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- Strive Health, a Denver-based provider of value-based kidney care today announced $140 million in Series B funding with Alphabet’s independent growth fund, CapitalG, as the lead investor. Strive has more than doubled its presence in regional markets and grown its employee base by more than 600% in the last year. This funding will further increase that momentum.
- Currently, there is $410 billion of unmanaged kidney disease
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Unite Us Nabs $150M, Reaching $1.6B Valuation to Address Social Determinants of Health
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- Unite Us, the tech company creating coordinated care networks nationwide, has just announced a $150M Series C round of funding led by ICONIQ Capital, bringing its valuation at $1.65 billion.
- Unite Us is leading the care transformation movement towards whole-person health with its core product, Unite Us Platform, an outcome-focused coordination software sconnecting community-based organizations with health care providers, health plans,
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Waystar Launches Price Transparency Solutions to Meet Consumer Demand
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- Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today announced the addition of the Text Statements feature to its suite of payment tools. This new solution enables patients to easily view and pay medical bills directly from their smartphone, bringing transparency and convenience to the patient financial experience – a long-standing focus for Waystar.
- Patients frequently don’t know what they’ll owe weeks, if not months after the point of care, If
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Making Senior Care More Human
When it comes to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in particular and long-term care in general, a human-centered and empathetic approach is not only necessary, it's obligatory. Putting the needs, constraints, and perspectives of patients first enhances the level of care we're able to provide.
Perhaps ironically, it is the integration and adaptation of artificial intelligence (AI) that has demonstrated the biggest potential in improving empathy and compassion in the industry.
It may
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MEDITECH Expanse Leads Customer Satisfaction for Small Community Hospitals, KLAS Report Finds
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- Small community hospitals (1–200 beds) leaders cite MEDITECH Expanse Acute Care EMR as a leader in delivering the most consistent customer experience, according to a new KLAS report.
The KLAS report reveals that while Epic and Cerner EMRs leads in performance among large organizations they don’t deliver as consistently for smaller hospitals. Customers cite their approaches to the community market—hub-and spoke relationship (Epic) and shared server (Cerner)—create
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City of Milwaukee Taps NowPow to Improve Health Equity & Outcomes
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- IMPACT, a designated provider of 211 information and referral services in Southeastern Wisconsin, today announced a groundbreaking collaboration with local health systems, community organizations and NowPow to power one of the nation’s most comprehensive, community-wide systems to connect health and social care and track outcomes.
- As part of the partnership, IMPACT Connect will establish a shared digital platform for partner organizations across multiple sectors —
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CorVista Health Nabs $65M for Non-Invasive Cardiac Diagnostic Platform
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- CorVista Health, a Toronto-based digital health company dedicated to improving cardiovascular disease diagnosis, announced it has closed a $65 million Series C financing, bringing the total funding to nearly $100 million.
- This significant capital provides a runway for ongoing research, development and commercialization efforts for CorVista® System, the company’s non-invasive, point-of-care solution that allows physicians to rapidly test for heart disease.
- The
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Payers Struggle with Provider Data Management Too
Provider data management is usually discussed from the provider perspective: the busy staff, the needless paperwork amid a pandemic, the faxing, emailing and uploading of data. In these scenarios, the health plans are often painted as the villains for their bureaucratic processes and unique requirements. But the reality is that health plans aren’t totally to blame.
Payers and providers share a common goal: to provide the best quality care for their patients. The amount of data, including
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Wellstar Invests $10M to Become First Sharecare-Enabled Health System
Wellstar Health System, one of Georgia’s largest and most integrated healthcare systems, and Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on unique, market-leading innovations in personalized care delivery, population health, and consumer engagement. Through this partnership, Wellstar also will become the first “Sharecare-enabled” health system in the country, utilizing Sharecare’s solutions to
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Biden Announces Deal With Merck, Johnson & Johnson to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Production
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- President Biden’s administration today announced a historic manufacturing deal between Merck and Johnson & Johnson (J&J), to expand production of J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine. The collaboration will increase manufacture of vaccine drug substance, as well as its fill-finish capacity – two of the biggest bottlenecks facing J&J in the production of its vaccine.
- In addition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will collaborate with Merck
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