Due to the pandemic, recent FDA guidance acknowledges that companies conducting trials may require to put new processes in place regarding their current protocols considering virtual patients, data management, and usability. This raises the question: How to ensure and optimize user experience (UX) for patients and doctors with faster digital health adoption?
We recently spoke with Facundo Navarro, Engagement Manager at intive, a digital transformation firm
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Flywheel Nabs $15M for Next-Gen Informatics Platform for Medical Research & Collaboration
What You Should Know:
- Minneapolis-based digital health startup Flywheel raies $15M in Series B funding to advance the use of AI in clinical trials co-led by Beringea and 8VC including participation from Novartis dRx Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Great North Labs, iSelect and Argonautic Ventures.
- By leveraging cloud scalability and automating research workflows, Flywheel helps organizations scale research data and analysis, improve scientific collaboration and
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Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach
The healthcare industry, like many others, has become a data driven industry collecting data from patients, doctors, labs, and payers that are all crucial to patient healthcare diagnosis and outcome. When it comes to research, data can be useful in creating emerging healthcare technological innovations, pharmaceutical discoveries, as well as other advances in the market but it also is accompanied by strong regulatory compliance, like stringent HIPAA laws, that dictate that this data is kept
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How Automation is Key to the Future of Healthcare Operations
As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. A similar correlation is seen in the quest to leverage innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to address key problems facing the healthcare industry. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought the immense pressure the U.S. healthcare system is under into sharp focus. Recent dynamics are compounded by the industry’s efforts to adopt newer ways of working and digitizing patient records, while implementing automation throughout their business
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Tech-Enabled PBO RxBenefits Reaches $1.1B Valuation After Recapitalization
What You Should Know:
- Private equity firm Advent International announced that
it has completed a recapitalization of RxBenefits, the employee benefits
industry’s first and only technology-enabled pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO).
- The transaction values RxBenefits at approximately $1.1
billion.
Advent International (“Advent”), one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, today announced that it has completed a recapitalization of RxBenefits, the
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20 COVID-19 Predictions and Trends for 2021 – Executive Roundup
Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer, GYANT
The rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a monumental achievement, but it does nothing to address our extremely fragmented healthcare system. In 2021, policymakers must create and extend incentives to providers to work together to keep patients healthy rather than maximize profit. The pandemic has devastated the traditional fee-for-service budgets of many healthcare systems, and it isn't clear they will ever be able to catch up without
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M&A: Cedar Gate Acquires Deerwalk to Enhance Value-Based Care Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Cedar Gate acquires Deerwalk, an innovative population
health management, data management, and healthcare analytics software company
based in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- By acquiring Deerwalk, Cedar Gate expands its
employer-based offerings with the ability to actively engage employers and ASOs
as they manage rising healthcare costs. The combined suite of offerings
improves the patient experience and delivers financial sustainability.
Cedar Gate Technologies
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Addressing Social Determinants of Health: IT Solutions to Engage Community Resources
What You Should Know:
- The latest report from Chilmark Research examines the
new approaches and tools for utilizing community resources that can address
social determinants of health, giving providers the ability to extend care
beyond the confines of the clinic.
- This research indicates that the next two years will largely bring an expansion of product capabilities with slow and steady growth in implementation as the market better defines key variables and sets standards for
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JPC Taps Proscia to Modernize World’s Largest Human Tissue Repository
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. government’s Joint Pathology Center, which
houses the world’s largest human tissue repository, today announced that
Proscia, a leading digital and AI pathology company, will provide end-to-end
modernization of JPC’s pathology operations.
- The multi-phase project will digitize the world’s
largest human pathology specimen repository in order to enhance biomedical
research for cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19, and enable easier
data sharing with
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Designating Ownership of Provider Data Will Improve Care Coordination, Study Finds
What You Should Know:
- New LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care survey reveals
that 63% of respondents believe designating ownership of provider data will
improve care coordination, yet only 18% of organizations report having a
dedicated data governance department
- The survey results are based on over 100 qualified
responses from organizations across the industry, including independent
hospitals, teaching hospitals, independent physician groups, and federally
qualified health
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