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- Blue Cross NC has announced the rollout of Teladoc Health’s full suite of virtual care services, including chronic condition management and mental health, to select Blue Cross NC employers and members. With Teladoc Health, Blue Cross NC can continue to offer more equitable access to chronic disease digital solutions regardless of physical location and work to make health care better for all North Carolinians.
- Members on most Blue Cross NC individual and fully
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The Helper Bees Taps Roundtrip to Provide Transportation Services for Members
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- The Helper Bees (THB), a full-service insurtech company that creates innovative aging-in-place solutions for both payers and insureds, announced a provider partnership with Roundtrip, the leading technology solution for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT). This agreement will bring better transportation options to Medicare Advantage (MA), Long Term Care Insurance (LTCI), health systems, and patients nationwide.
- By adding Roundtrip to this network, The
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Techstars Launches Future of Longevity Accelerator 2021 Class
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- Techstars, today announce the 2021 class of the Techstars Future of Longevity Accelerator, run in partnership with Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by Melinda French Gates to advance social progress in the United States.
- The 13-week program focuses on innovative solutions to address the unmet needs of older adults and their caregivers. Program themes include aging in place, caregiver support, care coordination, financial wellness,
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Healthcare Financial Assistance Transactions Increases by 55%, TransUnion Healthcare Survey Reveals
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- The number of financial assistance transactions processed by TransUnion Healthcare increased 55% between September 2020 and September 2021, according to a new analysis from TransUnion Healthcare released at the HFMA Annual Conference indicates hospitals are more proactively working with patients to understand their financial needs and provide appropriate options.
- The data reflect millions of financial assistance transactions, from more than 1,000 hospitals and
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Hims & Hers, Walgreens Expand Personal Care Offerings to 7,000+ Stores and Online Nationwide
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- Hims & Hers, the multi-specialty telehealth platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers, and Walgreens today announced a collaboration to provide greater access to high-quality health and wellness solutions. This will include the availability of Hims & Hers supplements and sexual health and wellness solutions, which will be offered at Walgreens retail locations nationwide and on walgreens.com.
- Hims &
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Raydiant Oximetry Nabs $5M for Fetal Oximeter that Monitors Babies’ Oxygenation During Childbirth
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- Fogarty Innovation, a nonprofit educational incubator for medical technology companies, announced today that its graduate, Raydiant Oximetry, Inc., has raised an oversubscribed round of $5M Series A2 financing led by Avestria Ventures, which invests in early-stage women’s health companies, and syndicated by KOFA Healthcare, V-Capital, Band of Angels, FemHealth Ventures, RHIA Ventures, SteelSky Ventures and Tri-Valley Ventures.
- Raydiant Oximetry is a
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Mount Sinai Uses Machine Learning to Improve Postpartum Hemorrhage Risk Prediction
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- Sema4, an AI-driven genomic and clinical data intelligence platform company, recently published two studies demonstrating the utility of machine learning to predict clinical outcomes for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). The studies, which will appear in a special “Informatics for Sex- and Gender-Related Health” print issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), were conducted in collaboration with clinicians from
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Collective Medical, Nuance Launches PowerShare to Provide ED Physicians Real-Time Notifications
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- Today, Collective Medical, a PointClickCare Company, was chosen for a collaboration with Nuance with the launch of Naunce PowerShare Image Aware.
- The collaboration will provide emergency department (ED) physicians with real-time notifications of a patient's prior radiology studies within existing clinical workflows. Point-of-care access to previous diagnostic images reduces unnecessary imaging, healthcare costs, and ED waiting times while
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Wellinks Secures $25M to Expand Virtual COPD Management Solution
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Wellinks, a digital health company for virtual COPD, announced it has closed a $25M funding round, led by new investor Morningside Venture Investments and joined by returning investors HighCape Capital, Connecticut Innovations, Benslie Ltd., and Stonehenge Capital.
- COPD is the third leading cause of death by disease in the U.S. and the fifth most costly chronic condition, with an estimated $49.9 billion spent annually. Unfortunately, the current care system for COPD
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Gundersen Health, Kyruus Partner to Propel Digital Access Transformation
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- Gundersen Health System, an integrated healthcare network, is revamping its digital front door to simplify how patients access care across its network with Kyruus. New and existing patients now have access to an online search experience with a robust directory of nearly 1,000 providers to more easily find care that best fits their needs.
- Kyruus offered the deep implementation experience Gundersen sought to help it build a new, system-wide directory of nearly 1,000
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