What You Should Know: - Today, Deep Lens and Cardinal Health announced a strategic collaboration that will integrate Deep Lens’ AI-based clinical trial matching solution, VIPER, into community-based oncology practices throughout the Cardinal network. VIPER will be a part of Cardinal Health’s new Navista advanced suite of technology solutions designed to help oncologists improve outcomes, provide high quality care at the best possible cost and select the right care plan at the onset of
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Signify Health Acquires Healthcare Payment Blockchain Company PatientBlox
Signify Health, a leading provider of technology-enabled healthcare solutions designed to keep people healthy and happy at home has acquired PatientBlox, an Atlanta-based technology company with deep expertise in applying distributed ledger technology in healthcare. The acquisition accelerates Signify's prospective provider payment capabilities for episodes of care, supporting the company's commitment to advance value-based care through novel payment and risk arrangements. Financial details of
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Humana Taps Cohere Health to Modernize Prior Authorizations for Musculoskeletal Treatment
What You Should Know: - Cohere Health partners with health insurer Humana to modernize
the prior authorization process for musculoskeletal treatment across 12 states. - In addition, the company has closed an additional $10M
in funding led by Flare Capital Partners and Define Venture, bringing the
company’s total funding to $20M. Health insurer Humana has signed an agreement with healthcare collaboration company Cohere Health to improve the prior authorization process for
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Carrum Health Adds Mayo Clinic to COE Platform for Cost-Effective Surgical Care
What You Should Know: - Carrum Health, a digital health company that connects
employers and employees with hospital Centers of Excellence (COEs) to provide
more cost-effective surgical care announces the addition of Mayo Clinic to
Carrum's COE platform. - As part of the collaboration, employees and covered
dependents at self-insured companies offering the Carrum Health surgery benefit
will now have access to Mayo Clinic providers with little or no cost. - Self-insured employers,
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Zimmer & Apple Watch Transform Joint Replacement Virtual Care w/ App New Features
What You Should Know: - Zimmer Biomet announced new features of mymobility with
Apple Watch® - bringing remote patient care to life for patients who receive
hip and knee joint replacement at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). - Available later this year, mymobility with Apple Watch
will now use gait metrics (the stride of a person as s/he moves limbs) to
passively collect walking speed and double support time when walking on flat
level surfaces without GPS. These measurements
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CareCentrix Acquires Palliative Care Solution Turn-Key Health
What You Should Know: - Home care leader CareCentrix announced its acquisition palliative care solution for health plans Turn-Key Health, a move that will help more vulnerable patients heal at home. - The acquisition fully integrates Turn-Key’s palliative care solution into the CareCentrix platform and supports the company’s mission to meet patient needs through an entire episode of care. - With Turn-Key’s data analytics and artificial intelligence, CareCentrix patients will
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PeerWell Lands $6.5M to Commercialize its Worker’s Comp Musculoskeletal Surgery Optimization Platform
Today PeerWell, a San Francisco, CA-based PreHab company helping patients prepare physically and mentally for orthopedic surgery and recover faster has raised $6.5M in Series A funding led by OMERS Ventures with participation from investors Emmett Shear (Co-Founder CEO of Twitch) and Travis May (CEO of Datavant). Existing investors include XSeed Capital and angel investors
Auren Hoffman (CEO SafeGraph, Co-founder of LiveRamp), Kevin Lin (COO of
Twitch), Michael Seibel (CEO of Y Combinator),
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Signify Health, Remedy Partners Merge to Create Market Leading Value-Based Care Enablement
Signify Health and Remedy Partners have signed a definitive agreement to merge to create a market-leading platform delivering value-based care enablement. Together, Signify Health and Remedy Partners both portfolio companies of New Mountain Capital LLC will leverage clinical, behavioral and social data amidst an accelerating market shift from fee-for-service toward value-based payments and arrangements based on the quality and total cost of care for a patient.Merger Creates Combined Revenue of
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Report: Health Systems Are Struggling to Simplify Patient Billing & RCM Processes
Today’s health systems are prioritizing patient financial experiences, yet many still struggle to simplify patient billing and align it with revenue cycle management (RCM), according to an in-depth study, commissioned by patient payment and engagement platform Cedar and conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy). The Cedar and Academy study examined practices at 20 of the top 100 U.S. health systems including qualitative and quantitative analyses of 23 senior executives
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Amp Recover CEO Talks The Current State of Digital Health Adoption in Orthopedics, PT, Sports Med
David Nichols is the CEO is of AMP Recover, a health intelligence platform that empowers healthcare organizations with actionable data to improve the patient experience, produce successful outcomes and achieve their business goals. This transition from current workflows to a modern, data-driven approach does not happen overnight. The Atlanta, GA-based company works with providers focused on Injury Prevention, Physical Therapy and Sport, Performance and have developed a sequence of digital
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