What You Should Know:
- Sirona Medical, a software company with a cloud-native solution for radiologists, has announced its acquisition of Nines Radiology’s AI division. Sirona Medical did not acquire Nines' teleradiology business, Nines Radiology. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- This is Sirona’s first acquisition just months after its exit from stealth in Aug. 2021 with a total of $62.5M in Series A & B financing rounds.
Why It Matters
The FDA-cleared medical
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Transcarent Inks Partnership with RUSH, Will Support 9,000 Employees
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- Rush University System for Health (RUSH) announced a partnership with Transcarent, a new and different health and care experience company for employees of self-insured employers and their families led by Glen Tullman, to provide 9,000 RUSH employees with a new way to access high-quality medical care.
- With Transcarent, RUSH employees can use Transcarent’s digital health care app, 24/7 personalized Health Guides, and other tools and resources to enhance their
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FemTec Health Taps GeniusRx as Exclusive Online Pharmacy Partner for D2C Platform
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- Today, FemTec Health, the leading health and beauty sciences company, announced an exclusive partnership with online pharmacy company GeniusRx that will provide Awesome Woman members access to on-demand, door-to-door prescription delivery.
- Launching later this month, Awesome Woman is FemTec Health’s consumer brand that will provide personalized health and wellness services along with products that are meaningful and effective to women at all life stages.
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Fighting Front-End Staff Burnout Without Compromising Care
Research tells us that self-advocacy in healthcare is important, for both patients and providers. But self-advocacy is hard for patients today. Patients must navigate the complex, fragmented healthcare ecosystem to advocate for personal needs and have their voices heard.
Unfortunately, patients now face a new challenge: the clinical support staff that plays a crucial role in guiding patients through their healthcare experience are increasingly burned out.
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Elizabeth Dole Foundation & Cerner Launch Clinical Council
What You Should Know:
- In partnership with Cerner Corporation, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, today announced the launch of the Inclusive Care Clinical Council, a group of healthcare experts, leaders and stakeholders who will assess the impact of the Foundation’s Inclusive Care efforts and guide how it can be expanded to healthcare systems.
- The goals of the Clinical Council are to generate a dialogue around assessing the system-wide impact of inclusive care, identify how
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H1 Acquires London-Based Faculty Opinions to Broaden Global Doctor Network
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H1, a global healthcare professional data ecosystem to enable life sciences, academic medical institutions, health systems, and payors acquires London-based Faculty Opinions Ltd, formerly known as Faculty of 1000 and F1000 Prime. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- A close partner of H1, Faculty Opinions fuses the comments and opinions of thousands of top researchers in the Life and Medical Sciences to highlight and validate the most
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Medisafe Launches Digital Document Exchange to Speed Up Medication Approvals
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- Today, Medisafe, a leading digital therapeutics and patient engagement company launches its new Digital Document Exchange module to streamline the medication approval process.
- The solution enables patients to upload and submit required documentation directly through the company's app — speeding complex medication approval processes from an average of 24 days to 10 minutes and allowing patients to begin treatment therapy sooner.
Digital Document Exchange
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HealthEdge, CitiusTech Partner to Enhance Offerings to Health Plans
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HealthEdge announced a strategic partnership with CitiusTech for joint go-to-market implementation and consulting services for HealthEdge solutions.
HealthEdge is also working closely with FluidEdge Consulting, the healthcare consulting subsidiary of CitiusTech, to enhance adoption of the HealthEdge platform across health plans, through proven implementation frameworks and a global delivery model.
Why It Matters for Health Plans
With more than 6,000
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Leveraging A More Impactful Analytics Strategy to Improve Your Health Plan Member CX
Healthcare organizations are increasingly eager to leverage analytics technologies, including machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), in new ways. One telling sign of this is that the global predictive analytics healthcare market, which was valued at $1.8 billion in 2017, is projected to reach more than $8.5 billion by 2025.
But as technology evolves, it’s clear that the types and use of analytics platforms that can drive change among health plans — as well as the breadth of
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VillageMD Acquires Patient Education Platform Healthy Interactions
What You Should Know:
- 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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