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
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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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CDC Selects PointClickCare to Provide De-Identified Patient Data for Long-Term/Post-Acute Care Facilities
What You Should Know:
-Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected PointClickCare, a provider of cloud-based healthcare software for the long-term and post-acute care market to provide a key data source for understanding COVID-19 and other threats impacting residents of long-term care facilities.
- Under the agreement, PointClickCare will provide the CDC with comprehensive, de-identified patient data for residents of long-term and post-acute
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Providence St. Joseph, Anthem Accelerate Value-Based Care with Vim
What You Should Know:
- Anthem Blue Cross and Providence St. Joseph Health are accelerating value-based care by using a new technology partner, Vim. The partnership enables the organizations to scale their tech solutions for better payer-provider collaboration to ultimately improve healthcare performance in California.
- Vim offers an EHR-integrated application suite that includes Digital Scheduling, Care Gaps, and Referral Guidance solutions, and more. Together, these applications
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Nemours Children’s Selects Innovaccer Health Cloud to Support Value-Based Whole-Person Care
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced a partnership with Nemours Children’s Health, one of the nation’s largest clinically integrated pediatric health systems, to create a unified data platform designed to accelerate Nemours’ mission to transform children’s health through a holistic care model.
- The partnership will integrate and activate clinical and claims data from across the health system to enable intelligent point-of-care analytics that
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