What You Should Know: - Banner Health is teamed up with the leader in value-based advanced primary care, Hue Health, to launch a new direct primary care health plan called 39North. - The plan is available to employers and employees based in Northern Colorado, and its name is based on the latitude line of the community it serves. Flume Health, a health-plan-as-a-service platform, handles all of the complex designing and managing of the 39North plan, so Banner and Hue can focus on what they
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K Health, Mayo Clinic Platform Launches Personalized Hypertension Treatment Algorithm
What You Should Know: - Clinical AI-powered healthcare company K Health announced today a new collaboration with Mayo Clinic’s digital healthcare initiative, Mayo Clinic Platform, which harnesses new knowledge, solutions and technologies to improve patients' lives. - Primary Care clinicians practicing on K Health’s virtual platform are now able to use a predictive model based on real-time insights from Mayo Clinic’s de-identified medical data to treat hypertension more accurately and
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Vivalink Launches Multi-Vital Blood Pressure Patch for Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know: - Vivalink, a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions launches a multi-vital blood pressure patch for remote patient monitoring is now available for research and development. - The advanced multimodal continuous signal processing patch captures ECG trace, heart rate, respiratory rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure on a single device. Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor Cuffless blood pressure is still in its infancy, but new research is exploring
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Hello Heart Raises $70M to Expand Heart Health Solutions
What You Should Know: - Hello Heart, the only digital therapeutics company focused exclusively on heart disease, announced a $70M Series D funding round led by Stripes to support its rapid growth in the employer market - The funding round will specifically support the increase in employer market demand for Hello Heart’s technology as a focus on heart health sharpens. The company has experienced massive growth in the employer market, doubling the number of clients in the last three
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Why a Focus on Behavioral Health is Key to Improving Quality Measures
Since the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act in 2008, the U.S. healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services. The overarching goal of VBC is to improve the patient experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita health costs. As part of this VBC model, hospitals and health systems
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LCMC Health Delivers Remote Pregnancy Care to More Than 1,200 Mothers Through Babyscripts
What You Should Know: - Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced a one-year partnership with LCMC Health, a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system. - The partnership has provided more than 1,200 mothers with equitable access to care through the Babyscripts virtual maternity care platform and has been shown to increase patient compliance to important maternal care guidelines. LCMC Health Delivers Remote
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Antidote Health Secures $22M to Expand Telehealth Platform for Primary Care, Mental Health, Hypertension Care
What You Should Know: - Antidote Health, an NYC-based telehealth provider announced it has raised $22M in Series A funding led by third-time investor iAngels, Group 11, and Flint Capital. - The company will use the funds to support R&D activity, which includes advanced AI screening and clinical decision support system capabilities. Quality healthcare doesn’t need to be expensive Founded in 2020, Antidote Health democratizes access, delivering care for the whole family for a
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Recora Raises $20M for Virtual Cardiac Recovery Platform
What You Should Know: - Recora today emerged from stealth to announce $20M in Series A funding led by SignalFire with participation from Valor Equity Partners and existing investor Pear VC. - In addition, the company while also unveiled its Cardiac Recovery Program for health systems, medical groups and health plans. Redefining the Future of Heart Health Recora is redesigning heart health, beginning with cardiac recovery. Cardiac rehabilitation is indicated
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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can
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DarioHealth Forms $30M Strategic Agreement with Sanofi U.S.
What You Should Know: - DarioHealth Corp., a provider of global digital therapeutics (DTx), announced it has entered into a $30M multi-year, strategic agreement with Sanofi U.S., an innovative global healthcare company. The multi-year, $30 million-dollar agreement will help accelerate commercial adoption of Dario's full suite of digital therapeutics and drive the expansion of digital health solutions on the Dario platform. - As part of the strategic agreement, Dario and Sanofi will
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