Walgreens Boots Alliance and Verily, an Alphabet company, announced they will collaborate on multiple projects under a broad agreement aimed at improving health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions, while also lowering the cost of care. “We are well aligned with Walgreens on the need to develop and bring to market solutions that help people better engage with their health and manage their chronic conditions. This relationship affords us the opportunity to jointly tackle real-world
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Orca Health Launches Waiting Room, a Digital Content Platform for Patients and Physicians
Orca Health, a healthcare technology company that creates software solutions that empower healthcare providers to improve quality of care, announced today the launch of Waiting Room, a digital content platform designed to streamline and improve the patient experience from diagnosis to treatment to post-surgical care.Patients are presented with Waiting Room on a tablet when they arrive at their appointments. The app's capabilities help patients and providers by:- Streamlining the registration and
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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Form New Consumer Health Joint Venture
GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Inc to form new world-leading Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture provides a unique opportunity to accelerate GSK’s strategy and create substantial value for shareholders. GlaxoSmithKline has reached an agreement with Pfizer Inc to combine their consumer health businesses into a consumer health Joint Venture, with combined sales of approximately $12.7B. As part of the agreement, GSK will have a majority controlling equity interest of 68% and Pfizer will have an equity
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PeaceHealth to Acquire On-Demand Healthcare Provider ZOOM+Care
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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