- New Mercom Capital annual report reveals global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health declined 6% at $8.9B compared to $9.5B in 2018. - Total corporate funding into Digital Health – including VC funding, debt, and public market funding - dropped 18% to $10.6 billion in 2019 compared to $13 billion in 2018.- Five digital health IPOs brought in a total of $1.4 billion in 2019Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health, including private equity and corporate venture, declined
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AMA and RedCrow Collaborate to Promote Physician-Driven Healthcare Innovation
- The American Medical Association (AMA) and direct investment platform RedCrow are teaming up to promote physician insight-powered healthcare innovation. The American Medical Association (AMA) and RedCrow, a direct investment platform for healthcare innovation, today announced a collaboration to drive engagement between physicians and entrepreneurs that fosters innovative healthcare startups with insight, guidance, and funding to help grow promising companies. Building on a shared conviction
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HealthStream Launches Virtual Reality-Based Education Pilot Program to Improve Resuscitation Outcomes
- Healthstream launches an innovative virtual reality (VR)-based education pilot program through the HealthStream Resuscitation Innovation Lab. - Unique program focuses on leadership capabilities of the clinical team leader in improving resuscitation outcomes, a largely overlooked, critical component of training for code blue events.HealthStream announced today that CHSPSC, LLC (CHS), an affiliate of Community Health Systems, Inc., one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute care
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Livongo Integrates With Dexcom’s G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System
- Livongo announced a data integration partnership with Dexcom to offer Livongo Members the ability to sync data from their Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System with the Livongo applied health signals platform. - As part of the integration, Livongo can now combine Dexcom CGM data with rich Member data from Livongo’s connected devices to deliver health insights that address the whole person.Livongo, an Applied Health Signals company has partnered with Dexcom, Inc. a provider of
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EarlySign, Maccabi Healthcare Launches AI-Powered Flu Vaccination Campaign
- Medial EarlySign unveils the first clinical implementation of its AI-based solution to identify unvaccinated individuals at high-risk of developing serious flu-related complications.- Developed in collaboration with leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services, the implementation utilizes existing EHR data to identify and stratify patients at high risk.Medial EarlySign, a Israeli-based provider of machine learning-based solutions to aid in the early detection and prevention of high-burden
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Change Healthcare Unveils Breakthrough All-Payer Medical Claim Attachments Capability
- Change Healthcare unveils industry’s first nationwide solution that allows providers to submit documents and data, like claims attachments, electronically to all health plans in both the Medical and Workers’ Compensation market segments.- This new claim attachments solution also sets the stage for new additional uses of Artificial Intelligence.Today Change Healthcare announced major new enhancements to its medical claim attachments solution. These enhancements will create the industry’s first
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Sutter Health, Lyft Partner to Improve Access to Care for Patients & Staff
- Sutter Health and Lyft announced a collaboration to provide patients and staff with improved access to care that will optimize the patient/provider experience. - Starting today, Sutter hospitals and care centers around Northern California will have the option to start implementing customized, individual transportation programs, and address social determinants of health. Not-for-profit network Sutter Health and transportation network company Lyft today announced a collaboration to power the
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R1 RCM Acquires Patient Engagement Company SCI Solutions for $190M in Cash
- R1 RCM announced the expansion of its tech platform capabilities through the acquisition of SCI Solutions, Inc (SCI). This acquisition enables healthcare providers to automate ordering, scheduling and authorization processes.
- SCI’s capabilities integrated into R1’s revenue cycle solution will offer the broadest and deepest tech-enabled patient intake solution available.
R1 RCM Inc, a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers,
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Teladoc Health Acquires Virtual Care Platform InTouch Health for $600M
- Teladoc Health announced this morning it will acquire InTouch Health, the leading provider of enterprise telehealth solutions for hospitals and health systems for $600M.
- The acquisition establishes Teladoc Health as the only virtual care provider covering the full range of acuity – from critical to chronic to everyday care – through a single solution across all sites of care including home, pharmacy, retail, the physician office, ambulance, and more.
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Health, Inc., a global
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SCI Solutions Acquires Mobile Patient Data Collection & Payments Platform Tonic Health
- SCI Solutions (SCI) acquires patient data collection and payments platform Tonic Health to meaningfully engage consumers at every step in their digital healthcare journey. - The acquisition will allow SCI to offer a comprehensive suite of patient self-service technologies to deliver maximum value to their combined client base. SCI Solutions (SCI), a Seattle, WA-based EHR-agnostic online care coordination marketplace, today announced it has acquired Tonic Health, a leading SaaS-based digital
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