For hospitals and the people who staff them, it was exactly the déjà vu they were hoping to avoid: another surge in COVID-19 cases, with the now all-too-familiar strains and stressors that accompany it.
The rapid spread of the Delta variant in the U.S. and elsewhere brought reports of fresh spikes in hospital admission numbers and shortages of ICU beds. Hospitals were forced to increase overtime demands on staff, recall contingent workers and in some cases, hastily establish temporary
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Oak Street Health Acquires RubiconMD for $130M – Health M&A
What You Should Know:
- Oak Street Health, Inc., a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare, today announced it has acquired RubiconMD, the leading technology platform providing access to specialist expertise.
- Motivated by their own experiences within the healthcare system, CEO Gil Addo and President Carlos Reines founded RubiconMD in 2013 to democratize medical expertise by connecting primary care clinicians to top specialists. Through its digital platform,
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Northwell Selects Cedar to Deliver Personalized Financial Experience
What You Should Know:
- Northwell Health, the largest health system in New York State, and Cedar, a market-leading healthcare financial technology platform, today announced a collaborative relationship to improve the financial experience for 2 million patients across Northwell’s 23 hospitals and various facilities.
- Northwell will leverage Cedar Pay, Cedar’s post-visit patient engagement and payment platform, delivers a more streamlined patient
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Suki Launches Windows Version of Voice-Enabled Clinical Digital Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Suki, a provider of voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, announced today the launch of a Windows version of Suki Assistant, expanding the use of the company’s proprietary technology to Windows-powered computers. This offering complements Suki’s existing mobile and web apps, rounding out access to Suki Assistant and delivering the health care industry’s first end-to-end voice-enabled clinical
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Hackensack Meridian to Deploy Google Cloud’s AI/ML Offering in Clinical Settings
What You Should Know:
- Hackensack Meridian Health and Google today announced the two organizations are expanding their relationship to improve patient care. Hackensack Meridian Health recently migrated to Google Workspace and will be one of the first health systems in the world to use Chrome OS devices across clinical and business environments.
- In addition, Hackensack Meridian is partnering with Google Cloud to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in key
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CommonSpirit, Vital Expand Partnership After Successful Pilot to Improve Patient Experience in ED & Patient Care Delivery
What You Should Know:
- Today at HLTH 2021, CommonSpiritHealth announced the results of its pilot with Vital, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software improving patient experience and follow-up visit loyalty in hospital emergency departments (ED) and inpatient stays. Vital’s digital tool, ERAdvisor, helps keep patients informed and in control of their visit by providing real-time content and text message updates to patients and their families through their smartphone. The app
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Trinity Health Invests in Xealth to Expand Digital Health Engagement Between Clinicians and Patients – HLTH21
What You Should Know:
- Xealth, a Seattle-based provider enabling digital health at scale, today announced at HLTH21 that Trinity Health, one of the nation’s largest Catholic health care systems, has invested in the company, bringing the total Series B funding to $25 million.
- The announcements mark Trinity as one of 15 health system investors for Xealth: Advocate Aurora Enterprises, Atrium Health, Banner Health, ChristianaCare, Cone Health, Memorial Hermann, Nebraska
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HealthEdge Acquires Wellframe to Enter Member Engagement Market
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- HealthEdge Software, Inc. (“HealthEdge”), a provider of the industry’s leading next-gen integrated solution suite for health insurers, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire digital health management platform Wellframe Inc. (“Wellframe”). Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
- The company’s Digital Health Management platform enables health plans to modernize member-facing services, including care
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Rev Cycle Company Ensemble Health Partners Files to Go Public
What You Should Know:
- Ensemble Health Partners, Inc. (“Ensemble”), a provider of healthcare revenue cycle management solutions for hospitals and affiliated physician groups, announced it has filed to raise $649M for its initial public offering (IPO), at a valuation of $1.2B.
- Ensemble is offering 29,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock at an initial public offering price between $19 and $22 per share. It also intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to
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Skyflow Secures $45M to Expand Health Data Privacy Vault – HLTH21
What You Should Know:
- Skyflow, a Palo Alto, CA-based customer data privacy company, today announced a $45M Series B financing round led by Insight Partners. Additionally, existing investors Canvas Ventures and Foundation Capital as well as executives from Plaid and Coinbase Board Member Gokul Rajaram invested in the Series B. With this new investment, Skyflow has raised over $70M over the last 18 months, and is positioned for rapid growth.
- Skyflow delivers a zero-trust data
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