The efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine focused the world’s attention on the pharmaceutical industry. Before the pandemic hit, very few people outside of the healthcare industry understood what it takes to develop a new drug. Nor did they consider the complexities of administering the various medications that require a regimen that goes beyond “take one pill each morning.”
The biopharmaceutical industry is massive, accounting for more than $1.3 trillion in economic output, representing four
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Health Catalyst to Acquire Patient Engagement Platform Twistle – M&A
What You Should Know:
- Health Catalyst, a provider of healthcare data and analytics solution announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Twistle, Inc. ("Twistle"), an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based healthcare patient engagement platform. The acquisition was funded using a combination of cash and stock.
- Founded in 2011, Twistle’s SaaS patient engagement platform automates patient-centered, HIPAA-compliant communication between care teams and patients to transform
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RCM: How Coding Gray Areas Skew Healthcare Data
Clinical reality, the ICD-10-CM classification system, and considerations of reimbursement are three distinct worlds that are sometimes in conflict. We don’t like it when financial considerations intrude on the purity of coding, but there’s no escaping this intrusion when coding serves as both the representation of the clinical picture in healthcare data and as the basis for reimbursement.
Sepsis Definitions at Odds
Sepsis provides a great illustration of a coding gray area that can
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Providence-backed Tegria Acquires Digital Health AI Platform KenSci
What You Should Know:
- Providence-backed Tegria today announced the acquisition of KenSci, a leader in artificial intelligence platforms and apps for healthcare, with roots in Microsoft's Azure4Research program and the University of Washington. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Founded in 2015, KenSci's digital health AI platform helps organizations bring the power their data and improve health outcomes with advanced analytics. KenSci's customers,
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CitiusTech Acquires SDLC Partners to Drive Health Plan Digital Transformation
What You Should Know:
- CitiusTech, a provider of healthcare technology services, solutions and platforms, announced today the strategic acquisition of SDLC Partners (SDLC), a Pittsburgh, PA-based provider of technology solutions to leading payer organizations.
- As the need for value-based innovative technology solutions grows, combining SDLC’s expertise in payer-focused solutions with CitiusTech’s industry presence and rich portfolio of complementary digital offerings, CitiusTech
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U of Chicago Med & COTA to Address Racial Disparities in Cancer Using RWD
What You Should Know:
- COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company and the University of Chicago Medicine announced a research collaboration agreement to investigate racial disparities of care in multiple myeloma to better understand differences in the diagnosis, treatment patterns, and outcomes of patients with this type of cancer.
- Multiple myeloma is the second-most-common hematologic malignancy, with an estimated 34,920 new cases and 12,410 deaths expected to occur
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Emtiro Health Taps Innovaccer to Build a Population Health Analytics Platform for NC Managed Medicaid Care Launch
What You Should Know:
- Emtiro Health, LLC, a North Carolina-based population health company, announced its partnership with leading healthcare technology company, Innovaccer Inc. to prepare for the North Carolina Managed Medicaid Care launch and deliver the best care to the Medicaid population.
- Together, they have developed a platform to support North Carolina’s transition to Managed Care, specifically Advanced Medical Homes (AMH) and providers that participate in value-based payment
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Priority Health Launches “Full Lifecycle” Social Determinants of Health Initiative
What You Should Know:
- Priority Health, a nationally recognized nonprofit health plan, announced today that it has launched a first-of-its-kind “full lifecycle” social determinants of health (SDoH) initiative.
- Recent research has shown that SDoH, or social factors like access to healthy food, transportation options and financial security, may be responsible for up to 80% of health outcomes.Priority Health’s first-of-its-kind program
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DrChrono Raises $12M to Expand Operations of Medical Practice Platform
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono Inc., a company developing an essential platform and services for modern medical practices, today announced it has raised a new round of over $12M in growth capital from ORIX Corporation USA’s Growth Capital team (ORIX Growth Capital.)
- The company plans to use the growth capital to expand all operations and provide enhancements across the other key product areas including EHR, practice management, medical billing and the company’s core partner
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Recuro Health Acquires Risk Stratification Solution MyLegacy – M&A
What You Should Know:
- Recuro Health (Recuro), an integrated digital health solution that evolves healthcare from a reactive, disease-focused model to a personalized, proactive system, today announced the acquisition of MyLegacy, a risk stratification tool and clinical decision support application which uses proprietary algorithms based on practice guidelines developed by the Cleveland Clinic Genomic Medicine Institute.
- The acquisition will further increase the scope and capabilities of
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