What You Should Know: - Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women's and family health, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series E funding round led by General Catalyst, with participation from CVS Health Ventures, La Famiglia, and Intermountain Ventures, as well as existing investors Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, Icon Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Lux Capital. This brings Maven's total funding to $300 million and highlights the growing demand for women's and family
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HLTH22: Twilio, Healthfirst Launch CDP for Health Plans and Providers
What You Should Know: Twilio, the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalized experiences for today’s leading brands, today announced the general availability of Twilio Segment for Healthcare & Life Sciences, a HIPAA-eligible customer data platform (CDP) that can improve patients’ experiences and health outcomes by unifying Protected Health Information (PHI) data across their entire care journey. New York state based health insurer Healthfirst has served as a
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CVS Health’s Former Chief Strategy Officer Joins VC Firm, LRVHealth
What You Should Know: - LRVHealth, the inside healthcare venture capital platform, announced that Josh Flum joined the firm as a managing partner. Prior to joining LRV Health, Flum served as Chief Strategy Officer and Business Developer Officer at CVS Health. - Flum joins a diverse team of healthcare operators, entrepreneurs, investors and insiders leading healthcare innovation and transformation alongside a network of strategic limited partners that touches half of all
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Aetna & Crossover Health Launches Primary Care Health Plan Benefit
What You Should Know: - Crossover Health and Aetna have partnered to bring new primary care options to Seattle area employers and their employees. The innovative partnership, called Aetna Advanced Primary Health available starting January 1, 2023 marks the first time a value-based, hybrid care model like this has been offered to employers through a commercial health insurance plan. Aetna Advanced Primary Health Overview Aetna Advanced
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Komodo Health & Intercept Partner to Study Rare Liver Disease
What You Should Know: - Komodo Health announced its collaboration with Intercept Pharmaceuticals to power clinical research and new real-world evidence (RWE) with Komodo’s platform. Leveraging Komodo’s tech platform and Healthcare Map, Intercept was able to conduct a retrospective real-world study on the long term outcomes for Ocaliva — a therapeutic for rare liver disease, primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). Partnership Details Intercept initially developed a traditional
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Survey: People Living with COPD Want Innovation in Care Delivery
What You Should Know: - People living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are enthusiastic about the promise of care innovation, according to a survey released by Wellinks, a digital healthcare company offering the first-ever integrated, virtual COPD management solution, in collaboration with the COPD Foundation. - The research assessed patient perspectives on COPD care in the United States and findings suggest the status quo is failing people living with the
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Northwell Holdings & Aegis Ventures Form FemTech Company for Menopause Support
What You Should Know: - Northwell Holdings and Aegis Ventures inked an agreement today for the formation of Upliv, a femtech-based women's virtual care startup that aims to raise the bar for clinical menopause support. - Upliv is the joint creation of Aegis Ventures and Northwell Holdings, the for-profit investment arm of Northwell Health. In April 2022, Aegis Ventures announced the intention to invest at least $100M in seed-stage funds toward the development of joint ventures with
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Salesforce Unveils Patient 360 for Health innovations to Improve Patient Outcomes
What You Should Know: - Today, Salesforce announced a new Patient 360 for Health innovations providing cost-saving automation, real-time data, and personalized intelligence for healthcare and life sciences organizations to deliver comprehensive patient engagement and equitable care with greater efficiency.- According to Salesforce’s 2022 Success Metrics Global Highlights study, healthcare and life sciences organizations using Salesforce are seeing an average of 25%* savings on operational
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CitiusTech Acquires Wilco Source to Expand Salesforce Capabilities for Healthcare & Life Sciences
What You Should Know: - CitiusTech announced that it has acquired Wilco Source, an industry-leading Salesforce solutions company to expand its offerings in patient services, care management and digital front door. - This strategic acquisition comes on the heels of Bain’s recently announced investment in CitiusTech valued above $1B. These strategic initiatives validate both CitiusTech’s track record of success and CEO Bhaskar Sambasivan ‘s strategic
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Women’s Health Initiative Launches in Africa to Advance Women’s Health
What You Should Know: - A continent-wide and dedicated women’s health initiative was launched today to advocate for and implement solutions to improve healthcare for women in Africa. The Coalition for Women’s Health In Africa (CoWHA) is the first initiative emanating from a conference held in February, in Kenya, where private healthcare firms, organizations and governments met to interrogate and carve out a novel approach to better healthcare systems on the continent. - COWHA is a
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