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- SimpliFed, the telehealth platform dedicated to democratizing access to baby feeding services, announced it has closed $6M in its seed round, led by Morningside Ventures and The Venture Collective, with participation from NY Ventures, Elizabeth Street Ventures, Waterline Ventures, and 3CC.
- SimpliFed provides virtual breastfeeding and baby feeding support fully covered by your health plan from pregnancy to weaning.
Virtual Inclusive Baby Feeding Support for
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The Academy and Nuance Partner to Launch The AI Collaborative
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- The Health Management Academy (The Academy) has partnered with Nuance, a Microsoft company, to launch The AI Collaborative, which brings together senior leaders from the nation’s Leading Health Systems (LHS) who are deploying these technologies in the clinical and operational settings, as well as planning for future use-cases.
- The collaborative brings together physician executives from leading hospital systems and other key stakeholders across the healthcare
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Osmind Secures $40M to Expand Mental Health EHR Platform
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- Osmind, a mental health EHR platform helping clinicians and researchers advance new life-saving mental health treatments, today announced a $40 million Series B investment led by DFJ Growth. The Series B round brings the total amount of funding for Osmind to $57M since the company’s founding in 2020. Justin Kao, partner at DFJ Growth, and the co-founder of Helix, will join the Osmind Board of Directors.
- Osmind works with mental health providers of all types, but
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Handspring Launches with $6.2M to Solve Mental Health Access for Kids
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Handspring , a Newark, NJ-based startup building a vertically-integrated and omnichannel behavioral health center for children and families that includes both virtual care and modern clinics. Today, the company has announced its official launch in New Jersey to provide quality care to more families and children.
Handspring has closed a $6.2M seed round to further its mission of making quality mental healthcare accessible to all families was co-led by Newark
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COVID-19 Fell Out of Top 5 Telehealth Diagnoses Nationwide in February 2022
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- After two months in the top five telehealth diagnoses nationally and in every US census region, COVID-19 fell out of that ranking nationally and in every region in February 2022, according to FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
- The change coincided with a sharp decline in new cases of COVID-19, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following the January
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3 Senior Living Providers Merge to Form Curana Health
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- Three leading organizations that provide healthcare services to senior living communities – Elite Patient Care, Provider Health Services, and AllyAlign Health – have joined forces to form Curana Health. Curana Health’s mission is to improve the health, happiness, and dignity of senior living residents. The Curana Health ACO is a value-based care program for original Medicare beneficiaries.
- The combined Curana Health organization spans 26 states and over 1000+
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Luma Health & Change Healthcare Partner to Develop Solutions to Optimize Patient Journeys
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- Luma Health, a digital health company streamlining patient-provider communications announced a strategic partnership with Change Healthcare, a healthcare technology company that provides the connection and data transfer between providers, payers, and consumers.
- The two companies will develop solutions to meet health systems' demand for streamlined and unified clinical, operational, and financial journeys.
Develop Solutions to Unify All Journeys -Clinical,
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StimScience Launches Wearable Sleep Aid That Actually Improves Sleep
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- StimScience, the company using personalized neuroscience to improve sleep, today announces its new consumer sleep product, Somnee. Somnee is the first-ever electronic sleep aid headband to use personalized non-invasive brain stimulation to improve the wearer’s sleep quality.
- In a 1,500-night home pilot study, Somnee cut the time it took beta users to fall asleep in half, and it reduced the amount of overnight tossing and turning by more than one-third.
As
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Banner Health Invests In Atlas Healthcare Partners
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- Atlas Healthcare Partners (Atlas), which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in partnerships with health systems and physicians, announced today that Banner Health has invested into Atlas.
- Atlas formed a joint venture partnership with Banner in 2018 to develop and operate a network of ASCs in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming. This strategy has resulted in significant growth over the last three years, expanding from eight ASCs to
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Divurgent Appoints Ed Marx as New CEO
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- Divurgent, a healthcare IT consulting company, today announced it has appointed Ed Marx, a renowned leader with more than 30 years of experience, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
- In addition, Colin Konschak, company founder and CEO since 2007, will move to a new role as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Ed Marx Background
Ed Marx is an influential, veteran IT leader with deep experience in healthcare. He was the former Chief
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