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- Bright HealthCare (“Bright Health”), a tech-enabled health insurance carrier, announced a new partnership with MedArrive, a healthcare platform that enables payers and providers to extend medical services into the home. Through the program, which recently kicked off in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bright Health is tapping MedArrive’s network of highly skilled EMS professionals within the community to conduct in-home preventive health visits coupled with physician-led
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Transplant Connect and Cerner Streamline Organ Donation and Transplant Process
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Transplant Connect, a Los Angeles-based medical software company that has introduced innovative new technology known as iReferral, and Cerner Corporation announce their new collaboration to enable automated donor referrals.
- For years, matching transplant donors with those who need them has been a manual process that typically takes 20 to 30 minutes of healthcare workers making calls. Slowing this process are staffing shortages and
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Mount Sinai Uses Machine Learning to Improve Postpartum Hemorrhage Risk Prediction
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- Sema4, an AI-driven genomic and clinical data intelligence platform company, recently published two studies demonstrating the utility of machine learning to predict clinical outcomes for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). The studies, which will appear in a special “Informatics for Sex- and Gender-Related Health” print issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), were conducted in collaboration with clinicians from
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The Role Blockchain Could Play in Strengthening Patient-Provider Relationships
With conversations about NFTs and blockchain prominent in the news today, the future of such technology is a hot topic. The integration of blockchain technology into a variety of industries has proved to be beneficial in productivity, efficiency, and security. Because of this success, it is imperative that the healthcare industry continue to effectively adopt and utilize blockchain technology to improve data security, expand collaborative opportunities, verify the authenticity and safety of
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Brave Health Raises $10M for Virtual Behavioral Health for Medicaid
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- Brave Health, a Miami-based virtual behavioral health provider for Medicaid, today announced it has closed a $10M Series B round ($20.75M in total) led by City Light Capital, Union Square Ventures and Able Partners, bringing its total funding to $20.75M.
- Today, access to basic behavioral health services for the nation’s most vulnerable populations is a public health crisis. The percentage of psychiatrists accepting
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Amazon Brings Alexa to Senior Living Communities and Health Systems
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- Today, Amazon announced two new solutions, as part of Alexa Smart Properties that will enable senior living communities and healthcare providers to integrate Alexa into their properties to empower residents and patients to stay connected, informed and entertained, just by asking Alexa.
- Designed specifically for the needs of senior living communities and healthcare facilities, Alexa Smart Properties simplifies deploying and managing
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3 Ways to Instantly Improve the Referral-to-Appointment Ratio of Your Practice
It’s no secret that access to healthcare is a challenge for patients. And it’s becoming harder and harder for patients to get appointments with their PCP or the specialists they have been referred to for advanced care. Now more than ever providers and their staff are faced with a growing number of challenges that prevent or delay them from doing what they are all there to do: get patients in front of a doctor to determine how to get them well. One of the biggest villains in this story is the old
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Navina Raises $15M for AI-Powered Primary Care Platform
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- Navina, a Tel Aviv-based developer of AI-powered clinical platform for primary care raises $15M in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures Israel, Schusterman Family Investments (SFI) and existing investor Grove Ventures also joined the round. The latest round brings the company's total funding to date to $22M, raised within 12 months after commercial launch.
- Navina uses medically informed AI to replace disorganized patient data with an intuitive Patient Portrait
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HLTH21: UnitedHealthcare Launches Virtual-First Health Plan, NavigateNOW
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- UnitedHealthcare today announced the launch of a new virtual-first health plan called NavigateNOW designed to provide people with a personalized virtual care team to provide medical and behavioral health services with a seamless hand-off for in-person treatment if needed
- Through this new health plan, eligible UnitedHealthcare members will be able to receive various types of care, including wellness, routine, chronic condition management, urgent
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Can Predictive AI Fully Inform Patient Care Decisions?
In recent years, the healthcare industry has fully embraced the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform healthcare practice and delivery. From the advent of big data to the arrival of EHRs, the industry is familiar with the hype that accompanies technology advancements. While these innovations have certainly been useful in many regards, healthcare remains deeply fragmented, inefficient, and prone to waste.
Many experts believe that AI will deliver on the long-promised
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