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- Blue Shield of California is enhancing its popular Wellvolution program by adding two new services that provide personalized care and nutrition support for members living with or at risk for Type 2 diabetes.
- Wellvolution is a digitally based lifestyle medicine and health platform that can be personalized to each member’s individual health needs and preferences. The platform, including these expanded programs, is available to plan members at no additional cost. The
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Mass General, AstraZeneca Pilot Digital Health Program for Asthma, Heart Failure
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- Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) today announced with AstraZeneca to pilot a new digital health platform focused on heart failure and asthma studies to help improve outcomes for patients with chronic diseases.
- This collaboration is being led by the MGH Center for Innovation in Digital Healthcare (CIDH) and will utilize AstraZeneca’s new AMAZE disease management platform in studies for heart failure and asthma management. These first two studies will pilot
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Mastercard, b.well Team Up on Digital Health Patient ID Verification for Interoperability
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- b.well Connected Health today announced a partnership with Mastercard to provide individuals a simpler and more secure way to prove their identity online and in-person when accessing healthcare services.
- The partnership enables healthcare organizations to provide their members and patients with a biometric alternative to verify their identity in-person or virtually, replacing traditional processes involving physical documents such as a
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Oneview Healthcare Launches Cloud-Based Virtual Care Experience Platform
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- Oneview Healthcare collaborated with long-time client, NYU Langone Health, to roll out a virtual patient engagement platform in response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- CXP Cloud Enterprise powered by Microsoft Azure technology with the use of Samsung tablets, helps engage patients, reduce non-clinical demands on care teams and optimize clinical and operational effectiveness.
- CXP Cloud Enterprise gives patients and their families the
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Janssen Taps Komodo Health to Optimize Site Selection and Patient Recruitment for Clinical Trials
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- Komodo Health today announced a new client engagement with Janssen solidifying its role as the leading life sciences patient data analytics platform. Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen) will be using Komodo's real-world data and AI software to accelerate clinical development. Janssen plans to use Komodo's services to optimize feasibility, site selection and patient recruitment for clinical trials, ultimately driving higher throughput for
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Marpai Health Acquires Continental Benefits to Launch First Smart Health Plan System
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- Today Marpai Health announced that it will acquire third-party administrator Continental Benefits. Marpai brings deep learning to self-insured health plans, which will allow for the processing of comprehensive data to increase quality care, reduce costs, simplify the healthcare experience, and empower plan members to live healthier lives. The transaction is expected to close in April 2021.
- Continental Benefits, owned by Damien Lamendola, is a
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Omega Healthcare Acquires himagine Solutions to Expand Global Delivery Model
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- Omega Healthcare, a provider of outsourced revenue cycle management and other healthcare support services, today announced the acquisition of himagine Solutions, a St. Louis based provider of medical coding and registry services. The transaction expands the service capabilities and geographical footprint of both companies, enhancing the ability to service clients globally.
- Through this acquisition Omega Healthcare will be
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AKASA Raises $60M to Automate Revenue Cycle Operations for Health Systems
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- AKASA (formerly known as Alpha Health), a South San Francisco, CA-based Unified Automation™ company for revenue cycle management in healthcare, announced it has raised $60 million in its series B round of funding.
- Founded in 2018, AKASA uses the same machine learning approaches that made driverless cars possible to provide health systems with a single solution for automating revenue cycle operations. AKASA’s unique expert-in-the-loop approach combines modern
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Innovaccer Launches Provider Network Management Solution for Payers on the Innovaccer Health Cloud
- Innovaccer, Inc., a leading healthcare technology company, announced the launch of its Provider Network Management solution to assist healthcare payers access complete view and exercise control over their provider network performance.
- The Provider Network Management solution is powered by the Innovaccer Health Cloud and an integrated, modular, flexible platform that centralizes data and analytics to create a “single source of provider truth” for all network management needs.
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Novo Nordisk, TetraScience Partner on Cloud-Based Instrument Data Platform
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- Novo Nordisk A/S, a leading global healthcare company, and TetraScience, the leading global Life Sciences R&D Data Cloud, announce a new partnership to design a cloud-based instrument data platform for drug R&D, built natively on Amazon Web Services.
- Novo Nordisk will leverage the TetraScience Platform for automated instrument data acquisition and scalable in-cloud processing from heterogeneous sources and data streams, including plate readers, robotic
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