What You Should Know:
- Velatura Services (Velatura) today announced that it has been selected as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative, a $40M, three-year commitment supporting organizations that are developing solutions to advance health equity.
- Participation in the initiative will enhance Velatura’s efforts to provide essential data management infrastructure, advance data exchange, improve well-being, and reduce disparities.
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GHX Launches Lumere Consulting Services for Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
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- GHX Lumere announced the launch of its consulting service to support healthcare providers that want to optimize savings and reduce clinical variation.
- This premium service combines clinical expertise, data, evidence and technology to help hospitals and health systems improve supply chain performance.
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As hospital operating margins continue to lag, many organizations are looking to achieve savings through
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New COVID-19 Analytics Dashboards Tracks Levels of Protection Against the Virus at the County Level
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- Data on COVID-19’s ever-changing behavior and its potential impact at the county level is now available with the release of the national Covid-19 Community Protection Dashboard.
- The dashboard, available at: https://www.civitasforhealth.org/community-protection-dashboard/; offers an aggregate Community Protection Index (CPI) for nearly all of the counties in the U.S. in the form of a score that combines multiple factors. These factors include the percent of the
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Mira Launches Ovum Wand to Predict Menopause and Monitor Fertility Status
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- The FDA has listed Mira's new Mira Ovum Wand as an over-the-counter tool to detect the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) in urine. Starting October 2022, the product will be available to U.S. customers. The wands help monitor FSH levels to predict approaching menopause. They can also be used to monitor fertility and find possible causes of reproductive issues for women after 35.
- Mira's new Ovum Wand provides lab-accurate detection of the follicle-stimulating
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CareFirst BCBS Taps Headway to Expand Access to Mental Healthcare
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- Today, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst), the largest not-for-profit health plan in the mid-Atlantic region, and Headway, a tech-enabled company that expands access to in-network mental health care by removing barriers that providers, payers, and the people they serve face, announced a collaboration to scale CareFirst’s mental health care program.
- CareFirst launched a search in fall 2021 for a company to help them better support and engage their
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Doceree Partners with Tealium to Enrich Precision Targeting of HCPs
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- Doceree, a global platform building unprecedented solutions for HCP programmatic marketing with proprietary data tools is teaming up with Tealium, the world’s largest independent customer data platform (CDP) to advance Doceree’s capabilities to collect, collate and analyze data sets, ultimately helping with the company's mission of reducing healthcare costs.
- US healthcare costs grew by 9.7 percent in 2020 alone, highlighting the need for healthcare providers
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Elevation Oncology Secures $50M Loan Facility with K2 HealthVentures
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Elevation Oncology, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of precision oncology products for patients with genomically defined cancers, today announced that it has secured a $50M senior secured loan facility from funds managed by K2 HealthVentures.
Elevation plans to use the funding from the facility will primarily support the exclusive license of EO-3021 (SYSA1801) outside of Greater China from CSPC Pharmaceutical Group and the
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GDIT Awarded $10B Medical Research & Development Contract by the Defense Health Agency
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- General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics has been awarded the Omnibus IV Medical Research and Development contract by the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (IDIQ) has a total ceiling of $10B with a five-year base period and one five-year option.
- The DHA enables the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force to
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Syapse Raises $35M to Expand Learning Health Network
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- Syapse raises $35M led by an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC (Innovatus)to tackle the challenge of understanding, preventing, and treating complex cancers.
- The investment will allow Syapse to expand its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, making it more efficient to uncover meaningful insights from real-world oncology data.
Syapse, a San Francisco, CA-based real-world evidence company accelerating the
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Hospital Deploys Immersive Virtual Reality Treatment Room for Kids with Cancer
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- Lee Health’s Golisano Children’s Health Center in Naples, FL has deployed a new immersive virtual reality treatment room to improve the chemo experience for kids with cancer. Today, children battling cancer can now receive their chemotherapy while traveling to outer space, going on a deep-sea diving adventure or being immersed inside a video game.
- The opening of the immersive treatment room took place earlier this year and is part of a comprehensive expansion of
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