Today’s youth understand the role SDoH plays in their health outcomes. But health systems are woefully ill-equipped to meet this growing demand. That needs to change. And with the right technology, it can. A true social revolution began on August 1, 1981. That’s the day teens and tweens everywhere started telling their parents, “I want my MTV!” Music Television (MTV)—streamed via satellite and a proprietary set-top box 14 years before the Internet was a glimmer in the consumer’s
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UnitedHealthcare Awards $11M in Grants to Address Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know: - Health insurer UnitedHealthcare has donated $11M in grants to nonprofit organizations across 11 states. - These grants are part of our Empowering Health program focused on expanding access to care and addressing the social determinants of health (SDoH) for people in underserved communities. These grants assist individuals and families experiencing challenges from food insecurity, social isolation and behavioral health issues, and support local health
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Velatura Services Selected for Amazon Web Services Health Equity Initiative
What You Should Know: - Velatura Services (Velatura) today announced that it has been selected as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative, a $40M, three-year commitment supporting organizations that are developing solutions to advance health equity. - Participation in the initiative will enhance Velatura’s efforts to provide essential data management infrastructure, advance data exchange, improve well-being, and reduce disparities. Amazon Web
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Adventist HealthCare to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Value-Based Whole-Person Care
What You Should Know: - Adventist HealthCare has selected Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company to be their next-generation population health management and value-based care partner. - Innovaccer will help Advent HealthCare create a unified data platform to help deliver deeper insights into community health and network operations. Supporting Value-Based Whole-Person Care One of the longest-serving health systems in the Washington, D.C. region, and one of
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Brave Health & MedArrive Partner to Power Virtual Mental Health
- Brave Health, a virtual-first behavioral health provider focused on serving Medicaid and Medicare populations, today announced an innovative referral partnership with MedArrive. - Through this collaboration, if MedArrive identifies an eligible health plan member in need of mental health support, MedArrive’s field providers can immediately refer that member to Brave Health’s behavioral health providers in real time and schedule care within 72 hours. Conversely, if Brave Health identifies an
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RxLive Raises $5M for Population Health Telepharmacy Solutions
What You Should Know: - RxLive, a provider of population health pharmacy solutions, today announced a $5 million Series A funding round led by SpringTide with participation by Cardinal Health. RxLive has raised a total of $8 million to date. - As value-based pharmacy care models expand beyond the retail pharmacy setting RxLive will use the funding to expand its engineering, analytics, and sales and marketing teams, with particular investment in the continuous improvement of its AI and the
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Curana & Innovaccer Partner to Improve Outcomes for Senior Living Communities
What You Should Know: - Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that Curana Health is partnering with Innovaccer to build a leading edge value-based care solution to support delivery of exceptional care quality at the lowest possible cost for one of healthcare’s highest risk populations: residents in senior living communities across the country. - Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer Health
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Inovalon Launches Race & Ethnicity Data Enrichment Offering for Health Plans
- What You Should Know: Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare unveils a new data enrichment offering that allows health plans to improve the completeness and accuracy of race and ethnicity data for their members. - By using algorithms uniquely available through the Inovalon ONE® Platform, the new offering fills in information gaps that can lead to care disparities across member populations and helps
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ACAP Launches Center for Social Determinants of Health Innovation
What You Should Know: - Today, the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) announced the launch of The ACAP Center for Social Determinants of Health Innovation. The center will encourage and empower other stakeholders to support SDoH initiative. - The center offers tailored resources, including policy reports, market research, and roundtable educational events, to help health plans, policymakers, and other stakeholders address social issues that impact health and wellbeing,
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Lightbeam Health Acquires Jvion AI and SDOH Solutions – M&A
What You Should Know: – Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of population health management solutions and services has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operating assets related to Jvion, Inc., including Jvion’s market-leading AI-enabled prescriptive analytics and social determinants of health (SDoH) solutions. -The strategic partnership combines Lightbeam’s health analytics and outcomes for payers and providers with the Jvion’s predictive technology.
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