What You Should Know:
- Meta released details of its Quest Pro headset today. In a departure from gaming-only content, the new headset comes with Nanome, a virtual and augmented reality app that allows users to step inside and interact with molecules - helping scientists make “eureka” discoveries, and revolutionize the way students learn biology and chemistry. Nanome is available for free on the new Meta Quest Pro headset, releasing on October 25.
- Nanome helps scientists discover
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Samsung Expands Its Health and Wellness Ecosystem with New Developer Tools
What You Should Know:
- Samsung Electronics unveiled a series of new tools ahead of the Samsung Developer Conference 2022 (SDC2022) that will aid developers and communities in shaping health, wellness and safety habits for consumers everywhere.
- These developer tools include the Samsung Privileged Health SDK program for select partners, the Fall Detection API to support user safety, Samsung’s new end-to-end research solution for educational, clinical and healthcare programmers,
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Aetna Taps Emcara Health to Deliver Home-Based Primary Care to 240k Medicaid Patients
What You Should Know:
- Emcara Health and Aetna Better Health, which announced that the two companies will be partnering to deliver primary care in the home to more than 240,000 Medicaid patients in the Miami/Dade and Tampa, Florida regions.
- The relationship extends Emcara Heath’s comprehensive primary care model – which includes behavioral health and social determinants of health assessments – to adult Aetna Medicaid members.
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Memora, Luma Partner to Offer Health Systems a Wholesale Digital Front Door
What You Should Know:
- Today, Memora Health announced a partnership with Luma Health to offer health systems a combined wholesale digital front door and patient engagement tool - which have traditionally been separate offerings.
- Together the digital health companies will offer a tool that streamlines patient communication, increases access, and ensures patients are following care plans - all while unburdening care teams from routine administrative tasks. After implementing Memora
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MEDITECH Expands Collaborative Environments
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH announced today the expansion of MEDITECH Greenfield, now providing two collaborative environments that fuel innovation: Greenfield Alliance and Greenfield Workspace.
- Greenfield Alliance is a new partner engagement initiative for organizations with proven, interoperable products that complement, enhance, or extend the Expanse EHR.
- Greenfield Workspace - an established development ecosystem that enables our API
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Ascension Forms Long-Term Lab Relationship with LabCorp
What You Should Know:
- Labcorp has today announced a long-term laboratory relationship with non-profit and Catholic health system Ascension.
- As a part of the companies’ strategic collaboration, Labcorp purchased select assets of Ascension’s outreach laboratory business and will manage the health system’s hospital-based laboratories in Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
- The new relationship expands access for communities
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Qnovia Secures $17M to Advance Inhalable Therapeutics Pipeline
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- Qnovia (formerly Respira Technologies)—a pharma company developing inhaled therapeutics with an initial focus on nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and cardiopulmonary diseases—has raised $17M in Series A funding led by Blue Ledge Capital and included DG Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Gaingels, TL Capital, and Vice Ventures.
- Qnovia will use the Series A proceeds to advance its NRT drug candidate through an IND submission with the FDA and begin human
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Prescryptive Health Acquires Full-Service PBM Northwest Pharmacy Services
What You Should Know:
- Prescryptive Health, a health tech company empowering consumers with prescription drug pricing data, has acquired Northwest Pharmacy Services Inc, a full-service, non-profit Pharmacy Benefit Manager. NWPS serves over 44,000 members in the Pacific Northwest.
- As part of this new acquisition, NWPS members will have access to Prescryptive's exclusive blockchain-powered mobile solution, bringing transparency, choice and control over prescription drug pricing.
- All
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MedStar Health Awarded $2M Telehealth Research Grant
What You Should Know:
- MedStar Health has received a nearly $2 million telehealth research grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to expand its research collaboration with Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare focused on telehealth access, safety, and equity.
- The grant will allow researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period to apply a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems
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Biden-Harris Admin Awards $1.5B to Address Overdose Epidemic
What You Should Know:
- The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), awarded nearly $1.5 billion to support states, tribal lands, and territories’ efforts to address the opioid crisis and support individuals in recovery.
- The grants are part of SAMHSA’s State Opioid Response and Tribal Opioid Response grant programs. The grant programs provide funding to states and territories to increase access to
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