- Cone Health forms an innovation center named Cone Health Ventures to serve as a testing ground for new products and services focused on health and wellness. - Cone Health Ventures will serve as the innovation framework bringing together entrepreneurial insight, healthcare expertise and a human-centered approach to innovation.Cone Health, a Greensboro, NC-based integrated not-for-profit network of providers serving people in central North Carolina has announced the launch of Cone Health
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HMS Holdings Corp to Acquire Payment Accuracy Company Accent for $155M
- HMS Holdings Corp acquires Accent, a payment accuracy, and cost containment business from Intrado Corporation for approximately $155 million.- Accent’s offerings include comprehensive prospective and retrospective claims accuracy solutions, which incorporates both cost avoidance and overpayment recovery services.- Addition of service provider to commercial and Medicare Advantage health plans to expand the breadth of HMS’ prospective and retrospective claims accuracy services.HMS Holdings Corp.
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Presidium Health Raises $3.5M to Expand On-Demand Care Platform
- Presidium Health raises $3.5M to expand optimized in-home medical services based on geo-proximity to the medically complex and underserved population utilizing a home-based model of careThe company's flagship platform, STAT (Secure Text Activated Triage) is a simple user interface that provides patients with a medical alert device that allows for two-way communication, real-time transmission of vitals and personal health records to a HIPAA-compliant text platformPresidium Health, a San Diego,
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GenapSys Nabs $90M to Commercialize Its Breakthrough Electronic Gene Sequencer
- GenapSys launches first-of-its-kind electronic gene sequencer as well as the completion of a $90M series C funding round led by top biotech investor Foresite Capital. - GenapSys is the first & only to use direct electronic sequencing -- this allows for a simpler workflow, dramatically reduced costs, turnaround time and device size.- The GenapSys Sequencer is exceptionally accurate and 100x smaller and more affordable than current high-throughput sequencers and will significantly expand
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Geisinger, Medial EarlySign Advances to First Stage of CMS AI Health Outcomes Challenge
- Geisinger Health was recently named by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services among the 25 candidates advancing to the first stage of its AI Health Outcomes challenge.- The CMS AI Health Outcomes challenge provides innovators with the opportunity to demonstrate how AI tools may be implemented to predict health outcomes and keep patients healthy in hopes of more AI tools being considered for potential use in CMS Innovation Center payment and service delivery models. Geisinger, an
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HHS Launches $1.5M Second Phase of KidneyX Prize Competition to Redesign Dialysis
- KidneyX launches the $1.5 million second phase of the Redesign Dialysis prize competition.- Redesign Dialysis Phase 2 seeks prototype solutions or components of solutions, that can replicate normal kidney functions or improve dialysis access.- The competition calls on researchers, innovators, patients, and investors with expertise in nephrology, biotechnology, bioengineering, and medical devices to submit solutions.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the American Society
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Kareo Sells Managed Billing Services Business to Health Prime International
- Karo sells Karo Managed Billing services business to Health Prime International, an independent supplier of outsourced medical billing services. - The sale enables Kareo to retain its focus on advancing it's industry-leading cloud-based clinical and business management software platform for both independent medical practices and medical billing companies.Kareo, a provider of cloud-based clinical and business management software for independent medical practices and medical billing companies
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Pipeline Health Upgrades to Cerner Millennium EHR Across Network
- Pipeline Health selects Cerner to upgrade to a single, integrated EHR across 7 hospitals, 25 clinics, and 12 free-standing emergency departments within the Pipeline Health network. - Pipeline Health will gain access to the Cerner Millennium EHR, including clinical, revenue cycle, ambulatory, and value-based care solutions through a remote-hosted model. - Cerner will replace multiple disparate EHR systems across the Pipeline Health network. The new platform will be rolled out during a
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Wellframe Raises $20M to Accelerate Digital Care Management Solution for Care Teams
- Wellframe raises $20M in Series C funding to support company growth, including hiring in its Boston office, and accelerate its leadership in the Digital Health Management market.Wellframe translates evidence-based, peer-reviewed guidelines and literature into an interactive daily checklist delivered to patients through the Wellframe mobile app.The additional funding announced today will also enable Wellframe to accelerate the next phase of its Digital Health Management solutions, Digital
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VA to Deploy Podimetrics SmartMat Regionally to Prevent Diabetic Foot Ulcers
- VA recently announced they will be offering a care management solution designed to detect and prevent one of the costliest and most complicated diabetes-related issues, diabetic foot ulcers, to a wider group of veterans in need. - The solution, Podimetrics' SmartMat, is currently in 15 VAs and starting Dec. 1, more VAs will begin offering the easy-to-use mat to its patients.- Last year alone, the VA treated nearly 75,000 cases of DFU and spends more than $3 billion per year on the issue,
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