What You Should Know:
- H1, the largest database of information on every doctor
in the world raises $58M in Series B funding, just six months after raising its
Series A round during the pandemic.
- H1 is the largest database in the world connecting that
provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 9 million healthcare
professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70-plus countries, all of which are
kept up-to-date weekly.
H1, a global
platform for the healthcare
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Gleaning Insights for COVID-19: Why Claims and Clinical Data Matter
Healthcare organizations continue to rely heavily on data analytics to try to improve COVID-19 outcomes and public health. Since the novel coronavirus became widespread in the U.S., healthcare data scientists have leveraged clinical and claims data to pinpoint which underlying conditions put patients at higher risk of complications from COVID-19. Health systems are mining clinical data to predict surges in COVID-19 cases and looking at key factors—including increases in hospital website traffic,
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How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors
Senior isolation is a health risk that affects at least a quarter of seniors over 65. It has become recognized over the past decade as a risk factor for poor aging outcomes including cognitive decline, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, impaired immune function, and even death.
Physical limitations, lack of transportation, and inadequate health literacy, among other social determinants of health (SDOH), further impair access to medical and mental
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Change Healthcare Unveils Social Determinants of Health Analytics Solution
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare launches national data resource on
social determinants of health (SDoH) for doctors, insurers and life sciences
organizations to better understand the connection between where a person lives
and how they live their life to the care a patient receives and their health
outcome.
- 80% of U.S. health outcomes are tied to a patient’s
social and economic situation, ranging from food, housing, and transportation
insecurity to ethnicity.
Change
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M&A: Centene to Acquire AI Healthcare Analytics Platform Apixio
What You Should Know:
- Centene Corporation acquires AI healthcare analytics platform
Apixio to additional data and AI capability to technology portfolio.
- Apixio will remain an operationally independent entity
as part of Centene's Health Care Enterprises group to continue bringing value
to its clients and the industry.
Centene Corporation, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Apixio Inc., an AI healthcare analytics company offering Artificial
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Kettering Health to Deploy Nuance’s AI-Driven Physician Documentation for ED
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the Kettering
Health Network has selected ED Guidance for Nuance Dragon Medical Advisor.
- This AI-powered computer-assisted physician
documentation (CAPD) solution will help reduce physicians’ administrative
burden while lowering the risk of adverse safety events, missing diagnoses, and
malpractice litigation – priorities for all physicians, especially in the ED
where the nature of care presents special challenges and
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FundamentalVR Expands VR Surgical Capabilities to Ophthalmology
What
You Should Know:
- Today, FundamentalVR, global pioneers in immersive VR
surgical skills training and skills data analytics, announced the expansion of
its surgical specialty capabilities with the addition of ophthalmology. The new
capabilities allow it to support medical device and life science companies in
improving the way they bring new tools and procedures to market.
- Powered by the company’s patented HapticVR™
technology that mimics the physical cues of surgical
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Providence Combines 9 Investments & Acquisitions to Form Tegria
What You Should Know:
- Providence combines nine operating companies to form
Tegria into a comprehensive suite of offerings for organizations across the
health care sector
-Tegria will focus on three key initiatives—healthcare
consulting and technology services, revenue cycle management solutions and
software technology and platforms.
Providence, one of the nation's largest health systems announce the formation of Tegria, a new company designed to provide next-generation
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XRHealth Appoints Deepa Javeri as Chief Financial Officer
XRHealth appoints Deepa Javeri as CFO and is significantly expanding their US headquarters.
XRHealth, a
Boston, MA-based provider of extended reality therapeutic applications and XR telehealth
services, today announced Deepa Javeri – a seasoned, global
financial expert and executive – has been named Chief Financial Officer
effective immediately. Javeri’s appointment comes at an exciting moment of
global growth and expansion for XRHealth.
“Deepa brings XRHealth a
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Waystar Acquires Medicare RCM Company eSolutions at $1.3B Valuation
What You Should Know:
- Revenue cycle management provider Waystar acquires eSolutions, a provider of Medicare and Multi-Payer revenue cycle management, workflow automation, and data analytics tools at a $1.3B valuation.
- The acquisition will create the first unified
healthcare payments platform with both commercial and government payer
connectivity, resulting in greater value for providers.
Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today
announced a definitive agreement
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