What You Should Know:
- Navina, a Tel Aviv-based developer of AI-powered clinical platform for primary care raises $15M in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures Israel, Schusterman Family Investments (SFI) and existing investor Grove Ventures also joined the round. The latest round brings the company's total funding to date to $22M, raised within 12 months after commercial launch.
- Navina uses medically informed AI to replace disorganized patient data with an intuitive Patient Portrait
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GeniusRx Digital Pharmacy Launches Asynchronous Telehealth Offering
What You Should Know:
- GeniusRx™, a Boca Raton, FL-based next-generation digital pharmacy focused on improving patient outcomes by disrupting the way prescription drugs are bought, sold, and delivered, announced the launch of GeniusClinic™ and GeniusIQ™.
- GeniusClinic™ provides members with access to providers in a transparent and affordable manner, leveraging the GeniusIQ™ machine learning platform, for new and refill prescriptions medications, for non-acute and lifestyle
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Northwell Selects Cedar to Deliver Personalized Financial Experience
What You Should Know:
- Northwell Health, the largest health system in New York State, and Cedar, a market-leading healthcare financial technology platform, today announced a collaborative relationship to improve the financial experience for 2 million patients across Northwell’s 23 hospitals and various facilities.
- Northwell will leverage Cedar Pay, Cedar’s post-visit patient engagement and payment platform, delivers a more streamlined patient
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FDA Selects Aetion Evidence Platform to Assess In-Patient COVID-19 Treatments
What You Should Know:
- Aetion, a NYC-based leading real-world evidence (RWE) company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has contracted with them to use their Aetion Evidence Platform® to rapidly assess in-patient COVID-19 treatments and advance regulatory science to help determine when, where and how to use RWD.
- This project is designed to demonstrate how using a platform-based approach
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Suki Launches Windows Version of Voice-Enabled Clinical Digital Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Suki, a provider of voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, announced today the launch of a Windows version of Suki Assistant, expanding the use of the company’s proprietary technology to Windows-powered computers. This offering complements Suki’s existing mobile and web apps, rounding out access to Suki Assistant and delivering the health care industry’s first end-to-end voice-enabled clinical
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Bardavon Health Innovations Secures $90M to Advance MSK Platform Beyond Workers’ Compensation Care
What You Should Know:
- Bardavon Health Innovations, a Workers’ Compensation and musculoskeletal (MSK) health company, today announced a Series C funding of $90 million led by investor Matrix Capital Management, a public and private investment firm, joined by WestCap, a growth equity firm.
- Bardavon, a privately held, Kansas City-based digital health partner, connects all stakeholders to better manage MSK injuries and health. Its prospective
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Trinity Health Invests in Xealth to Expand Digital Health Engagement Between Clinicians and Patients – HLTH21
What You Should Know:
- Xealth, a Seattle-based provider enabling digital health at scale, today announced at HLTH21 that Trinity Health, one of the nation’s largest Catholic health care systems, has invested in the company, bringing the total Series B funding to $25 million.
- The announcements mark Trinity as one of 15 health system investors for Xealth: Advocate Aurora Enterprises, Atrium Health, Banner Health, ChristianaCare, Cone Health, Memorial Hermann, Nebraska
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HLTH21: UnitedHealthcare Launches Virtual-First Health Plan, NavigateNOW
What You Should Know:
- UnitedHealthcare today announced the launch of a new virtual-first health plan called NavigateNOW designed to provide people with a personalized virtual care team to provide medical and behavioral health services with a seamless hand-off for in-person treatment if needed
- Through this new health plan, eligible UnitedHealthcare members will be able to receive various types of care, including wellness, routine, chronic condition management, urgent
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Ambetter, Teladoc Partner to Launch Virtual Access Health Plan in 4 States
What You Should Know:
- Health insurance offering Ambetter announced a partnership with Teladoc Health to launch a virtual access health plan in 2022 for Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas residents.
- Ambetter Virtual Access is a new, innovative health plan that will support affordable and convenient access to licensed virtual primary care providers as well as access to specialists, mental health providers and a Care Team to assist with navigating the platform
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HLTH21: Uber Health, Papa Partner to Improve Social Determinants of Health
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- Papa, a nationwide provider that pairs older adults and families with Papa Pals for companionship and assistance with everyday tasks, and Uber Health, Uber’s HIPAA-enabled solution for health care organizations, announced a social determinants of health (SDoH) partnership aimed at reducing barriers to transportation access.
- Papa and Uber are working together to mitigate social isolation and negative health outcomes among Medicare and Medicaid recipients as
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