What You Should Know:
- During National Caregivers Month, Wounded Warrior
Project and NeuroFlow are joining forces to raise awareness and access for
mental health by providing access to new technology tools and care options
- There are 53 million Americans who are unpaid
caregivers to family, friends, neighbors and spouses. This shared burden is
also widespread in the military community as many veterans and their caregivers
battle silent burdens.
NeuroFlow, the leader in
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Well Health Nabs $45M to Expand Intelligent Communications Hub
What You Should Know:
- WELL Health raises $45M in Series C funding to
transform patient communication for healthcare providers, payers, and ACOs.
- WELL Health enables conversations between patients and
healthcare organizations through secure, multilingual messaging in the
patient’s preferred communications channel: texting, email, telephone, and live
chat.
Well Health Inc., a Santa
Barbara, CA-based provider of patient communications, today announced a $45
million Series C
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Philips Unveils Vendor-Neutral Radiology Operations Command Center, Automated Radiology Workflow Suite
What You Should Know:
- Philips unveils a new multimodality virtual imaging command center that enables real-time, remote collaboration to broaden expertise between technologists, radiologists, and imaging operations teams across multiple sites via private, secure telepresence capabilities.
- In addition, Philips debuts
AI-enabled, automated Radiology Workflow Suite at RSNA 2020 to
advance precision diagnosis into clear care pathways and predictable outcomes.
Philips today
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Eden Health Sees Positive COVID-19 Screens Down 84%, Launches Employer Dashboard
What You Should Know:
- Eden has
surpassed 180,000 daily COVID-19 patient screeners for employers and their
workforces and has seen positive COVID-19 screenings drop 84% since it
started screening in late March.
- Isolating over 1,000 potential superspreader events to date, Eden Health adds Employer Dashboard to its Covid-19 solutions, giving HR leaders and execs a HIPAA-compliant, content-driven view into daily Covid-19 monitoring and screening results across employee
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AliveCor Receives FDA Clearance of Next-Gen EKG Algorithms
What You Should Know:
- AliveCor announced they received FDA clearance of new
algorithms for use with their personal EKG devices, KardiaMobile and
KardiaMobile 6L. These additional determinations will be available via a
software upgrade for the Kardia devices in 2021.
- The additional FDA-cleared algorithms double the number
of heart rhythm disturbances that AliveCor’s Kardia devices can detect,
broadening the number of patients who are able to use their remote
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VA Taps Appriss for Drug Monitoring to Curb Substance Abuse
What You Should Know:
- The Department of Veteran Affairs is working with
Appriss Health to tackle the veteran opioid epidemic via drug monitoring.
- The tool will give VHA prescribers more complete clinical information, including controlled substance prescription histories, for patients, helping clinicians identify and prevent prescription drug misuse, resulting in better-informed care decision-making and improving patient safety.
Appriss
Health, a provider delivering
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M&A: Medsphere Systems Corporation Acquires Micro-Office Systems
What You Should Know:
- Medsphere acquires Micro-Office Systems (MOS),
developer of systems integration and communication tools. MOS will retain its
name and will serve as a division of Medsphere moving forward.
Medsphere Systems
Corporation today announced the acquisition
of Micro-Office Systems (MOS)
in a move that will even further enhance the value and usability of Medsphere’s
affordable healthcare IT solutions and services. With over 30 years of healthcare
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K Health Collabs with Mayo Clinic, Raises $42M from JayZ + SpaceX/Tesla, Valor Equity Partners
What You Should Know:
- Today, K Health,
the data-driven digital primary care system with 4 million users (+ Anthem
partner), announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Mayo Clinic’s Clinic
Data Analytics Platform.
- In addition, K Health raised $42M Series D funding from investors like Valor Equity Partners who bring a wealth of artificial intelligence expertise (investors in Dataminr, SpaceX, Tesla), and Jay-Z’s fund Marcy Venture Partners.
K Health,
the data-driven
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Unite Us, CVS Health, Humana & Ochsner Health Partner to Expand Social Care Throughout Louisiana
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us today announced its Unite Louisiana
network has partnered with CVS Health, Humana, and Ochsner Health in an effort
to expand and improve community health and social care throughout the state.
- New partners will enable Unite Louisiana, the statewide
social care network, to further expand into more parishes and broaden access to
care in response to COVID-19 challenges.
Unite Us, the technology company
building coordinated care networks
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Volaris Group Acquires Clinical Workforce & Workflow Platform medaptus
What You Should Know:
- Volaris Group acquires medaptus, a clinical workforce, and workflow solutions that empower healthcare delivery entities to achieve their desired patient, clinical and financial outcomes.
Today, Volaris Group has acquired medaptus, a healthcare technology company that removes the administrative burden from hospital and group practice operations to enable higher efficiency throughput.
Removing common and costly workflow barriers from
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