NextGen Healthcare, Inc., a provider of ambulatory-focused technology solutions, announced today that it has integrated Appriss Health prescription monitoring and tracking analytics into NextGen Office, the company’s cloud-based, small practice electronic health record (EHR) solution. These enhanced capabilities enable providers to more effectively prescribe and dispense controlled substances. The technology also maximizes patient health and safety by checking state records for controlled
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Innovaccer Launches a Single Data System to Empower Medicare Advantage Plans
To assist Medicare Advantage plans in eliminating these complications and achieve the top Star Ratings, Innovaccer Inc., a San Francisco-based data activation company, has strengthened its solution for Medicare Advantage plans. The solution for MA plans is a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to solve all grassroots challenges to empower MA plans to ensure healthier patients and increased profits.Rise in Medicare Advantage EnrollmentThe CMS has projected that Medicare Advantage enrollment
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Depression App UpLift Raises $1M to Help People Fight Depression
UpLift is the first mobile consumer app for depression to be based on a complete course of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The new round of funding will be used to accelerate UpLift’s development and improve core technology, while also building out newly requested features like an enhanced gamification system, the ability to connect with a coach, and more evidence-based and personalized activities to improve users’ mood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Approach to DepressionUpLift
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OSF Healthcare In Talks To Merge With Little Company of Mary Hospital, Expected to Close Early 2020
OSF HealthCare and Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers have entered into a period of exclusive negotiations for a full merger. Over the next several months, the two healthcare organizations finalizing agreements and seeking the necessary regulatory and canonical approvals. Expected to finalize in early 2020, the merger would allow OSF HealthCare and Little Company of Mary to share services, develop and expand academic partnerships, and create strategies to meet the unique
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Yale, Mayo Clinic, Biofourmis Launches Research to Detect Heart Failure Using Wearable Biosensor Data
Biofourmis has entered a research partnership with the Yale University-Mayo Clinic Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI). Biofourmis' mobile platform BiovitalsHFTM will be leveraged in a study of patients with heart failure to monitor functional capacity and quality of life to see if greater emphasis should be placed on these measures in the drug approval process.Impact of Heart FailureHeart failure afflicts approximately 6.5 million patients in the United States and
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Intermountain Launches Value-based Care Spinout Castell
Intermountain Healthcare has formed a new comprehensive health platform company named Castell that will enable other organizations to accelerate their transition from volume to value-based systems of care, while keeping care more affordable and accessible. Rajesh Shrestha has been named as the president and CEO of Castell. In addition to leading Castell, Shrestha serves as vice president and chief operating officer of Community Based Care for Intermountain Healthcare. He has more than two
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Capital Rx Lands $12M To Redefine The $550B Pharmacy Benefit Industry
Capital Rx, a New York-based pharmacy benefits manager overseeing prescription benefit plans for employers, unions, and government entities, today announced it has raised $12M in growth funding led by Edison Partners.Transforming An Outdated Model“Historically, the PBM industry chose consolidation over innovation, which is why the model hasn’t evolved in twenty years,” said AJ Loiacono, founder, and CEO of Capital Rx. “The sad truth is employers procure office supplies more effectively than
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Livongo to Offer 10.7 Million Shares in IPO, Priced Between $20 & $23 Per Share
Livongo Health, Inc., today announced it plans to offer 10,700,000 shares of its common stock to the public with the price expected to be between $20.00 and $23.00 per share. Livongo has applied to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “LVGO.” Livongo also intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,605,000 shares of common stock from Livongo.Livongo offers an integrated suite of solutions to promote sustainable health
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Stryker, RCSI Partner to Develop Digital Health Solutions for Emergency & Specialist Care
Stryker announced today the opening of its Digital Platform Services Centre of Excellence in Dublin, Ireland, and a strategic collaboration with RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) to develop digital health solutions for use in emergency and specialist care settings to provide more seamless care coordination for patients suffering from time critical medical emergencies.As part of the collaboration, Stryker will locate its Digital Platform Services Innovation and Ideation Hub in RCSI’s
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Sharecare Names Quest Diagnostic As Lab Partner For Its Digital Health Platform
Sharecare has named Quest Diagnostics its preferred laboratory partner for its comprehensive digital health platform. Sharecare and Quest Diagnostics also intend to jointly explore the development of disease management programs and other services to empower better health. In addition, Quest has made a strategic investment in Sharecare for an undisclosed sum with Goldman Sachs serving as Sharecare's financial advisor. Financial terms of the strategic investment were not disclosed.Sharecare
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