What You Should Know:
- Suki, a voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology company for healthcare, announced the release of a mini-documentary that features the real-life challenge of a family physician facing burnout and how a voice assistant helped alleviate the negative impact of administrative burden.
- “From Burnout to Balance” is an intimate view into Dr. Elizabeth Goff’s struggles with work-life balance and how the use of a voice assistant provided the margin needed to keep
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ConcertAI Names Ronan Brown as its First COO
What You Should Know:
- ConcertAI, which provides AI SaaS and real-world data tech solutions for oncology research and trials, today announced the appointment of Ronan Brown as its first COO.
- In his new role as COO, Brown will oversee and enhance day-to-day operations across the company, globally, to assure the quality, performance, and seamless functionality of the company’s solutions as the ConcertAI continues it high growth.
- Brown, who was most recently senior vice
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Included Health Launches All-Included Care™
What You Should Know:
- Included Health, a digital health company integrating navigation and virtual care unveiled the All-Included Care platform at HLTH22 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- All-Included Care is a new kind of healthcare service that guides and delivers high-quality, in-network care for every health journey, from simple to complex.
- By combining virtual care and access to in-person care with guidance and advocacy, All-Included Care creates a comprehensive and connected healthcare
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HLTH 22: Cerner & Labcorp Partner to Manage Hospital Labs in 10 States
What You Should Know:
- Oracle Cerner and Labcorp have formed a new relationship to streamline lab operations for one of the nation’s leading nonprofit Catholic health systems. Labcorp purchased select assets of the health system’s outreach laboratory business and will manage its hospital-based laboratories in 10 states.
- Cerner’s laboratory information system (LIS) will help Labcorp centralize operations and streamline processes within the
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HLTH22: Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women's and family health, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series E funding round led by General Catalyst, with participation from CVS Health Ventures, La Famiglia, and Intermountain Ventures, as well as existing investors Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, Icon Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Lux Capital. This brings Maven's total funding to $300 million and highlights the growing demand for women's and family
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HLTH22: Twilio, Healthfirst Launch CDP for Health Plans and Providers
What You Should Know:
Twilio, the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalized experiences for today’s leading brands, today announced the general availability of Twilio Segment for Healthcare & Life Sciences, a HIPAA-eligible customer data platform (CDP) that can improve patients’ experiences and health outcomes by unifying Protected Health Information (PHI) data across their entire care journey.
New York state based health insurer Healthfirst has served as a
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CVS Health’s Former Chief Strategy Officer Joins VC Firm, LRVHealth
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- LRVHealth, the inside healthcare venture capital platform, announced that Josh Flum joined the firm as a managing partner. Prior to joining LRV Health, Flum served as Chief Strategy Officer and Business Developer Officer at CVS Health.
- Flum joins a diverse team of healthcare operators, entrepreneurs, investors and insiders leading healthcare innovation and transformation alongside a network of strategic limited partners that touches half of all
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Aetna & Crossover Health Launches Primary Care Health Plan Benefit
What You Should Know:
- Crossover Health and Aetna have partnered to bring new primary care options to Seattle area employers and their employees.
The innovative partnership, called Aetna Advanced Primary Health available starting January 1, 2023 marks the first time a value-based, hybrid care model like this has been offered to employers through a commercial health insurance plan.
Aetna Advanced Primary Health Overview
Aetna Advanced
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Komodo Health & Intercept Partner to Study Rare Liver Disease
What You Should Know:
- Komodo Health announced its collaboration with Intercept Pharmaceuticals to power clinical research and new real-world evidence (RWE) with Komodo’s platform.
Leveraging Komodo’s tech platform and Healthcare Map, Intercept was able to conduct a retrospective real-world study on the long term outcomes for Ocaliva — a therapeutic for rare liver disease, primary biliary cholangitis (PBC).
Partnership Details
Intercept initially developed a traditional
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Survey: People Living with COPD Want Innovation in Care Delivery
What You Should Know:
- People living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are enthusiastic about the promise of care innovation, according to a survey released by Wellinks, a digital healthcare company offering the first-ever integrated, virtual COPD management solution, in collaboration with the COPD Foundation.
- The research assessed patient perspectives on COPD care in the United States and findings suggest the status quo is failing people living with the
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