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- Laguna Health today launched a full app experience to bridge the care gap between discharge and recovery. Currently, in a clinical trial with NorthShore University Health System, Laguna Health marries a proven clinical treatment model with a digital-first care team, personalized recovery plans, coaching, data-driven interventions and expansive behavioral health resources, now delivered in a friendly and accessible app-based environment.
- With two-thirds of
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Solv Raises $45M to Expand Same-Day Appts & Virtual Care Options Nationwide
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- Solv (Solv Health), a San Francisco, CA-based national network of healthcare providers making same-day and next-day healthcare accessible to anyone, announced it has raised $45M in Series C funding led by Acrew Capital and Corner Ventures. The Series C round also included participation from prior investors Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital.
- The funding will support Solv's expansion of its national network of healthcare providers, consumer-driven
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Lyra Health Launches Care Integration Solutions for Alcohol Use Disorder and Other Serious Mental Illnesses
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- Lyra Health, a Burlingame, CA-based provider of comprehensive mental health care benefits for global employers, today announced the first technology-integrated care solutions designed to address serious mental health issues such as alcohol use disorder (AUD), suicidality, and other complex mental health diagnoses.
- Traditional employee assistance programs and health plans too often don’t effectively support people with serious mental illnesses and substance use
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Hoy Health Acquires Mobile Med Units Company HomeFront Health
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- Hoy Health, a bilingual digital primary care platform today announced the acquisition of HomeFront Health, a San Antonio, TX-based service-driven mobile healthcare organization that delivers frontline medical services to patients in their homes as an extension of hospital- and provider-centric care models. By harnessing the untapped resource of military-trained and field-tested veteran medics, the mobile medical units provide unparalleled in-person patient care when
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Appriss/Patient Ping Rebrands as Bamboo Health for Whole-Person Care Coordination
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Today, Appriss Health announced its new company name—Bamboo Health—following the acquisition of PatientPing earlier this year. The new name is representative of their newly merged company’s approach to whole-person care coordination. Bamboo is a symbol of strength, flexibility, and health.
Bamboo Health supports more than 2,500 hospitals, 37 payers, 7,800 post-acute facilities, 25,000 pharmacies, and 45 state governments. Bamboo Health's care collaboration network
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Mayo Clinic, Verily Partner to Develop Clinical Decision Support Solutions
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- Today, Mayo Clinic and Verily, an Alphabet company announced a strategic two-year collaboration to develop clinical decision support solutions. This modular, evidence-based decision support solution, will provide contextualized and validated knowledge on disease management, care guidelines, and treatment to help clinicians make decisions.
- The clinical decision support tool will be developed based on a broad range of health-relevant data sources, including
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Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, Independence Blue Cross Foundation Launches Program to Address Nursing Burnout
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- Independence Blue Cross Foundation, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, and NeuroFlow have joined forces to implement a new technology program to create better pathways to care for nurses and frontline workers suffering from symptoms of burnout.
- The initial rollout will include Nazareth Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, and St. Mary Medical Center in the Greater Philadelphia region. As registrations increase and more users engage with the
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Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack
For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely slow to adapt when it comes to implementing modern technology to improve everyday processes—both inside and outside clinical settings. In many hospitals, manual phone calls and fax machines are still some of the most relied upon methods for exchanging information.
Healthcare IT, meanwhile, has traditionally
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Dynamic Care Demands Flexible Solutions: Filling Gaps in Acute Care
Healthcare professionals know that patient care never stands still from admission through discharge, but particularly when it comes to acute care settings. Critically ill patients are one of the most complex populations to care for, with their condition often deteriorating quickly and unpredictably. Coordinating care to safely monitor these patients across numerous care settings and facilities is a daunting task and the solutions that care teams rely on often can’t keep up. Gaps, delays, and
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QGenda Acquires Provider Credentialing Platform CredentialGenie – M&A
- QGenda, leading innovator in enterprise healthcare workforce management solutions, announced today the acquisition of CredentialGenie, an intelligent, cloud-based platform that simplifies the provider credentialing process.
- By adding CredentialGenie’s capabilities to QGenda’s healthcare workforce management platform, QGenda will be the only organization to bring together provider credentialing and provider scheduling in one centralized platform, enabling healthcare organizations to
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