What You Should Know:
- Somatus raises $64M in Series C funding led by Longitudinal
Capital to fuel the expansion of its value-based kidney care model.
- Somatus will use the funding to continue to scale its
model nationally and invest in technology and product development to better
support patients and health plan partners.
Somatus, a McLean, VA-based provider of value-based kidney care, today announced it has completed a Series C funding round of $64 million led by Longitude
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The Digital Front Door: The Gateway to Empathetic Patient Navigation
Stefan Behrens, CEO, GYANT
The healthcare experience can often feel lonely. Lengthy surveys, unnecessary appointments, long waiting times and tedious, paperwork all contribute to this potentially confusing and isolating patient experience. Now, amidst a global health crisis, any barriers or obstacles to care could be detrimental beyond loneliness and could be fatal. These impeding components should not define a patient’s journey. Fair access to quality care, accurate record-keeping, and
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Jefferson Health Deploys EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Chatbot for Screening and Intake
What You Should Know:
- Jefferson Healthcare deploys LifeLink’s new AI-powered COVID-19 chatbot - a “digital front door” for Jefferson Health patients seeking info or treatment for the virus.
- Deployed in just days, the conversational COVID-19 chatbot has unlimited capacity to pre-screen, share best protocols and even schedule priority appointments across the Jefferson Health Network
Jefferson Health, a leading academic health system in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has deployed
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TeraRecon Acquired by SymphonyAI: What is the Impact for Medical Imaging Market?
On the 4th March 2020, TeraRecon announced it had signed an agreement to be acquired by the SymphonyAI Group. Here are the facts of the deal, followed by our take on the potential impact on the medical imaging market:
- The terms of the deal were not disclosed and TeraRecon will continue to operate business as usual. However, it will benefit from greater financial backing and the synergistic technologies from other companies in the Group’s portfolio.
- TeraRecon is an Advanced
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Hinge Health Raises $90M to Expand Digital Musculoskeletal Care Solution
- Backed by Bessemer Ventures, Hinge Health raises $90M in a Series C financing round for its digital musculoskeletal care solution.
- The company plans to use the funding to expand across the MSK care continuum, accelerate employer and health plan market growth, and advance surgery prediction and member support.
Hinge Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital musculoskeletal (MSK) solution, today announced a $90 million round of Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with
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Valley Health System Becomes First Health System in New Jersey to Prescribe Enterprise-wide Digital Therapeutics
- Valley Health System becomes the first health system in New Jersey to prescribe enterprise-wide digital therapeutics in partnership with Mount Sinai Health System spinoff Rx Health. - The program will use Rx.Health's newly-launched RxStitch engine. Valley Health System (VHS) based in New Jersey announced it will be implemented RxHealth’s digital therapeutics prescribing platform EHR integrated RxStitch Engine to support episodes of care and enterprise-wide digital transformation at VHS. This
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Medtronic to Leverage Lumeon’s Care Pathway Management Platform to Deliver Value-Based Care in Europe
- Lumeon and Medtronic form strategic partnership to support Medtronic’s European healthcare provider customers in their transition to efficient, value-based care models.- Medtronic’s Integrated Healthcare Solutions (IHS) business will leverage Lumeon’s CPM Platform to operationalize care pathways for surgery optimization and chronic disease management.Lumeon, a provider of Care Pathway Management (CPM), today announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with medical technology provider
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GE Healthcare Launches Enterprise Central Data Warehouse for Clinicians
Key highlights- GE Healthcare is introducing Edison Datalogue, a new enterprise data management solution designed to connect disparate data sources and types into a single, secure and scalable data pool for clinicians to collect, share and store patient data across the care delivery network. - Edison Datalogue is being deployed by hospital systems including the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) and it is the only tool that combines a neutral archive (VNA), analytics and
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Lumeon Launches Care Pathway Blueprints for Easy-to-Deploy Workflow Templates
- Lumeon launches care pathway blueprints that enable providers to quickly deploy efficient ready-made care processes that apply best practice by design.
- Starter library of 15 ready-made pathway blueprints in high priority areas, including diabetes screening, pre-surgical optimization, post-discharge heart failure and post-discharge comprehensive care for joint replacement (CJR).
Lumeon,
a Boston, MA-based provider
of care pathway management, announced the launch
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