What You Should Know: - Elevate Health, a Washington-based nonprofit Accountable Community for Health (ACH) organization, has partnered with us to leverage the Innovaccer Health Cloud to strengthen care management and improve patient outcomes. It was challenged to integrate data from disparate sources and close gaps for hundreds of patient records. - With the Innovaccer Health Cloud, Elevate Health saved $6M in care costs and redefined its care management
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Current Health Lands $43M to Support Global Expansion of Remote Care Management Platform
What You Should Know: - Today, Current Health, a Boston-based enterprise remote care management company announced that it has raised $43M in Series B financing. The Series B financing, which comes from top healthcare and pharma VCs, such as NorthPond Ventures and LRV Health, as well as a leading hospital system, OSF Innovation, will help the company grow on a global scale as it aims to serve as mission control for healthcare delivery taking place outside of the hospitals four walls. -
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Cohere Health Raises $36M to Automate Prior Authorization Between Payers & Providers
What You Should Know: - Boston-based health IT company Cohere Health has closed a $36 million Series B funding round led by Polaris Partners, with additional participation from new investors Longitude Capital and Deerfield Management, as well as existing investors Flare Capital Partners and Define Ventures. The round comes less than a year after the company launched, and only 3 months after a Series A extension. - Cohere Health’s AI-based, fully
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Time and Goals Should Drive Your Post-COVID-19 Care Management Strategy
COVID-19 forced many health systems to reassess and reconfigure their care management processes and staffing models so that clinicians could better manage more of their acute, complex, and otherwise healthy patients remotely to limit in-person care. During this time, health systems likely learned quite a bit about remote care management and discovered that they could still deliver high-quality care without their patients needing to visit their providers in-person as often. With two
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Apriss Health Acquires Care Coordination Platform PatientPing
What You Should Know: PatientPing, a comprehensive care collaboration platform focused on behavioral health and substance use disorder., today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire care coordination platform Appriss Health. - Together, PatientPing and Appriss, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., and Insight Partners, will represent the largest and most diverse care collaboration network connecting nearly 1 million healthcare providers to one another and
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Providence-Backed Tegria Acquires Healthcare IT Consulting Firm Cumberland
What You Should Know: - Tegria today announced the acquisition of Cumberland, a leading healthcare IT consulting and services firm for payers and providers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - The acquisition accelerates the growth of Tegria, launched by Providence in October 2020 to provide next-generation technologies and services to the healthcare sector. As a result of this transaction, Tegria increases its consulting capabilities for payer organizations while
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Glooko Raises $30M to Expand Digital Diabetes Management Platform
What You Should Know: - Glooko, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring and chronic care management solutions including diabetes and obesity, today announced that they have raised a $30 million Series D round of funding. The funding was led by Health Catalyst Capital along with participation from existing investors Canaan Partners, Georgian, Novo Nordisk, Insulet and Mayo Clinic. - Glooko plans to use these proceeds from this funding to accelerate organic growth and
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Why A Smart Command Center Requires A Health Cloud Platform
Aviation, military, NASA, or even utilities like the New York Power Authority—almost all high-consequence, complex organizations have one thing in common: a command center. The concept of a command center or a ‘war room,’ or ‘air traffic control’ has been around for a while. Command centers help counter logistical challenges, enable cross-collaboration and guide decision-making with state-of-the-art technology and communications. With them it seems there is absolutely nothing that cannot be
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Casana Raises $14M to Expand IoT Heart Health Toilet Seat
What You Should Know: - Casana raises $14M in Series A funding to pursue FDA clearance for its an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output. Casana, previously known as Heart Health Intelligence, Inc., a healthcare technology firm that is re-inventing in-home health monitoring, today announced that it has raised $14M in Series A funding, bringing the total capital raised to
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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2020 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
What You Should Know: - Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the eleventh consecutive year in the Best in KLAS 2021 Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2020. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Galen Healthcare Solutions was named the top Overall IT Services Firm. The Chartis Group earned the award of top Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm, edging out last year’s winner,
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