We live in an increasingly digital world. Across industries, companies and consumers have come to rely on the rapid exchange of digital information. Healthcare, however, has been an outlier in this regard. While the healthcare digital transformation has been in play for years, it’s still taken longer for the paradigm shift to gain momentum.
Healthcare stakeholders have long relied on paper-based processes. From documenting clinical care to filing medical claims and registering patients, paper
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Komodo Health & AppliedVR Partner to Drive Therapeutic VR for Chronic Pain
What You Should Know:
- Komodo Health, a company delivering patient-level insights by dynamically analyzing the broadest array of data across patients, practitioners, and health systems. today announced a new partnership with AppliedVR, the leader in therapeutic virtual reality (VR) for pain management.
- Using Komodo’s technology, AppliedVR will combine its proprietary insights with Komodo’s real-world data to conduct clinical research into the efficacy, cost savings, and health system
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How Automation Can Help with Healthcare’s “Messy” Data Problem
Efficient data processing and data sharing are essential functions across healthcare—from patient care, clinical research, and health services planning to billing and government reporting for funding and research. But most of the data that the industry is processing is human-generated, meaning it’s messy and riddled with errors, and often manually inputted from Excel spreadsheets into various disparate platforms and technology systems. In some cases, our healthcare system is running on
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Reify Health Secures $220M to Support Clinical Trial Diversity at $4.8B Valuation
What You Should Know:
- Reify Health, a leading provider of solutions that empower the clinical trial ecosystem, announced a $220M Series D funding round dedicated to improving diversity in clinical research. The investment comes less than a year after its Series C and brings the company's valuation to $4.8B.
- The Series C found was co-led by Altimeter Capital and Coatue, joined by Dragoneer Investment Group and existing investors ICONIQ Growth, Adams Street, and Battery
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THREAD Acquires Clinical Trial Recruitment Solution CureClick
What You Should Know:
- THREAD, a technology and consulting service provider enabling electronic clinical outcome assessments and decentralized clinical trials has acquired CureClick, which offers the world’s first proprietary crowdsourcing platform designed to accelerate awareness and participation in clinical research. This acquisition follows THREAD’s recent acquisitions of Modus Outcomes and inVibe, positioning THREAD as the industry’s leading
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Forge Health Secures $11M for Value-Based Behavioral Health Model
What You Should Know:
– Forge Health, a White Plains, NY-based behavioral healthcare provider with a proven, national-payer-validated ability to drive clinical outcomes that span all areas of health, today announced an $11M growth funding round led by HC9 Ventures.
- Innovative behavioral health company works with payers and health systems to enable value-based care for mental health and substance use populations.
Transforming Addiction and Mental Health Treatment
Founded in 2016,
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At-Home Digital Health Innovations Transforming Diabetes Care
If you’re looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19 dark cloud still enshrouding the world, consider this: The pandemic has turbocharged widespread acceptance of at-home digital health solutions. Forced to function in a world of social distancing, healthcare providers and physicians have quickly discovered how easily telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital therapeutics can improve patient care.
Many of these digital health innovations are designed to address
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Analysis: US Ambulatory EHR Market Shake-Up at HIMSS 2022
During, and in the run-up to, HIMSS earlier this month there were several announcements from US EHR vendors that will shake up the US EHR market, particularly in the ambulatory segment. These included:
- Allscripts’ announcement that it is to sell its Sunrise, Paragon, TouchWorks, Opal, dbMotion, STAR and HealthQuest business to Harris Computer Corp.
- Meditech’s announcement that Expanse Ambulatory is to be made available to independent and physician-owned practices, alongside its
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VivoSense Raises $25M for Wearable Sensor Biomarkers to Advance Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- VivoSense, an agile end-to-end scientific solutions company developing novel digital endpoints from wearable sensor data raises $25 Million in Series A funding.
- The financing will accelerate the development of novel digital biomarkers and improve digital clinical outcome assessments. VivoSense will also use this financing to expand and refine its informatics platform for data analysis from wearable and connected technologies to deliver validated digital
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ConcertAI Raises $150M at $1.9 Billion Valuation for RWD Platform
What You Should Know:
- ConcertAI, LLC (ConcertAI), the leader in enterprise AI and real-world data (RWD) solutions for life sciences and healthcare, announced the close of its $150M in Series C led by Sixth Street at a $1.9B valuation.
- From its startup just five years ago, ConcertAI has emerged as one of the fastest-growing companies providing high-value software-as-a-service (SaaS) and data solutions to life sciences and biopharma companies, leading healthcare providers, contract
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