What You Should Know:
- Today, Walmart announced it is teaming up with Included Health, a LGBTQ+ focused care navigation platform to provide a new healthcare benefit for LGBTQ+ employees and their loved ones.
- Through its partnership with Grand Rounds, associates on a Walmart medical plan and their covered dependents will now be eligible to leverage Included Health’s care-navigation platform tailored for the LGBTQ+ community.
Why It Matters
LGBTQ+ people face serious
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Hospital IQ Raises $25M to Scale Predictive Hospital Operations Platform
What You Should Know:
- Hospital IQ, a provider of predictive hospital operations and communications software, secured $25 million in Series C funding led by Baxter Ventures, the venture investment arm of Baxter International Inc., and Health Velocity Capital, joining existing investors Pierpoint Capital and Allscripts.
- Hospital IQ provides an operations management software platform that uses artificial intelligence to anticipate and direct actions, enabling health systems to
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Hims & Hers Acquires Teledermatology Platform Apostrophe
What You Should Know:
-Hims & Hers Health, Inc., the multi-specialty telehealth platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers, today announced its will acquire teledermatology specialist, Apostrophe. Financial details of the transaction will not be disclosed at this time.
Apostrophe has created a clinical platform that powers bespoke treatment plans that include some of the most sophisticated, personalized combinations of topical
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Cardiac Success Secures $5.2M for Transcatheter Ventricular Repair Device for Heart Failure Patients
What You Should Know:
- Cardiac Success Ltd., an Israel-based medical device company developing a transcatheter ventricular repair device for heart failure patients, announced it has raised $5.2M in Series A funding round led by 415 CAPITAL. The round was joined by an unnamed global strategic leader in structural heart interventions and a group of Israeli angel investors.
- Today, there are millions of patients who, despite guidance-directed medical therapy, continue to suffer
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U of Chicago Med & COTA to Address Racial Disparities in Cancer Using RWD
What You Should Know:
- COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company and the University of Chicago Medicine announced a research collaboration agreement to investigate racial disparities of care in multiple myeloma to better understand differences in the diagnosis, treatment patterns, and outcomes of patients with this type of cancer.
- Multiple myeloma is the second-most-common hematologic malignancy, with an estimated 34,920 new cases and 12,410 deaths expected to occur
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Emtiro Health Taps Innovaccer to Build a Population Health Analytics Platform for NC Managed Medicaid Care Launch
What You Should Know:
- Emtiro Health, LLC, a North Carolina-based population health company, announced its partnership with leading healthcare technology company, Innovaccer Inc. to prepare for the North Carolina Managed Medicaid Care launch and deliver the best care to the Medicaid population.
- Together, they have developed a platform to support North Carolina’s transition to Managed Care, specifically Advanced Medical Homes (AMH) and providers that participate in value-based payment
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Aetna Launches Specialty Provider Network for Suicide Prevention with Psych Hub
What You Should Know:
- Today, Aetna, a CVS Health company announced the launch of a specialty provider network with a sole focus on suicide prevention in collaboration with Psych Hub, a comprehensive platform for mental health education. The joint effort will further arm Aetna practitioners with no-cost, evidence-based instruction, tools, and resources to identify and treat those at risk of suicide.
- As part of the collaboration, 83,000 behavioral health and employee assistance program
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RapidPulse Launches with $15M for Ischemic Stroke Therapy
- RapidPulse, Inc., a Miami-based medical device company developing a novel aspiration system to treat ischemic stroke, today announced it has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Santé Ventures who was joined by Epidarex Capital, Hatteras Venture Partners, Broadview Ventures, and Syntheon.
- The RapidPulse system was developed by Syntheon, a medical device incubator focused on developing next-generation medical devices, and has commercialized some of the largest and most trusted
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Lightship Partners with Castor to Scale Virtual Clinical Trials Worldwide
- Lightship and Castor, providers of decentralized clinical trial solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to run direct-to-patient (hybrid) clinical trials at scale. The partnership combines operational excellence in clinical studies and technology that delivers for the most complex clinical trials.
- Lightship’s end-to-end delivery model combined with an in-house care team provide the best possible patient experience in clinical trials.
- By partnering with Castor’s
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Siemens Healthineers, Prisma Health Form 10-Year Agreement to Innovate Healthcare for South Carolina
What You Should Know:
- Today, Siemens Healthineers and Prisma Health announced a 10-year strategic relationship to help create a better state of health for South Carolina.
- This Value Partnership is focused on healthcare innovation, workforce development, and improving health care for patients and communities served by Prisma Health.
As part of the strategic partnership, Siemens Healthineers and Prisma Health will deploy the latest generation of medical technology at all Prisma Health
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