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- Kyruus today it announced that Geisinger Health Plan (GHP), serving over 500,000 members in Pennsylvania, is the first organization to leverage the Kyruus-HealthSparq integration and HealthSparq’s new Path to Care provider data and care access solution.
- GHP’s provider profiles now include new provider data that health plans typically don’t have access to, such as the
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CommonHealth Integrates with 150 Providers to Power Secure Access to Personal Health Records
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- The Commons Project Foundation announced this morning that more than 150 new hospital providers have joined CommonHealth, the Android equivalent of Apple Health, including the VHA, Mass General Brigham, ChristianaCare, and UC San Diego Health.
- CommonHealth, which is free and available for download on the Google Play Store, was developed by The Commons Project Foundation in collaboration with UCSF, Cornell Tech and Sage Bionetworks to give people more control over
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Cynerio Raises $30M to Expand Healthcare IoT Cybersecurity Platform
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- Cynerio, a leading provider of Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, today announced it has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund, Israel's pioneering HealthTech investment fund. Existing investors, global VC Accelmed, RDC, Elron’s joint venture with Rafael, and Swiss-based growth investor, MTIP, also participated in the funding round.
- Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a nearly 50% increase in the
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DarioHealth Acquires Digital Behavioral Health Platform wayForward for $30M
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- DarioHealth Corp., a pioneer in the global digital therapeutics market, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire PsyInnovations, Inc. (dba wayForward), a behavioral health digital platform that includes AI-enabled screening to triage and navigate members to specific interventions, digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), self-directed care, expert coaching and access to in-person and telehealth provider visits.
- The wayForward platform
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7WireVentures Launches $150M Connected Consumer Health Fund
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- Digital health venture capital firm 7WireVentures today announced it has closed a $150M Connected Consumer Health Fund to invest in early-stage digital health businesses that empower an Informed Connected Healthcare Consumer.
- In addition to the fund, 7WireVentures announced the addition of new healthcare organizations to the Connected Consumer Health Coalition, a partnership of top health plans, health systems, employers, and life science organizations. Select
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Eleanor Health Secures $20M for Value-Based Addiction and Mental Health Treatment
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- Eleanor Health, a Waltham, MA-based outpatient addiction and mental health provider delivering convenient and comprehensive care through a population and value-based payment structure, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $20M Series B financing. The round included participation from all existing investors including Town Hall Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Mosaic Health Solutions, as well as new participation from Warburg Pincus.
- Committed to
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Insurtech Helper Bees Acquires In-Home Care Platform healthAlign
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- The Helper Bees (THB), an insurtech company creating a better model for home care, today announced the acquisition of healthAlign, a platform, connecting Medicare Advantage health plan members to a full range of of in-home service providers.. Together the two companies will drive aging-in-place innovation by centralizing a full range of in-home services within a single platform; fulfilling through national and local providers, regulated agencies, and
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athenahealth integrates Nuance’s Dragon Medical to Reduce Documentation Time
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- athenahealth and Nuance® Communications announced the integration of Nuance’s cloud-based speech and virtual assistant technology, Dragon® Medical, into the athenaOne® EHR and Mobile App.
- 94 percent of clinicians believe speech recognition and virtual assistant technology will improve the ability to document care. Meeting the needs of clinicians everywhere, athenaOne Dictation users can now take advantage of fully
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Mednax Taps R1 for Enterprise Revenue Cycle Management Services
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- R1 RCM Inc., a leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of healthcare providers, and Mednax, Inc., a national medical group specializing in prenatal, neonatal and pediatric services, have entered into an agreement that will make R1 the primary provider of enterprise revenue cycle management services for Mednax.
- The agreement is expected to bolster the overall patient experience and optimize
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Cedar Acquires OODA Health for $425M to Power Healthcare Financial Tech Platform
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- Cedar, a healthcare financial technology platform, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OODA Health, a healthcare technology company focused on improving the healthcare administrative experience with payers and providers, for $425M.
- By bringing together providers and payers onto one healthcare financial technology platform, Cedar will be the only complete solution to address the full set of challenges consumers face when paying for
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