Cota, a NYC-based healthcare data and analytics company bridging precision medicine to population health has raised $40 million in Series C funding led by QVIA and was contributed to by EW Healthcare Partners. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also participated in the round, along with existing Cota investors which include, Boston Millennia Partners, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Hackensack Meridian Health and Atoc Holdings.The funding will go towards rapidly scaling its
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Innovaccer Unveils InData, a Unified Healthcare Data Platform
Healthcare organizations wrestle with enormous amounts of data ranging from clinical and claims records to billing and financial reports. Most struggle to generate meaningful insights from this fragmented and frequently inaccessible information. The inability to effectively manage healthcare data creates a tremendous amount of inefficiency leading to overworked teams, shrinking margins, and poor patient outcomes.Until today, the burden of overcoming this challenge has fallen upon care
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DirectTrust Founding President/CEO to Step Down At End of Year
DirectTrust today announced that founding President and Chief Executive Officer, David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA, will step down at the end of the year. The DirectTrust Board of Directors has launched a nationwide search for a successor. DirectTrust is a non-profit health care industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of personal health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between provider and patients, for the purpose of improved coordination
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Hashed Health, ODH Partner to Develop Healthcare Blockchain to Support Value-based Care
ODH, Inc., a health technology company providing data aggregation and analytics solutions, has teamed up with Hashed Health to develop blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for payers and providers with the goal of improving patient care. Hashed Health is a healthcare blockchain innovation company focused on building the new digital infrastructure for healthcare to develop new solutions to better secure patient data and enable greater payment efficiency for healthcare organizations and
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Boston Children’s, TriNetX Bring Data-Driven Approach to Clinical Research
Boston Children’s Hospital has joined the TriNetX global health research network to further its efforts at bringing a more data-driven approach to clinical research. The trend in the healthcare industry is to gain access to a wider pool of patient data in an effort to accelerate the study start-up process and identification of patients for clinical trials. Boston Children’s Hospital is live on the network, as of February 1, 2018.TriNetX is the global health research network that enables
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Teladoc Provides Over 300k Patient Visits to Support Flu Outbreak
Teladoc, a provider of virtual care delivery services, today announced that amid the most severe flu outbreak in a decade, the company has provided a record number of visits as telehealth emerges as a trusted clinical solution to provide relief for an overburdened health system. Having provided more than 300,000 total patient visits in the past five weeks alone, and as widespread flu stretches across 48 states, Teladoc continues to help patients from California to Texas, and Alabama to New York
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U.S. Preventive Medicine, Solera Health Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Health Coaching
Solera Health, today announced its partnership with U.S. Preventive Medicine (USPM) to deliver its comprehensive health coaching and nurse based chronic condition care management services within the framework of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) for Solera clients. USPM’s health coaching lifestyle management and nurse based chronic care management programs uniquely combine innovative wellness programs focused on prevention with
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Healthbox Opens Applications for the 2018 Healthbox Studio
Healthbox, a Chicago-based healthcare innovation services firm, today announce that we are now accepting applications for their 2018 Healthbox Studio. The five-day program is dedicated to advancing digital health solutions through peer-to-peer collaboration, speaker sessions, and fostering relationships with the Healthbox team as well as healthcare leaders, investors, and industry partners. Although Healthbox no longer hosts traditional accelerator programs, we are committed to supporting
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Presence Health Taps R1 RCM for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management
R1 RCM Inc., a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, today announced that Presence Health based in Chicago, Illinois has selected R1 to provide its end-to-end RCM services across the Presence Health system’s acute care hospitals and physician care settings.Presence Health has more than 150 locations in Illinois, including 10 hospitals. As part of the anticipated agreement to manage Presence Health’s $2.2B annual net patient revenue,
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OnlyBoth Launches Benchmarking Engine for Nursing Homes
OnlyBoth Inc., a provider of benchmarking insights that enhance understanding, transparency, and performance improvement, has launched a new, revolutionary benchmarking engine at https://www.benchmine.com. OnlyBoth delivers fully automated, comparative insights on nursing homes in straightforward English summaries, rich with context.Until now, no benchmarking tool has allowed an in-depth comparison of U.S. nursing homes at the scale needed to drive improvement broadly in nursing care and patient
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