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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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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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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Hurdle Health Expands Mental Health Support into California, Texas and Massachusetts for BIPOC Communities
What You Should Know: - 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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Signify Health Acquires Caravan Health, Forming Largest Networks of At-Risk Providers
What You Should Know: - 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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ConcertoCare Raises $105M for Value-Based At-Home Care for Seniors
What You Should Know: - ConcertoCare, a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The round also includes investments from Obvious Ventures, Vast Ventures, The Schusterman Family Foundation, SteelSky Ventures, Pennington Partners, and returning investor Deerfield Management. The funding announcement comes on the heels of ConcertoCare acquiring home-based
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CVS Health, Uber Health Collaborate to Advance Health Equity in Communities Nationwide
What You Should Know: - CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced a collaboration with Uber Health, Uber's healthcare arm, to provide free transportation through a new Health Zones initiative to people who need it most when seeking access to medical care, work, or educational programs. - CVS Health and Uber Health will help eliminate a critical barrier to care and overall well-being transportation which can limit a person's ability to receive medical care, to get to work or to job training and can
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Understanding an Individual’s Uniquely Personal Health Beliefs & Behaviors to Drive Better Outcomes
When it comes to health and wellness, everyone has an approach as unique as they are. What’s more, is that an individual’s approach to their health can – and most likely will – evolve over the course of their lifetime. A decade ago, people weren’t dabbling in CBD to ease their stress, having Zoom calls with their doctors or riding a cycle with thousands of other people from the comfort of their living room. People’s health behaviors, including diet, exercise, and wellness visits, continue to
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Equality Health Announces New Investment from Governor Jeb Bush-Led Firm
What You Should Know: Equality Health receives an infusion of capital from Governor Jeb Bush-led firm to accelerate its national expansion of the company’s value-based primary care platform. Equality Health, a Phoenix, AZ-based value-based care organization uniquely equipped to address the needs of diverse and historically underserved populations, today announced an equity investment from Finback Investment Partners. Finback’s leadership team consists of Co-Founders and Managing
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