BioIQ, an Atlanta, GA-based platform for population health measurement has raised $26.5M in funding led by HealthQuest Capital, with participation from Arboretum Ventures and select insiders. The company will use the funds to to expand its reach into new markets and accelerate product growth and innovation. The company plans to use the latest round of funding to expand into new markets and accelerate product growth and innovation.Founded in 2005 by Justin Bellante, BioIQ provides tools that
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Partners HealthCare Expands Use of Kyruus’ Patient Access Solutions
Partners HealthCare is expanding its use of Kyruus’ patient access solutions to improve the patient experience across all its entities, and to ensure patients can gain access to Partners’ world-class network of providers.Partners originally started working with Kyruus in 2014 to help power its online find-a-doc solution. Now, Partners is expanding its use of Kyruus to develop a robust provider directory to help patients find the right provider based on a wide range of criteria, including
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Change Healthcare Appoints Fredrik Eliasson As New CFO
Change Healthcare, one of the largest independent healthcare IT companies in the United States, has made an addition to their leadership team with the appointment of Fredrik Eliasson as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Eliasson joins Change Healthcare after a 20-year career at CSX Corporation, where he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer, as well as chief sales and marketing officer.Mr. Eliasson was an executive officer of CSX Corporation, one
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USC Keck School of Medicine Joins TriNetX, Increases Clinical Trial Opportunities
The challenges facing researchers in designing protocols for clinical trials are numerous; missed opportunities for collaboration, difficult user interfaces, and difficulty streamlining patient queries are just a few of those obstacles . The University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, one of the preeminent research-intensive medical schools in the United States, today announced that they have joined the TriNetX Global health research network to help increase its clinical trial
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Blue Cross Expands Partnership with Lyft, Collabs with CVS & Walgreens to Send Patients to Pharmacies
In an effort to address the community effects of social determinants of health, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) today announced a first nationwide partnership with Lyft to ensure Americans are not missing vital health care appointments simply because they lack reliable transportation.This partnership exemplifies Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s (BCBS) commitment to bringing private and public entities together to improve community health in a manner that a health care organization
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UMMC Selects SnapMD as Virtual Care Technology Partner
SnapMD, a full-service telehealth technology innovator and solutions provider, announced that the National Center for Telehealth at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) has chosen SnapMD’s Virtual Care Management (VCM) software as its system-wide telehealth technology platform. As a telehealth trailblazer that has been providing high-quality health care through virtual visits for over 14 years, UMMC brings deep experience and knowledge to the telehealth marketplace, specifically
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Backed by Ashton Kutcher, Medinas Health Raises $1M for Data-driven Healthcare Marketplace
Medinas Health , a data-driven marketplace startup helping healthcare organizations safely and securely buy and sell their surplus and short-date medical supplies and equipment – announced today that it has raised $1M in its oversubscribed seed round. The round was co-led by Ashton Kutcher & Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures and General Catalyst’s Rough Draft Ventures, additional investors included: Precursor Ventures, Trammell Ventures and Angels.With the seed round closed, Medinas Health plans
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Edifecs Launches Hosted Encounter Management Model for MAOs and MCOs
Edifecs, a global health information technology solutions company, today announced the availability of its Encounter Management solution for small and mid-sized Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs). The Encounter Management software-as-a-service (SaaS) model helps health plans facilitate the encounter data submission process in the transition from Risk Adjustment Payment System (RAPS) to the Encounter Data Process System (EDPS) with no infrastructure
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Cooper University Health Taps Bernoulli for Medical Device Integration into Epic EHR
Bernoulli Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform, announced today that Cooper University Health Care (NJ) has selected Bernoulli for enterprise-wide medical device integration into their Epic EHR.Cooper will leverage Bernoulli across all critical care units, emergency departments, perioperative suites, select telemetry and oncology units, and off-campus surgical centers, replacing an
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Cigna Launches “Answers by Cigna” on Amazon Alexa
Today, Cigna announced it will be the first global health service company to offer a skill aimed at personalizing and simplifying health benefits information with the launch of “Answers by Cigna,” a skill for Amazon Alexa. “Answers by Cigna” is designed to educate and engage people about health care by providing instant and easy-to-understand answers to more than 150 commonly-asked health care questions.Nearly half of Americans are utilizing voice enabled devices and has the potential to change
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