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- Telehealth addiction treatment provider PursueCare announced it has raised a total of $11 million in Series A funding after an oversubscribed $7 million Series A2 capital raise. The round was led by OCA Ventures, Seyen Capital, Wasabi Investors and a syndicate of experienced healthcare investors.
-Founded in 2019, PursueCare, has experienced massive demand for its virtual Medication-assisted Treatment (MAT) programs for opioids and other substance use disorders
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Most Providers are Unprepared for The Surge of Post-Pandemic Referrals, Survey Finds
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- The healthcare industry is bracing for an unprecedented wave of provider referrals that formed as thousands of procedures were canceled or delayed due to COVID-19, according to new research conducted by Innovaccer
- . Despite rising concerns, few healthcare organizations are adequately prepared. Innovaccer’s recent survey reveals that more than half of healthcare executives (53%) are concerned about this coming wave of referrals, but less than half of respondents
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Health2047 Spins Out SiteBridge Research Launches to Improve Clinical Trial Access for Small and Community Physician Practices
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- Health2047, the innovation arm of the American Medical Association, today announced the spinout of a new company, SiteBridge Research, that offers a more accessible way for a broader set of physicians and their patients to participate in clinical research.
- SiteBridge Research creates a network of independent, small practice physicians to gather data from a broader, more inclusive patient population and, ultimately, create more widely applicable clinical
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Syneos, Medable Team Up to Bring Decentralized Clinical Trials to Patients
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- Syneos Health, a fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization, and Medable, a cloud platform for patient-centered drug development, announced a strategic partnership to bring clinical trials closer to the patient.
- The partnership will deliver new decentralized capabilities to Syneos Health with the aim of increasing clinical trial diversity, while improving patient access and experiences to transform biopharmaceutical product development.
- As part
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Innovation, Interoperability Accelerated Healthcare Digital Transformation in 2020
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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