- Navigating Cancer raises $26M in Series D funding in an over-subscribed round (TTCP) for its comprehensive oncology patient relationship management solution.
- Navigating Cancer’s PRM platform helps providers manage patient interactions, improve the patient experience, and deliver value-based care more effectively – increasing the flow of communications between in-office visits, which, in turn, boosts patient engagement in their own care.
- Funding will enable NC to accelerate innovation of
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Drugmaker Bayer to License One Drop’s Digital Diabetes Management Platform, Leads $40M Series B Funding
- Drugmaker Bayer leads One Drop’s $40M Series B funding round and enters commercial agreement to license One Drop's digital diabetes management platform in its global bio-digital efforts in therapeutic areas. - Bayer will leverage One Drop's data science and predictive capabilities, and harness its mobile platform to deliver innovative bio-digital solutions across a broad array of therapeutic areas.- One Drop provides personalized health programs to drive sustainable behavior change as part of
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Backed by Optum Ventures, Kaia Health Raises $8M for AI-Driven Digital Therapeutics for Back Pain & COPD
- Digital therapeutics startup Kaia Health raises $8M in funding led by Optum Ventures to support the accelerated execution of clinical trials required to demonstrate efficacy to the FDA.- Kaia Health utilizes multimodal therapy, which combines physical, psychological and educational elements to relieve back pain at home, without medication.- Optum’s investment in Kaia Health will consider use of Kaia Health’s digital therapeutic offerings for back pain and COPD with Optum and UnitedHealth
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Led by Former athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, Firefly Health Raises $10.2M for Tech-Enabled Concierge Medicine
- FireFly Health Raises $10M for Tech-Enabled Concierge Medicine, Former athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush Appointed Executive Chairman- Firefly Health raises $10.2M in Series A funding for technology-powered concierge medicine service led by F-Prime Capital and Oak HC/FT.- athenahealth Co-Founder and former CEO Jonathan Bush appointed as Executive ChairmanFirefly Health, a technology-powered concierge medicine service for average Americans, announced today it has closed $10.2 million in a Series A
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Novo Nordisk Integrates Smart Insulin Pens With Medtronic Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Devices
- Medtronic and Novo Nordisk to develop solutions enabling dosing data from Novo Nordisk Smart Insulin Pens to be shared with Medtronic continuous glucose monitoring devices. - Non-exclusive integration collaboration reflects both companies′commitment to making diabetes management easier by integrating key health technologies. - Novo Nordisk expects to launch its durable smart insulin pens, NovoPen® 6 and NovoPen Echo® Plus, as well as its disposable, pre-filled injection solution starting in
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Cerner Appoints Darrell Johnson as First Chief Marketing Officer
- Former Medtronic executive Darrell Johnson joins Cerner as their first SVP and Chief Marketing Officer.
- Johnson will oversee marketing, corporate communications and market intelligence in its next wave of growth to introduce its new solutions to the market.
Cerner announced today it has appointed Darrell Johnson in the newly created role of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer where he will be responsible for leading global marketing, corporate communications, and
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Innovaccer Launches Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) Solution
- Innovaccer launches Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) solution aimed at assisting organizations as they embark on the journey of delivering patient-centric, cost-effective care by transitioning into a PCMH and advancing primary care.
- With PCMH Pre-validation from the NCQA, Innovaccer provides over 40% of the total credits needed for certification.
- The solution saves providers from the trouble of navigating through EHRs and Excel sheets with automated care delivery support at
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Intermountain Launches New Kidney Care Center with Telehealth Care
- Intermountain Healthcare launches new Kidney Care Center that will provide at-home dialysis with telehealth-enabled video visits to patients.
- Patients will be able to schedule kidney dialysis treatments that fit their schedule.
- The Intermountain Kidney Care Center will also focus on pre-emptive transplants, where patients are matched with living kidney transplant donors prior to end-stage renal failure.
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Healthcare in Salt Lake City announced it is launching a
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UnitedHealthcare Accelerator + Techstars Unveils Inaugural 2019 Class of 10 Startups
- UnitedHealthcare Accelerator powered by Techstars unveils 2019 class of 10 health tech startups focused on innovation in digital health and wellness. - Final group of 10 was narrowed down from hundreds of startups from 33 different countries across the globe. - Three-month accelerator will provide mentorship and access to capital to help iterate on their business models.UnitedHealthcare Accelerator powered by Techstars, today announced inaugural 2019 class of ten health tech startups focused
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Incredible Health Raises $15M to Transform The Way Nurses Get Hired
- Incredible Health raises $15M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to solve America’s looming health care labor crisis.
- Founded in 2017 by a former physician and an MIT alum from a family of nurses, the company has pioneered a new custom matching algorithm that personalizes a hospital’s hiring experience.
- The platform empowers hospitals to apply to nurses seeking permanent positions, matching their needs to skilled professionals who fit the bill.
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