Neela Montgomery, EVP & President at CVS Pharmacy/Retail
CVS Health Corporation names Neela Montgomery Executive Vice President and President of CVS Pharmacy/Retail, effective November 30, 2020. Montgomery will oversee the company's 10,000 pharmacies across the United States. Montgomery, currently a Board Partner at venture capital firm Greycroft, most recently served as chief executive officer of furniture retailer Crate & Barrel and has nearly 20 years of global retail experience.
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How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors
Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Director, HealthEC
Senior isolation is a health risk that affects at least a quarter of seniors over 65. It has become recognized over the past decade as a risk factor for poor aging outcomes including cognitive decline, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, impaired immune function, and even death.
Physical limitations, lack of transportation, and inadequate health literacy, among other social
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Study: Asthma Patients Maintain High Medication Adherence Using Propeller Health’s Platform
What You Should Know:
- New study out from Propeller and Chicago's NorthShore
University HealthSystem shows that asthma patients maintain higher medication
adherence and decrease their rescue inhaler use when using a digital health
platform.
- The study looked at 100 patients recruited from
NorthShore practices, half of whom used Propeller to manage their condition and
half of whom did not.
- The treatment group maintained their high medication adherence at 68%, while the control
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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,
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Buoy Health Raises $37.5M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Navigation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Buoy Health raises $37.5 million in Series C funding to
expand it’s AI-powered healthcare navigation platform, bringing its total raised
to date at $66.5M.
- Buoy will use the proceeds to further build out its IP with respect to artificial intelligence and other technologies, as well as grow the Buoy team.
Buoy Health, a
Boston, MA-based AI-powered
healthcare navigation platform, today announced the completion of a $37.5
million Series C funding round.
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Fern Health Taps 10M Mass General De-Identified Patient Records for Pain Management
What You Should Know:
- Fern Health will reveal a
first-of-its-kind collaboration with Mass General Hospital where it will inform
existing and future digitally-delivered pain management programs through the
marriage of AI + predictive analytics with 10 million de-identified Mass
General patient records.
- MGH will validate emerging Fern Health products and pilot new products in clinical environments, setting the stage for Fern expansion into all aspects of non-invasive multimodal pain
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Intuitive Launches $100M Venture Fund to Accelerate Future of Minimally Invasive Care
What You Should Know:
- Technology leader Intuitive forms $100M
inaugural fund to invest in the future leaders of minimally invasive care.
- The venture fund will invest in innovative early-stage companies across digital, medical device, therapeutic, and diagnostic domains. that will support independent initiatives in the direct and adjacent fields of minimally invasive care.
Intuitive,
a Sunnyvale, CA-based technology leader in minimally invasive care and the
pioneer of
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Northwestern to Deploy FDA-Cleared Deploy AI-Guided Cardiac Ultrasounds
What You Should Know:
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the first in the
nation to deploy FDA-cleared AI-guided ultrasound by Caption Health, including
measurement of ejection fraction – the most widely used measurement to assess
cardiac function.
- Caption Health's AI-guided cardiac ultrasound enables clinicians – including those without experience – to accurately perform diagnostic-quality exams -- accelerating the availability of information and saving lives.
- Caption AI has been
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KēlaHealth Lands $12.9M to Expand AI-Powered Surgical Intelligence Platform
What You Should Know:
- KēlaHealth
announced their Series A round (combined seed and Series A) of $12.9M led by
Sante Ventures and new innovation VC, Intuitive Ventures.
- KēlaHealth, is a surgical intelligence engine that
applies a dynamic cycle of patient-specific predictions, stratified
interventions, and outcomes tracking to reduce surgical complications
- KēlaHealth is the first investment for Intuitive
Ventures, a new innovation fund spun out of Intuitive Surgical,
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Rural Hospital Execs Can Beat COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Care
Eric Tran, Tulane School of MedicineDonald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital
The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting. According to CDC statistics, 94% of patient mortalities associated with COVID-19 were simultaneously suffering from preexisting conditions, leaving a mere 6% of victims with COVID-19 as their sole cause of death. However,
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