The prevalence of mental and behavioral health conditions has been on the rise in recent decades, further aggravated by the pandemic in the last two years. Social isolation, grief from the loss of loved ones, fear of contracting the virus, and financial worries were all major stress factors that increasingly affected the mental wellbeing of the population, and the resulting statistics are startling: the average share of adults with symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorders jumped from 1
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How Can We Reduce Clinician Burnout? Improving Patient and Caregiver Engagement
Even as we (hopefully) approach the tail-end of the latest COVID-19 wave, one growing healthcare challenge continues to worsen: clinician burnout. Nurses, physicians, schedulers, and other members of care-provider teams continue to post rising rates of burnout. They’re feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated due to factors such as hectic workplaces and schedules, extended workloads, and excessive administrative tasks. This is an alarming trend that the entire healthcare industry needs to be
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Bon Secours Mercy Health Launches Digital Holding Company Accrete Health Partners
What You Should Know:
- Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) today announced the launch of Accrete Health Partners, a digital holding company, that will function to further expand the organization's digital health services as well as new and ongoing programs and partnerships.
- New digital holding company will coalesce a continuum of leading solutions and services to connect the technology, data and people needed to streamline healthcare and ultimately help improve
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Intermountain Partners with VC Firm General Catalyst on Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with digital health venture capital firm General Catalyst that will involve jointly exploring opportunities to accelerate the shift to value-based care through digital and other solutions.
- As part of the collaboration, Intermountain and General Catalyst will leverage the Health Assurance Network, which is a group of tech innovation companies within General Catalyst’s investment portfolio that are dedicated
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Handspring Launches with $6.2M to Solve Mental Health Access for Kids
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Handspring , a Newark, NJ-based startup building a vertically-integrated and omnichannel behavioral health center for children and families that includes both virtual care and modern clinics. Today, the company has announced its official launch in New Jersey to provide quality care to more families and children.
Handspring has closed a $6.2M seed round to further its mission of making quality mental healthcare accessible to all families was co-led by Newark
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Raising Clinical Outcomes and Engagement Through Healthcare Equity: What Health Plans Need to Know
Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes.
These are just two examples of data that highlight the need for equity.
Health plans are well-aware that shifting this dynamic and boosting clinical outcomes is possible through better,
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Luma Health & Change Healthcare Partner to Develop Solutions to Optimize Patient Journeys
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health, a digital health company streamlining patient-provider communications announced a strategic partnership with Change Healthcare, a healthcare technology company that provides the connection and data transfer between providers, payers, and consumers.
- The two companies will develop solutions to meet health systems' demand for streamlined and unified clinical, operational, and financial journeys.
Develop Solutions to Unify All Journeys -Clinical,
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Health Tech VC Firm Flare Capital Partners Closes $350M Fund
What You Should Know:
- Flare Capital Partners, a Boston-based healthcare technology venture capital firm closes its third fund with $350M, which follows up on its prior two funds raised in July 2019 and the inaugural fund raised in April 2015, respectively.
- The most recent fund, establishes Flare Capital Partners as one of the largest, independent, early-stage venture capital firms dedicated to healthcare technology.
“When we started the firm in 2014, over $4.5 billion was invested
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What’s The Role of Digital Health in Public Health?
To a certain extent, the national conversation about the importance of a robust public health system has been happening for the last couple of years in the context of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, rather than discussing how the system can be strengthened and expanded, we’ve instead largely limited it to what the government can and cannot ask the public to do, as though the necessity of a public health system is still in doubt.
For those who work in the arena, this is not an
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CareCloud Adds Chronic Care Management Service to its Digital Health Portfolio
What You Should Know:
- CareCloud, Inc., a healthcare technology solutions provider for medical practices and health systems nationwide, has announced its new offering, CareCloud Wellness for chronic care management as part of its growing suite of digital health solutions that help providers enhance patient care and revenue streams.
- CareCloud Wellness gives practices the means to easily participate in the government’s
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