Boston-based healthcare IT company PatientPing has raised $31.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz (Menlo Park) and Leerink Transformation Partners (Boston) to accelerate growth of its national care coordination network nationally. Additionally, PatientPing plans to at least double the size of its team by actively hiring inspired change-makers for its growth, operations, engineering and product development teams.The average Medicare patient receives care from seven different providers across four
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Heal Nabs $14.8M to Expand On-Demand Doctor House Calls
On-demand doctor house call service provider Heal has raised $14.8 million in Series B funding from Fidelity Management and Research Company. The latest round will allow Heal to further expand its geographical footprint, broaden the range of medical services it offers and increase patient reach. Last month, the company announced that it raised $26.9 million in its Series A round led by Thomas Tull’s Tull Investment Group.In addition to the latest funding, Heal has appointed former House
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Yes Health and Solera Health Partner to Provide On-Demand Mobile Diabetes Prevention Tools
Yes Health, an all-mobile program to prevent type 2 diabetes has teamed up with Solera Health, an integrator of chronic disease prevention and management solutions to provide on-demand mobile diabetes prevention tools and resources to millions of eligible health plan members. The strategic partnership will enable qualified, at-risk patients with access to Yes Health's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), as a covered medical benefit.Under
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Health Catalyst Launches Open Source, Healthcare Machine Learning Repository
Healthcare data warehouse provider Health Catalyst has unveiled a free open source, machine learning repository specifically for healthcare data scientists to enable industry-wide collaboration to advance outcomes improvement through artificial intelligence. Named healthcare.ai, the open source repository is designed to make machine learning accessible to the thousands of healthcare professionals who possess little or no data science skills but who share an interest in using the technology to
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Omnicell Acquires Pharmacy Provider Ateb for $41M: 5 Things to Know
Omnicell, a provider of medication and supply management solutions and adherence tools to healthcare systems and pharmacies has signed an agreement to acquire Ateb, Inc., together with its Canadian affiliate, Ateb Canada Ltd.Here are five things to know about the acquisition:1. Omnicell will acquire Ateb, Inc. for approximately $41 million, subject to certain adjustments, in an all cash transaction. Omnicell expects the transaction to close during the fourth quarter of 2016. To finance the
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Fruit Street Telehealth Lands $3M for HIPAA-Compliant Telehealth Platform for Lifestyle
Telehealth provider Fruit Street Telehealth (Fruit Street) has raised $3 million in Series A funding, bringing its total number of physician investors to more than 160. The startup plans to utilize the latest round of funding to further develop its telehealth platform with its joint venture partner VSee whose video technology is already embedded within Fruit Street's platform. Additionally, the funding will increase Fruit Street's digital advertising budget for sales and marketing initiatives,
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NQF Appoints Marybeth Farquhar to Create Measures for Future Telehealth Performance
Marybeth Farquhar, PhD, MSN, RN, URAC's Vice President for Quality, Research, and Measurement, has been appointed to a key National Quality Forum (NQF) committee helping to create national measures for future telehealth performance. Farquhar was named to the NQF’s Creating a Framework to Support Measure Development for Telehealth Multistakeholder Committee. Over a nine-month period, the committee is assessing existing and potential performance measures, identifying gaps in coverage, and
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Propeller, MIR Integrate Mobile, Clinic-Based Spirometers into the Propeller Platform
Propeller Health, a digital solution for respiratory medicine has teamed up with Medical International Research (MIR), a global leader in spirometry, oximetry and telemedicine to integrate several of MIR’s mobile and clinical spirometers into the Propeller system. Lung function measurements provide a physiological perspective on diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). With regular assessment, spirometry can help patients and physicians determine whether the
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Tyto Care, American Well to Integrate Telehealth Visits with Remote Exams
Telehealth company American Well has partnered with Israel-based telehealth company Tyto Care to combine telehealth visits with comprehensive remote examinations. As part of the partnership, Tyto Care’s examination platform and clinical exam data will be integrated into American Well’s telehealth platform to offer its customers access to the vast network of healthcare providers using American Well’s platform. Through this integration, patients can replicate an in-office visit and conduct medical
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Innovaccer Unveils MIPS Calculator to Estimate Payments Under New MACRA Rule
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company has unveiled a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Calculator, a free tool for healthcare providers to estimate the financial impacts of MIPS as per the latest MACRA rule. The MIPS Calculator has been designed with an aim to help all the providers planning to participate in MIPS in the coming year. With a clear and detailed analysis of all the dependent variables, it provides a breakdown of how each component of MIPS
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