Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform
OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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OpenLoop Raises $8M to Expand Full Stack, White Label Telehealth Services
What You Should Know:
OpenLoop, a health tech startup delivering full-stack clinical support to companies launching and scaling virtual care services across the nation raises a Series A funding round of $8M led by SpringTide Ventures.
- OpenLoop, known for the quality, flexibility and breadth of services they offer to clients who are often early in their telehealth delivery journeys, will use this fresh capital to continue to expand their technology-enabled infrastructure. They will be
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Behavidence Raises $4.3M to Expand AI-Driven Psychiatric & Neurological Disorders Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Behavidence, a behavioral health company that monitors psychiatric and neurological disorders using artificial intelligence, announced a $4.3M seed round led by Welltech Ventures, featuring Arc Impact and Longevity Ventures.
- Founded in 2020, Behavidence offers multiple digital phenotyping models that can predict disorders such as depression, anxiety, ADHD and more. These digital phenotyping solutions have been adopted by health organizations, tech, commercial and
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House Rx Secures $30M to Optimize the Specialty Pharmacy Experience for Patients and Their Care Teams
What You Should Know:
- Today House Rx, a health technology platform that empowers oncology and rheumatology physician practices with medically integrated dispensing, announced they’ve secured $30 million in financing.
- Founded by two former Flatiron Health executives, Ogi Kavazovic and Tesh Khullar the company has partnered with four medical practices and 30 prescribers since March 2021.
House Rx, a health technology platform focused on improving
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Medtronic Taps Vizient to Offer AI-Powered Surgical Video Management & Analytics Platform for OR
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- Medtronic announced a new contract with Vizient, a leading healthcare performance improvement company for more than half the nation’s healthcare providers, to offer Touch Surgery™️ Enterprise, the first AI-powered cloud-based video management and analytics platform for the OR.
The latest offering from Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics portfolio, Touch Surgery™ Enterprise makes it easy to capture and analyze surgical video and ensures data privacy compliance with AI that
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To Engage and Activate Patients, CRM Alone Isn’t Enough
We talk about patient engagement a lot in healthcare today. But the reality is, we often don’t just want a patient to engage with a piece of content or information; we want them to take action. The traditional CRM and marketing automation are great tools for the former – keeping patients and their healthcare providers connected. But it does little to move beyond a digital connection.
Today’s patients (or, consumers) expect more from all of their relationships, especially their healthcare
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Aetion and Cognito Team Up for Predictive Modeling in Alzheimer’s
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- Aetion, real-world evidence (RWE) tech and analytics provider, and Cognito Therapeutics, a pioneer in neuromodulation therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, are partnering to develop an AI-driven predictive model to help payers and providers identify patients with rapidly progressing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s who may benefit from earlier treatment.
Impact of MCI & Alzheimer’s Disease
There are approximately 13.5
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BrightInsight & UCB Partner to Build Digital Care Solutions for Rare Diseases
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- BrightInsight, provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions, announced a partnership with global biopharma, UC to build digital care solutions for rare diseases.
- BrightInsight will build and bring to market a digital disease management solution to support patients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a rare autoimmune disease that disrupts how nerves communicate with muscles, affecting more than 700,000 people
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How Health Systems Can Use AI to Optimize Resources and Maximize Patient Satisfaction
Over the past several years, nearly all of the leading health systems in the United States have adopted some form of AI, such as machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP), to assist in managing healthcare operations. The unprecedented growth and development of AI has been instrumental in transforming health system administration, healthcare data analytics and patient diagnosis and treatment.
Despite this growth, health systems have yet to maximize the potential of AI to
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How Support Automation Enhances Clinical Trial Management
The life of a clinical study relies on data from documentation, meetings, emails and calls; all of which can be overwhelming for patients, clinical trial teams and associates. Although mundane, documenting, executing and collecting data is crucial to move a trial from phase to phase.
Clinical trial teams face a multitude of competing priorities, from evaluating hundreds of potential patients to maintaining compliance and recording patient progress. No aspect or step can be neglected for a
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