What You Should Know:
- Strive Health, a Denver-based provider of value-based kidney care today announced $140 million in Series B funding with Alphabet’s independent growth fund, CapitalG, as the lead investor. Strive has more than doubled its presence in regional markets and grown its employee base by more than 600% in the last year. This funding will further increase that momentum.
- Currently, there is $410 billion of unmanaged kidney disease
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Unite Us Nabs $150M, Reaching $1.6B Valuation to Address Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us, the tech company creating coordinated care networks nationwide, has just announced a $150M Series C round of funding led by ICONIQ Capital, bringing its valuation at $1.65 billion.
- Unite Us is leading the care transformation movement towards whole-person health with its core product, Unite Us Platform, an outcome-focused coordination software sconnecting community-based organizations with health care providers, health plans,
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DispatchHealth Reaches $1.7B Valuation, Raises $200M for In-Home Care Model
What You Should Know:
- DispatchHealth has secured an additional $200 million in a Series D round of funding led by Tiger Global. The additional financing brings DispatchHealth into the “unicorn” category and solidifies its valuation at more than $1.7 billion.
- DispatchHealth’s new round of financing will allow the company to bring it’s model of in-home medical care to more than 100 markets across the country
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Humana Taps DispatchHealth to Power Hospital-Level Care in the Home
What You Should Know:
- Humana Inc. and DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home medical care, today announced an agreement to provide Humana members with access to an advanced level of care in the home – to help enhance patients’ experience and health outcomes. The Dispatch-Humana agreement is believed to be the country’s first program to provide hospital-level care involving a national payer.
- The agreement will provide members living with multiple chronic conditions – such as cellulitis,
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Humana Taps Vida Health to Power Virtual Diabetes Management for Kentucky’s Medicaid Population
What You Should Know:
- Humana Healthy Horizons™ in Kentucky announced it has selected Vida Health’s virtual diabetes management program to serve Kentucky’s Medicaid population.
- Vida’s diabetes management program
achieves lasting results for participants. Because chronic conditions like diabetes,
obesity, and hypertension often occur simultaneously, Vida’s unique program was
built from the ground up to treat multiple conditions at the same time.
- The new partnership, which will
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Papa Launches Virtual Primary Care Platform to Support Aging Americans During The Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Papa, the popular "family on-demand" service for older adults, today announced the launch of Papa Health, a new virtual health platform aimed at improving health outcomes for the vulnerable aging population during the pandemic.
- The comprehensive health management platform will include
virtual primary care, urgent care, and chronic care management - adding to
its existing services that provide older adults with companionship
and assistance with
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Everlywell Secures $175M to Expand Position in At-Home Testing Market
What You Should Know:
- Everlywell secures $175M in Series D funding to expand
its virtual care offerings, scale its testing and infrastructure, drive
clinical research and disease management through testing, and grow its national
leadership position in the at-home testing market.
- Since launching in 2016, more than one million people have used Everlywell's tests and digital platform to manage their health and wellness. As more people turn toward digital platforms for their health
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COVID-19: How Can Payers Prepare for Mandates and Support Pandemic Relief Efforts
Healthcare can achieve optimum efficiency when patients are at the center of care. When patients have the necessary information to navigate their care journey, they will choose the path to high-quality care at the lowest costs. Cost-sharing and insurance premiums are rising consistently since the last decade for employer plans, which covers nearly half of the country’s population. Plan members are shouldering a part of the healthcare cost burden, so they want to keep it as low as possible. At
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Unite Us, CVS Health, Humana & Ochsner Health Partner to Expand Social Care Throughout Louisiana
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us today announced its Unite Louisiana
network has partnered with CVS Health, Humana, and Ochsner Health in an effort
to expand and improve community health and social care throughout the state.
- New partners will enable Unite Louisiana, the statewide
social care network, to further expand into more parishes and broaden access to
care in response to COVID-19 challenges.
Unite Us, the technology company
building coordinated care networks
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CareAsOne Summit 2020 Kicks Off Discussing Healthcare Transformation
This three-day virtual summit hosts over 40 industry experts discussing the challenges and transformation in healthcare.
CareAsOne, a virtual healthcare professional community, officially kicked off its first-ever, global CareAsOne Summit. With Microsoft and AWS as technology partners, the community’s conference joins healthcare experts from all over the world to discuss the most healthcare pressing issues of today and perhaps tomorrow.
Speakers started sharing their wins, challenges,
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