Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes.
These are just two examples of data that highlight the need for equity.
Health plans are well-aware that shifting this dynamic and boosting clinical outcomes is possible through better,
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Luma Health & Change Healthcare Partner to Develop Solutions to Optimize Patient Journeys
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health, a digital health company streamlining patient-provider communications announced a strategic partnership with Change Healthcare, a healthcare technology company that provides the connection and data transfer between providers, payers, and consumers.
- The two companies will develop solutions to meet health systems' demand for streamlined and unified clinical, operational, and financial journeys.
Develop Solutions to Unify All Journeys -Clinical,
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Magellan Federal Launches Population Health Platform for Military Families
What You Should Know:
- Magellan Federal, which serves 300 U.S. military bases, has partnered with NeuroFlow to support United States military families with personalized, digital behavioral health and well-being support.
- The platform will give hundreds of thousands of service members the ability to track their mood, report on the highs and lows of military life, and engage with counselors if needed.
NeuroFlow’s Population Health Platform for Military Families
The 18-month-long
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Vivalink Launches Multi-Vital Blood Pressure Patch for Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Vivalink, a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions launches a multi-vital blood pressure patch for remote patient monitoring is now available for research and development.
- The advanced multimodal continuous signal processing patch captures ECG trace, heart rate, respiratory rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure on a single device.
Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor
Cuffless blood pressure is still in its infancy, but new research is exploring
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Banner Health Invests In Atlas Healthcare Partners
What You Should Know:
- Atlas Healthcare Partners (Atlas), which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in partnerships with health systems and physicians, announced today that Banner Health has invested into Atlas.
- Atlas formed a joint venture partnership with Banner in 2018 to develop and operate a network of ASCs in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming. This strategy has resulted in significant growth over the last three years, expanding from eight ASCs to
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Divurgent Appoints Ed Marx as New CEO
What You Should Know:
- Divurgent, a healthcare IT consulting company, today announced it has appointed Ed Marx, a renowned leader with more than 30 years of experience, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
- In addition, Colin Konschak, company founder and CEO since 2007, will move to a new role as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Ed Marx Background
Ed Marx is an influential, veteran IT leader with deep experience in healthcare. He was the former Chief
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Can Automation Drive Health System Outcomes?
The United States spends about $1 trillion per year on healthcare administration. 95% of healthcare workforce growth since 1990 has been administrative. But adding administrative staff hasn’t helped health systems stay on top of the increase in manual work queues, and it certainly hasn’t been improving outcomes for patients. So when asked if automation can drive better health system outcomes, through my work in healthcare technology, I know for a fact that it already is.
Research has
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Report: Advancing Tech-Enabled Health & Home Care
What You Should Know:
The Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging today released a report to identify actionable recommendations to better integrate health and home care through technology. These recommendations were gathered from a convening of stakeholders representing health care, technology, government and policy, research and academia, philanthropy, advocacy, and community-based organizations.
Report Background
While the COVID-19 pandemic heightened the focus on
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HSBlox Releases Enhanced VBC Contract Builder
What You Should Know:
- HSBlox, a technology company empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and support to deliver value-based care (VBC) successfully and sustainably, today announced Release 3.5 of its CureAlign platform.
- CureAlign enables healthcare organizations to administer value-based programs, including network build-out, contract administration, permissioned data exchange and payment.
CareAlign 3.5 Overview
CureAlign 3.5 further
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Health Tech VC Firm Flare Capital Partners Closes $350M Fund
What You Should Know:
- Flare Capital Partners, a Boston-based healthcare technology venture capital firm closes its third fund with $350M, which follows up on its prior two funds raised in July 2019 and the inaugural fund raised in April 2015, respectively.
- The most recent fund, establishes Flare Capital Partners as one of the largest, independent, early-stage venture capital firms dedicated to healthcare technology.
“When we started the firm in 2014, over $4.5 billion was invested
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