It’s a tired, old saw: Healthcare organizations are woefully behind when it comes to technology, automation and digital experiences. Leaders are sick of hearing it. But that doesn’t make it any less true. Current market pressures, however, compel hospitals, health systems and medical practices to reconsider their hesitancy in embracing these innovations. A combination of consumer demand and acute, unrelenting labor shortages force leaders to explore the practicality of leveraging
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Long-Term Care Insurtech Assured Allies Nabs $42.5M to Power Successful Aging
What You Should Know: - Assured Allies, an insurtech company for evidence-based successful aging raises $42.5M in Series B funding round co-led by FinTLV Ventures and existing investor Harel Insurance, and was joined by new and existing investors including Lumir Ventures, Funds managed by Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), New Era Capital Partners, MS&AD Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Poalim Equity, EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, Akilia Partners, and Samsung Next. The latest round
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Is Education is the Catalyst to Increased Adoption of Handheld Ultrasound?
Handheld ultrasound has not yet reached mainstream adoption but the market is still forecast to reach over $500 million by 2026. Signify Research’s newly published Handheld Ultrasound Deep Dive Report 2022 shows that market revenues are estimated to have grown by approximately 30% in 2021, driven by strong growth in the US, the biggest market for handheld ultrasound. Despite the global challenges for handheld ultrasound vendors in 2022, such as rising inflation and supply chain disruptions, the
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How Home Health Tech Can Solve a Stubborn $290B Healthcare Challenge
The good news on the medical front is that with advances in therapy, people with chronic diseases are able to remain in their homes and even live active lifestyles, which improves their quality of life and can save them, the government (Medicaid/Medicaid), and the insurance industry money. But -- and it’s a big one -- those savings can only be achieved if those patients adhere to their medication schedules. Non-adherence first came to the forefront of awareness back in 2009, when the New
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Transcarent Acquires 98point6 AI-Powered Virtual Care Platform and Care Business
What You Should Know: - Transcarent, a health and care experience company that makes it easy for people to access high-quality, affordable care announced it will acquire AI-powered virtual care platform and care business of on-demand primary care company, 98point6. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed; however, insiders expect the deal to be valued at $100M. - As part of the acquisition, hundreds of 98point6 enterprise customers including Boeing, Kindercare and
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IDS Taps Veta Health to Expand Virtual Care Offerings
What You Should Know: - Veta Health and Indiana-based Interactive Digital Solutions (IDS) announced their strategic partnership to expand IDS's virtual care offerings through an exclusive reseller agreement. - The adoption of telehealth and virtual care has surged since the Covid-19 pandemic and the demand for solutions that extend beyond virtual visits is high. The partnership enables hospitals and health systems to contract with a single organization to provide a
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Implicity Launches SMART on FHIR App to Optimize Interoperability & Workflow Efficiencies
What You Should Know: - Implicity, a leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and cardiac data management solutions, released a new SMART on FHIR application to improve interoperability and workflow efficiencies for providers. - The new app improves cardiac remote monitoring workflows by providing clinicians access to Implicity alerts and reports directly within Epic's EHR system. Implicity Background Implicity's cloud-based platform allows cardiac teams to streamline workflows by
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Generative AI Enters Healthcare with First Major Rollout that will Support 140+ Hospitals and 15,000+ Physicians
What You Should Know: - Abridge, the leader in AI-powered medical documentation, announced a partnership with The University of Kansas Health System that will mark the most significant rollout to date of generative AI in healthcare. - Abridge has already helped more than 2,000 clinicians and served more than 200,000 patients. By delivering a solution that optimizes patient-provider communication, the new partnership has the potential to serve and support more than 1,500 practicing
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C2i Genomics, Riken Genesis Expands AI-Powered Whole-Genome MRD Cancer Detection Across Japan
What You Should Know: - C2i Genomics, a cancer intelligence company, today announced a collaboration with Riken Genesis Co., Ltd. (RG), a company specializing in providing the service of personalized medicine based on contract analysis of next-generation sequencing and exomes. The two companies have entered a collaboration agreement to bring MRD cancer monitoring to Japan for pharmaceutical and clinical research. - Under this agreement, RG will work with C2i Genomics to commercialize
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Mayo’s Lucem Health Launches AI-Driven Early Disease Detection Platform
What You Should Know: - Lucem Health™ today announced the availability of its new early AI-driven disease detection solutions, Lucem Health Reveal that leverages existing EHR data to identify patients who may be at a higher risk of serious or chronic disease. - Reveal solutions surface previously undiscovered insights in readily available clinical data that can help provider organizations deliver greater clinical value for patients and more financial value to the organization. Early
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