What You Should Know:
- Cityblock Health, a value-based healthcare provider for Medicaid, dually-eligible and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries appoints co-founder Dr. Toyin Ajayi to CEO. Co-founder Iyah Romm is stepping down as CEO but will continue serving as a member of the board.
- Dr. Ajayi most recently served as president, where she oversaw the company's growth and clinical model. As CEO, Toyin will help lead the next stage of Cityblock’s growth and further its vision of an
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Technology
TimeDoc Health Secures $48.5M to Scale Virtual Care Management Platform
What You Should Know:
- TimeDoc Health, a Chicago-based provider of virtual care management activation, today announced it has closed a $48.5M Series B round led by Aldrich Capital Partners.
- Founded in 2015, TimeDoc Health partners with PCPs and healthcare organizations to automate record-keeping for clinician/patient interactions (in-person and virtual), sending the reports to CMS for reimbursement.
- During the pandemic, the company has been instrumental in helping providers
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Teladoc Health Launches Virtual Care Transformation Model for Employers
What You Should Know:
- Today Teladoc Health announced a first-of-its-kind Virtual Care Transformation Model for employers.
- The model offers a comprehensive roadmap to move virtual care forward based on an organization's resources, priorities and goals.
Virtual Care Transformation Model: Roadmap to Evolve Virtual Healthcare Benefits
Recent data shows that 80% of large employers believe virtual care will have a significant effect on how healthcare is delivered
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Ciox Health Unveils Social Determinant Insights to Expand Data Utilities Suite
What You Should Know:
Ciox Health®, a Datavant company, today announced the addition of Social Determinant Insights™ to the recently announced Ciox Data Utilities™.
Ciox Data Utilities Suite Overview
Ciox Data Utilities is a suite of solutions designed to add value to digital clinical chart retrievals. The clinical data supplementation suite is offered either stand-alone or as a bundle with Ciox Digital Direct, the leading solution for automated EMR chart extraction. Ciox Data
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OpenLoop Raises $8M to Expand Full Stack, White Label Telehealth Services
What You Should Know:
OpenLoop, a health tech startup delivering full-stack clinical support to companies launching and scaling virtual care services across the nation raises a Series A funding round of $8M led by SpringTide Ventures.
- OpenLoop, known for the quality, flexibility and breadth of services they offer to clients who are often early in their telehealth delivery journeys, will use this fresh capital to continue to expand their technology-enabled infrastructure. They will be
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LG and Amwell Partner Co-Develop Digital Health Service Solutions
What You Should Know:
- LG announced its partnership to Amwell to expand the boundaries of virtual care. By combining LG's broad innovation portfolio with Amwell's deep digital health care experience, the two companies plan to jointly develop new device-based service solutions designed to make it easier for patients to access care, whether in a hospital or at home.
- This new alliance represents a key part of LG's strategic vision for creating new products and services for the next
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Unite Us Launches Social Care Payments Platform
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us, the enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power integrated health and social care, today announced the launch of its Social Care Payments solution.
- Social Care Payments is a first-of-its-kind solution designed to bridge the gap between healthcare funders and community-based organizations (CBOs), enabling social care funding at scale. It is the only end-to-end solution for social care that streamlines the
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Social Determinants of Health: Finding the Solutions Beyond the Buzzword
Health plans are on a constant quest to learn what they can do to help their member populations. Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of practical information for health plans to act upon when scanning media coverage and internet sites that purport to provide helpful guidance.
For example, the World Health Organization actually describes social determinants of health, or SDoH, as “non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.” This simple designation complicates matters, as non-medical
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Teladoc Health and Amazon Team Up to Launch Teladoc on Alexa
What You Should Know:
- Whole-person virtual care provider Teladoc Health, today announced a first of its kind experience with Amazon Alexa with the launch of voice-activated general medical virtual care on supported Echo devices.
- Customers in the U.S. will now be able to connect with a Teladoc care provider 24/7 from supported Echo devices for general medical needs.
First of its Kind Alexa Experience Provides Hands-Free Access at Home to General Medical Care
To get started,
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TytoCare, Alice Partner to Expand Telehealth Offerings in Brazil
What You Should Know:
- Today, TytoCare has partnered with Alice, Brazil’s first primary care-driven health insurance plan, to expand Alice’s telehealth offerings with at-home medical examinations.
- The partnership will mark the first implementation of TytoCare in Brazil. Through the partnership, Alice is offering its members the TytoCare device, enabling seamless digital diagnostics for its members while enabling physicians to
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