It is essential for Americans to have a streamlined and cost-effective path to obtain and retain healthcare coverage.
Recent events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastation it brought to our healthcare and economic systems, continue to underscore the catastrophic impacts of not providing such an option – and this has been upheld by the Supreme Court in their recent decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
It’s an exciting time for us as Health IT
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Relatient Merges with Patient Access Platform Radix Health, Raises $100M+
- Today, Relatient, Inc., the leading SaaS-based, patient engagement platform, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge with Radix Health, a data-driven platform that helps medical practices and hospital groups optimize scheduling, patient access, and self-scheduling. Financial terms of the merger were not disclosed.
- In addition, Relatient has raised $100+ million of additional growth equity capital from its existing investor, Brighton Park Capital, and its affiliates.
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Cricket Health Secures $83.5M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Model to Health Plans
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- Cricket Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of value-based kidney care with a clinically-proven approach to managing chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), today announced it has raised $83.5 million in Series B funding round led by Valtruis with a strategic investment from Blue Shield of California. The round also includes existing investors Oak HC/FT and Cigna Ventures, as well as K2 HealthVentures.
- This new funding will help
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GoodRx and Surescripts Brings Real-Time Drug Discount Pricing in EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Today, GoodRx announced an exclusive agreement with health information network Surescripts to deliver real-time drug discount price information for prescriptions in Surescript’ price transparency solution.
- Surescripts is a nationwide network that connects virtually all EHRs, pharmacies and health systems, enabling providers to view patient-specific benefit and cost information and then electronically prescribe a medication. Last year, nearly 2 billion electronic
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Clarify Health Acquires Apervita’s Value Optimization Business – M&A
What You Should Know:
- Clarify Health, a cloud analytics company delivering real-world insights to healthcare and life sciences organizations, announced today the acquisition of the Value Optimization business of Apervita, the trusted platform for healthcare collaboration for payers, providers and other stakeholders. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- This acquisition bolsters Clarify’s integrated analytics platform for end-to-end value-based contract design,
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PE Firm WCAS Launches $300M Value-Based Care Portfolio Company, Valtruis
What You Should Know:
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (“WCAS”), a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare and technology industries, announced that it is launching Valtruis, a unique portfolio company that will invest in and partner with value-based care driven healthcare companies. WCAS is committing an initial $300M to this platform.
Founded on a commitment to accelerate meaningful change, Valtruis brings the functional expertise, access to capital and an
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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Launches Azure Healthcare APIs
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare announced it is expanding its portfolio of interoperability data services for the health and life sciences industry with Azure Healthcare APIs.
- Built for the requirements of Protected Health Information (PHI), Azure Healthcare APIs enable customers with a platform as a service (PaaS) to ingest, manage, and persist data in the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Anyone working with health data can
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Jvion Launches Clinical AI on the Innovaccer Health Cloud
What You Should Know:
- Jvion, a leader in clinical artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that its AI-powered prescriptive insights, powered by the Jvion CORE™, are now available on the Innovaccer Health Cloud.
- Innovaccer’s integration with Jvion’s clinical AI to help more than 37,000 providers go beyond risk prediction to prescriptive interventions, resulting in better care and reduced healthcare costs. Innovaccer became healthcare’s latest unicorn this year when a Series D
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RxBenefits Acquires Pharmacy Benefits Consulting Firm Confidio
What You Should Know:
RxBenefits, an employee benefits industry’s first and only technology-enabled pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO), today announced an agreement to acquire pharmacy benefits consulting firm, Confidio
- The deal will bring together two premier, complementary providers of pharmacy benefits services, further advancing the organizations’ strategic vision to deliver an affordable prescription benefit to both plan sponsors and healthcare consumers.
- Founded in
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Cedar Appoints Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer
What You Should Know:
- Cedar, a New York City-based innovative healthcare financial technology platform, announced it has named Krishna Rao as Cedar's first Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
- Rao brings over 15 years of experience growing businesses, most recently serving as Global Head of Corporate and Business Development for Airbnb. In this role, he led and supported financings totaling over $10 billion in equity and debt capital, including the company's initial public offering last
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