What You Should Know:
- emids - a leader in digital engineering and
transformation solutions for the healthcare and life sciences industries -
today announced the acquisition of Nevada-based FlexTech, a payer IT consulting
firm recognized by KLAS as a category leader.
- The FlexTech deal will drive expanded channel
partnership opportunities for emids among leading core platform vendors and
position emids as the go-to partner for advancing adoption of new digital
business
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Brightline Raises $20M for Virtual Pediatric Behavioral Health Platform
What You Should Know:
- Brightline raises $20 million to bring its virtual behavioral
healthcare platform to kids and families across California and beyond.
- Brightline delivers integrated care through innovative
technology, virtual behavioral health services, and a collaborative care team
focused on supporting children across developmental stages and their families.
Brightline, a
Palo Alto, CA-based provider of technology-enabled pediatric behavioral healthcare,
announced it has
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Vocera Acquires Secure Communications Platform EASE Applications
What You Should Know:
- Today Vocera Communications acquires EASE Applications,
a provider of a secure communication platform and mobile application that
delivers updates, messages to patients’ loved ones, during surgeries and at
other times.
- The Orlando-based EASE offers a cloud-based service
that is built to improve the patient experience by enabling friends and family
members to receive timely updates about the progress of loved ones in the
hospitals. Care team members can send
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Change Healthcare Acquires Cloud-Native Imaging Platform Nucleus.io
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare acquires Nucleus.io to create the first of its kind end-to-end, cloud-native Enterprise Imaging to integrate Change Healthcare’s next-generation medical imaging platform.
- The acquisition will accelerate Change Healthcare’s
timeline to implement a complete cloud-based, end-to-end Enterprise Imaging
solution with customers by leveraging the 7,500+ organizations Nucleus.io
currently serves.
Change Healthcare (Nasdaq: CHNG) today announced the
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Castor Raises $12M to Advance COVID-19 Research Through Clinical Trial and Data Automation
What You Should Know:
- Castor raises $12M in Series A funding to further their
support for COVID-19 research through clinical trial and data automation.
- With 4,000 live studies and 2,000,000 enrolled patients
across 90 countries, Castor will use the funding to further invest in enabling
patient-centric, data-powered clinical trials.
Castor, a Hoboken,
New Jersey startup using automation and data reuse to simplify the entire
clinical trial process, announced $12M in Series A
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Bridge Connector Lands $25.5M to Expand Healthcare Integration Platform
What You Should Know:
- Bridge Connector raises $25.5 million in Series B funding to advance interoperability layer for healthcare organizations as demand for integrated health data intensifies during COVID-19 pandemic.
- The investment will support the growth of Destinations,
the company’s new integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) that connects
health data systems using use-case-based interoperability blueprints to speed
integrations with major vendors.
Bridge Connector,
a
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Cerner Technology to Support COVID-19 Testing for HBCUs Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announces a commitment to help expand COVID-19 testing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the U.S through a partnership with Testing for America.
- As part of the partnership, Cerner will serve as the national technology partner for a return to school effort led by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and The United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The strategic initiative aims to support HBCUs in their COVID-19 testing of
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Former KKR Vet Jim Momtazee Launches Healthcare Investment Firm, Patient Square Capital
What You Should Know:
- Former KKR veteran Jim Momtazee announced the launch of
Patient Square Capital, a partnership being purpose-built to become the
preeminent investment firm in healthcare.
- Patient Square will partner with best-in-class
management teams whose products, services, and technologies improve
health.
- Prior to Patient Square, he spent over 21 years
at KKR, initially joining in 1996. He helped establish the firm’s health
care industry group in 2001 and
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Memorial Health Deploys Chatbots to Virtualize Waiting Room Experience
What You Should Know:
- Memorial Health System selects LifeLink Conversational
AI technology to virtualize the waiting room experience for patients
- Mobile chatbots to automate intake for telehealth and
in-person visits, while maintaining COVID-19 social distancing and safety
protocols.
Memorial Health System
, a community-based, not-for-profit corporation serving the people and
communities of central Illinois through five hospitals has selected LifeLink to deploy advanced
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Backed by Johnson & Johnson, Thirty Madison Raises $47M for Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Brands
What You Should Know:
- Direct-to-consumer telehealth company Thirty Madison raises
$47M in Series B round from Johnson & Johnson and Polaris Partners.
- Thirty Madison's three portfolio brands — Keeps, Cove,
and Evens — enables patients to easily access specialist-level care
combined with the convenience of telemedicine and treatment delivery.
Thirty
Madison, a New York City-based digital health
company reinventing the patient experience
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