What You Should Know: Alira Health acquires Italy-based Patchai, a cognitive platform embedding an empathetic virtual assistant for patient engagement and real-time data collection. This marks Alira Health’s second digital health acquisition, furthering the company’s rapid expansion into patient-centric, technology-enabled solutions for healthcare providers, payers, and suppliers. Alira Health, a Framingham, MA-based health care consultancy, announced that it has acquired Italy-based
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4 Strategies for Urgent Care to Thrive During the Pandemic and Beyond
A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care. By the end of 2020, urgent care saw a 58% increase in visit volumes on average, and Covid-19 testing and vaccinations had accounted for 60% of all visits. New patient volumes increased by 23% over the same year,
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Komodo Health Expands Real-World Evidence Database to Tackle Racial Disparities
What You Should Know: In an effort to address glaring racial disparities in healthcare, today Komodo Health is expanding its Healthcare Map™ with new demographic characteristics, including patient race and ethnic data. By incorporating these additional characteristics into its Healthcare Map, Komodo is making it possible to better assess real-world experiences and outcomes for diverse patient populations across the U.S. Komodo Health today announced the expansion of its Healthcare
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aptihealth Raises $50M to Scale Behavioral Health Platform
What You Should Know: - aptihealth raises $50 million in Series B funding to scale higher acuity behavioral healthcare services. - New capital from world-class syndicate will accelerate the growth and expansion of aptihealth's tech-driven, novel care model for outcomes-based behavioral healthcare. aptihealth, a Boston, MA-based tech-driven behavioral health provider built to transform higher acuity care, today announced a $50 million Series B funding round from Takeda Digital
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LifePoint Health Launches Health Tech Incubator, 25m Health in Nashville
What You Should Know: - LifePoint Health launches 25m Health, a Nashville-based Healthtech Venture Studio with 25madison, as part of “LifePoint Forward” Innovation Strategy LifePoint Health has announced a partnership with New York-based venture studio 25madison to launch a first-of-its-kind health tech startup incubator in Nashville. Seeded with a starting investment of $20M and dubbed 25m Health, the incubator will bring together the expertise, network, and access to a large health
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Dept. of Defense Awards Prenosis $4.3M Contract for Early Sepsis Detection
What You Should Know: - U.S. Department of Defense awards Prenosis up to $4.3M to improve early sepsis identification for warfighters using point-of-care predictive diagnostics. - According to the World Health Organization, more than 11 million people die from sepsis worldwide annually, more than the deaths caused by all cancers combined. Studies show that sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals with annual costs of treatment and rehabilitation estimated at
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Alexa, Can You Call My Nurse? Amazon to Build Vocera Skill for Alexa
What You Should Know: - Vocera announced a collaboration with Amazon to deliver Vocera skill for Alexa. This HIPAA-compliant solution provides an easy, personal, and direct way for hospitalized patients and aged care residents to connect with their caregivers and more. - Through the hands-free Vocera skill, Alexa clarifies the nature of patient requests, establishes urgency, and updates the patient on the status of the care team’s response in a personalized, conversational manner. Vocera
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QGenda Acquires Nurse & Staff Scheduling Platform Schedule360 – M&A
What You Should Know: - QGenda today announced the acquisition of Schedule360, the provider of cloud-based software to automate nurse and staff scheduling. - With the addition of nurse and staff scheduling, QGenda will enable healthcare organizations to manage, schedule and optimize the deployment of their entire workforce. Now, organizations can streamline scheduling processes across the enterprise to better optimize capacity and to improve outcomes through more
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Florence Health Adopts Innovaccer Health Cloud to Scale R&D
What You Should Know: - Florence Health, a next-generation, fully risk-bearing, primary care provider, has partnered with Innovaccer to move its proprietary technology development to the Innovaccer Health Cloud. - Florence, which will enter 2022 at full risk for more than 25,000 Medicare patients across multiple states and annual revenues of over $350 million, selected the Innovaccer Health Cloud after an extensive search that included all major public cloud providers. Adopting
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Time is Money in Healthcare Administration. How Much Are You Losing?
Administrative complexity is a billion-dollar problem, riddled with human-led, hand-done steps that simply don’t need to exist. In a given year, approximately a quarter to one-third of our healthcare spending comes from waste across the system. Sometimes, the cause of money waste is obvious, such as duplicated tests, misdiagnosis, extended ER stays, overtreatment, or failures in care coordination. The less obvious contributor: time. Time is wasted at nearly every step of the
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