In March 2020, many office workers packed up their bags under the mandate of their employers, assuming they’d be working from home for a few weeks so the coronavirus could “blow over.” Fast-forward two years: many of those same employees have yet to step foot back into their old offices, and some never will again. A similar trend is playing out in healthcare. When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID
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Ciox Health Unveils Social Determinant Insights to Expand Data Utilities Suite
What You Should Know: Ciox Health®, a Datavant company, today announced the addition of Social Determinant Insights™ to the recently announced Ciox Data Utilities™. Ciox Data Utilities Suite Overview Ciox Data Utilities is a suite of solutions designed to add value to digital clinical chart retrievals. The clinical data supplementation suite is offered either stand-alone or as a bundle with Ciox Digital Direct, the leading solution for automated EMR chart extraction. Ciox Data
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GoodRx Acquires Pharmacy Services Platform VitaCare for $150M
What You Should Know:- GoodRx announced that it will acquire vitaCare Prescription Services, a tech-enabled pharmacy services platform that expands GoodRx’s offering to pharma manufacturers while improving patient access and adherence to affordable brand drugs. - Over 500 million brand prescriptions are written every year, yet only half are ever filled. This acquisition will give GoodRx the tools we need to help address this problem and facilitate the brand
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Medisafe Launches Digital Document Exchange to Speed Up Medication Approvals
What You Should Know: - Today, Medisafe, a leading digital therapeutics and patient engagement company launches its new Digital Document Exchange module to streamline the medication approval process. - The solution enables patients to upload and submit required documentation directly through the company's app — speeding complex medication approval processes from an average of 24 days to 10 minutes and allowing patients to begin treatment therapy sooner. Digital Document Exchange
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VillageMD Acquires Patient Education Platform Healthy Interactions
What You Should Know: - VillageMD announced it has acquired Healthy Interactions, which helps patients manage chronic conditions through interactive educational programming as part of a stronger patient-provider relationship. - The Healthy Interactions program, which offers virtual, in-person and hybrid sessions, will be available from Village Medical and Village Medical at Walgreens providers in 14 markets by the end of 2022. More than 30 million patients around the world have used
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AdhereHealth Partners with Digital In-Home Care Provider, Hero
What You Should Know: - Partnership enables AdhereHealth to deploy Hero’s digital in-home care platform to simplify complex medication routines, improve patient safety and optimize value-based care. AdhereHealth, a healthcare technology leader in medication adherence insights and health outcomes, has entered into a strategic partnership with Hero, the market leader in digital in-home care. This new agreement enables AdhereHealth to deploy Hero’s digital in-home care platform to help
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CareDx Acquires Medication Adherence Platform MedActionPlan
What You Should Know: - CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA), a precision medicine company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers, today announced it has acquired MedActionPlan®, a New Jersey-based provider of medication safety and adherence technology and patient education. - MedActionPlan programs have been proven to improve adherence, reduce healthcare costs, and increase
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Lightbeam, Surescripts Partner for Med Adherence Across Populations
What You Should Know: - Lightbeam and Surescripts announced today a partnership that gives Lightbeam’s clients patient prescription histories and real-time refill notifications. - Lightbeam makes a population health management platform for ACOs, IDNs and other risk-bearing entities. The Surescripts Medication History for Populations service will be available to Lightbeam’s clients, adding valuable insights on top of the robust analytics already available
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CareDx To Acquire Transplant Hero Medication Management App – M&A
What You Should Know: - CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA), a leading precision medicine company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers, today announced it has acquired Transplant Hero LLC, a New York-based provider of a mobile app supporting the needs of transplant patients. - The acquisition of Transplant Hero builds on
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Paper vs. Electronic: 72% of Americans Want Physicians to Use Mobile E-Prescribing Tools
What We Should Know: - A new e-prescription survey of 1,004 U.S. consumers, ages 18 and over conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of DrFirst in December 2020 shows that despite the industry’s claim of widespread adoption of e-prescribing (EPCS), many doctors continue to write paper prescriptions. The survey found that 53% of Americans say some of their prescriptions are still sent to the pharmacy by phone, fax, or paper. - They also often wait days for even urgently needed
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