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- Ventra Health, a business solutions provider for hospital-based clinicians, announced today the acquisition of ArcMed, an India-based billing and automation services organization. This acquisition will strengthen Ventra Health’s service performance and quality, optimize operational efficiencies, and provide added scale for automation and growth.
- Ventra Health's new operating model, predictive analytics platform, and intelligent process automation will enable
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M&A: Capsa Healthcare Acquires MASS Medical Storage
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- Capsa Healthcare, a provider of healthcare workflow solutions, announced the acquisition of MASS Medical Storage, a prominent manufacturer of high-quality medical storage and endoscope cabinet drying systems.
- The strategic acquisition strengthens Capsa Healthcare's global position as a premier provider of innovative and efficient workflow solutions for hospitals, clinics, and surgery centers.- With this acquisition, Capsa Healthcare gains access to MASS
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FemTech: Herself Health Raises $26M To Power Primary Care for Women 65+
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- Herself Health, a New York City-based healthcare company providing comprehensive primary care to women 65+raises $26M in Series A fuding led by Michael Cline of Accretive serving as the lead investor. The company has raised $33 million to date. Juxtapose also participated in the Series A.
- Founded in 2022, Herself Health provides value-based care to women 65+ with a focus on helping women feel seen and heard as they age in a way that the current healthcare
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U.S. News & World Report Integrates 3M AM-PPCs with Best Hospitals Specialty Rankings
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U.S. News & World Report will incorporate the 3M™ Ambulatory Potentially Preventable Complications (3M AM-PPCs) software in the analysis of its 2023-2024 Best Hospitals Specialty rankings.Developed to address patient safety and quality oversight for procedures performed in hospital outpatient departments or ambulatory surgery centers, 3M AM-PPCs uses sophisticated classification logic and allows providers and payers to identify and analyze complications in
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Paytient Raises $7.5M in Venture Debt for Health Payment Platform
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Paytient, the Health Payment Account (HPA) that helps plan members access affordable health care, officially announced Silicon Valley Bank has finalized a $7.5M venture debt facility. To date, the company has raised $55.5M in equity from leading investors including Mercato, Bertelsmann Investments, Lightbank, Felicis Ventures, Box Group, Lachy Groom, Left Lane Capital, Commerce Bank, Crossbeam Ventures, Cultivation Capital, and Inspired
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Prenosis Awarded $4.8M in NIH Grants to Enable Precision Medicine for Sepsis
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Prenosis, Inc., a Chicago, IL-based AI company enabling precision medicine in acute care, announced today that it has been awarded two Phase 2 SBIR grants totaling $4.8M in funding by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a division of the National Institute of Health (NIH). The grants will study the use of Prenosis's Immunix™ Artificial Intelligence platform for acute immune states. Prenosis has built a collection of artificial
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Unite Us Partners with Healthix and Regional Social Care Networks
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Today Unite Us, a leading software company enabling cross-sector collaboration to improve people's health and well-being, announced a partnership with Healthix, the largest public health information exchange (HIE) in the nation serving New York City and Long Island.Healthix and Unite Us will provide technology to enable communication between healthcare systems and social care networks. Together, they aim to address social drives of health such as food, housing,
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Accenture Federal Services Wins $98M Defense Health Agency Contract
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Accenture Federal Services was awarded a $98 million Defense Health Agency contract to operate and enhance the Joint Medical Common Operating Picture (MedCOP), which provides medical command and control situational awareness for the DoD, combatant commands and the military services.The specific capabilities and services Accenture Federal Services will deliver include cloud, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, agile software development, field service engineering, user
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Nearly 60% of Healthcare Providers Experienced a Data Breach Since 2021
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Nearly 60% of healthcare providers experienced one or more security breaches and 45% experienced a data breach from an outside source or distributed denial-of-service since 2021, according to a new report from SOTI. The annual report, The Technology Lifeline: Charting Digital Progress in Healthcare explores the evolving landscape of healthcare technology adoption, its impact on patient satisfaction and the top security risks that every IT leader should
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Abbott Receives FDA Approval for World’s First Dual Chamber Leadless Pacemaker
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves Abbott’s AVEIR™ dual chamber (DR) leadless pacemaker system, the world's first dual chamber leadless pacing system that treats people with abnormal or slow heart rhythms.Abbott’s breakthrough technology enables the world's first beat-to-beat, wireless communication and synchronization between two leadless pacemakers, which are smaller than a AAA batteryLeadless pacemakers provide a new minimally invasive option
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