Today, UnitedHealthcare and Techstars opened applications for the UnitedHealthcare Accelerator Powered by Techstars, which just launched in Minneapolis to collaboratively develop innovations in digital health and wellness. The program will focus on digital health and wellness solutions that help support and enhance the experience of UnitedHealthcare members.UnitedHealthcare Tech Accelerator Application Criteria & DeadlineApplications for the inaugural class are open through May 12, 2019. The
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InterSystems Unveils New HealthShare Provider Directory with Unified Care Record
InterSystems has announced the 2019.1 version of the HealthShare® product suite of connected health solutions. The newest member of the suite is the HealthShare Provider Directory, which offers a single source of truth for provider demographic and professional relationship information.Impact of Inaccurate Provider InformationInaccurate provider information has consequences – for patients, payers, and the providers themselves. Wrong telephone numbers and location information limits access to
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Cityblock Raises $65M to Address Social Determinants of Health in Underserved Communities
Cityblock, a Brooklyn, NY-based company building sustainable, scalable systems that provide high-quality, cost-effective care for underserved populations with complex health needs has raised $65 million in Series B funding. The funding was led by Redpoint Ventures, 8VC (affiliate venture fund with Cambia Health Solutions and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina), Echo Health Ventures and StartUp Health including existing investors Sidewalk Labs, Thrive Capital, Maverick Ventures, Town
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InTouch Health Unveils Integrated Virtual Care Platform For Any Use Case
Virtual care platform InTouch Health today announced the launch of its fully integrated, end-to-end virtual care platform, Solo by InTouch. The next generation software platform delivers enterprise solutions to provide high-quality, patient-centric virtual care for every use case and any clinical setting.According to reports, more than 50 percent of healthcare can be delivered virtually. With Solo by InTouch, healthcare providers can leverage for every type of user and use case, including
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Cambia Health, Pager Partner to Deliver Personalized Care Coordination
Cambia Health Solutions (Cambia), a family of companies creating simple and personalized health experiences is teaming up with digital health company Pager to optimize care coordination and delivery for consumers. Pager's platform serves as the bridge between consumers and healthcare organization's solutions to ensure people can easily connect to low-cost, high-quality care.Delivering A Personalized Digital Healthcare ExperienceAs part of the strategic collaboration, Cambia and Pager will
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Where’s the Evidence? Barriers to Analyzing Digital Health’s Impact
The digital health industry continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. In 2018, venture funding for digital health companies approached a record $8.1B in funding, according to Rock Health. These companies are striving to address important healthcare issues by developing products and service offerings in various categories like genome sequencing, analytics, telemedicine, mobile apps, and population health management tools—all with the promise of increased insights and patient engagement, and
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Carisk Integrates with Valera Health to Optimize Care Coordination
Carisk Partners (Carisk), a specialty risk transfer and care coordination company, and Valera Health, a digital health startup have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an intuitive behavioral healthcare experience for patients. Valera Health leverages analytics and mobile tools that monitor, engage, and connect patients with care coordination teams. As part of the partnership, Carisk plans to utilize Valera technology to provide its care coordination teams with tools to optimize care
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Rock Health Q1 2019: Digital Health Funding Breaks $986M
Digital health funding reached $986M across 61 digital health deals in Q1 2019, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. The Q1 2019 funding represents about half of the $1.62B that was raised a year ago in Q1 2018 but in line with 2017 and 31% below 2016.
Compared to the $1.2B in Q4 2018, quarterly funding has averaged $1.4B over the past two years (Q1 2017-Q1 2019). Rock Health signals the $986M invested in this past quarter are somewhat below
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Digital Prescribing Platform Xealth Raises $11M to Expand Digital Health Tools
Xealth, a Seattle-based digital prescribing platform has raised $11 million in Series A funding from McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, and ResMed. Existing investors Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ Venture), Providence Ventures, UPMC and Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin health network also participated in the round.Xealth BackgroundSpun out of Providence St. Joseph Health in 2017, Xealth enables clinicians to prescribe and monitor digital healthcare content, apps, devices, and
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India-based Netmeds Acquires Clinic Management Platform KiViHealth
Netmeds, a Chennai, India-based online pharmacy announced on Monday it has reached an agreement to acquire KiViHealth, an India-based clinic management platform in a cash and stock deal. As part of the agreement, Netmeds will invest $10 million (Rs 70 crore) in KiVi Health to integrate and grow the KiViHealth business segment. The acquisition will help Netmeds to transform into a complete healthcare product and service company.
Founded in 2015 by Bhanu Mahajan and Rajandeep Singh,
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