What You Should Know: – Vivante Health, a Chicago-based provider of digital digestive health raises $31M in Series B funding led by Mercato Partners with participation from Health Catalyst Capital as well as returning investors 7wireVentures, Intermountain Ventures, Distributed Ventures, Human Capital, and SemperVirens. - The latest funding round brings the total capital raised by Vivante to date to $47M, following a $16M Series A round in late 2021. Digital Digestive
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Roundups: 16 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships
Walgreens and Pearl Health, a provider enablement company has announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the expansion of value-based care in collaboration with community-based primary care physicians. As part of the strategic partnership, Walgreens will provide complementary services, including prescription fulfillment, medication adherence, immunizations, care gap closure and diagnostic testing. In addition, Walgreens will also work with providers to help patients discharged from the
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Q/A: DocStation CEO Shares How AI Will Help Pharmacies Use the DIR Fee Changes to Their Advantage
Early next year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will remove the application of retroactive DIR fees and move DIR fees to the point of sale instead. The major issues with the DIR fees, which are paid by pharmacies to pharmacy benefit managers, are the fact that they drive up the costs of prescriptions for patients and delay reimbursement of care to the pharmacies. Now, a brand new issue will arise in early 2024 - namely, pharmacies will be facing a DIR “cliff” where
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Belong.Life Launches AI Clinical Trial Matching Assistant for Cancer
What You Should Know: - Belong.Life today announced the launch of Tara, a new conversational AI SaaS solution to assist health providers and CROs with cancer clinical trial matching and recruitment. - Available as a SaaS solution for providers, hospitals, health systems, CROs and other organizations, the technology can be embedded into websites, mobile apps or text messaging platforms to enable easy communication with opt-in patients. AI SaaS Solution for Cancer Clinical Trial
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AI Algorithm Alerts Therapists to Suicide Risk in Patients
What You Should Know: In light of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Talkspace announced the results of its unique AI algorithm over the last three years of identifying individuals at risk of self-harm or suicide. Using machine learning capabilities, the Talkspace platform can detect language patterns consistent with high-risk behaviors that place individuals at risk for self-harm.The analysis runs real-time on messages sent by patients in their secure and encrypted virtual therapy
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Provider AI Strategy Moves From The IT Dept. To The C-Suite
What You Should Know: A new study from Bain & Company and KLAS Research shows US healthcare providers are accelerating spending on IT and software. The research shows nearly 80% of healthcare executives say they increased spending materially over the past year, spurred by emerging technologies—particularly generative AI—labor shortages, and cost pressures.The survey of more than 200 US healthcare provider executives showed nearly 75% are expecting growth in software and technology
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Notable Launches ChatGPT-Like Assistant for Patients
What You Should Know: Notable, the leading automation platform for patient engagement and staff workflows, launched Notable Assistant, a first-of-its-kind patient assistant designed to expand access to healthcare information and services using large language models (LLMs) and conversational AI.Built on the rich data at the heart of the Notable platform, Patient AI, Notable Assistant introduces an accessible experience, in which every patient has a personal guide navigating them through
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Half of Doctors/Nurses Eager to Adopt Generative AI Tools
What You Should Know: Elsevier Health, a global leader in information and data analytics, released its Clinician of the Future 2023 report, which serves as the global health ecosystem’s most recent pulse on what doctors and nurses think about the changes and challenges in healthcare, including the rapid rise of generative AI products and platforms.The report finds that almost half of all doctors and nurses are eager for physicians to utilize this innovative technology in the future to
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Balancing AI-Enhanced Automation in Healthcare Revenue Cycle
Typically, hearing the terms “Automation or AI” elicits one of two responses-- an immediate sense of apprehension and avoidance, or a complete overestimation of its capabilities, though in some cases those two responses go hand in hand. However, neither view is particularly helpful as one is trying to understand the tremendous power of this capability and employ it in appropriate places within their business. The truth is, automation and AI are here and they’re here to stay. Though there are
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Ibex Launches Breast Cancer Biomarker Diagnostic Platform
What You Should Know: Ibex Medical Analytics launches Galen Breast HER2™, a novel breast cancer AI-powered biomarker scoring solution developed in collaboration with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo, to support improved patient outcomes.Galen Breast HER2 is an AI-powered biomarker scoring solution to aid pathologists with reproductible HER2 assessment for breast cancer. The platform allows clinicians to rapidly and accurately identify patients with HER2-low who would benefit from
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