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- GE Healthcare unveils its next-generation, cloud-based Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) designed to address the acute shortage of radiologists and growing demand for imaging scans has put radiology departments under increased strain. Edison True PACS is a transformative system, offering AI-enabled decision support to help radiologists adapt to higher workloads and increased exam complexity, and improve diagnostic accuracy.
- Through a web-based
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Tegria, Cedar Partner to Humanize the Patient Financial Experience
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- Tegria, a Seattle-based healthcare technology, and services company, and Cedar, a New York City-based healthcare financial technology platform, announced the formation of a strategic partnership. The partnership will bring Cedar's consumer-facing financial engagement platform to Tegria customers and deliver Tegria's robust revenue cycle management expertise to Cedar's extensive client base, enabling a seamless, intuitive, and dependable financial experience for both
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Colgate Taps Verily’s Baseline Platform for Oral Health Research
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- Verily and Colgate, today announce a new oral health study as part of Verily’s ongoing Baseline Health Study that will aim to improve understanding of the connections between oral health and overall human health. The study will assess how oral health practices affect health more broadly.
- The study’s goal is to see how oral health practices, including intensive non-surgical periodontal therapy, as well as a robust Colgate home oral hygiene regimen monitored through
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Relatient Merges with Patient Access Platform Radix Health, Raises $100M+
- Today, Relatient, Inc., the leading SaaS-based, patient engagement platform, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge with Radix Health, a data-driven platform that helps medical practices and hospital groups optimize scheduling, patient access, and self-scheduling. Financial terms of the merger were not disclosed.
- In addition, Relatient has raised $100+ million of additional growth equity capital from its existing investor, Brighton Park Capital, and its affiliates.
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GoodRx and Surescripts Brings Real-Time Drug Discount Pricing in EHRs
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- Today, GoodRx announced an exclusive agreement with health information network Surescripts to deliver real-time drug discount price information for prescriptions in Surescript’ price transparency solution.
- Surescripts is a nationwide network that connects virtually all EHRs, pharmacies and health systems, enabling providers to view patient-specific benefit and cost information and then electronically prescribe a medication. Last year, nearly 2 billion electronic
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Rad AI Startup Sirona Medical Emerges from Stealth with $22.5M, Partnerships
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- Sirona Medical, a San Francisco, CA-based company founded on a deep understanding of both the practice and business of radiology, today announced partnerships with radiology practices across the country to develop and bring to market its novel radiology operating system (RadOS).
- Sirona's collaboration with five leading national practices including California Advanced Imaging Medical Associates (CAIMA), Hackensack Radiology Group, Triad Radiology Group, among
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Clarify Health Acquires Apervita’s Value Optimization Business – M&A
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- Clarify Health, a cloud analytics company delivering real-world insights to healthcare and life sciences organizations, announced today the acquisition of the Value Optimization business of Apervita, the trusted platform for healthcare collaboration for payers, providers and other stakeholders. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- This acquisition bolsters Clarify’s integrated analytics platform for end-to-end value-based contract design,
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Jvion Launches Clinical AI on the Innovaccer Health Cloud
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- Jvion, a leader in clinical artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that its AI-powered prescriptive insights, powered by the Jvion CORE™, are now available on the Innovaccer Health Cloud.
- Innovaccer’s integration with Jvion’s clinical AI to help more than 37,000 providers go beyond risk prediction to prescriptive interventions, resulting in better care and reduced healthcare costs. Innovaccer became healthcare’s latest unicorn this year when a Series D
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RxBenefits Acquires Pharmacy Benefits Consulting Firm Confidio
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RxBenefits, an employee benefits industry’s first and only technology-enabled pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO), today announced an agreement to acquire pharmacy benefits consulting firm, Confidio
- The deal will bring together two premier, complementary providers of pharmacy benefits services, further advancing the organizations’ strategic vision to deliver an affordable prescription benefit to both plan sponsors and healthcare consumers.
- Founded in
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Cedar Appoints Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer
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- Cedar, a New York City-based innovative healthcare financial technology platform, announced it has named Krishna Rao as Cedar's first Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
- Rao brings over 15 years of experience growing businesses, most recently serving as Global Head of Corporate and Business Development for Airbnb. In this role, he led and supported financings totaling over $10 billion in equity and debt capital, including the company's initial public offering last
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