What You Should Know: Laguna Health, a NYC-based AI-powered contextual care management platform raises $15M Series A funding co-led by SemperVirens and HC9 Ventures. The initial close brings Laguna’s total raise to date to over $21M.The company will use the funding to deepen its AI capabilities in the care management context and expand its go-to market. Contextual Care Management, Powered by AI 35 million Americans are hospitalized annually, with at least two-thirds discharged to
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Roundups: HealthJoy Expands Partnership With Teladoc Health, Oura, Other Strategic Partnerships
Roundup summary of recent digital health strategic partnerships: HealthJoy, Teladoc Health Launch Virtual Primary Care HealthJoy, a benefits navigation platform that amplifies employer benefit strategies expands its partnership with Teladoc Health to introduce virtual primary care. HealthJoy Virtual Primary Care, powered by Teladoc Health, provides a fully integrated primary care experience that supports members throughout their entire healthcare journey. The solution will further
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Healthy.io Secures $50M to Expand Smartphone Kidney Test
What You Should Know: Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a clinical-grade device, raises $50M in a Series D funding round led by Schusterman Family Investments and is joined by Aleph and other existing shareholders. This investment, together with a previously unannounced $45 million February 2022 investment, comprises the company’s Series D.The Series D round will support Healthy.io’s expansion across the U.S. market, where Minuteful Kidney™, the
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Emcara Health Taps Innovaccer to Accelerate Scale in Value-Based Care
What You Should Know: Innovaccer Inc. announced that Emcara Health, PopHealthCare’s national value-based medical group that delivers advanced in-home primary care for seniors and vulnerable populations, has selected Innovaccer’s Best in KLAS data platform to accelerate its ability to drive growth and rapidly scale Emcara Health’s integrated care solution to more communities nationwide.The Innovaccer data platform will enhance Emcara Health’s ability to create unified patient records that
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Innovaccer Launches Self-Serve Conversational AI Assistant
What You Should Know: - Innovaccer is unveiling six new breakthrough solutions that help providers accelerate their success with population health, consumerism, and value-based care. - Leading the lineup is Sara, the first conversational AI for healthcare analytics. Sara is a conversational AI assistant that literally puts the full breadth and depth of enterprise healthcare analytics into the hands of healthcare managers, physicians, and care teams. Anyone can ask Sara complex questions
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M&A: Vytalize Health Acquires IPA New York
What You Should Know: Today, Vytalize Health announced it has acquired Independent Physician Association (“IPA”) of New York, one of the nation's largest IPAs with more than 3,000 providers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.The deal scales Vytalize's successful value-based care model to new payer arrangements and specialty care across the healthcare spectrum.Based in Suffolk County, IPA NY is one of the largest multi-specialty
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MedArrive Secures $8M to Expand At-Home Care
What You Should Know: - MedArrive, a Mobile-integrated care management platform company today announced $8M in new funding led by Cobalt Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC). The investment follows MedArrive’s $25 million series A round in November 2021 and brings the company’s total funding to $40.5M to date - MedArrive plans to use the new investment to expand its payer relationships, build out its team and
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Value-Based Administration Enables All VBC Network Stakeholders to Benefit
Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models. Progress toward VBC adoption hasn’t achieved its potential yet, hovering around 60% of all payment models from 2018 to 2021, with the remaining 40% comprised of traditional fee for service (FFS). Though some providers simply are hesitant to abandon the FFS model that has served them well, others are leery
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Exec Hires: Elucid Appoints Andrew Miller as CTO
What You Should Know: - Elucid, Inc., a medical technology company providing physicians with AI-powered imaging analysis software to assess cardiovascular disease, has hired Andrew Miller as its chief technology officer (CTO). - As CTO, Andrew will lead the technology strategy and oversee the engineering team’s execution. Elucid’s software is the only FDA-cleared non-invasive tool able to accurately characterize arterial plaque, simulating what pathologists would see under a microscope and
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Healthcare in Denial: The State of Claims in 2023
How do you solve a persistent and growing problem like claims denials? It’s been a hot topic for revenue cycle management professionals for years that’s only getting hotter with the increasing pressures of staffing shortages, challenges with staff turnover and training and ever-changing policies and protocols at the government and payer levels. On the macro-economic level, denials contribute mightily to the growing problem of uncompensated care in America, currently estimated at $43
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