What You Should Know:
- Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced Ornish Lifestyle Medicine by Sharecare, the company’s Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR) program, is now available through a virtual delivery model.
- Reimbursable through Medicare and many commercial plans, Ornish Lifestyle Medicine by Sharecare is the first and only ICR program scientifically proven in randomized controlled trials to often reverse the
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Included Health Partners to Deliver First-of-its-Kind LGBTQ+ Health Plan
What You Should Know:
- Included Health today announced a partnership with Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, both Point32Health companies, to provide fully integrated LGBTQ+ healthcare services, including gender affirming physical and mental health, to commercial health plan members. The partnership is a first-of-its-kind offering, embedding the LGBTQ+ health concierge service in the health plans of Point32 members.
- Effective as
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VisualDx Awarded Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Advance Global Health and Diagnostic Accuracy in Underserved Regions
What You Should Know:
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded VisualDx a new grant to develop diagnostic tools for surveillance, detection, and triage of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and other rare infectious diseases in India and Nigeria.
- This project comes on the heels of similar public health collaborations with HHS and the state of Vermont. It also marks the second Gates Foundation grant VisualDx has received, following a
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Evergreen Nephrology Taps Innovaccer to Transform Kidney Care
What You Should Know:
- Evergreen Nephrology, a nephrology-focused value-based care organization, has chosen the Innovaccer® Health Cloud and Innovaccer’s full solution suite to accelerate the transformation of kidney care.
- Innovaccer’s cloud-native solutions selected by Evergreen include tools to optimize care management, physician engagement, patient engagement, referral management, advanced analytics, and dashboard-driven insights to optimize delivery of value-based specialty
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Exec Hires: Greenphire Appoints Owen Newman as the CFO
What You Should Know:
- Greenphire, the global leader in financial lifecycle management for clinical trials, today announced the appointment of Owen Newman as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
- Newman brings more than 25 years of financial experience, most recently as CFO of Simeio, a global leader in Identity and Access Management. Newman will report directly to Greenphire's CEO, Jim Murphy.
Owen Newman Bio/Background
Newman is a mature business leader experienced at leading
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5 Executive Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions to Watch in 2023
Irfan Shakeel, VP of Training and Certification Services, OPSWAT
Cyberattacks on the healthcare industry will continue to increase: The healthcare industry is most vulnerable to cyberattacks, which makes it a lucrative target for cybercriminals; attacks on the healthcare industry have grown significantly in 2022, and attacks will even go further in 2023. According to IBM, healthcare breaches cost the most at $9.23 million per incident. And, most importantly, cyberattacks not only affect human
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Transcarent Taps The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic to Offer Employees Expect Second Opinions
What You Should Know:
- Transcarent, a health and care experience company that makes it easy to access high quality, affordable care, and aligns with the companies who pay for care, announced a new collaboration with The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic (The Clinic) that enables Transcarent Members and their families to access The Clinic’s expert second opinions.
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M&A: Alpine Investors Acquires RCM Services Provider Medusind
What You Should Know:
- Alpine Investors, a people-driven private equity fund, announced that it has acquired Medusind, a provider of revenue cycle management services to the healthcare industry.
- Jose Rivero, an Alpine CEO-in-Residence and part of the firm’s PeopleFirst program, has assumed the role of CEO of Medusind. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
Medusind Background
Founded in 2002, Medusind provides deep expertise and powerful revenue cycle
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Exec Hires: UCM Digital Health Names Rondi Rabuse as President & COO
What You Should Know:
- UCM Digital Health, a digital health and telehealth provider, including a 24/7 emergency medicine triage, treatment, and navigation service, announced Rondi Rabuse as its newest president and chief operations officer.
- With over three decades of experience in the healthcare field, Rabuse will help drive and accelerate UCM’s strategic growth plans, further enhancing UCM’s mission to improve the patient experience by removing barriers to access and improving
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Edifecs and 3M Partner on Integrated Value-Based Payment Solution
What You Should Know:
- 3M Health Information Systems and Edifecs (a global health IT solutions provider) announced a collaboration and new unique solution for providers and payers that will accelerate the adoption of value-based payment (VBP) models.
- A new, combined solution that will overcome barriers that have previously prevented rapid adoption of VBP models. This advanced approach will allow payers and providers to quantify the value of preventing negative events and allocate
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