiest way for people to get quality in-network mental health care, announced it is available in California.
- Headway patients can attend a virtual or in-person appointment in as little as 48 hours, and on average patients attend their first appointment less than 6 days after online booking; this is compared to the national average of two to three weeks, if not months.
Mental Health Crisis in
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Prenuvo Raises $70M for Whole Body MRI Scans
What You Should Know:
- Prenuvo, an Redwood City, CA-based advanced, radiation-free whole body imaging for early detection of cancer and other diseases raises $70M in Series A equity and debt funding led by Felicis, with participation from existing investors including Tony Fadell, NYT bestseller author and founder of Nest; Dr. Timothy A. Springer, Lasker award recipient; Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23&Me; Steel Perlot, with Eric Schmidt as chairman; entrepreneur Rande Gerber; and wellness
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BioIntelliSense Acquires Patient Monitoring Company AlertWatch
What You Should Know:
- BioIntelliSense, Inc. acquires AlertWatch, an FDA-cleared, clinically proven patient monitoring solution. AlertWatch uniquely provides robust integration, data analysis and a patented intuitive display of contextual patient data for more efficient, actionable clinical decisions.
- As part of the recently announced strategic partnership with Medtronic, its Patient Monitoring business will distribute AlertWatch to hospitals throughout the U.S.
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EngagedMD Raises $11MM for Modern Fertility Treatment
What You Should Know:
- EngagedMD, Inc., a global technology company serving both clinics and patients in the fertility space raises $11M led by MonCap.
- As part of the investment, EngagedMD welcomes Jonathan Sockol, Managing Partner of MonCap, to the Company's Board.
Modern Fertility Treatment
EngagedMD offers the leading eLearn and eSign solutions for the fast-growing fertility sector, supporting the journeys of more than half of all fertility patients in the
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Walmart Now Offering Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids
What You Should Know:
- Today, Walmart announced it will begin offering over-the counter (OTC) hearing aids* at Walmart.com and Walmart Vision Centers in CO, MI, MO, OH, PA, TN and TX, and will soon be available at additional Walmart Vision Centers nationwide.
- Walmart’s new offerings include an assortment of top brands like Lexie powered by Bose and HearX that will offer cutting-edge technology like
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RLDatix to Acquire Porzio Life Sciences
What You Should Know:
- RLDatix, the leading global provider of healthcare operations software and services that drive safer care has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Porzio Life Sciences, a market leader in compliance solutions for the life sciences industry which had been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the law firm of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman since 2004.
- Porzio Life Sciences simplifies compliance by combining its regulatory expertise with product innovation to
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Gradient AI Acquires Healthcare Analytics Business Unit from Prognos Health 
What You Should Know:
- Gradient AI, a leading enterprise software provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the insurance industry, recently announced that it has acquired Prognos Health’s analytics business underwriting unit to leverage data from the company’s large collection of integrated medical records and lab data via its real-world data marketplace.
- The acquisition will enable Gradient AI to expand its medical database capabilities by integrating Prognos Health’s data
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First-Ever Medicare Advantage Plan for LGBTQ+ Older Adults Launches
What You Should Know:
- SCAN Health Plan, a Medicare Advantage insurer known for its expertise in keeping older adults healthy and independent is launching SCAN Affirm partnered with Included LGBTQ+ Health (HMO), a first-of-its-kind Medicare Advantage plan developed exclusively for LGBTQ+ older adults, in collaboration with Included Health, the only integrated virtual care and navigation platform.
- SCAN Health Plan will offer the SCAN Affirm plan to members in
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Samsung, HealthTap Partner to Develop Telehealth Capabilities for Smart TVs
What You Should Know:
- HealthTap announced a partnership with Samsung to develop new virtual primary care capabilities which would be made available directly to consumers via Samsung Smart TVs.
- HealthTap demonstrates at the 2022 Samsung Developer Conference the ability for owners of future Samsung Smart TVs to easily access their doctor from the comfort of their own home with HealthTap’s high-quality, affordable telehealth services.
Virtual Primary Care Capabilities for Future
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