What You Should Know:
- Tempus and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced an accelerated phase II study evaluating the efficacy and safety of niraparib, an oral, once daily PARP inhibitor, for patients with breast and pancreatic cancers. The study, titled “Niraparib in the Treatment of Patients With Advanced PALB2 Mutated Tumors” (the PAVO study, NCT05169437) is sponsored by Tempus and opened for enrollment on January 7, 2022.
- This trial’s data-driven design and site selection
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Innovaccer Offers Public Health Command Center at No Cost to Assist with Omicron Surge
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has launched Public Health Command Center, an innovative solution designed to help hospitals fight the pandemic more effectively at scale. It seamlessly integrates Innovaccer’s proven COVID-19 Command Center with a COVID-focused version of Innovaccer’s new Patient Relationship Management solution. And it’s available at no cost to public health departments and hospitals for the first three months of use.
- Powered by the Innovaccer Health
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HeyRenee Raises $4.4M for Care Concierge Platform
What You Should Know:
- HeyRenee, the newest health-tech innovation from Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, the founders of Heal, today announced an oversubscribed $4.4M Seed II funding round led by Quiet Capital, with participation from City Light Capital, Fika Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Mucker Capital, SaaS Ventures, and Tau Ventures. HeyRenee has raised a total of $8.2 million and tripled its valuation in just five months.
- Set to launch in early spring 2022, HeyRenee aims
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First Stop Health Launches Virtual Primary Care for Access to Urgent Care
What You Should Know:
- First Stop Health® (FSH), a virtual care provider in the areas of telemedicine and virtual mental health, today announced the availability of Virtual Primary Care for its clients and members throughout the U.S.
- Virtual Primary Care gives members convenient, fast and affordable access to high-quality care while helping to lower healthcare costs for employers.
How FSH Virtual Primary Care Features
FSH Virtual Primary Care is available via app, website or
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Aledade Acquires Advance Care Planning Company Iris Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Aledade acquires Iris Healthcare, a provider of advanced care planning solutions for tens of thousands of patients across the country. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- As Aledade continues to grow exponentially, the company plans to integrate new patient care solutions to help extend the capabilities of its partner primary care practices.
When individuals face a serious illness, healthcare becomes central to their life. In a crisis,
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mPulse Mobile Acquires HealthCrowd, Receives Growth Investment
What You Should Know:
mPulse Mobile, a leader in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry, released 2 major announcements:
- acquired HealthCrowd, a leading communications platform-as-a-service innovator focused primarily on the Medicaid market
- received a growth investment from PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies.
Acquisition Impact for mPulse
mPulse took part in
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Medically Home Secures $110M to Expand Hospital-At-Home Platform
What You Should Know:
- Medically Home today announced a new, $110M round of funding from strategic investors including Baxter International Inc., Global Medical Response (GMR) and Cardinal Health who will each have representation on the company's Board. Cardinal Health, Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente are providing additional capital on top of their previous investments, demonstrating confidence in the growing expansion of the model nationwide.
- The Medically Home model
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Endear Health Raises $4M for Payor Member Experience Platform for Medicare Advantage Plans
What You Should Know:
- Endear Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital engagement platform built for the rapidly evolving value-based landscape, has successfully closed an oversubscribed $4M seed funding round led by 8VC with participation by GreatPoint Ventures and additional Angel Investors.
- Endear Health concurrently announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Mirsky to its Advisory Board to provide guidance as Endear Health expands to additional health plans and provider groups around
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Castlight Health and Vera Whole Health Merge in $370M Deal
What You Should Know:
- Castlight Health and Vera Health announce merger, the combined company will integrate Castlight’s market-leading navigation technology with Vera’s best in class advanced primary care model to expand access to care, reduce healthcare costs, and improve outcomes.
Castlight Health, Inc. (“Castlight”) (NYSE: CSLT), a healthcare data and navigation company, and Vera Whole Health, Inc. (“Vera”), a pioneer in advanced primary care, jointly announced a merger agreement
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Q-Centrix & Realyze Intelligence Partner to Advance the Clinical Data Automation
What You Should Know:
- Q-Centrix®, the largest exclusive provider of clinical data management solutions to hospitals and health systems, announced a partnership with Realyze Intelligence, a company using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to capture unstructured clinical data, ensuring patient populations with heart conditions or cancer receive the most beneficial treatments.
- By partnering with Realyze, Q-Centrix will bring a sophisticated AI and machine
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