Walmart to contribute annual incentive dollars earned through Sharecare to help eligible State Health Benefit Plan members purchase prescription medications and vision products at its retail stores; Emory Healthcare and Rollins School of Public Health to measure the impact of the new incentive program.Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) is launching a new incentive program to reward State Health Benefit Plan (SHBP) members who engage in healthy behaviors through Sharecare’s
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Sharp HealthCare Expands Relationship with Cerner to Improve Patient Care
Sharp HealthCare, a leading health care provider in San Diego, has expanded its longstanding relationship with Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, with the goal to enhance care delivery throughout its regional health system. As part of the new agreement, Cerner associates will be part of a team in San Diego working side-by-side with IT staff and clinicians through this process to help drive new strategy and improved health outcomes across the organization. Expanded
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EarlySense Raises $39M to Expand Contact-Free Monitoring & Analytics Solution
Israeli digital health startup, EarlySense, a contact-free continuous monitoring solutions provider, announced today that it has raised $39 million in funding from Hill-Rom and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The round also included participation from BlueRed Capital, Israel Innovation Fund, Argos Capital and Hotung Capital. Existing investors, Pitango Venture Capital and JK&B Venture Capital. Founded in 2004, EarlySense’s FDA-cleared and CE-approved solutions are used by healthcare
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Ascensia Diabetes Care, POCTech to Distribute and Co-Develop Continuous Glucose Monitoring Solutions
Ascensia Diabetes Care has announced a new global partnership with Zhejiang POCTech, Co., Ltd (POCTech), a developer and manufacturer of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for people with diabetes. As part of the collaboration, Ascensia will be the exclusive distributor of POCTech’s CGM in selected countries, with distribution anticipated to start later this year. Ascensia and POCTech have also entered into an agreement to co-develop next-generation products, leveraging expertise from
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CentralReach Acquires Managed Billing Provider Bronco Billing
CentralReach, a provider of practice management software for ABA clinicians and educators, has recently acquired Bronco Billing, giving customers access to a team of billing experts to expedite the billing process and maximize revenue. The acquisition is an expansion of the existing partnership between Bronco Billing and CentralReach allowing customers to improve their billing process through auto-generated claims, receivables collections, payments, and denial re-submissions, so they can spend
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DrChrono Raises $10M to Expand EHR Platform to Large-Scale Practices
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future announced it has raised $10 million in funding from SQN Ventures to globally expand its business. Founded in 2009, DrChrono’s platform comprehensive platform includes EHR, practice management, medical billing, revenue cycle management, and patient portal. DrChrono also built the one of the first iPad EHRs and the health platform was built for iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and the web. DrChrono OverviewSince its inception,
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Orca Health Launches Waiting Room, a Digital Content Platform for Patients and Physicians
Orca Health, a healthcare technology company that creates software solutions that empower healthcare providers to improve quality of care, announced today the launch of Waiting Room, a digital content platform designed to streamline and improve the patient experience from diagnosis to treatment to post-surgical care.Patients are presented with Waiting Room on a tablet when they arrive at their appointments. The app's capabilities help patients and providers by:- Streamlining the registration and
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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Form New Consumer Health Joint Venture
GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Inc to form new world-leading Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture provides a unique opportunity to accelerate GSK’s strategy and create substantial value for shareholders. GlaxoSmithKline has reached an agreement with Pfizer Inc to combine their consumer health businesses into a consumer health Joint Venture, with combined sales of approximately $12.7B. As part of the agreement, GSK will have a majority controlling equity interest of 68% and Pfizer will have an equity
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Livongo Appoints Former Cerner President Zane Burke as New CEO
Livongo Health, a Mountain View-based Applied Health Signals company that empowers people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, announced that it has appointed former Cerner president Zane Burke as the new Chief Executive Officer. Company Founder and current CEO, Glen Tullman, will remain in his role as Executive Chairman (he previously served as both Executive Chairman and CEO).Zane Burke BackgroundPrior to joining Livongo, Burke spent five years as president of health IT
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NextGen Launches New, Cloud-based Data Aggregation Platform: Health Data Hub
NextGen Healthcare, this week announced the launch of the Health Data Hub -- a cloud-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform. This groundbreaking technology meets the needs for interoperability and seamless information sharing for healthcare networks. Health Data Hub supports all clinical data types used by ambulatory and inpatient healthcare systems and streamlines patient data aggregation, making it easy to share and receive health records from any data management system.Health Data
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