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.
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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
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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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AWS Launches New Healthcare Accelerator Focused on Health Equity
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. The Accelerator is open to startups with US operations and applications open today.
- This is part of AWS’s efforts to help organizations use the power of the cloud to help tackle the health equity gap – other efforts include the $40 million AWS Health Equity Initiative, which AWS also provided an
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CareFirst BCBS Launches Enterprise-Wide Social Risk Intelligence Strategy with Socially Determined
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- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the largest health plan in the mid-Atlantic region announces a first-of-its kind initiative with analytics company Socially Determined to use social determinants of health (SDoH) analytics across all business functions.
- Access to these actionable insights will support CareFirst’s mission to advance health equity and advocate for affordable, accessible, and quality care for members, employers and the communities they
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