What You Should Know:
- 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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Bicycle Health Partners with Included Health on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Bicycle Health, a provider of virtual opioid addiction treatment, today announced a collaboration with Included Health – the only integrated clinical care and healthcare navigation platform – to help patients discover and navigate Bicycle Health’s treatment options and seek treatment for their opioid use disorder (OUD). Included Health delivers employers and their employees a simplified experience to finding the care they need, whenever and wherever they
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Covid Clinic Expands Its Services to Offer Treatment Options, Telemedicine Consultations & Prescription Access
What You Should Know:
- Covid Clinic, a nationwide network of COVID-19 testing sites is expanding its core service offerings across the United States.
- In partnership with Driven Care, patients will now be able to easily access treatment options, including antiviral prescription services and consultations, through its newly launched telemedicine services.Why It Matters
According to the CDC’s most recent data release, COVID-19 cases are exponentially rising across the country, due
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Curana & Innovaccer Partner to Improve Outcomes for Senior Living Communities
What You Should Know:
- Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that Curana Health is partnering with Innovaccer to build a leading edge value-based care solution to support delivery of exceptional care quality at the lowest possible cost for one of healthcare’s highest risk populations: residents in senior living communities across the country.
- Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer Health
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Inovalon Launches Race & Ethnicity Data Enrichment Offering for Health Plans
- What You Should Know:
Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare unveils a new data enrichment offering that allows health plans to improve the completeness and accuracy of race and ethnicity data for their members.
- By using algorithms uniquely available through the Inovalon ONE® Platform, the new offering fills in information gaps that can lead to care disparities across member populations and helps
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ForSight Robotics Raises $55M to Develop Robotic Cataract Surgery Procedure
What You Should Know:
- Israeli-based ForSight Robotics, the pioneer in ophthalmic robotic surgery raises $55M in Series A funding to advance the world’s first surgical platform for fully robotic cataract surgery: ORYOM. The round was led by The Adani Group with existing investors Eclipse Ventures and Mithril Capital. A number of new investors, including Provenio Capital, Precision Capital, Reiya Ventures, the Ljungstrom family office, and other prominent private investors also joined the
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HPG Acquires HIT Consulting Services Provider HDS
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare Performance Group, Inc. (HPG) acquires Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS), a healthcare IT consulting firm with expertise in Epic, Siemens, and Cerner platforms serving more than 300 hospitals and health systems.
- The HPG consulting team includes IT and informatics experts as well as nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, radiology experts, certified revenue cycle professionals, medical executives, program managers and project managers. These backgrounds
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Wysa Secures $20M for AI-Powered Mental Health Chatbot
What You Should Know:
- Wysa, a Boston, MA-based AI digital platform for mental health, today announces it has secured $20M in financing led by HealthQuad, who along with British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, joins earlier investors W Health Ventures, Kae Capital, Google Assistant Investments, and pi Ventures amongst others.
- Funds will enable access to clinically evidenced digital therapeutics (DTx) in the US, UK, India and other global
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Glooko Launches Diabetes Medical Education Academy in Ireland
What You Should Know:
- Glooko announced, in partnership with the Diabetes Technology Network (DTN)/Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD), the expansion into Ireland of Academy, the company’s online medical education program for clinicians who treat people with diabetes.
- Originally inspired after discussions with the National Health Service England (NHSE) as part of its effort to ensure all healthcare professionals learn uniformly about technology, the program will help
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5 Anti-Aging Solutions Aided by Healthcare Technology
Displaying signs of aging is a natural part of getting on in the years. But it doesn’t automatically mean that you can’t do anything to minimize or lessen the effects of aging on your face and your body. Looking and feeling youthful can have a number of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits, including staying fitter for longer and advancing your career. Thanks to the rapid advancement in healthcare technology in the last few years, there are now a number of safe ways in which you can maintain a
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