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- 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
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- 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
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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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Komodo Health Expands Real-World Evidence Database to Tackle Racial Disparities
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In an effort to address glaring racial disparities in healthcare, today Komodo Health is expanding its Healthcare Map™ with new demographic characteristics, including patient race and ethnic data.
By incorporating these additional characteristics into its Healthcare Map, Komodo is making it possible to better assess real-world experiences and outcomes for diverse patient populations across the U.S.
Komodo Health today announced the expansion of its Healthcare
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Lightbeam Health Solutions Acquires RPM Platform CareSignal
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- Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of end-to-end population health management solutions, announced today the acquisition of CareSignal, the pioneer of Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition enables Lightbeam to integrate scalable, evidence-based remote engagement and monitoring capabilities into its core population health offering, which serves more than 42 million patient
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Color Raises $100M at $4.6B Valuation to Expand Accessible, Equitable Public Health Infrastructure
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- Color, a San Francisco, CA-based health technology company committed to advancing public health, announced a $100 million Series E financing round at a valuation of $4.6 billion led by Kindred Ventures and by certain funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. with participation by existing investors General Catalyst, Viking Global Investors, and Emerson Collective.
- Color makes population-scale healthcare programs accessible, convenient, and
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Search & Referral Platform Aunt Bertha Rebrands as findhelp
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- Aunt Bertha, an Austin-TX-based search and referral platform for social services in the US, announced it has rebranded as findhelp - a name shift that helps customers, organizations, and those seeking care to instantly understand the company's mission: to connect all people seeking help and the programs that serve them with dignity and ease.
- The location-based network of free and reduced-cost resources for food, housing, goods, transit, health, money,
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Social Determinant of The Healthcare Professional: Why We Cannot Wait
The following list provides examples of the social determinants of health, which influence health equity in positive and negative ways: Income and social protection, Education, Unemployment, and job insecurity, Working life conditions, Food insecurity, Housing, basic amenities and the environment, Early childhood development, social inclusion, and non-discrimination, Structural conflict, Access to affordable health services of decent quality.
Working life conditions refers to the working
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SDOH In Action: Achieving Financial Sustainability: A Connected Community of Care’s #1 Goal
“Show me the money!” No one old enough to have seen the 1996 movie, Jerry Maguire, will ever forget that memorable phrase. That simple but powerful phrase could apply to every person who punches a clock for a living and just about every business, including community-based organizations (CBOs) and Connected Communities of Care (CCC). For CCCs and other non-profits, a parallel but no less powerful phrase, “No margin, no mission,” also rings true― just ask Sister Irene Kraus of the
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