Playmaker Health, a Nashville, TN-based provider of market intelligence to post-acute providers, has acquired one of its competitors, ViaDirect. Hospices, LTCs, SNFs and others are still in the early stages of using analytics to refine their strategies around referral sources, opportunities for market expansion, and everything in between. With the ViaDirect acquisition, Playmaker’s platform includes not just Medicare and commercial claims data, but Lexis/Nexus data analytics as well. This
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Kindly Care Lands $5.4M to Expand Elder Care Marketplace
Kindly Care, a San Francisco, CA-based elder care marketplace, today announced it has raised $5.4 million in Series A funding led by Javelin Venture Partners. The round also included participation from MHS Capital and Jackson Square Ventures. Kindly Care plans to utilize the latest round of funding to fuel additional growth of the company’s vision to provide a simple and safe solution for affordable elderly care, fund development of additional capabilities for the platform, and to support
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Embleema Launches Blockchain-Powered Personal Health Record Platform
Embleema comes out of stealth to connect patients, life sciences, and regulators through its healthcare blockchain-enabled personal health record (PHR) platform. Embleema, a NYC-based patient-focused healthcare blockchain network, today emerged from stealth after one year of R&D, to launch the public beta release of its patient-driven, HIPAA-compliant, blockchain-enabled personal health records (PHR) platform. The new blockchain-driven PHR platform give patients complete control over their
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DrChrono, Stitch Integrate to Provide Practices EHR Physician Collaboration Tools
DrChrono, a company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Stitch, a company that has created a free HIPAA-compliant app for healthcare teams to send internal messages, communicate with patients and track daily tasks. Both DrChrono and Stitch are Y Combinator portfolio companies.In the past, physicians and medical staff would need to communicate with each other about patients using email, text and phone calls or other outdated chat software that
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Bright.md Integrates with GOeVisit, Enters Canadian Market with Virtual Care Platform
This week, Bright.md announced a new and unique customer deployment with Vancouver-based MyCare MedTech, marking its initial expansion into the global marketplace. Until now, the company’s SmartExam platform has been implemented exclusively by traditional brick and mortar healthcare systems like Providence Health & Services, Presbyterian Health Systems and Rush University. However MyCare MedTech tapped Bright.md to enhance its own existing virtual platform, dubbed GOeVisit.SmartExam enables
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Octave Bioscience Grabs $14M for Care Management Platform Focused on Neurodegenerative Diseases
Octave Bioscience lands $14M to bring expertise in chronic neurodegenerative markets and molecular Insights for improved care.Octave Bioscience, a Menlo Park, CA-based developer of a fully integrated care management platform delivering powerful insights for patients with neurodegenerative diseases, today announced it has raised $14 million in Series A funding. The round was led by BCBS Venture Partners with participation from Echo Health Ventures (a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health
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Chilmark Report: NLP Technology is Poised to Unlock Value of Unstructured Health Data
In the span of 10 years, healthcare organizations (HCOs) have gone from having very little information available for data mining to nearly drowning in vast and complex digital information. Simultaneously, the effort required to enter and clean the data has been unsustainably high, affecting clinician morale and analysts’ ability to extract insights for improving population health.All that is about to change for the better. As revealed in the latest Chilmark Research report, Natural Language
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GHX Acquires Medical Columbus to Expand Healthcare Supply Chain Presence in Europe
Healthcare supply chain provider GHX announced that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority of assets and employees from Germany-based Medical Columbus, a provider of market leading content management and healthcare procurement software across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands.With this acquisition, GHX will expand its supply chain and procurement solution offering and trading partner network in key European markets. Both companies’ solutions serve
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Report: 10 Disruptive Digital Business Models for Health Insurers
Digital technologies will transform the health insurance business and early adopters have started to implement new digital business models with initial success, according to a new Research2Guidance report. The report reveals new digital models are changing the way the insurers interact with patients.For example, digital insurers have reworked the trust equation with the patient, outsourced much of their value chain to their members, and now know much more about them. Digital business models tend
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Candor Healthcare to Implement Medsphere EHR in New Hospitals
Medsphere today announced an agreement with Texas-based Candor Healthcare to implement the company's healthcare IT solutions and services.Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services, today announced that the company has reached an agreement with Texas-based Candor Healthcare to implement Medsphere healthcare IT solutions in new hospitals Candor manages. The two companies will officially kick off the
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