The statistics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be startling, despite the ever-growing mental and physical fatigue that we’ve all experienced living through this frightening, intimidating and unprecedented era. More than 125 million cases worldwide have resulted in a death toll closing in on three million, while in the United States alone, 30 million reported infections have resulted in a death toll that reached 550,000. (1) One thing that can be said for certain about
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Morehouse College, Verily Announces $575k Endowed Life Sciences Scholarship to Support STEM Careers
- Today, Verily announced a partnership with Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, to establish an endowed award of $575,000 to fund a new Verily Scholars Program.
- The program will provide an annual scholarship to an exceptional Morehouse student majoring in STEM (Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Engineering) careers and will also fund up to three annual all-expenses paid summer internships at Verily. Verily looks forward to connecting Morehouse scholars to the biotech and
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CVS Health Inks Larger PBM Contract with Federal Employee Program, Adds Specialty Pharmacy Care
What You Should Know:
- Today, CVS Caremark, the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) of CVS Health announced a larger PBM contract with the Government-wide Service Benefit Plan (also known as the Federal Employee Program), which has provided benefits to the federal workforce for 60 years and covers 5.5 million employees, retirees and their families. CVS Health has been the pharmacy benefit manager for the Service Benefit Plan since 1993 and has partnered with them to provide and evolve the
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SOC Telemed Acquires Access Physicians for $194M to Form Largest Acute Telemedicine Provider
What You Should Know:
- SOC Telemed, today announced the acquisition of Dallas-based Access Physicians in a deal valued at $194 million in cash and stock to become the largest pure-play provider of acute telemedicine in the country.
- The company will deliver care to almost 1,000 facilities including more than 700 hospitals in 48 states. In addition to an expanded national footprint this deal will expand clinical service lines including infectious disease, cardiology, maternal-fetal
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ProPhase Labs Acquires Digital COVID-19 Vaccination Passport
What You Should Know:
- ProPhase Labs, Inc., a diversified medical science and technology company, announced today that it has acquired the “VaccTrack” suite of digital solutions that can provide secure and reliable certification of a user’s vaccination and Covid testing results.
- A digital vaccination certificate, or “passport” is based on a mobile app that confirms that a user has been vaccinated against Covid-19, or, if the user has been tested for Covid-19, can confirm the test
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UK ED Dept. Shows Poor Usability for Major EHRs, Survey Finds
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- Emergency doctors in the UK have said many electronic health records (EHRs) in use are close to being unacceptable, and this is likely to be having a negative impact on patient care.
A national survey of more than 1500 members and fellows of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine ranked the usability of the major EHRs in use across the UK. All fell short of internationally recognized usability standards.
It led NHS CCIO Simon Eccles to remark that 'too little
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NeoGenomics Acquires Precision Oncology Platform Trapelo Health for $65M
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- NeoGenomics, Inc., a provider of cancer-focused genetic testing services and global oncology contract research services announced it has reached an agreement to acquire precision oncology platform Trapelo Health for $65M. The agreement purchase price of $65 million, consists of $35 million in cash on hand and $30 million in NeoGenomics common stock and is expected to close in April 2021.
- Trapelo Health offers a first-of-its-kind, interoperable, decision-support
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Apriss Health Acquires Care Coordination Platform PatientPing
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PatientPing, a comprehensive care collaboration platform focused on behavioral health and substance use disorder., today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire care coordination platform Appriss Health.
- Together, PatientPing and Appriss, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., and Insight Partners, will represent the largest and most diverse care collaboration network connecting nearly 1 million healthcare providers to one another and
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AppliedVR Lands $29M for VR Platform to Treat Chronic Pain
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- AppliedVR, a Los Angeles, CA-based company advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced $29 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funds raised to date to $35 million. The round, which includes key investors F-Prime Capital, JAZZ Venture Partners, Sway Ventures, GSR Ventures, Magnetic Ventures and Cedars-Sinai, will fuel the company’s growth as it pursues full FDA approval over the next year.
- Founded in 2015, AppliedVR provides
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Evidation Health Nabs $153M to Expand Virtual Health Programs
What You Should Know:
- Evidation Health announced it has raised $153 million in Series E funding co-led by OMERS Growth Equity and Kaiser Permanente Group Trust. Existing investors including McKesson Ventures and B Capital also joined.
- Founded in 2012, Evidation measures health in everyday life and enables anyone to participate in ground-breaking research and health programs.
- Evidation, which works with nine of the 10 largest global biopharma companies, already delivers research
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