Signify Health, a provider of technology-enabled in-home care and complex care management services, has announced the launch of Signify Community, the first and only social determinants of health (SDOH) solution that ties social interventions to quality, satisfaction, and financial outcomes—including 30% reductions in readmissions and 46% reductions in post-acute care spend for high-utilizer safety net populations.Understanding SDoHSocial determinants of health (SDOH) are complex and
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UnitedHealth Group Acquires Personalized Health Network PatientsLikeMe
UnitedHealth Group has acquired PatientsLikeMe, a personalized health network, according to an email confirmation from CNBC. The acquisition comes off the reports in April that PatientsLikeMe was being forced by Trump administration’s Committee of Foreign investment over its Chinese majority owner Tencent.Founded in 2004, PatientsLikeMe is the world’s largest personalized health network, helps people find new options for treatments, connect with others, and take action to improve their outcomes.
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Olive, Clinc Partner to Add Conversational AI to Digital Healthcare Employee for Hospitals
Olive, the company that introduced healthcare’s AI-driven digital employee has joined forces with Clinc, another trailblazer in Artificial Intelligence (AI), to free up time and resources by adding conversational AI capabilities to its existing technology. The combined offering allows Olive’s digital healthcare employee to bring hospitals and health systems broader applications across revenue cycle, supply chain and other financial and operational departments.
While new technologies
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Atomwise, Enamine Launches AI-Powered 10 Billion Compound Virtual Drug Screen for Pediatric Oncology
Atomwise announced the launch of a 10 billion compound AI-powered virtual drug screening initiative for pediatric oncology, in collaboration with Enamine Ltd., the world’s largest chemical supplier. The goal of this initiative – called the 10-to-the-10 program – is to dramatically increase the discovery of safer small molecules to treat pediatric cancers. When completed, it will stand as the largest ever virtual drug screen. 10-to-the-10 Program OverviewCancer is diagnosed in more than 15,000
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American Heart Association Launches Registry to Share Data with 911 & First Responders
American Heart Association is teaming up with emergency technology company, RapidSOS, to promote a voluntary registry for citizens to share data with 911 and first responders. People can provide opt-in profile information and individual health data, personalizing care and positively transforming emergency outcomes. Outdated 911 SystemPublic safety professionals are trained to respond as quickly as possible to medical emergencies, but our nation’s 9-1-1 system was built over 50 years ago for
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Washington University Alzheimer’s Study Adopts BYOD Technology for Clinical Trials & Observational Study
The Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis has selected Datacubed Health’s mobile platform has been selected to support worldwide studies for those at risk of Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Disease, a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. The Linkt platform enables the collection of real-time data on sleep, diet and other biomarkers using a “bring your own device” (BYOD) study model.Datacubed Health’s app, platform and web-based portal will be used by scientists at the
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Digital Prescribing Platform Xealth Raises Additional $3M to Close $14M Series A Round
Xealth, a Seattle-based digital prescribing platform has raised an additional $3 million in its Series A financing, bringing the amount raised in this round to $14 million total. New investors Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic and MemorialCare Innovation Fund join McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, ResMed, Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ Venture), Providence Ventures, UPMC and Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin health network. Investments from this round will be used to advance the
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Konica Minolta, Novo Nordisk, Philips, Stryker Join Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub
The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub today announced Konica Minolta Healthcare, Novo Nordisk, Philips, and Stryker as its newest strategic partners committed to improving patient care and provider experience by using health IT to solve the most pressing problems facing healthcare.Demand-Driven InnovationFounded in 2018, the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub is a healthcare innovation and commercialization program bringing together all the pieces of the healthcare innovation continuum to validate
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SubjectWell Raises $10M to Expand Risk-Free Clinical Trials Marketplace for Patient Recruitment
SubjectWell, an Austin, TX-based risk-free clinical trials marketplace for patient recruitment has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Windham Venture Partners, with participation from previous investors Healthy Ventures and Geekdom Fund.
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Clinical Trials Marketplace
Founded in 2012, SubjectWell is increasing participation in clinical research by providing a single marketplace that allows prospective patients to match to any available clinical trials. Instead of using
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Sanofi and Google to Establish Virtual Healthcare Innovation Lab Focused on AI-Enabled Datasets
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi and Google today announced its plan to establish a new virtual Innovation Lab that will leverage emerging data technologies to spur the transformation of healthcare delivery. The partnership will change how Sanofi develops new treatments and will focus on three key objectives1. Better understand patients and diseases,2. Incease Sanofi’s operational efficiency3. Improve the experience of Sanofi’s patients and customersVirtual Innovation Lab
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