What You Should Know:
– Talkiatry, a leading provider of in-network psychiatric care raised an additional $17M from Left Lane Capital, which totals their current funding to $37M in Series A funding. The completion of this round will support Talkiatry in responsibly scaling mental health services across the United States with national insurance contracts.
- The company also appointed Samson Walla as its Vice President of Operations. Walla joins Talkiatry from Uber, where he served as
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Mayo Clinic Taps Oracle Fusion Cloud for Finance, HR, and Supply Chain Management
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite and Oracle Fusion Analytics to power its business processes as it transforms the future of healthcare.
- With Oracle, Mayo Clinic will be able to support its path to 2030, an ambitious strategy to cure, connect and transform healthcare, by improving the administrative services experiences and scaling functions and business analysis to support its global growth.
- As one of the world’s leading
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Honeywell Makes Strategic Investment in RapidSOS’s ER Data Platform
What You Should Know:
- Today, Honeywell announced it has made a strategic investment in RapidSOS, an NYC-based emergency response data platform, to further modernize and digitize the public safety communications process.
- In addition to the strategic investment, Honeywell Connected Life Safety System (CLSS) will integrate with the RapidSOS emergency response data platform to provide faster, more accurate communications
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emids Acquires Cloud Development Resources to Create Low-Code Development Practice
What You Should Know:
- emids, today announced the acquisition of Cloud Development Resources (CDR), a leading provider of low-code, enterprise-grade business solutions and services on the OutSystems platform for some of the country’s leading and largest healthcare and life sciences companies.
- OutSystems is the pioneer in low-code development, and this partnership with emids creates the healthcare industry’s first dedicated low-code development practice. Financial terms of the deal were
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6 Healthcare Cybersecurity, Ransomware Predictions to Watch in 2022
We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022.
Milan Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Biofourmis
Cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems will continue their rapid pace in 2022, but as more providers launch hospitals at home and remote patient management programs and the technology has to traverse enterprise firewall boundaries, it provides attackers an extensive new surface area to attack.
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Swiftarc Ventures Launches $75M Telemedicine Venture Fund
What You Should Know:
- Swiftarc Ventures, an NYC-based early and growth-stage consumer and consumer health-focused venture capital firm announced it has launched a $75M telehealth-focused venture fund.
- The telehealth fund is aimed at harnessing breakthrough innovation opportunities currently emerging from key legislative changes in healthcare delivery within the United States and globally.
Investment Thesis
In the past, the three-pillared U.S. healthcare system (Patients,
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Telemedicine Platform Offers Outpatient COVID-19 Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Alpha Medical, a virtual primary care group that empowers women to take control of their healthcare by offering a medical team specifically trained for a woman’s unique needs, announces it will prescribe PAXLOVID, an investigational medication used to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and children 12 years of age and older, and are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death, under a EUA.
- Alpha Medical, whose
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LifeWorks Acquires Breaking Free, Digital Substance Use Disorder Treatment Platform
What You Should Know:
- LifeWorks, a provider of comprehensive mental health, digital and in-person total wellbeing solutions, today announced the acquisition of Breaking Free, a provider of evidence-based behavioral health SaaS solutions for substance use intervention.
- The addition of Breaking Free’s solution in substance use intervention to the LifeWorks platform will result in further enhancing the mental health service clients can seamlessly access through the LifeWorks wellbeing
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RecoveryOne, Cigna Offers Virtual Physical Therapy for Medicare Advantage Customers
What You Should Know:
- RecoveryOne, a digital health innovator dedicated to improving health outcomes for recovery from musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries of all types and reducing costs, announced an expansion of its partnership with Cigna to offer its virtual physical therapy and broad MSK solution for Medicare Advantage (MA) customers as an in-network benefit.
- This new benefit builds on the partnership between Cigna and RecoveryOne announced
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M&A: Babylon Acquires Patient Engagement Solution DayToDay Health
What You Should Know:
- Babylon (NYSE: BBLN) acquires patient engagement platform DayToDay Health (“DayToDay”) to provide Babylon members with DayToDay’s digital-first, highly engaging programs and clinical services prior to and following scheduled surgeries, major health events like childbirth, and following diagnosis of chronic conditions.
- Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Enhancing Lives by Guiding Patients with Individualized Care
Although almost all
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