What You Should Know:
- Mass General Brigham (MGB) has partnered with DexCare to improve consumer experiences and outcomes for virtual urgent care.
- DexCare’s solution will allow patients to access care from MGB at their preferred time and format through simple, self-directed digital experiences = better patient acquisition, retention and experiences. The platform will allow MGB to optimize resource usage and intelligently navigate patient demand to see more patients while reducing
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Accenture Federal Services Awarded Role on $650M VA Healthcare Innovation Contract
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Accenture Federal Services has been awarded a prime spot on a $650M contract in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and the Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning (OHIL).
The Accelerating VA Innovation and Learning (AVAIL) contract provides VHA and the Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning (OHIL) with the ability to fast-track the design, development, and testing of healthcare innovations.
The AVAIL
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On/Go Launches COVID Test to Treat w/ free Paxlovid Delivery
What You Should Know:
- On/Go (by Intrivo) – the health tech startup behind COVID test kits that have helped hundreds of millions of people – has launched a Test to Treat solution for at-home Paxlovid antiviral access, plus a virtual long COVID clinic.
- While some studies have shown Paxlovid may reduce risk of hospitalization and death by 89%, only 11% of Americans who recently had COVID were given antiviral therapy, likely due to accessibility issues. Paxlovid treatment must begin
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Tempus Launches Real-World Data-Driven Program to Accelerate Precision Oncology Research
What You Should Know:
- Precision Medicine company Tempus announced the launch of Tempus+, a program connecting medical centers across the U.S. like Stanford Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, and UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, to advance cancer research and provide access to Tempus’ library of more than five million de-identified research records.
- Tempus’ data library and data analytics platform, Lens, can now be used by researchers to
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HealthJoy Raises $60M for Healthcare Navigation Platform to Reduce HR Burden
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- HealthJoy, a healthcare navigation platform that drives benefits satisfaction, improves care outcomes, improves employee satisfaction and reduces HR burden raises $60M in Series D funding led by Valspring Capital with participation from new investors Endeavour Vision and CIBC Innovation Banking. Existing investors US Venture Partners, GoHealth co-founders Brandon Cruz and Clint Jones, Health Velocity Capital, Nueterra Capital and Epic also participated
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Solera Health Launches First-of its-kind Women’s Health Offering for Payers & Employers
What You Should Know:
- Solera Health announced the launch of the most comprehensive Women's Health network of digital and community point solutions for payers and employers.
- Solera’s unique Women’s Health network covers the full spectrum of women’s health needs, including those underserved by today’s market, to bring more access to women who need it, when they need it.
Solera’s New Women’s Health Network with 5
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Color Acquires Mood Lifters, Launches Behavioral Health Product
What You Should Know:
- Color Health acquires Mood Lifters, a leading group-based mental health company and launches a new behavioral health product. The new solution will expand access to mental healthcare for organizations tackling public and population health.
- Mood Lifters uses an evidence-based treatment paradigm developed by Dr. Patricia Deldin and Dr. Cecilia Votta at the University of Michigan. Crucially, groups are led by participants who have
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Israeli AirForce Leverages AR/VR Therapy to Evaluate Pilots for Potential Neck Injuries
What You Should Know:
- AirForce has selected XRHealth, the augmented reality/virtual reality gateway to the healthcare metaverse to evaluate pilots for potential neck injuries.
- The Air Medical Unit, one of the highest authorities dealing with airborne conditions, screens pilots before they enter the AirForce and regularly during their service, and has recently started to use the XRHealth AR/VR therapy medical device as a solution to evaluate and monitor neck
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AtlantiCare Deploys Orbita’s Healthcare Virtual Assistants
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare system AtlantiCare selected Orbita’s virtual assistant and conversational AI technology to improve patients’ care access and engagement while automating workloads internally.
- AtlantiCare is rolling out the Orbita platform in phases, beginning with web-based digital front door, which went live in September 2022. In 2023, AtlantiCare plans to add proactive outbound communications, including post-discharge follow-up information and
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Elion Raises $3M to Expand Digital Health Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Elion, a San Francisco-based independent digital health technology marketplace company, today announced it has raised $3.3M in seed funding from leading digital health investors NEA, Max Ventures, 8VC, AlleyCorp, Charge Ventures and Floating Point, with additional participation from a broad set of healthcare founders and angels.
- In addition to the round of funding, Elion has released its beta product to the public. The company plans to use the funding to
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