SwervePay, a cloud-based patient-centric payment platform that empowers patient to pay their medical bills on the go has raised $10 million in funding led by Chicago-based Garland Capital Group. The capital will be used to accelerate its channel partner network and hire additional talent to accelerate growth.
According to Accenture, 98 percent of patients will not use hospital/physician mobile apps and 64% won't use portals(Harris poll). Through SwervePay's portal free platform, Physicians
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Patient Engagement Company Premise Health Acquires IMWell Health
Brentwood, TN-based Premise Health, a worksite health and patient engagement company has acquired IMWell Health, a Fort Smith, Arkansas-based company that specializes in primary care clinics for mid-size companies and municipalities. The acquisition will help accelerate Premise Health's strategic expansion to improve the cost and quality of employer health care. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Spun out of the merger of CHS Health Services and Take Care Employer
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Health App Maker Azumio, Human API Integrate to Share Health, Lab, Diagnostic Data
Palo Alto-based Azumio, a provider of consumer health and fitness apps is launching a new integration with Human API. This partnership will allow users to unify all their key health and fitness data by importing it to their most popular app, Argus, from hundreds of new devices and apps. This new functionality is powered by the Human API data platform, the fastest growing network of health and wellness data from labs, clinics, devices, and apps.
Argus users to share and unify health
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Huron Consulting Group Acquires Patient Rounding & Survey App MyRounding
Management consulting firm Huron Consulting Group has acquired mobile patient rounding platform MyRounding for an undisclosed sum. MyRounding's robust app allows healthcare professionals to standardize, automate and track your rounding activity. More importantly, it allows nurses and staff to be proactive and improves the care and experience of patients in real-time.
The acquisition of MyRounding will help strengthen Huron's existing transformation services for providers as it
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Texas Medical Center Accelerator Unveils Second Class of Digital Health Startups
This week, the Texas Medical Center’s accelerator, TMCx, unveiled its second class of 13 digital health startups. Startups selected in the five month program starting from January to June 2016 will focus on digital health followed by a third class focused on medical devices running from July through December 2016.
“We believe the potential synergy of bringing 13 companies together, each of them focused on different aspects of digital health care innovation, will lead to unpredictable
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VitreosHealth Nabs $5M for Population Health Management Analytics
Plano, TX-based VitreosHealth has raised $5M led by private equity firm Kinderhook Industries for its predictive and prescriptive health insights for population health management platform. The financing will help fuel the company’s ability to deliver insights as a service to healthcare providers and insurers for better health outcomes. The latest round brings the company’s total funding raised to more than $6.2M.
With VitreosHealth's closed-loop performance management process, providers can
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New York Digital Health Accelerator Showcases 6 Startups at Demo Day
On Friday, the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) – a five month program showcased six early and growth-stage digital health startups for healthcare providers and patients in the areas of care coordination, patient engagement, and workflow improvement. Each startup received $100k in up-front funding per company from a syndicate of leading venture capital and strategic investors.
14 New Pilot Programs Anticipated to Result from Program
Since entering the accelerator program, the
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Akili Interactive Labs Nabs $30.5M for Digital Medicine Gamification
Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. ("Akili"), a company focused on developing clinically validated digital medicine for cognitive assessment and personalized treatment through gamification has raised $30.5 million in new equity funding. The investments will be used to support the potential FDA clearance of its digital medicine platform across a variety of patient populations, including pediatric attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder Participants in the round
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Captricity Raises $35M For Cloud-Native Data Capture Platform
Oakland-based startup Captricity Inc. that gives customers in regulated industries fast and easy access to customer data trapped in handwritten forms has raised $35 million in Series C funding led by White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD. Existing investors Social Capital and Accomplice also participated in the round. The latest round of funding brings Captricity's total funds raised to $49 million.
Captricity's cloud-native data capture platform captures data from any from all points of
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Digital Reasoning Acquires Mobile Clinical Documentation Platform Shareable
Digital Reasoning, a provider of cognitive computing technology, announced today it has acquired Nashville-based mobile clinical documentation platform Shareable (formerly known as Shareable Ink) for an undisclosed sum. As part of the acquisition, Hal Andrews, the CEO of Shareable, will now serve as president of Digital Reasoning’s health care business.
Shareable's clinical documentation platform for structured and unstructured data capture and exchange provides a highly customizable and
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