What You Should Know:
- In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital transformation of healthcare accelerated in 2020 with increased adoption of interoperable tools to support innovations in care management, price transparency and specialty medications, according to the Surescripts 2020 National Progress Report.
- The data, which represents 98% of the U.S. population, reveals how the digital transformation of healthcare was expedited over the
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Aetna Launches Connected Plan with CVS Health in St. Louis Market
What You Should Know:
- The Aetna Connected Plan with CVS Health™ is a first-of-its-kind plan offering that will deliver CVS Health® and Aetna's combined capabilities in the St. Louis market to help members access care when and where they need it – and at a more affordable price than a traditional plan.
- The plan combines Aetna's cost-saving performance network with access to expanded services at CVS Health retail and pharmacy. Members enjoy peace of mind with quality in-network providers
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Tomorrow Health Raises $25M for Home-Based Care Platform for Durable Medical Equipment
What You Should Know:
- Tomorrow Health, the leading patient-first platform for home healthcare, announced it has closed a $25 million Series A round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Obvious Ventures and BoxGroup. The company recently announced a partnership with Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) to provide more than half a million patients with access to curated home durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies.
- Founded in 2018, Tomorrow Health streamlines the
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Adventist Health, OSF HealthCare Use CancerIQ to Prioritize Patients for Preventive Cancer Screenings
What You Should Know:
- As the nation braces for a rise in advanced stage cancer diagnoses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two leading health systems – Adventist Health and OSF HealthCare – are using CancerIQ’s precision prevention platform and telehealth to equitably prioritize high-risk patients for screening and identify cancer in its earliest stages.
- Clinicians to present at National Consortium of Breast Center conference on
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Google Cloud Expands Intelligent Vaccine Impact Solution to Support Vaccine Equity
What You Should Know:
- Google Cloud today launched an expanded virtual agent as part of its Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution (IVIs). People will be able to schedule vaccine appointments and ask common questions through a virtual agent, Contact Center AI.
- Contact Center AI (CCAI), one core component of the Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution, scales call center human operations with intelligent virtual agents that understand, interact and can talk with people 24/7 in real-time,
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C2i Genomics Raises $100M for Whole-Genome Cancer Treatment Intelligence Platform
- Cancer intelligence company, C2i Genomics announced it has raised $100M in financing from Casdin Capital, NFX, Duquesne Family Office, Section 32, iGlobe Partners, Driehaus Capital and others.
- Funds will be used to accelerate clinical development and commercialization of the company’s C2-Intelligence Platform, a cancer diagnostics service, that uses AI pattern recognition and whole-genome analysis to provide rapid and cancer-specific detection of residual disease 100x more sensitive than
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Validic Integrates Medical Device Data with Wellframe App
What You Should Know:
- Today, Wellframe and Validic® announced a strategic collaboration today, empowering Wellframe members to integrate medical device data within the Wellframe mobile app. This integration with Validic will first enable Wellframe users to track their blood glucose levels across 50 glucometer devices, right from the Wellframe app. Wellframe’s ability to collect meaningful biometrics data from their digital care management platform allows for more touchpoints with care teams
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Medtronic Launches World’s First 7-Day Wear Infusion Set to Reduce Burden for People with Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- Medtronic has announced the launch of the world’s first and only infusion set that can be worn for up to seven days (instead of the typical three) in select European countries. The infusion set is responsible for delivering insulin from the pump into the body. This new infusion set is compatible with all MiniMed™ 600 and 700 series insulin pumps.
- It’s recommended that typical insulin infusion sets be changed every three days, whereas the glucose sensor (which is
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Cohere Health Raises $36M to Automate Prior Authorization Between Payers & Providers
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based health IT company Cohere Health has closed a $36 million Series B funding round led by Polaris Partners, with additional participation from new investors Longitude Capital and Deerfield Management, as well as existing investors Flare Capital Partners and Define Ventures. The round comes less than a year after the company launched, and only 3 months after a Series A extension.
- Cohere Health’s AI-based, fully
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Transparent Health Marketplace Raises $30M for Worker’s Compensation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Today Transparent Health Marketplace, Inc. (THM) has announced a $30 million Series C led by ARTIS Ventures to implement a completely different approach to workers’ compensation and healthcare – using proven marketplace technology that positively transformed travel, finance and other industries.
- New investors in the round include Phase 2 Partners, combined with significant participation from existing institutional and individual investors. The latest funding
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