Change Healthcare AI can help providers identify problem claims and prevent denials before they happen, avoiding costly rework, delays, and improving revenue flow.Today Change Healthcare announced that it has applied its Claims Lifecycle Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to its claims management suite with the introduction of Assurance Reimbursement Management™ Denial Propensity Scoring and Revenue Performance Advisor Denial Prevention. With performance enhanced by Claims Lifecycle AI,
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Pillo Health Raises $11M to Expand Personal Home Health Robot
Pillo Health, a Boston-based digital health company improving longevity and quality of life for patients managing their health at home has raised $11M in Series A funding, led by Stanley Black & Decker’s corporate venture capital arm with significant participation from Samsung Ventures. Existing investors, including BioAdvance, Hikma Ventures – the corporate venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC – Hackensack Meridien Health System’s Innovation Center Fund and
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LetsGetChecked Lands $30M for Regulated At-Home Medical Testing Platform
Company scales direct-to-consumer at-home testing diagnostics and personal health services; expands platform development and supply logistics in the U.S.
LetsGetChecked, an NYC-based direct-to-consumer at-home health testing platform increasing access to laboratory and self-testing, today announced it has raised 30 million in Series B round led by LTP with participation from existing investors Optum Ventures and Qiming Venture Partners USA.
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DispatchHealth Nabs $33M to Expand On-Demand Healthcare Model to High Acuity Patients
DispatchHealth (formerly known as True North Health Navigation), a Denver, CO-based provider of on-demand healthcare delivery to a patient’s home has raised $33 million in growth capital funding led by Echo Health Ventures, a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions. The funding also included participation from existing investors Alta Partners, Questa Capital and additional strategic investors.Founded in 2013 by two mobile health executives, DispatchHealth’s
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Brightree Integrates With CommonWell to Improve Post-Acure Care Interoperability
SaaS provider Brightree announced plans to connect its tens of thousands of home health and hospice customers with 50,000+ provider locations and health systems around the country via the CommonWell Health Alliance, and through CommonWell to Carequality. As the first CommonWell integration focused solely on post-acute care, this is a major milestone in improving interoperability for post-acute care providers and their patients, solving for the “black-hole” phenomenon that occurs when patients
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AMN Healthcare to Acquire Advanced Medical for $200M
AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (AMN), a nationwide healthcare workforce solution and staffing services, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Medical Personnel Services, Inc. (Advanced) for $200 million. Advanced is an innovative healthcare staffing company that specializes in placing therapists and nurses in contract positions across multiple settings including hospitals, schools, clinics, skilled nursing facilities, and home health. Advanced Medical works with Occupational
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Validic Integrates With Welldoc’s Bluestar Platform to Enable Real-Time Insights for Patients
Validic, a provider of data solutions for remote monitoring and virtual engagement is integrating with Welldoc’s BlueStar platform. The integration of personal health data within the Welldoc BlueStar digital therapeutic platform will allow users to connect their wearables, apps, and in-home health devices directly to the platform – enabling deeper engagement and better self-management of one's health.The Power of Leveraging Device-Generated Data for PatientsAs the number of people managing
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PointClickCare Launches New iOS Mobile App for Senior Living
PointClickCare, a cloud-based software vendor for the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) and senior living sectors has launched a new mobile app, PointClickCare Companion. The new mobile app leverages the powerful design possibilities of iOS to change the way senior living providers track and manage the delivery and documentation of care services, medication, and billing.Financial Stress of Senior Living ProvidersSenior living providers have been under increasing financial stress over the
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Bits In Glass Launches IoT-Driven Smart Home Health Platform
Bits In Glass (BIG), a software consulting firm serving clients across North America is announcing the launch of Manage My Care, a smart home health platform built on Appian. The platform acts as a central portal for health information and supports IoT device integration with off the shelf devices such as blood pressure cuffs. These integrations allow patients to take physiological readings from home and have the data automatically synced to the platform, giving care providers access to
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2018 Healthcare M&A in Review: 4 Trends Reshaping the Healthcare Landscape
The trend of mergers between large healthcare provider organizations continued in 2018, as the average size in revenue of sellers (defined as the smaller of two organizations in a transaction) reached $409 million, according to Kaufman Hall's new report, 2018 M&A in Review: A New Healthcare Landscape Takes Shape. This is the highest figure seen since Kaufman Hall began tracking this metric in 2008. It also represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 14 percent in the average
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