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Kindly Care, the Uber for Caregivers, Launches With $3.1M in Funding

by Jasmine Pennic 10/11/2016 Leave a Comment

Kindly Care, the Uber for Caregivers, Launches With $3.1M in Funding

Digital health startup Kindly Care has officially launched today with $3.1 million in seed funding to expand its self-service care management platform, which provides private employers with the tools and services that are typically reserved for agencies and hospitals.  The funding was led by MHS Capital, with participation from Floodgate and Jackson Square Ventures. Kindly Care will use the funds to grow its unique suite of tools and services that empower families to be more in charge of the
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5 Trends Influencing Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation

by Jasmine Pennic 10/10/2016 Leave a Comment

Hospital Supply Chain

In today’s fast-changing, demanding healthcare environment, the healthcare supply chain continues to advance as the strategic asset to help lower costs and improve patient outcomes. As part of the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management’s (AHRMM) annual “National Healthcare Supply Chain Week,” October 2-8, 2016, Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a provider of cloud-based healthcare supply chain management solutions, revealed five key drivers of ongoing supply chain
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UPMC Makes Strategic Investment in Predictive Analytics Startup RxAnte

by Jasmine Pennic 10/06/2016 Leave a Comment

UPMC Enerprises RxAnte

UPMC Enterprises, the commercialization arm of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has acquired all of Millennium Health’s interest in predictive analytics startup RxAnte. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the deal, RxAnte will continue to operate as an independent company led by its existing management team.  Founded in 2011, RxAnte’s technology and clinical services enable its clients to improve clinical care quality and avoid unnecessary costs. UPMC Enterprises
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Honor Pilots In-Home Care Partnership with Walmart in Dallas-Fort Worth

by Jasmine Pennic 10/05/2016 Leave a Comment

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Honor, a digital health startup connecting consumers with in-home caregivers, seniors and their families is expanding its service with a pilot partnership with Walmart in two stores in  Dallas-Forth Worth, TX. Honor currently operates in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, and combines the best care professionals in the industry with proprietary app technology that modernizes the entire home-care experience, making it more flexible and accessible for family caregivers and their aging
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Kaonsoft, ProMedica Form Joint Venture to Develop Digital Health Apps

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ProMedica, one of Ohio's largest healthcare systems, is teaming up with enterprise mobility software company Kaonsoft, to form Kapios Health, a healthcare technology company that will focus on the development of digital health apps created by ProMedica Innovations inventors.Through the joint venture, Kapios Health will utilize the flexible Kaonsoft Enterprise Mobility Platform™ to build and deploy digital health apps with minimal configuration and without the additional effort or expense of
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Backed by Google, Aspire Health Nabs $32M for Palliative Care

by Jasmine Pennic 10/05/2016 Leave a Comment

Aspire Health, a Nashville, TN-based palliative care company has raised $32 million in funding round that was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), the venture capital arm of tech giant Alphabet Inc. (Google's parent company). The company plans to utilize the funding to make better use of its data by developing more algorithms and natural language processing (NLP) search functions that would benefit home  healthcare and create new programs for cancer patients.  Co-founded by former Senate
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Eccrine Systems Lands $5.5M Advanced Sweat Sensors For Medicine

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Eccrine Systems

Eccrine Systems, a Cincinnati-based company developing advanced, wearable, sweat-sensing systems, has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding with participation and support from CincyTech Fund IV and other sources within the CincyTech local, regional and national investor community. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate the development of non-invasive, sweat-sensing systems for use in medicine, industry and sport. Founded in 2013 based on innovative research and intellectual
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Wolters Kluwer to Acquire Emmi for $175M

by Jasmine Pennic 10/04/2016 Leave a Comment

Wolters Kluwer Health announced it will acquire Emmi Solutions (Emmi), a providers of patient engagement solutions, for $170 million in cash to expand its market share in the patient engagement market. For Wolters Kluwer Health, Emmi’s offerings are a natural extension to its  existing Clinical Solutions portfolio, in particular to UpToDate in decision support and Lexicomp and Medi-Span in drug information.Founded in 2002, Emmi offers an enterprise-wide, integrated and multi-media patient
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5 Ways Telemonitoring Can Transform Quality of Care

by Jasmine Pennic 10/03/2016 1 Comment

5 Ways Telemonitoring Can Transform Quality of Care

Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. Providers and insurers have a financial stake in keeping patients out of the hospital. To do so, they need accurate, up-to-date patient information and the ability to quickly share that data with different members of their team. Not only does this take the right software, but also the right device.Half of all American adults — about 117 million people — suffer from one or more chronic health conditions such as hypertension or diabetes, many of
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HHS Awards $1.5M to Pilot Programs to Improve Flow of Health Info

by Jasmine Pennic 09/30/2016 Leave a Comment

HHS Launches EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge_HHS Funded Health Care Innovation Award Projects to Watch

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced seven recipients of two Cooperative Agreement programs to improve the flow of health information. The awardees of the High Impact Pilot (HIP) and Standards Exploration Award (SEA) will share a total of $1.5 million to create standards-based solutions that facilitate the exchange of health information. Awardees are expected to report results September 15, 2017.The
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