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- VillageMD announced it has acquired Healthy Interactions, which helps patients manage chronic conditions through interactive educational programming as part of a stronger patient-provider relationship.
- The Healthy Interactions program, which offers virtual, in-person and hybrid sessions, will be available from Village Medical and Village Medical at Walgreens providers in 14 markets by the end of 2022. More than 30 million patients around the world have used
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Memora Health Nabs $40M to Scale Virtual Care Delivery Platform
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- Memora Health, a San Francisco, CA-based technology platform for virtual care delivery and complex care management, today announced the completion of a $40 million financing led by Transformation Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Frist Cressey Ventures, Edward Elmhurst Health, AlleyCorp, and others. As part of the financing, Todd Cozzens, Managing Partner at Transformation Capital, will join Memora's board.
- Memora continues to rapidly grow with
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Season Health, Geisinger, CommonSpirit Health, Cricket Health Launches Anchor Partnerships to Scale Food as Medicine Initiatives
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- Season Health announces anchor partnerships with Geisinger, CommonSpirit Health, and Cricket Health to scale Food as Medicine initiatives. Season is funded by LRV Health, 8VC, Bain Capital, Healthy.VC and Company Ventures, Toyin Ajayi (Co-founder and CMO of Cityblock Health), and Max Mullen (Co-founder of Instacart).
- These partnerships will combine Season’s industry-leading digital food pharmacy and medically tailored meal program with Geisinger, CommonSpirit and
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Hurdle Health Expands Mental Health Support into California, Texas and Massachusetts for BIPOC Communities
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- Hurdle Health, a digital platform revolutionizing mental healthcare by providing services with a focus on culturally intentional mental healthcare for people of color today announced expanded service availability in Texas, Massachusetts and California with plans to add even more states by Q2 2022, including Tennessee, Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia, and New York.
- With these expansions, the mental health service and its specially trained
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Why HIPAA Training Doesn’t Work. And How To Fix It
HIPAA, for better or worse, is a part of every healthcare business. It does not matter if your company is a traditional clinic or a cutting-edge AI platform powered by PHI (protected health information). There are different approaches to comply with HIPAA, and organizations as varied as clinics and AI platforms typically employ these different approaches.
HIPAA is not new. In fact, it’s older than companies like Facebook and predates the first iPhone. But, the way that we do HIPAA training
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4 Areas Where Technology Can Help Healthcare Workforce Enhancement
Staffing and workforce management have long been one of the most difficult responsibilities borne by healthcare executives, specifically those with responsibility for revenue cycle operations.
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, workers in administrative roles (the entire revenue cycle teams) were sent home. We didn’t know that almost two years later many would still be working remotely and that it might be that way from now on.
A recent survey commissioned by AKASA and conducted by
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Why Hospitals Need to Prioritize Clinical Data Management in 2022
The past two years have been fraught with difficulties for the healthcare industry. Labor shortages have negatively impacted hospitals and health systems nationwide, intensifying the burden on healthcare workers already strained. In fact, the latest job report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown healthcare employment down by nearly half a million since February 2020.
While a lack of sufficient staff has obvious implications on providing patient care, the labor
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Signify Health Acquires Caravan Health, Forming Largest Networks of At-Risk Providers
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- Today, Signify Health announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Caravan Health, a leader in enabling accountable care organizations (ACOs) to succeed in value-based care payment. Together, the companies form one of the largest networks of at-risk providers in the U.S.
- Together, Signify Health and Caravan Health will be better positioned to enable organizations to manage larger populations covered by value-based arrangements and to
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Radial Analytics Raises $3M to Optimize Patient Care Transitions
What You Should Know:
- Radial Analytics, a Concord, MA-based company optimizing patient care transitions with real-time decision-support solutions for payers and providers, today announced it has raised $3M in funding led by Initialized Capital.
- The company plans to utilize the funds to grow our team and build on our growing customer traction with Medicare Advantage plans and hospital systems in value-based care delivery contracts.
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What You Don’t Know About Your Patients Could Cost You
Healthcare spending is projected to exceed $6 trillion by 2028, largely driven by rising costs of care for an aging population and the growing number of Americans suffering from chronic physical conditions such as pulmonary disease, diabetes and hypertension.
To improve health outcomes while lowering cost of care, providers and payors increasingly are implementing value-based care (VBC) payment models. VBC contracts are structured to reward proactive and preventive healthcare, measurable
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