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- Amazon Care expands its telehealth services nationwide and in-person services will be rolled out in more than 20 new cities this year. The service is already available in Seattle, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Arlington.
- Amazon plans to expand more than 20 additional cities—including major metropolitan areas like San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and New York City—so customers can access care where and when they need it
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Medable Launches Decentralized Clinical Trials Partner Network
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- Medable Inc., a Palo Alto, CA-based provider for patient-centered clinical trials, today launched the Medable Partner Network – uniting a diverse ecosystem of technology, service, data, site, and direct-to-patient partners that work together to accelerate deployment of decentralized clinical trials.
- The network includes new partnerships with Advanced Clinical, Cognizant, and CVS, and expanded relationships with Datavant, Oracle, Parexel, PPD, part of
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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2022 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
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- Epic, Nordic, Galen Healthcare and The Chartis Group won 2022 Overall Best in KLAS® awards, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the twelfth straight year in 2022 Best in KLAS Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2021. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won nine other Best in KLAS awards in various market
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Lucira Health Secures $80M to Expand COVID-19 Test Kit
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- Lucira Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: LHDX), a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of transformative and innovative infectious disease test kits, today announced it has secured a debt facility of up to $80M with Hercules Capital, Inc. and Silicon Valley Bank.
- Lucira's COVID-19 testing platform produces lab-quality molecular testing in a single-use, consumer-friendly, palm-size test kit powered by two AA batteries. The FDA EUA
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Koda Health Raises $3.5M to Expand Advance Directives Platform
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- Koda Health, a Houston, TX-based advance directives platform empowering patients to take control of their healthcare journey raises $3.5M in seed funding led by Ecliptic Capital alongside participation from Headwater Ventures, Sigmas Capital, CRCM, and a number of angel investors. The funding will be used to double the size of Koda's team over the next six months and expand operations to all 50 states.
- Most commonly found Advance Directives are not detailed
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CVS Health Taps Medable to Bring Decentralized Clinical Trials to Pharmacies Nationwide
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- Medable and CVS Health announced a strategic collaboration that will make clinical research more accessible to patients of all demographics. Using Medable’s decentralized trial platform available to CVS Health’s thousands of community MinuteClinics nationwide, most people will be within just five minutes of a decentralized clinical trial research site – finally busting the longstanding barrier to research for millions of Americans
- Where applicable, CVS Health will
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MedStar Health Launches Patient Experience Platform Powered by b.well
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- MedStar Health launches a new patient experience platform, a patient-focused tool that has the most comprehensive product features available in the region to greatly improve the patient experience and access to care, powered by b.well Connected Health, a Baltimore-based digital health platform company focused on re-imagining the consumer healthcare experience and supporting healthcare stakeholders with their digital transformation efforts.
- Using a smartphone,
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Data Integrity, Security, and Confidentiality: The Building Blocks of Healthcare Data Management
Stethoscopes, needles, tourniquets, and blood pressure cuffs are what typically come to someone’s mind when thinking of items used to assess, diagnose, and treat patients in a healthcare setting. While these physical tools within a hospital or private practice are important, unstructured data also plays a critical, yet often understated, role in the overall care experience of a patient.
Lab results, transcripts, radiology imagery, and physicians’ notes all fall under the category
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UBC Partners with Seqster to Advance Patient-Centric Clinical Trials
- UBC, late-stage research and patient support services organization partners with Seqster PDM, Inc. ("Seqster"), a patient-centric healthcare technology company, to provide nationwide health record interoperability with patient engagement.
- UBC will utilize the technology to enable clinical and observational research to transition from traditional site-based studies to decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). Seqster's turnkey white label solution facilitates the rapid move to a fully
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ConcertoCare Raises $105M for Value-Based At-Home Care for Seniors
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- ConcertoCare, a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The round also includes investments from Obvious Ventures, Vast Ventures, The Schusterman Family Foundation, SteelSky Ventures, Pennington Partners, and returning investor Deerfield Management. The funding announcement comes on the heels of ConcertoCare acquiring home-based
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