What You Should Know:
– Vivante Health, a Chicago-based provider of digital digestive health raises $31M in Series B funding led by Mercato Partners with participation from Health Catalyst Capital as well as returning investors 7wireVentures, Intermountain Ventures, Distributed Ventures, Human Capital, and SemperVirens.
- The latest funding round brings the total capital raised by Vivante to date to $47M, following a $16M Series A round in late 2021.
Digital Digestive
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Take Command Secures $25M to Expand ICHRAs Coverage
What You Should Know:
- Take Command, a Dallas-based SaaS platform and employer-sponsored, personalized health benefits space secures $25M in growth stage financing led by Edison Partners, with participation from current investors LiveOak Venture Partners and SJF Ventures.
- Take Command is the first and largest company in the U.S. to offer end-to-end individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements, or ICHRAs, administrative platforms and access to an individual health
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Geisinger Deploys Exo’s POCUS Ultrasound Workflow Solution
What You Should Know:
- Geisinger has announced their implementation of Exo’s point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) workflow software, Exo Works, to simplify and streamline ultrasound exam documents, billing and quality assurance to improve patient outcomes.
- The implementation marks Geisinger as the first health system in PA to implement Exo’s easy-to-use ultrasound workflow solution.
- Exo Works will be deployed in Geisinger’s Emergency, Women’s Health and Sports Medicine
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60% of Ground Ambulance Rides Were Out of Network in 2022
What You Should Know:
- Out-of-network ground ambulance rides accounted for a larger percentage of ground ambulance claim lines1 than in-network rides from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, out-of-network transport accounted for 59.4% of all ground ambulance claim lines, while in-network transports made up 40.6% of the distribution, according to other findings reported in a FAIR Health brief released today, A Window into Utilization and Cost of Ground Ambulance Services: A National Study
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ShiftKey Expands to Acute Care Facilities Across 4 States
What You Should Know:
- ShiftKey today announced its expansion into acute healthcare facilities and will now be available to acute care facilities in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas – providing solutions to workforce challenges and maximizing access to high quality care for patients.
- Additionally, beta testing of the technology has already rolled out at acute care facilities in Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Carolina and West
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myTomorrows, Congenica Partner to Advance Precision Oncology by Accelerating Clinical Trial Recruitment
What You Should Know:
- Congenica, a digital health company specializing in the provision of software and solutions for genomic data analysis and interpretation, and myTomorrows, a global platform facilitating access to pre-approval treatments and clinical trials, have partnered to expedite access to precision oncology for cancer patients worldwide.
- The strategic partnership between Congenica and myTomorrows will open new opportunities for physicians to search for access to
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Walgreens, Pearl Health Partner to Expand Value-Based Care Delivery
Walgreens, Pearl Health Partner to Expand Value-Based Care Delivery
What You Should Know:
- Walgreens and Pearl Health, a provider enablement company has announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the expansion of value-based care in collaboration with community-based primary care physicians.
- Pearl Health offers technology and insight solutions that empower clinical teams to provide holistic, personalized treatment necessary for value-based, quality-focused care.
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Half of Americans Report Anxiety Before a Doctor’s Appointment
What You Should Know:
- Nearly half (48%) of Americans report feeling anxiety before a doctor’s appointment—up nearly 10 percent from 2022 (39%), according to PatientPoint’s 2023 Patient Confidence Index.
- The survey results released in partnership with OnePoll highlight the importance of treating the whole patient and taking their unique circumstances into consideration, as well as empowering moments that matter for better health.
2023 PatientPoint Patient Confidence Index Key
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Intermountain to Replace Cerner with Epic Enterprise EHR by 2025
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain Health, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems based in Salt Lake City announced the implementation of Epic’s enterprise EHR platform across the organization by the end of 2025. Intermountain’s current contract with Cerner is slated to end by November.
- The deployment will establish a single, unified EHR platform across 33 hospitals and 385 clinics across seven states to optimize cost savings, patient experience, and interoperability.
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Philips Reaches US Economic Loss Resolution for Respiratory Device Recall
What You Should Know:
- Philips Respironics, has reached an agreement to resolve all economic loss claims in the US Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) related to Philips Respironics’ voluntary recall of certain sleep and respiratory care devices.
- The agreement will provide predefined cash awards to all eligible participants in the US depending on the type of device, extended warranties on all replacement devices, and an additional cash award if they return the recalled device
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