What You Should Know:
- Healthcare insurer Anthem has announced a data sharing collaboration with Epic to facilitate secure, bi-directional exchange of health information between healthcare providers and Anthem’s affiliated health plans.
- Epic’s Payer Platform will be integrated with Anthem’s Health OS, which is Anthem’s operating system to enable seamless health plan-provider collaboration.
- The integration will enable Anthem to capture consumer health information
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Why Ransomware Poses a Threat to Both Providers & Patient Health
Ransomware attacks continue to wreak havoc on all types of organizations across almost every industry. The healthcare sector in particular has emerged as one of the top targets for ransomware gangs, and the impact can be more dire than for most others. According to new research by Tenable, ransomware is responsible for 46% of all data breaches in the healthcare sector, compared to 35% of data breaches across all verticals.
Just last month, a major hospital in Maryland lost access to a
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A Promising New Post-COVID World of Virtual Care
It’s a striking contrast to look at the world as it now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to what life was like prior to March 2020. To pre-pandemic eyes, it may even seem like an unrecognizable alien landscape with people everywhere donning facemasks, limited public gatherings, and tens of millions working from home rather than the office. Up until recently, commercial flights departed with few passengers, movie theaters and sports venues were largely shuttered, and many avoided
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Geisinger Health Plan First to Leverage Kyruus-HealthSparq Integration
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- Kyruus today it announced that Geisinger Health Plan (GHP), serving over 500,000 members in Pennsylvania, is the first organization to leverage the Kyruus-HealthSparq integration and HealthSparq’s new Path to Care provider data and care access solution.
- GHP’s provider profiles now include new provider data that health plans typically don’t have access to, such as the
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CommonHealth Integrates with 150 Providers to Power Secure Access to Personal Health Records
What You Should Know:
- The Commons Project Foundation announced this morning that more than 150 new hospital providers have joined CommonHealth, the Android equivalent of Apple Health, including the VHA, Mass General Brigham, ChristianaCare, and UC San Diego Health.
- CommonHealth, which is free and available for download on the Google Play Store, was developed by The Commons Project Foundation in collaboration with UCSF, Cornell Tech and Sage Bionetworks to give people more control over
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Cynerio Raises $30M to Expand Healthcare IoT Cybersecurity Platform
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- Cynerio, a leading provider of Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, today announced it has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund, Israel's pioneering HealthTech investment fund. Existing investors, global VC Accelmed, RDC, Elron’s joint venture with Rafael, and Swiss-based growth investor, MTIP, also participated in the funding round.
- Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a nearly 50% increase in the
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DarioHealth Acquires Digital Behavioral Health Platform wayForward for $30M
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- DarioHealth Corp., a pioneer in the global digital therapeutics market, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire PsyInnovations, Inc. (dba wayForward), a behavioral health digital platform that includes AI-enabled screening to triage and navigate members to specific interventions, digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), self-directed care, expert coaching and access to in-person and telehealth provider visits.
- The wayForward platform
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Humana Taps NowPow to Address Social Needs for Medicare & Medicaid Members in Chicago
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- Humana Inc., today announced it is partnering with NowPow to improve the health of communities across Chicago by identifying and addressing root causes of poor health.
- As part of the partnership, Humana will leverage NowPow’s personalized community referral platform to help extend the digital infrastructure for its population health strategy supporting Humana Medicaid and Medicare members in Chicago. This effort aims to improve members’ health by meeting needs
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SymphonyRM Secures $25M to Transform Providers into Member-Focused Enterprises
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- SymphonyRM, a Palo Alto-based health IT company announced today that it has raised $25M in Series B funding. The round is led by new investment partner TT Capital Partners (TTCP) with continued investment from Adams Street Partners (Adams Street). The latest round of funding brings SymphonyRM total raised to date at $35M.
- SymphonyRM is helping health systems transform how they acquire, engage, and retain patients by creating an engagement model rivaling the
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Insurtech Helper Bees Acquires In-Home Care Platform healthAlign
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- The Helper Bees (THB), an insurtech company creating a better model for home care, today announced the acquisition of healthAlign, a platform, connecting Medicare Advantage health plan members to a full range of of in-home service providers.. Together the two companies will drive aging-in-place innovation by centralizing a full range of in-home services within a single platform; fulfilling through national and local providers, regulated agencies, and
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