What You Should Know: - Papa, a nationwide provider that pairs older adults and families with Papa Pals for companionship and assistance with everyday tasks, and Uber Health, Uber’s HIPAA-enabled solution for health care organizations, announced a social determinants of health (SDoH) partnership aimed at reducing barriers to transportation access. - Papa and Uber are working together to mitigate social isolation and negative health outcomes among Medicare and Medicaid recipients as
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HLTH21: Grand Rounds Health, Doctor On Demand Rebrand as Included Health
What You Should Know: - Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand today announced their combined integrated virtual care and navigation company will be called Included Health. - The new brand was announced alongside results of a new national survey showing that nearly half of Americans (45%) are prioritizing their health more since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but 43% believe that the very system they rely on feels exclusive. - The company partners with employers and
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HLTH21: DarioHealth Unveils its Digital Musculoskeletal Solution
What You Should Know: - DarioHealth Corp., a provider of digital therapeutics (DTx) solutions, announced today the launch of Dario Move, a new digital-physical therapy solution to manage common musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions that drive significant costs for employers and health plans. - With the addition of Dario Move, Dario's full suite is now positioned to support comprehensive chronic condition management across three of the top priorities for employers: diabetes, behavioral health
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Cohere Health, Humana Expand Partnership to Transform Prior Authorization Process
What You Should Know: - Cohere Health announced that Humana Inc. is embarking on a nationwide expansion of Cohere's digital prior authorization platform for musculoskeletal (MSK) services, based on the success of its initial implementation. - After rolling out the platform across 12 states in January 2021, Humana has made significant progress toward achieving its vision to reimagine and modernize processes for prior authorization by reducing approval times, increasing provider
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Prenosis, Roche Partner to Combat Hospital Sepsis Using Precision Diagnostics
What You Should Know: - Prenosis Inc., a precision diagnostics company transforming clinical diagnosis with artificial intelligence, announced today the expansion of an existing partnership with Roche Diagnostics that will total close to $6 million to improve and expedite the clinical recognition of sepsis. - Building upon the collaboration that the companies started together in 2020, Prenosis will significantly expand its core NOSIS™ dataset, and the two companies will work together
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Nordic Consulting Launches Security Operations Center
What You Should Know: - Coinciding with Cybersecurity Awareness Month this month, Nordic Consulting, a global health and technology consulting company, announced that it has opened its new security operations center (SOC) at its global headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. SOC’s are a rising defense mechanism against cyber threats across industries – especially the healthcare industry, which has shown extreme vulnerability over recent years and since the pandemic has started. -
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Medsphere Acquires Ambulatory IT Support Provider Systeem Medical
What You Should Know: - Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare IT platform solutions, today announced that the company has acquired Plano, TX-based Systeem Medical Information Systems. Systeem provides core information technology services with a primary focus on ambulatory healthcare providers. - Founded in 2009, Systeem powers the healthcare IT foundations of better ambulatory care by providing managed IT services; help desk
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University of Michigan Health-West Deploys Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience
What You Should Know: - Today, Nuance and the University of Michigan Health-West (UMHW), a 208-bed hospital in Wyoming, MI, announced that UMHW has expanded its adoption of Nuance’s pioneering ambient clinical intelligence technology, Dragon Ambient eXperience – a solution that empowers physicians to reduce administrative workloads and focus on patient care with clinical documentation that writes itself. - The expansion comes after a successful Nuance DAX pilot at University of
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Babyscripts, NUVO Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Remote Pregnancy Care Solution
What You Should Know: - Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, today announced a strategic partnership with Nuvo Group, a femtech startup commercializing INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared, remote fetal monitoring and management platform. InVU by Nuvo features a user-friendly wearable sensor band that gives physicians an inside look into the womb, remotely to drive critical diagnostic decisions wherever the patient is. - By integrating Nuvo’s INVU technology
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CDC Selects PointClickCare to Provide De-Identified Patient Data for Long-Term/Post-Acute Care Facilities
What You Should Know: -Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected PointClickCare, a provider of cloud-based healthcare software for the long-term and post-acute care market to provide a key data source for understanding COVID-19 and other threats impacting residents of long-term care facilities. - Under the agreement, PointClickCare will provide the CDC with comprehensive, de-identified patient data for residents of long-term and post-acute
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