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CVS Health and Microsoft announce a new strategic alliance to reimagine personalized care and accelerate digital transformation.
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Microsoft Corp. (NYSE: MSFT) today announced a new strategic alliance focused on developing innovative solutions to help consumers improve their health while empowering over 300,000 CVS Health employees – including frontline workers – with tools to better serve more than 100 million people. The collaboration with
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AWS and Pfizer Accelerate Drug Development and Clinical Manufacturing
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is working with Pfizer to create innovative, cloud-based solutions to accelerate drug development and clinical manufacturing for testing in clinical trials.
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced that it is working with Pfizer to create innovative, cloud-based solutions with the potential to improve how new medicines are developed, manufactured, and distributed for testing in clinical trials. The companies are
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Truepill Launches End-to-End COVID-19 Virtual Care Platform
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Truepill launches its end-to-end COVID-19 virtual care platform to provide convenient online care for COVID-19 alongside the rapid delivery of antiviral medication.
Truepill, the digital health platform connecting telehealth, diagnostics, and pharmacy to transform consumer healthcare, today announced plans for a first-of-its-kind COVID-19 virtual care platform. This end-to-end solution will enable Truepill customers to create white-labeled virtual care
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M&A: HealthStream Acquires Rievent Technologies for $4M
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Leveraging its hStream open architecture, HealthStream expands its ecosystem with the acquisition of Rievent Technologies’ continuing education management and delivery application.
HealthStream (Nasdaq: HSTM), a provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Rievent Technologies, a Virginia-based healthcare technology company for $4M in cash. Through the acquisition,
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CVS Pharmacy “Talking” Prescription Labels Now Available Nationwide
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- CVS Pharmacy today introduced Spoken Rx, its proprietary audio prescription label solution developed in collaboration with the American Council for the Blind, now available in all of its nearly 10,000 locations nationwide.
CVS Pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is now offering Spoken Rx™, its proprietary audio prescription label solution, in all its nearly 10,000 pharmacy locations
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Zoom Announces Cerner EHR Integration for Secure Virtual Visits
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- Zoom is now accepting beta customers for Zoom’s new integration with Cerner’s electronic health record (EHR) platform, available by sending a message of interest on Cerner’s App Gallery or talking to your Zoom account executive.
- Hospitals, health systems, physician offices, and clinics that use Cerner to share and access patient EHR data across the continuum of care will be able to launch secure Zoom virtual visits directly
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UC Davis Health, AWS Launches Cloud Innovation Center for Health Equity
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- Today, UC Davis Health launched a Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), making the renowned academic medical center one of America's leaders in digital medicine.
- Focused on digital health equity, the UC Davis Health CIC will allow clinicians, patients, developers, and students to exchange ideas, as well as design and prototype solutions focused on making digital health more equitable and accessible
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Elsevier Acquires Digital Health Education Platform Osmosis – M&A
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- Elsevier acquires Osmosis – a digital health education platform that has simplified the complex learning journey for millions of medical students and healthcare professionals around the world.
- A growing demand for healthcare workers and medical education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is driving the need for digital healthcare education solutions. The highly engaging visual learning offerings of Osmosis will be applied to other areas in Elsevier’s
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Israeli Startup TailorMed Acquires Vivor to Create Provider and Pharmacy Network
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- Financial navigation technology company TailorMed acquires Vivor to create the largest provider and pharmacy network.
- The combined companies will offer the most comprehensive solution for addressing unprecedented financial pressures on patients and healthcare organizations.
Israeli startup TailorMed, a leading financial navigation technology company that helps healthcare organizations and patients remove financial barriers to care in the U.S acquires
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Luma Health Secures $130M to Optimize Patient Journey
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- Luma Health, a provider of patient engagement technology raises $130M to unify, automate, and transform patients’ healthcare journey.
Luma Health, a San Francisco, CA-based patient engagement platform, today announced a $130 million Series C funding round led by FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investment firm, with participation from existing investors. This latest round brings Luma Health’s total funding raised to $160
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