98point6, a Seatle-based digital health startup focused on reimaging primary care today announced it has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs and existing investors. Founded in 2015, the on-demand primary care platform combines innovative AI technology with board-certified physicians to deliver affordable and high-quality care right to a patient’s smartphone.The funding will enable 98point6 to scale and fulfill the strong commercial demand of
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Livongo Health Unveils Applied Health Signals to Silence Noisy Healthcare
Livongo, a consumer health company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced the first voice-enabled, at-home, cellular blood pressure monitoring system, free medication incentives for eligible members, and a number of new data science capabilities and partnerships. This voice-enabled cellular BP monitoring system builds on Livongo’s previously announced cellular blood pressure monitoring system, which allows members to instantly and
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Boston Health IT Startup Laudio Launches to Solve Health System Staff Burnout
Boston-based health IT entrepreneurs have teamed up to launch Laudio, a healthcare staff relationship platform designed to solve health system staff burnout. Laudio uses artificial intelligence to predict and prevent staff burnout, through more frequent, timely, and relevant manager interactions. This new software-as-a-service solution reduces turnover rates, which saves even a medium-sized acute care facility millions of dollars on annual replacement costs.Founded by a team led by Russ
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Redefining the Fax Machine for the Modern Era in Healthcare
Government regulations require specific industries, such as healthcare and financial services, comply with data privacy regulations. These compliance requirements serve to protect private, confidential, and sensitive information from unwanted intruders that could attempt to intercept files in transit. Though organizations can take measures to ensure that their email solutions are agreeable to these demands, an email message will typically pass through multiple servers before it reaches the final
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eClinicalWorks Develops Opioid Risk Tool to Assess A Patient’s Risk for Opioid Misuse
Health IT provider eClinicalWorks, announced this week the launch of their new Opioid Risk Tool (ORT), a smart form to assess and address a patient’s risk for opioid misuse and to improve physician adherence to treatment protocols. According to the CDC, more than 11.5 million Americans, aged 12 or older, reported misusing prescription opioids in 2016.eClinicalWorks believes it shares a joint responsibility with its customers toward bringing solutions to patients to combat the opioid epidemic. By
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Mobile Chronic Care Management Startup cliexa Acquires Preventative Technology Solutions Inc.
cliexa, a Denver-based healthcare technology company with a modular software platform for chronic care management and patient-reported outcomes, today announced the acquisition of Preventative Technology Solutions Inc.(PTSI). PTSI) is a Colorado-based provider of medical assessment applications and mHealth prevention services for adolescents and young adults.With this acquisition, cliexa will develop a suite of behavioral health apps for primary care and family medicine physicians and clinicians
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Mingle Analytics, SilverVue Merge to Form Mingle Health to Focus on Value-based Care Delivery
Mingle Analytics Inc., a provider of Medicare quality reporting, and SilverVue, Inc., a supplier of care management software, today announce their merger. Mingle Health is a new company focused on transforming value-based care delivery by solving the pain points in quality reporting while improving patient outcomes and strengthening practice health.Together, Mingle Health will deliver an all-in-one platform that includes the consulting, analytics, and tools to streamline medical practices,
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Why Are Hospitals Still Using CDs to Exchange Medical Images with Patients?
For nearly two decades, CDs have been the primary medium for medical image exchanges between providers and patients. In the mid-1990’s, CDs provided a solution to the point-of-care and transportation issues of bulky, static film and reports. Recent years have brought a widespread adoption of electronic methods for storing and sharing information in the healthcare sector---namely EMR and now interoperability. Despite the rapid (and necessary) adoption of HIT, CDs remain the primary means of
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Kyruus Launches ProviderMatch for Salesforce to Enable Precise Patient-Provider Matching
Kyruus, a patient-provider matching health IT company, today announced the launch of ProviderMatch for Salesforce, which integrates into Salesforce Health Cloud on the Salesforce AppExchange. Starting at $30k for a yearly subscription, ProviderMatch for Salesforce enables health system access centers to deliver a personalized, end-to-end patient experience by combining Salesforce’s 360-degree view of the patient with Kyruus’ robust matching, appointment booking, and provider data management
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Why Healthcare Marketers Should Care about the Patient Financial Experience
What comes to mind when you think of health system marketing? For most people, it’s dynamic content on the organization’s latest clinical advancements, philanthropic efforts, wellness management and relationship-building efforts within the community it serves. It’s also understanding patients and their motivations, using consumer research and analysis, focus groups, surveys, and other tools. You probably don’t think about the healthcare billing experience.It’s understandable. Frank discussions
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