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- Medically Home today announced a new, $110M round of funding from strategic investors including Baxter International Inc., Global Medical Response (GMR) and Cardinal Health who will each have representation on the company's Board. Cardinal Health, Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente are providing additional capital on top of their previous investments, demonstrating confidence in the growing expansion of the model nationwide.
- The Medically Home model
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How Hospitals Can Build Trust and Bolster Patient Experience Through Data and Insights
In any industry, the systems created to enhance customer experience are in orbit around a singular premise: trust. In healthcare, trust is foundational to patient experience, yet it is still largely ignored in our conversations about healthcare transformation.
In order for patients to feel confident in the care they are receiving—and for a great patient experience—they need to trust their care providers. It’s an endemic challenge across healthcare as patients deal with a widening
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Endear Health Raises $4M for Payor Member Experience Platform for Medicare Advantage Plans
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- Endear Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital engagement platform built for the rapidly evolving value-based landscape, has successfully closed an oversubscribed $4M seed funding round led by 8VC with participation by GreatPoint Ventures and additional Angel Investors.
- Endear Health concurrently announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Mirsky to its Advisory Board to provide guidance as Endear Health expands to additional health plans and provider groups around
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Nomi Health Acquires Benefits Analytics Platform Artemis Health for $200M
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Nomi Health, a direct healthcare provider, announced its acquisition of healthcare analytics provider Artemis Health -- the partner of choice for more than 500 U.S. employers and benefits advisors to make health benefits higher quality and more affordable using data.
- The acquisition gives Nomi Health customers actionable, data-driven insights to materially lower costs and improve the quality of care they deliver to their communities. The acquisition will also
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10 Best Practices for IoMT Security To Watch in 2022
As the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the world, hospitals and healthcare systems have attempted to keep up with community needs via IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) devices. Federal agencies have even authorized emergency use of certain types of IoMT devices in order to monitor and reduce coronavirus disease exposure.
The benefits of IoMT are sufficiently appealing that the IoMT market is poised to hit a valuation of $158
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Q-Centrix & Realyze Intelligence Partner to Advance the Clinical Data Automation
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- Q-Centrix®, the largest exclusive provider of clinical data management solutions to hospitals and health systems, announced a partnership with Realyze Intelligence, a company using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to capture unstructured clinical data, ensuring patient populations with heart conditions or cancer receive the most beneficial treatments.
- By partnering with Realyze, Q-Centrix will bring a sophisticated AI and machine
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Carenet Health Acquires Provider Scheduling Platform OpenMed
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- Carenet Health – a provider of 24/7 healthcare engagement and on-demand telehealth solutions—announced today that they have acquired OpenMed, a digital innovator in closing care gaps, enabling access to care and supporting real-time collaboration between healthcare payers/risk-bearing entities (RBOs) and providers.
- The acquisition will add a state-of-the-art communications and scheduling
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symplr Acquires Midas Health Analytics Solutions for $340M
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- symplr, a global leader in enterprise healthcare operations including governance, risk management, and compliance (“GRC”) SaaS solutions announced it has agreed to acquire Midas Health Analytics Solutions (“Midas”) from Conduent Incorporated for $340M. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
- The acquisition
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Aetion Acquires Synthetic Data Platform Replica Analytics
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- Aetion, a real-world evidence (RWE) tech platform, has just announced its acquisition of Replica Analytics, a pioneer in using ML to generate synthetic data. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- This acquisition allows Aetion to solve for one of the toughest problems in RWE: access to fit-for-purpose data. Synthetic data acts as a “digital clone” of real-world data by maintaining the source data’s statistical properties, while also protecting
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Bamboo Health Promotes Rob Cohen to CEO
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- Bamboo Health™, formerly Appriss Health and PatientPing, today announced that Rob Cohen, president and general manager of Bamboo Health, is assuming the role of CEO effective December 16, 2021. Appriss CEO Krishnan Sastry is now executive chairman for Bamboo Health and serves as an advisor to Cohen.
- The promotion comes as Bamboo Health transitions from one of several business units under the Appriss Inc. name to an independent health technology company. Instead,
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