What You Should Know:
- Digital health company Sharecare launches Get Active, a new virtual reality program to help employers encourage exercise among their workforces in a fun, approachable, and accessible way.
- In a pilot with its customer Lennar Corporation, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, Sharecare’s Get Active program for Meta Quest 2 yielded strong results for both healthy and high-risk Associates.
Lennar Pilot Program
In a pilot conducted in late 2022
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Pearl Health Raises $75M to Expand Value-Based Care Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Pearl Health, a leading technology company focused on physician enablement and risk-bearing in value-based care, today announced that it has raised $75M in its oversubscribed Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund and Viking Global Investors, with participation by AlleyCorp, SV Angel’s Growth Fund, and other leading investors. This round brings Pearl’s total funding to date to more than $80M.
Value-Based Care Innovation for
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Mighty Health Raises $7.6M for Daily Health Program for Medicare-Aged Adults
What You Should Know:
Mighty Health, the first all-in-one daily health program designed for adults ages 50 and up, today announced $7.6M in new financing co-led by Will Ventures and GFT Ventures.
- Mighty Health has built the modern home for healthy living for 50 on up, offering aging adults access to personalized and holistic health guidance through joint-friendly workouts, chronic condition-specific programs, custom nutrition plans, and 1-on-1 health coaching.
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Study: AI-Guided Solution Improves MRI Scan Times & Adoption Rates
What You Should Know:
- Vista.ai, a pioneer and leader in automated MRI solutions, today announced results from a clinical adaptation study on the company’s One Click MRI™ software, led by Dr. Raymond Kwong, Director, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital.
- The findings show that Vista.ai’s AI-guided image acquisition software improves cardiac MRI (CMR) scan times and achieves high adoption rates by hospital imaging staff.
Clinical
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Angle Health Raises $58M for Digital-First Health Insurance
What You Should Know:
- Angle Health, a digital first health insurance carrier raises $58M in Series A funding, making health insurance more convenient, approachable, and affordable for employers and members. The round was led by Portage with participation from PruVen Capital, Wing Venture Capital, SixThirty Ventures, Mighty Capital, Wormhole Capital, Mindset Ventures, Crew Capital, Aloft VC, and Pilot founder Waseem Daher; and support from existing investors Blumberg Capital,
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Exec Hires: Zocalo Health Appoints First-Ever Latina Chief Medical Officer
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- Zócalo Health, a Latino-founded healthcare service designed for Latino patients, has announced today the appointment of Dr. Sarah Lopez as its Chief Medical Officer making her the first-ever Latina CMO.
- As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lopez will lead the expansion of Zócalo’s care model, growth of their clinical team, and the development of the company’s culturally aligned services.
Dr. Lopez Bio/Background
Prior to joining Zócalo Health, Dr. Lopez practiced
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The Seemingly Limitless Potential of Blockchain in Healthcare
Interoperability remains the Holy Grail in healthcare, the goal to which all organizations aspire. The urgency to remove silos and improve communication between various systems and organizations is paramount, as it promises to lead to greater efficiency and improved outcomes while at the same time lowering costs – and not a moment too soon, given the fact that the world’s population is aging and there is a growing shortage of clinicians.
More and more, blockchain – a secure, decentralized
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Amazon Launches RxPass, $5 a Month for Unlimited Prescription Meds
What You Should Know:
- Amazon launches RxPass, a new Prime membership benefit from Amazon Pharmacy that offers patients affordable access to commonly prescribed generic medications that treat more than 80 common health conditions.
- RxPass enables Prime members can receive all of their eligible medications for one flat, low monthly fee of $5, and have them delivered free of charge. There are no hidden fees and no markups to the $5 per month subscription.
- RxPass is available starting
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Healthcare AI Transformation: 9 Executive Predictions to Watch in 2023
Piotr Orzechowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Infermedica
Innovation areas to watch: One of the exciting areas of applied machine learning recently is so-called Generative Tech. Some say it’s the biggest change to the Internet since crypto was invented. Generative Tech is developing at an unprecedented pace and many of us already had a chance to enjoy images created by OpenAI’s DALLE-E or content generated by GPT-3 language model. However real-world applications of generative tech in health are
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M&A: ReviveHealth Acquires Telehealth Company SwiftMD
What You Should Know:
ReviveHealth, a whole health and integrated care company, has acquired SwiftMD, a virtual care services company with a strong physician network.
- The acquisition was facilitated by Eir Partners, a Miami based private equity firm that invests in high growth healthcare companies. Eir Partners took a majority interest in ReviveHealth as a part of the transaction.
SwiftMD Background
SwiftMD is a digital virtual health company with the highest utilization rate
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