Velano Vascular, a San Francisco, CA-based vascular access technology innovator today announced that it has raised $10 million from strategic investor Intermountain Healthcare following the system’s rollout of the PIVO™ needle-free blood collection technology. The funding also included participation from Becton Dickinson’s former Chairman and CEO Edward Ludwig; notable entrepreneur, investor, and health sector philanthropist Marc Benioff; Baxter International’s former Chairman and CEO Robert
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Digital Health – Is It Worth It? How to Calculate ROI in Digital Health
The results are in. A 2019 PEGA survey asked 2,000 U.S. consumers how they felt about recent trends in healthcare, and the response was overwhelming — they want a personal touch, and they want it digital. Not only that, but the survey also revealed that communications from healthcare organizations actually drive a patient’s desire to improve their health, fueling the popular opinion that technology is the magic key to patient engagement. What the survey fails to reveal, though, is why the
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DispatchHealth Nabs $33M to Expand On-Demand Healthcare Model to High Acuity Patients
DispatchHealth (formerly known as True North Health Navigation), a Denver, CO-based provider of on-demand healthcare delivery to a patient’s home has raised $33 million in growth capital funding led by Echo Health Ventures, a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions. The funding also included participation from existing investors Alta Partners, Questa Capital and additional strategic investors.Founded in 2013 by two mobile health executives, DispatchHealth’s
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Kaiser Permanente Launches EHR Integrated Social Health Network to Address SDoH
Kaiser Permanente is partnering with social coordination platform Unite Us to launch a comprehensive health network called Thrive Local. The social health network will connect healthcare and social services providers to address the pressing social needs including housing, food, safety, utilities and more for millions of people across the United States.In addition to being integrated into Kaiser Permanente's Epic electronic health record (EHR) system to comprehensively serve its members, Thrive
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UCSF, The Doctors Company Partner to Address Patient Safety Challenges in the Digital Health Era
The Doctors Company—the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer—and UC San Francisco (UCSF), today launched a new partnership at the intersection of digital medicine and patient safety. The Doctors Company’s commitment to advancing the practice of good medicine will be expanded through a $1 million collaboration that will enable leading UCSF researchers in evidence-based patient safety practices, safety, and information technology–related policy, and artificial intelligence
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How Consumer Technology is Influencing Healthcare Innovation
When it comes to healthcare, we look to physicians, nurses, and specialists and trust them to be the experts when it comes to our health, but we don’t typically look to them to be technology experts. In fact, the healthcare industry, especially the back office, has been historically slow to adopt new technology, relying on paper records and pagers, fax machines and even hand delivery of files and records. Many clinics are not equipped to digitally connect to another office’s patient records.
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Digital Employment Marketplace for Nursing Professionals Trusted Health Lands $20M
Trusted Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital employment marketplace for nursing professionals announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures with participation from previous investors Felicis Ventures and Founder Collective. In addition to the Series A funding round, the company also has officially launched support for flexible nursing opportunities nationwide and added permanent staff openings for nurses seeking more traditional employment. Nurses can
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Pfizer, McKesson, Others Join MediLedger’s Blockchain Project Working Group
Leading life sciences and healthcare companies Pfizer Inc., McKesson Corporation, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, and Premier Inc. have joined the MediLedger Project Contracting and Chargebacks working group, a second working group running in parallel to the ongoing DSCSA working group started in 2017. MediLedger is an initiative of Chronicled, Inc., a San Francisco-based technology company, that builds blockchain-powered ecosystems and supply chain solutions.Network VisionMediLedger uses
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Telepsychiatry Improves Access to Mental Healthcare in Rural Areas, Study Finds
A new study by Genoa Healthcare and Relias found that combining telepsychiatry with in-person visits improved the timeliness of care and increased the number of regular psychiatric appointments for people with severe mental illness in non-metropolitan areas where provider resources tend to be scarce. Study Key FindingsRecently published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Rural Mental Health, the peer-reviewed study analyzed data from 242 Medicaid patients in rural Missouri
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FDA Grants Breakthrough Designation to RenalytixAI for AI-Enabled Diagnostic for Kidney Disease
RenalytixAI, a developer of artificial intelligence-enabled clinical diagnostics for kidney disease, today announced that it has been granted Breakthrough Device designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for its lead diagnostic, KidneyIntelX™. This is the first such designation for an AI-enabled diagnostic for kidney disease publicly announced by any company.FDA Breakthrough Devices Program OverviewThe FDA’s Breakthrough Devices Program is a voluntary program for certain
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