Crossover Health, an Aliso Viejo, CA-based next generation provider of employee healthcare that develops on-site and near-site health centers, has raised $92 million in funding from Gurnet Point Capital, an investment firm focused on the healthcare and life sciences sectors. The investment will increase the capital available for Crossover Health’s expansion as well as redeem a portion of the existing preferred and common shares, resulting in Crossover Health management and Gurnet Point becoming
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Specimatch Launches Clinical Trial Monitoring Platform for Cancer Patients
Specimatch, a continual clinical trial monitoring service, has unveiled the web-based software service for cancer patients and oncologists. On Specimatch.com, users can easily and intuitively connect to clinical trials personally matched to the patient’s genetic and clinical profiles.Founded in 2016 by Dr. Ken Dixon, founder/surgical oncologist of Surgical Oncologists of Northeast Georgia, Specimatch.com’s interface was created to let both clinicians and patients take part in the management of
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Mount Sinai Launches 3D Printing Services for Clinicians, Researchers
Mount Sinai Health System has announced the creation of the Medical Modeling Core, a collaboration led by the Department of Neurosurgery, where clinicians can confer and order 3D printing models for their cases. Virtual reality, simulation and 3D printing services will be provided on a low-cost, fee-for-service basis with quick turnaround times. This resource will be the first of its kind catering to the unique patient-specific modeling requirements of clinicians at Mount Sinai.The team
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PatientPing Lands $31.6M to Expand National Care Coordination Network
Boston-based healthcare IT company PatientPing has raised $31.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz (Menlo Park) and Leerink Transformation Partners (Boston) to accelerate growth of its national care coordination network nationally. Additionally, PatientPing plans to at least double the size of its team by actively hiring inspired change-makers for its growth, operations, engineering and product development teams.The average Medicare patient receives care from seven different providers across four
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athenahealth, ADP Integrate to Deliver Cloud-Based Payroll to Hospitals
athenahealth, a provider of network-enabled services and mobile apps for healthcare providers has integrated with ADP to to deliver payroll and time and attendance services to the small hospital market. The integration of ADP Workforce Now® payroll and time and attendance solutions with athenaOne for Hospitals & Health Systems® aims to save hospital and health system administrators’ time, effort and money by automating payroll processes and increasing operational efficiencies.Integration
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Digital Health Funding 101: 3 Insights to Overcome the Series A Crunch
Catalyze co-founders Travis Good and Mohan Balachandran share their company’s success in obtaining Series B funding and the insights that helped them get there.Although investment dollars continue to pour into healthcare IT at a breakneck pace globally, many startups could end up enduring some serious whiplash. Obtaining seed funding is one thing, but reaching the next round is another. Investors are becoming less impressed by innovations and more discerning with their dollars. Thus, the
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Cures Law Passed — Health IT Interoperability Will No Longer Be Voluntary
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems.The new 21st Century Cures Act is about to change healthcare IT, and most of the industry never saw it
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Revenue Cycle: 5 Tips to Improve Your Organization’s Clean-Claims Rate
Editor's Note: Glenn Krauss is the Regional Director of Enterprise Solutions at ZirMed, a provider of revenue cycle management, medical claims, electronic data interchange, clinical communication, health information & healthcare connectivity.At a time in healthcare when value is king, waste is inexcusable, every penny counts and losing millions and millions of dollars to denials is simply no longer an option for hospitals and health systems.By some estimates, as many as 20 percent of medical
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Allscripts Acquires Core Medical Solutions to Extend EHR Footprint in Australia
Allscripts has acquired Core Medical Solutions, an Australian-based healthcare IT software provider, to expand its EHR offerings to support proactive care management for clinicians and consumers of care in Victoria and Western Australia. Allscripts currently supports more than 85 hospitals throughout Australia. Under terms of the acquisition, Core Medical Solutions will continue to be based in Adelaide, South Australia, and will operate as an Allscripts subsidiary. Financial terms of the
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Harris Computer Corporation Acquires iMDsoft: 5 Things to Know
Harris Computer Corporation, an arm of the Constellation Software group has acquired iMDsoft, a clinical information system provider for critical, perioperative, and acute care environments. Here are five things to know about the acquisition:1. MDsoft will be run as an independent business unit within Harris led by Shahar Sery, a seasoned iMDsoft executive, who has been appointed Executive Vice President.2. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. 3. Harris will integrate iMDsoft's
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