PeaceHealth to acquire ZOOM+Care to expand access to on-demand primary and specialty care for patients across the Pacific Northwest. PeaceHealth, a Vancouver, WA-based nonprofit Catholic health system serving the Pacific Northwest community, today announced it will acquire ZOOM+Care, a provider of on-demand retail and digital healthcare services including telemedicine. The acquisition increases access to a continuum of care that offers consumers in Oregon and Washington with more choice and
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Behavioral Health Startup Tridiuum Raises $9.5M to Integrate Behavioral Health Across Continuum of Care
Tridiuum (formerly known as Polaris Health Directions), a Philadelphia-based provider of cloud-based behavioral health solutions has raised $9.5 million in Series B financing, which includes equity capital from lead investor Sopris Capital and strategic co-investor Fresenius Medical Care Ventures, and debt funding from Silicon Valley Bank. Series A investors Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Martinson Ventures participated as well.Founded in
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Change Healthcare Acquires Blockchain Startup PokitDok Assets
Change Healthcare announced that it has acquired intellectual property (IP) and other key assets from PokitDok, Inc., a blockchain platform-as-a-service company for healthcare. The integration of key PokitDok APIs into the network will add new capabilities for digital health, telemedicine, and other new, disruptive care models that support value-based, patient-centric healthcare.Founded in 2011, PokitDok’s platform-as-a-service makes it faster and easier for healthcare organizations to bring new
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Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan Expand Program to Improve Adherence for Critical Medications
Sempre Health, a solution for advancing behavior-based pricing reductions for medication adherence, and UPMC Health Plan, which is part of UPMC, the second largest integrated health system in the U.S., today announced an expanded collaboration to improve affordability and adherence for critical medications. Starting this week, Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan will now make additional medications available to even more members and products lines to impact members’ outcomes.Prevalence of
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Alira Health Acquires Data Sciences Company Clinical Insights
Alira Health, international healthcare and life sciences advisory firm, announced that it has acquired Clinical Insights, a data science organization providing data analytics and predictive analysis to healthcare companies. The acquisition will add rich data to each of Alira Health's practice areas, including innovation, regulatory, clinical, strategy, and transaction advisory services.Founded in 2012, Milano, Italy-based Clinical Insights provides tools and business advisory services based on
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Sentiance Acquires Personalized Mobile Coaching Platform BrandNewHealth
Sentiance, a leading IoT intelligence platform, today announced it has acquired BrandNewHealth in a move to bolster its platform to offer more personalized and behavioral change programs for its healthcare, insurance and mobility partners. Founded in 2003, BrandNewHealth is a leader in cost-effective personalized mobile coaching, with a primary focus on helping companies improve the health, well-being, and mobility of their employees and the communities they live in. The broader scope of the
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Shivom Partners With Lifebit To Power AI-Analysis of DNA Data For Clinical Trials
Shivom, the blockchain genomics platform that is powering personalized healthcare, has partnered with Lifebit, the AI-powered DNA-analysis firm, to give users unprecedented reporting capabilities for DNA data analysis. The partnership will mean that immediate Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) analysis is possible, with no specialist knowledge or in-house data scientist required. It also means that users can access a library of pipelines (ready-built software that is used for analysis) and an
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Brightree Acquires Mobile Delivery and SaaS Provider Apacheta Corp.
Brightree, an out-of-hospital software provider, announced it has acquired PA-based Apacheta Corporation, a privately held mobile delivery and cloud-based SaaS provider that allow companies to automate and streamline business processes in route sales, field marketing, pick-up and delivery, transportation and field services.“Apacheta solves many of the business challenges HMEs face in managing deliveries, particularly eliminating missing, lost or incomplete delivery information,” said Brightree
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Infographic: Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Improving Healthcare
The artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market is expected reach $6.6 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent over the next five years, according to a report from Accenture. AI in health represents a collection of multiple technologies enabling machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn so they can perform administrative and clinical healthcare functions. Unlike legacy technologies that are only algorithms/ tools that complement a human, health AI
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Sonora Quest Labs Taps BaseHealth to Leverage Lab Data to Reveal Patient Health Risks
In its first deployment of the new platform, BaseHealth is partnering with Sonora Quest Laboratories, Arizona’s leading provider of diagnostic testing and information services. BaseHealth’s platform combines laboratory data with insurance claims data, published clinical research, and other data sources then apply machine learning to prospectively identify patient health risks and suggest appropriate clinical interventions to address those risks. The process can especially benefit MA plans, which
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