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- Emtiro Health, LLC, a North Carolina-based population health company, announced its partnership with leading healthcare technology company, Innovaccer Inc. to prepare for the North Carolina Managed Medicaid Care launch and deliver the best care to the Medicaid population.
- Together, they have developed a platform to support North Carolina’s transition to Managed Care, specifically Advanced Medical Homes (AMH) and providers that participate in value-based payment
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Aetna Launches Specialty Provider Network for Suicide Prevention with Psych Hub
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- Today, Aetna, a CVS Health company announced the launch of a specialty provider network with a sole focus on suicide prevention in collaboration with Psych Hub, a comprehensive platform for mental health education. The joint effort will further arm Aetna practitioners with no-cost, evidence-based instruction, tools, and resources to identify and treat those at risk of suicide.
- As part of the collaboration, 83,000 behavioral health and employee assistance program
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RapidPulse Launches with $15M for Ischemic Stroke Therapy
- RapidPulse, Inc., a Miami-based medical device company developing a novel aspiration system to treat ischemic stroke, today announced it has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Santé Ventures who was joined by Epidarex Capital, Hatteras Venture Partners, Broadview Ventures, and Syntheon.
- The RapidPulse system was developed by Syntheon, a medical device incubator focused on developing next-generation medical devices, and has commercialized some of the largest and most trusted
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Lightship Partners with Castor to Scale Virtual Clinical Trials Worldwide
- Lightship and Castor, providers of decentralized clinical trial solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to run direct-to-patient (hybrid) clinical trials at scale. The partnership combines operational excellence in clinical studies and technology that delivers for the most complex clinical trials.
- Lightship’s end-to-end delivery model combined with an in-house care team provide the best possible patient experience in clinical trials.
- By partnering with Castor’s
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Siemens Healthineers, Prisma Health Form 10-Year Agreement to Innovate Healthcare for South Carolina
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- Today, Siemens Healthineers and Prisma Health announced a 10-year strategic relationship to help create a better state of health for South Carolina.
- This Value Partnership is focused on healthcare innovation, workforce development, and improving health care for patients and communities served by Prisma Health.
As part of the strategic partnership, Siemens Healthineers and Prisma Health will deploy the latest generation of medical technology at all Prisma Health
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Benchling Launches New RNA Capabilities to Accelerate Drug Discovery
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- Benchling, the leading life sciences cloud, today announced the launch of RNA Therapeutics R&D, a new digital solution that allows scientists to design, analyze, and develop complex RNA therapeutics in a unified cloud platform for the first time.
- More than 1,000 R&D organizations/customers can now accelerate collaboration, speed, and simplicity for RNA research via Benchling — an important advance for biotech.
Biopharmaceutical R&D teams can
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AWS Healthcare Accelerator Launches for Digital Health Startups
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- Today, Amazon announced the launch of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Healthcare Accelerator program, delivered by KidsX, a global ecosystem of pediatric innovators.
- The AWS Healthcare Accelerator is a four-week technical, business, and mentorship accelerator opportunity open to U.S.-based healthcare startups or international healthcare startups that have existing U.S. operations.
- A cohort of 10 healthcare startup companies with an established
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HHS Establishes $80M Public Health IT Workforce Program
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- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the establishment of an $80M Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (PHIT Workforce Program) to strengthen U.S. public health informatics and data science.
- The PHIT Workforce Program aims to train more than 4,000 individuals over a four-year period through an interdisciplinary approach
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Humana Acquires Integrated Post-Acute Care Provider onehome – M&A
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- Humana Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire integrated post-acute care provider One Homecare Solutions (“onehome”) from WayPoint Capital Partners (WayPoint), the private equity affiliate of a New York-based family investment office.
- The acquisition will further advance Humana’s strategy to build a value-based home health offering.
- Founded in 2013, onehome is a provider of a variety of home-based services, as well as a convener
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Medidata Announces Decentralized Clinical Trials Program
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- Today Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, announced the launch of the Medidata Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) Program, the most comprehensive set of unified, secure technologies that enable full decentralization across the clinical trial continuum.
For the first time ever, drug, vaccine, and medical device developers (sponsors) and contract research organizations (CROs) can take advantage of the only platform offering on the market which combines:
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