What You Should Know:
- A new dawn is on the horizon in healthcare. Equipped with new digital capabilities and pressured by new consumer expectations for personalized, convenient experiences, healthcare organizations face a predicament — act now and stay afloat, fail to act and get consumed by the competition, or risk financial ruin.
- Market research leader Forrester’s latest report explores 5 key predictors for healthcare in 2023.
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Apple Adds Medication Tracking to iPhone. How Will It Impact The Specialty Patient Journey?
Imagine visiting your doctor’s office. Instead of swiping a copay card and filling out a paper form by hand, the receptionist says, “We take Apple Health.” You wave your iPhone over a digital kiosk, instantly uploading your current medical record and insurance information. Your copay is then deducted from a health savings account. Voila! The doctor will see you now.
This scenario is no longer relegated to the distant future.
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SEMCAP Launches Investment Strategy to Address Healthcare Market Opportunity
What You Should Know:
- Growth equity investor SEMCAP is launching SEMCAP Health, its healthcare investment strategy to address the significant opportunities at this unprecedented time in the healthcare industry.
- SEMCAP Health takes influential minority or majority positions in high-growth healthcare tech and tech-enabled services business. The most recent example is SEMCAP Health’s investment in
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Transcarent Selects Prescryptive Health to Power Integrated Pharmacy Experience
What You Should Know:
- Transcarent and Prescryptive Health announced today a partnership to provide the industry’s most immersive, intelligent, and individualized pharmacy care experience.
- Transcarent Pharmacy Care empowers Transcarent Members and their families with an entirely different consumer-directed experience that truly transforms their health and care journey and provides, for the first time, employers and health systems with maximum control over their formulary, benefit
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Ascensia Launches Diabetes Management and Analytics Platform in the U.S
What You Should Know:
- Ascensia Diabetes Care, a global diabetes care company, maker of the CONTOUR® blood glucose monitoring (BGM) system portfolio and exclusive distributor of Eversense® Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Systems, has launched its online diabetes management and analytics platform GlucoContro.online in the United States.
- Now available in more than 15 countries globally and in the process of further expansion, GlucoContro.online support diabetes management by
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AI ‘s Role in Drug Discovery: Separating the Hype from the Hope
Forecasting the influence that artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning technologies will have on the future of healthcare has created a cottage industry in the hype. From the overzealous aspirations of IBM’s Watson Health initiative to the inclusion of AI on Gartner’s 2021 Hype Cycle at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” so much noise has been made around AI/machine learning in healthcare that it can be difficult to appreciate the current impact of these technologies on drug discovery,
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Report: Virtual Care Still in ‘Wild West’ Days Sparking Confusion, High Optimism, Investment
What You Should Know:
- A new "State of Virtual Care" report by Omada Health and Digital Medicine Society, in collaboration with Rock Health, reveals that buyers today are inundated with vendors labeling themselves “virtual care providers,” regardless of the care model they’re selling. This phenomenon is blurring their perception of V1C’s potential impact, and what that means for improvements in healthcare delivery and outcomes.
- V1C solutions like Omada Health are changing the market,
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Numares Health & Mayo Clinic Expands AI-Enabled Diagnostic Testing Collaboration
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic and Numares Health have expanded their collaboration recently to develop AI-enabled diagnostic testing that is more accurate and reliable than current U.S. tests for patients with chronic diseases, including kidney, cardiovascular, liver and neurologic conditions.
- The expanded collaboration builds on Mayo Clinic's clinical research support for Numares Health to include an innovative convertible equity investment.
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Parkview Health Launches Virtual Care Offering, Powered by Veta Health
What You Should Know:
- Veta Health announced today the launch of its virtual care offering at Parkview Health (Parkview), a not-for-profit, Indiana-based network of 10 hospitals and more than 100 clinics.
- In partnership with Veta Health, Parkview will offer its patients virtual care programs designed to support patient recovery and self-management at home. The initial focus is utilizing Veta Health’s patient engagement, device-based monitoring, and telehealth tools to manage patients
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Valera Health Secures $45M to Increase Mental Health Access for High Acuity Patients
What You Should Know:
Valera Health, a virtual mental health provider serving high acuity patients raises $44.5M in growth equity raise led by Heritage Group.
The round also included participation from Cigna Ventures, Horizon Healthcare Services and existing investors, which include Windham Ventures, AXA Venture Partners, Aquiline Technology Partners, Trinnovate Ventures (BCBS AZ), Figure Eight Investments, Watershed VC, and Alsora Capital.
Care that is comprehensive, inclusive, and
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