What You Should Know:
– PointClickCare Technologies, a healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real-time insights, today announced its intent to acquire care coordination platform Audacious Inquiry.
- The combination of PointClickCare and Audacious Inquiry will help accelerate the companies’ mission to address critical gaps in healthcare and enable better care for vulnerable patients.
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3 Trends Impacting the Financial Health of Patients and Providers in 2022
It's an unfortunate reality of our times: Healthcare in the United States has become increasingly unaffordable, challenging patients, providers, and pharmacies alike. One in 5 adults reported they can’t afford quality care. Uncompensated care hovers around $40B annually. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to strain the resources of our healthcare system. What lies ahead?
Against a backdrop of growing financial burden, these three trends tell the story of where healthcare affordability is
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HeyRenee Raises $4.4M for Care Concierge Platform
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- HeyRenee, the newest health-tech innovation from Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, the founders of Heal, today announced an oversubscribed $4.4M Seed II funding round led by Quiet Capital, with participation from City Light Capital, Fika Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Mucker Capital, SaaS Ventures, and Tau Ventures. HeyRenee has raised a total of $8.2 million and tripled its valuation in just five months.
- Set to launch in early spring 2022, HeyRenee aims
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PerfectServe Acquires AnesthesiaGo to Enhance OR Case Scheduling
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- PerfectServe, a clinical communication and provider scheduling provider, today announced the acquisition of AnesthesiaGo, creator of the only solution on the market that automatically matches available anesthesia staff with the best daily case schedule.Los Angeles-based AnesthesiaGo went live in 2021 after extensive research and product testing. Creating daily anesthesia case assignments is almost always a complex, stressful, and time-consuming affair, and the duty
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mPulse Mobile Acquires HealthCrowd, Receives Growth Investment
What You Should Know:
mPulse Mobile, a leader in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry, released 2 major announcements:
- acquired HealthCrowd, a leading communications platform-as-a-service innovator focused primarily on the Medicaid market
- received a growth investment from PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies.
Acquisition Impact for mPulse
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Carenet Health Acquires Provider Scheduling Platform OpenMed
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- Carenet Health – a provider of 24/7 healthcare engagement and on-demand telehealth solutions—announced today that they have acquired OpenMed, a digital innovator in closing care gaps, enabling access to care and supporting real-time collaboration between healthcare payers/risk-bearing entities (RBOs) and providers.
- The acquisition will add a state-of-the-art communications and scheduling
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Bamboo Health Streamlines Care Collaboration for Oak Street Health for Real-Time Patient Event Notifications
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- Bamboo Health announced that it has expanded its care coordination partnership with Oak Street Health intended to arm the network of value-based primary care centers (for Medicare) with an additional level of resources for managing real-time patient event notifications.
Real-Time Patient Event Notifications
Pings real-time data provides Oak Street Health with a better understanding of where patients are in the care continuum across Bamboo Health’s network of
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4 Strategies for Urgent Care to Thrive During the Pandemic and Beyond
A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care. By the end of 2020, urgent care saw a 58% increase in visit volumes on average, and Covid-19 testing and vaccinations had accounted for 60% of all visits. New patient volumes increased by 23% over the same year,
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Dept. of Defense Awards Prenosis $4.3M Contract for Early Sepsis Detection
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- U.S. Department of Defense awards Prenosis up to $4.3M to improve early sepsis identification for warfighters using point-of-care predictive diagnostics.
- According to the World Health Organization, more than 11 million people die from sepsis worldwide annually, more than the deaths caused by all cancers combined. Studies show that sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals with annual costs of treatment and rehabilitation estimated at
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Olive, ClosedLoop Integrate to Bring Predictive Analytics to Hospitals
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- Today, healthcare automation company Olive announced their partnership with ClosedLoop, a healthcare-specific data science platform that allows hospitals to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology. As part of the partnership, Olive will be able to leverage ClosedLoop’s technology within Olive Helps to help deliver better patient outcomes, such as reducing unplanned hospitalizations, readmission rates and hospital-acquired infections.
- This partnership
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