What You Should Know:
- VillageMD announced it has acquired Healthy Interactions, which helps patients manage chronic conditions through interactive educational programming as part of a stronger patient-provider relationship.
- The Healthy Interactions program, which offers virtual, in-person and hybrid sessions, will be available from Village Medical and Village Medical at Walgreens providers in 14 markets by the end of 2022. More than 30 million patients around the world have used
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Accenture & League Partner to Transform Digital Healthcare Experiences
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- Accenture and League, a health-focused platform-as-a-service company, are collaborating to create experiences and increase access to improve outcomes for people, providers, payers, and retail pharmacies.
- As part of the collaboration that combines Accenture’s data analytics and systems integration capabilities with League’s healthcare experience platform, the two companies will scale platform implementations and innovations to create personalized digital healthcare
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Hurdle Health Expands Mental Health Support into California, Texas and Massachusetts for BIPOC Communities
What You Should Know:
- Hurdle Health, a digital platform revolutionizing mental healthcare by providing services with a focus on culturally intentional mental healthcare for people of color today announced expanded service availability in Texas, Massachusetts and California with plans to add even more states by Q2 2022, including Tennessee, Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia, and New York.
- With these expansions, the mental health service and its specially trained
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Respira Labs Secures $2.8M to Expand Clinical-Grade Respiratory Health Wearable
What You Should Know:
- Respira Labs, a Latina-led medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, today announces it has closed $2.8M to continue to develop and produce its clinical-grade respiratoryhealth wearable that uses acoustic resonance to assess lung function and identify changes in lung air volume, which is especially critical for COPD, COVID-19 and asthma patients.
- Respira Labs raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Zentynel Frontier Investments with
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Radial Analytics Raises $3M to Optimize Patient Care Transitions
What You Should Know:
- Radial Analytics, a Concord, MA-based company optimizing patient care transitions with real-time decision-support solutions for payers and providers, today announced it has raised $3M in funding led by Initialized Capital.
- The company plans to utilize the funds to grow our team and build on our growing customer traction with Medicare Advantage plans and hospital systems in value-based care delivery contracts.
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Ascension Selects Labcorp to Manage Labs Across 10 States
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Labcorp today announced its strategic partnership with Ascension, one of the nation’s leading Catholic and non-profit health systems. Through this comprehensive arrangement, Labcorp will manage Acension’s hospital-based laboratories in 10 states and acquire select assets of the health system’s outreach laboratory business. Meanwhile, Ascension can leverage Labcorp’s innovative technology to scale diagnostics in priority clinical areas like oncology, neurology and women’s
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PayZen Integrates with Epic’s App Orchard Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- PayZen, a fintech startup tackling healthcare affordability in the U.S., today announced its technology has been approved by Epic to offer its “Care Now, Pay Later” solution on the App Orchard Marketplace.
- The integration provide a seamless solution to Epic EHR providers, as well as a high-quality user experience for patients. PayZen’s first-of-its-kind, AI-backed technology allows hospitals, health systems and large physician groups to offer their patients
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C2i Genomics, Twist Bioscience Partner to Develop Whole-Genome Cancer Reference Materials
What You Should Know:
- Today, Twist Bioscience and cancer genomics startup C2i Genomics announced a partnership to develop whole-genome cancer reference materials.
- This resource will provide diagnostic labs around the globe with the ability to better validate and monitor the quality of their whole-genome cancer screening and minimal residual disease (MRD) products for more accurate cancer detection.
C2i to integrate Twist’s library preparation kits into minimal residual
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Profitability Tops Number 1 Priority for Healthcare Practices in 2022, Survey Reveals
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare practices named ranked running a profitable practice as their number one priority for 2022, according to a new recently released survey by Updox. Additional practice priorities included improving patient satisfaction (32%), improving patient outcomes (21%), spending less time doing paperwork (12.34%), and improving staff satisfaction (5.65%).
- The Updox survey was designed to determine healthcare practice priorities in 2022 and how paperless and virtual
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Medidata, Parexel Expands Partnership to Enhance Decentralized Clinical Trial Delivery
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- Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company and Parexel, a global clinical research organization (CRO) focused on development and delivery of innovative new therapies to advance patient health extends their 15-year global strategic partnership. This extension includes gaining access to Medidata’s continued innovations in clinical trial technology solutions with its unified platform, support of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), the myMedidata patient portal, Sensor
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