Health insurer giant Cigna has announced the acquisition of Brighter Inc., a SaaS-based digital health plan platform and engagement service provider to leading health services organizations. The acquisition of Brigther's digital health plan platform will build upon the already successful relationship between Cigna and Brighter by accelerating the development of Cigna’s mobile and desktop platforms and creating new end-to-end experiences that connect health consumers and providers with the
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Healthcare Blockchain Startup Curisium Raises $3.5M to Facilitate Patient-Centric Contracting
Curisium, a Manhattan Beach, CA-based healthcare blockchain startup has raised $3.5 million in seed funding from Flare Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Shuttle Fund, Sanofi Ventures, and Green Bay Ventures. Founded by Peter Kim and Francis Lam, Curisium's healthcare blockchain-based platform eanable payers, providers, and life science companies to efficiently and securely engage in innovative, patient-centric value-based contracts. Nearly a third of the payments in the $3T US
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Doctor.com, Connect Health Merge to Power the Digital Patient Journey
Doctor.com has merged with Connect Healthcare, a provider of SaaS provider directory and reputation management solutions to healthcare enterprises. For the first time, healthcare organizations can manage provider data, search, online listings, patient feedback analysis, reputation monitoring, transparency, and online scheduling -- all from one unified platform.Doctor.com seamlessly integrates provider data warehousing, web-wide listings management, reputation insights, universal online
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Clinicient Acquires Mobile Patient Engagement Startup Keet Health
Clinicient, Inc., a provider of business solutions for outpatient rehabilitation has acquired Keet Health, an Austin, TX-based mobile patient engagement platform. The acquisition will expand Clinicient’s solutions with Keet’s mobile patient engagement platform to enable providers to deliver exceptional patient experiences, improve outcomes and reduce costs.Founded in 2015, Keet Health keeps patients engaged with digital care plans, patient education, secure messaging, and care coordination.
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YC-Backed Elemeno Health Nabs $1.3M for Cloud-Based Virtual Coach
Elemeno Health, a Y Combinator-backed digital health startup has raised $1.3 million in seed funding led by Launchpad Digital Health. The startup plans to use the funding to expand and invest in its proprietary cloud solution for frontline healthcare teams. Currently, Elemeno Health’s app is in use by teams in multiple health systems in California, including UCSF.Founded in 2016 by UCSF Associate Professor Arup Roy-Burman, MD, and veteran Electronic Arts (EA) Game Developer Ed Nanale, Elemeno
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drchrono EHR Integrates With FlexScanMD to Help Medical Practices Track Product Inventory
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced its new integration partnership with the leading provider of cloud-based, medical inventory management, FlexScanMD. The new integration between drchrono and FlexScanMD allows medical practices to seamlessly track the products they stock, dispense and sell. Although inventory management is highly critical to many medical practices, it is often handled manually due to the lack of communication between a practice’s inventory management software, EHR and
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Health IT Company ABILITY Network Raises $545M in Debt Financing
ABILITY Network (ABILITY), a health information technology company that simplifies the complexities of administrative and clinical processes has raised $545 million in debt financing. The proceeds will be used to replace existing debt at lower rates and extended maturities, fund cash to the balance sheet for growth and pay a dividend to shareholders. The new debt financing, along with ABILITY’s strong performance, returns leverage ratios to the same level as when Summit Partners and Bain
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Partners Connected Health to Develop AI Tool to Predict Risk of Hospital Readmissions
Partners Connected Health and Hitachi, Ltd., today announced a collaboration to develop a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict with high accuracy, the risk of hospital readmissions within 30 days for patients with heart failure. The tool will help identify appropriate patients to participate in a readmission prevention program study following hospital discharge, and can explain the reason why patients were identified as being at high risk.Hospital Readmission Prediction Study
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Survey: 4 in 5 Physicians Experienced Cyberattacks In Their Clinical Practices
More than four in five U.S. physicians (83 percent) have experienced some form of a cybersecurity attack, according to new research released today by Accenture and the American Medical Association (AMA). The key findings reveal physicians see need for the healthcare industry to increase cybersecurity support for medical practices in their communities. More than half (55 percent) of the physicians were very or extremely concerned about future cyberattacks in their practice. In addition,
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NewYork-Presbyterian, Walgreens Partner to Launch In-Store Telemedicine Kiosks
NewYork-Presbyterian and Walgreens has announced a new collaboration to bring convenient access to NewYork-Presbyterian's world-class care through in-store telemedicine kiosks at select Duane Reade drugstores in New York. NewYork-Presbyterian, New York's No. 1 hospital, is offering the telemedicine services as part of its NYP OnDemand suite of digital health services.The first NewYork-Presbyterian NYP OnDemand telemedicine kiosk is currently available at the Duane Reade location at 40 Wall
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