What You Should Know: - SteadyMD, a B2B telehealth infrastructure provider that powers high-quality telehealth patient experiences for leaders and innovators in healthcare acquires BlocHealth, a clinician licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - With the acquisition of BlocHealth, SteadyMD further improves clinical capacity for the entire online healthcare industry by enhancing its licensing and credentialing
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Turquoise Health Integrates Price Transparency Data with Ribbon Health
What You Should Know: - Ribbon Health, an API data platform for the healthcare industry that powers care decisions, and Turquoise Health, a provider of structured data on the cost of care to make pricing data both transparent and accessible to patients, announced an integration partnership. - By integrating Turquoise Health's price transparency data into the Ribbon Health platform, healthcare companies will be able to effectively navigate patients to cost-effective and high-quality
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New Hospital-At-Home Study Focuses on Rural Health Deserts
What You Should Know: - Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), based in Lexington, Ky., will use Biofourmis’ virtual care and AI-based predictive analytics technology to support a new Rural Home Hospital program delivering acute hospital-level care inside patients’ homes--including a clinical trial studying this care model in rural areas. - ARH joins Blessing Health System—which is also using Biofourmis’ solution—as one of only two U.S. participants
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Sesame Raises $27M to Expand Its National Healthcare Marketplace
What You Should Know: Sesame, the only company proven to lower the price of medical care for American consumers raises $27M in Series B financing to expand its national marketplace of high-quality, ultra-affordable medical care for all Americans, whether they are insured or not. - The round was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from TeleSoft Partners and FMZ Ventures, alongside existing investors General Catalyst, Industry Ventures, Coefficient Capital, Giant
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Walgreens Launches New Clinical Trial Business to Address Access & Diversity
What You Should Know: - Walgreens today announced the launch of its clinical trial business to redefine the patient experience and increase access and retention in sponsor-led drug development research. - Walgreens flexible clinical trial model combines the company’s vast foundation of patient insights, partner-enabled health and technology capabilities and in-person and virtual care options to break through barriers to engaging broader and more diverse communities. Patient Recruitment
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How IoT Data Integration Helps Deliver Improved At-Home Healthcare in 2022
When it comes to your health and treatment, hospitals leverage a variety of sensors and instruments to collect the necessary information to monitor and diagnose your health status. With essential health data integrated into one platform, healthcare professionals are able to quickly and easily monitor critical care parameters, which allows them to make decisions and deliver the best possible patient care. Comprehensive big-picture insight into various health parameters, such as a patient’s
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Sanofi Taps Yseop to Accelerate Medical Writing and Reporting Processes
What You Should Know: - Yseop, an artificial intelligence (AI) software company and pioneer in Natural Language Processing (NLP), today announced that Sanofi, the global healthcare company, has chosen to scale its natural language generation (NLG) capabilities with Yseop. - Sanofi will use the platform to accelerate its clinical study submission processes and bring new treatments to patients faster. - Sanofi plans to continue to expand the use of the Yseop
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Intelerad & DiA Imaging Analysis Partner to Empower Echocardiography Labs with AI
What You Should Know: - Intelerad Medical Systems and DiA Imaging Analysis, a leading global provider of AI-based ultrasound software solutions, today announced a new partnership to offer DiA’s LVivo Seamless AI-based cardiac ultrasound software solution as part of Intelerad’s cardiac imaging solutions, IntelePACS. - This collaboration will empower Intelerad’s 2,000 global customers to access critical key measurement results for their echo studies, as well as will improve the
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bttn Raises $20M to Expand Next-Gen Healthcare Supply Distribution
What You Should Know: - bttn, a company building next-generation healthcare supply distribution, announced a $20 million Series A led by Tiger Global with participation from seed investor Fuse. - Born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, bttn was created to help solve the lack of medical supplies facing healthcare workers and improve access. The company has one lofty goal: to digitally transform the massive, antiquated $250B/year medical supply
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Unlocking Interoperability with a Blockchain-Powered Network
Achieving fluid data interoperability has been a complex and challenging goal for the U.S. healthcare system. The result of which has led to excessive administrative costs, delays in providing care, and significant patient frustration. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. healthcare spending grew 9.7% in 2020, reaching $4.1 trillion, or $12,530 per person. This is forecasted to grow to $6.2 trillion by 2028, which will only exacerbate the current spending
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