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ResMed Acquires MEDIFOX DAN for $1B, Expands Healthcare SaaS Business

by Fred Pennic 06/14/2022 Leave a Comment

ResMed Acquires MEDIFOX DAN for $1B, Expands Healthcare SaaS Business

What You Should Know: - ResMed acquires MEDIFOX DAN, a German leader in software solutions for home health, nursing home, and outpatient therapy providers, for $1 billion. This acquisition marks ResMed’s largest SaaS acquisition to date and expands its SaaS business outside of the U.S. for the first time.    - As part of the acquisition, MEDIFOX DAN will integrate into ResMed’s SaaS business, allowing ResMed to serve new settings: outpatient therapy services, and youth
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St. Peter’s Health to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Optimized Care Management

by Fred Pennic 05/31/2022 Leave a Comment

St. Peter’s Health to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Optimized Care Management

What You Should Know:   St. Peter’s Health, a regional nonprofit healthcare system in Helena, Montana, is moving to the InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud's Data Activation Platform to support its mission of providing exceptional and compassionate care that treats the whole person and improves the health, wellness, and quality of life for the communities it serves. The health system, an integrated network with more than 100 providers, a 99-bed acute care hospital, physician and urgent care
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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?

by Karen Conway, VP of Healthcare Value, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) 05/31/2022 Leave a Comment

Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?

All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program. Meanwhile, Forrester predicts the number of hospitals delivering acute care at home will triple in 2022. The reasons why are compelling: a study
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Element5 Secures $30M to Expand Automation for Post-Acute Care

by Fred Pennic 05/03/2022 Leave a Comment

Element5 Secures $30M to Expand Automation for Post-Acute Care

What You Should Know: - Element5, the world’s first Automation-as-a-Service solution purpose-built for post-acute care, today announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners.  With the closing of the Series B funding round, Element5 has raised $48.5M in total capital to date.  - This investment will strengthen Element5’s position and enable the company to continue the disruption of the health care industry’s $400B post-acute
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CareLinx by Sharecare Forms Clinical Advisory Board for Home Health Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 04/26/2022 Leave a Comment

Sharecare Acquires On-Demand Home Health Platform CareLinx for $65M

What You Should Know: - Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced the formation of a clinical advisory board for its home health platform and network of caregivers, CareLinx by Sharecare. - The aim of the board is to help shape the clinical care offering from CareLinx as well as our nurse retention and recruiting efforts, so we’ve appointed 10 leaders across the nursing field – military, private practice, academia,
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UHG’s Optum Acquires Home Health Business LHC Group for $5.4B

by Healthcare M&A Activity 03/30/2022 Leave a Comment

UHG's Optum Acquires Home Health Business LHC Group for $5.4B

What You Should Know: - UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum has agreed to acquire LHC Group, a national patient-focused provider of high-quality in-home health care services for $5.4 billion ($170 per share).       - The acquisition will further strengthen their shared ability to advance value-based care, especially in the comfort of a patient’s own home. Extend Value-Based Care into Patients’ Homes The combination of LHC Group with Optum Health, which works
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Casana Raises $30M for Effortless Home Health Monitoring

by Fred Pennic 01/21/2022 Leave a Comment

Casana Raises $14 Million for In-home Heart Health Monitoring Device

What You Should Know: - Casana, a healthcare technology firm that is reinventing in-home health monitoring announced it has raised $30M in Series B funding, bringing the total capital raised to $46 million led by Morningside with participation from Matrix Partners, as well as Series A investors General Catalyst and Outsiders Fund. - The Series B funding will allow Casana to accelerate FDA submission of the Heart Seat with the goal to obtain FDA approval and bring this important new device
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Best Buy Acquires Care-At-Home Platform Current Health – M&A

by Fred Pennic 10/12/2021 Leave a Comment

Current Health Lands $43M to Support Global Expansion of Remote Care Management Platform

What You Should Know: - Best Buy, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Boston-based Current Health, an enterprise care-at-home technology platform that brings together remote patient monitoring, telehealth, and patient engagement into a single solution for healthcare organizations. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.  Founded in 2015, Current Health’s enterprise care-at-home platform enables healthcare organizations to deliver high-quality,
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Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment

by Claudia Fine, LCSW, MPH, Chief Professional Officer at eFamilyCare 10/06/2021 Leave a Comment

Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment

I recently spoke with a woman whose husband contracted a serious, chronic illness that requires long-term use of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line.  As her husband’s primary caregiver, this woman is responsible for cleaning and flushing the PICC line three times a day. And while she knows how to carry out these functions, she nonetheless remains fearful of inadvertently introducing bacteria into the line and the consequences that could result. For this woman, the
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Hoy Health Acquires Mobile Med Units Company HomeFront Health

by Jasmine Pennic 08/31/2021 Leave a Comment

Hoy Health Acquires Mobile Med Units Company HomeFront Health

What You Should Know: - Hoy Health, a bilingual digital primary care platform today announced the acquisition of HomeFront Health, a San Antonio, TX-based service-driven mobile healthcare organization that delivers frontline medical services to patients in their homes as an extension of hospital- and provider-centric care models. By harnessing the untapped resource of military-trained and field-tested veteran medics, the mobile medical units provide unparalleled in-person patient care when
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