What You Should Know:
- Benchling, the leading life sciences cloud, today announced the launch of RNA Therapeutics R&D, a new digital solution that allows scientists to design, analyze, and develop complex RNA therapeutics in a unified cloud platform for the first time.
- More than 1,000 R&D organizations/customers can now accelerate collaboration, speed, and simplicity for RNA research via Benchling — an important advance for biotech.
Biopharmaceutical R&D teams can
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AWS Healthcare Accelerator Launches for Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know:
- Today, Amazon announced the launch of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Healthcare Accelerator program, delivered by KidsX, a global ecosystem of pediatric innovators.
- The AWS Healthcare Accelerator is a four-week technical, business, and mentorship accelerator opportunity open to U.S.-based healthcare startups or international healthcare startups that have existing U.S. operations.
- A cohort of 10 healthcare startup companies with an established
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HHS Establishes $80M Public Health IT Workforce Program
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the establishment of an $80M Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (PHIT Workforce Program) to strengthen U.S. public health informatics and data science.
- The PHIT Workforce Program aims to train more than 4,000 individuals over a four-year period through an interdisciplinary approach
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Humana Acquires Integrated Post-Acute Care Provider onehome – M&A
What You Should Know:
- Humana Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire integrated post-acute care provider One Homecare Solutions (“onehome”) from WayPoint Capital Partners (WayPoint), the private equity affiliate of a New York-based family investment office.
- The acquisition will further advance Humana’s strategy to build a value-based home health offering.
- Founded in 2013, onehome is a provider of a variety of home-based services, as well as a convener
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Medidata Announces Decentralized Clinical Trials Program
What You Should Know:
- Today Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, announced the launch of the Medidata Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) Program, the most comprehensive set of unified, secure technologies that enable full decentralization across the clinical trial continuum.
For the first time ever, drug, vaccine, and medical device developers (sponsors) and contract research organizations (CROs) can take advantage of the only platform offering on the market which combines:
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Beacon Health Launches Digital Patient Access Experience via Kyruus ProviderMatch Platform
What You Should Know:
- Beacon Health System, a non-profit health system serving northern Indiana and southern Michigan, has launched a new digital patient access experience through the Kyruus ProviderMatch platform. The health system is now making it easier for both new and existing patients to search for care system-wide online, as well as self-schedule appointments with a growing number of providers.
- After building its new enterprise-wide provider directory with Kyruus for its more
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Elevate Health Taps Innovaccer to Redefine Its Care Management Model – PHM
What You Should Know:
- Elevate Health, a Washington-based nonprofit Accountable Community for Health (ACH) organization, has partnered with us to leverage the Innovaccer Health Cloud to strengthen care management and improve patient outcomes. It was challenged to integrate data from disparate sources and close gaps for hundreds of patient records.
- With the Innovaccer Health Cloud, Elevate Health saved $6M in care costs and redefined its care management
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Linux Foundation Public Health creates the Global COVID Certificate Network
What You Should Know:
- Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) announced a new collaborative network, the Global COVID Certificate Network, to facilitate the safe and free movement of individuals globally during the COVID pandemic.
- The new collaboration will establish a global trust registry network that enables interoperable and trustworthy exchanges of COVID certificates among countries for safe reopening and provide related technology and guidance for implementation.
- The
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Transcarent Raises $58M for Consumer-Directed Care Platform for Self-Insured Employers
What You Should Know:
- Transcarent, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of consumer-directed healthcare to self-insured employers, just announced $58M in Series B funding led by many of the top health and tech investors, bringing its total funding to $98M.
- Led by CEO Glen Tullman, an industry veteran who previously led Livongo and Allscripts, Transcarent is overhauling the self-insured healthcare industry - a market that is long overdue for disruption. Despite numerous efforts and
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Hawthorne Effect Secures $20M to Decentralize Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Hawthorne Effect, a San Francisco-based solution for decentralizing clinical trials, today announced it has raised $20M in Series A funding led by Northpond Ventures with participation from SignalFire and P5 Health Ventures.
- Founded in 2015, Hawthrone Effect alleviates key issues related to patient recruitment and retention via its tech-driven platform and expansive network of medical professionals.
Hawthrone’s key offerings include:
- Hawthorne Cloud: The
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