What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc. announced that UpStream Healthcare, one of the fastest-growing value-based primary healthcare provider solutions in the country, has entered into a multi-year partnership agreement to more than double its population on Innovaccer’s cloud-native platform over the next year, and will use it to scale UpStream’s unique value-based care model nationwide.
- The expanded relationship between the two companies comes on the heels of UpStream’s recent $140
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Pearl Health Raises $75M to Expand Value-Based Care Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Pearl Health, a leading technology company focused on physician enablement and risk-bearing in value-based care, today announced that it has raised $75M in its oversubscribed Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund and Viking Global Investors, with participation by AlleyCorp, SV Angel’s Growth Fund, and other leading investors. This round brings Pearl’s total funding to date to more than $80M.
Value-Based Care Innovation for
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Exec Hires: Zocalo Health Appoints First-Ever Latina Chief Medical Officer
What You Should Know:
- Zócalo Health, a Latino-founded healthcare service designed for Latino patients, has announced today the appointment of Dr. Sarah Lopez as its Chief Medical Officer making her the first-ever Latina CMO.
- As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lopez will lead the expansion of Zócalo’s care model, growth of their clinical team, and the development of the company’s culturally aligned services.
Dr. Lopez Bio/Background
Prior to joining Zócalo Health, Dr. Lopez practiced
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Healthcare AI Transformation: 9 Executive Predictions to Watch in 2023
Piotr Orzechowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Infermedica
Innovation areas to watch: One of the exciting areas of applied machine learning recently is so-called Generative Tech. Some say it’s the biggest change to the Internet since crypto was invented. Generative Tech is developing at an unprecedented pace and many of us already had a chance to enjoy images created by OpenAI’s DALLE-E or content generated by GPT-3 language model. However real-world applications of generative tech in health are
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M&A: ReviveHealth Acquires Telehealth Company SwiftMD
What You Should Know:
ReviveHealth, a whole health and integrated care company, has acquired SwiftMD, a virtual care services company with a strong physician network.
- The acquisition was facilitated by Eir Partners, a Miami based private equity firm that invests in high growth healthcare companies. Eir Partners took a majority interest in ReviveHealth as a part of the transaction.
SwiftMD Background
SwiftMD is a digital virtual health company with the highest utilization rate
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Boosting Clinical Trial Recruitment Requires Humanity – and Technology
Clinical trials should be a time of promise for better patient outcomes, as they explore new ways to potentially help patients suffering from a variety of conditions. Instead, this phase of treatment development is often met with exasperation as patients, researchers, and drug developers deal with the many barriers to clinical trial recruitment and access.
There are two central – and intrinsically linked – problems with the current state of clinical trial recruitment in the U.S.:
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Praying For The Survival of the NHS Will Not Be Enough To Save It
It’s often said that the National Health Service is the closest thing Britain has to a unifying religion. If that is the case, then the faith of the population is being tested like never before,
With budgets already stretched before the COVID pandemic, additional cost pressures since heaped on health boards across the country by double-digit inflation have brought the NHS closer to breaking point than at any time in its history.
Every passing day seems to bring bleaker news for the
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How Will The Inflation Reduction Act Impact Healthcare in 2023? 6 Trends to Know
What You Should Know:
- As the world prepares for the Inflation Reduction Act’s landmark policy changes, healthcare stakeholders realize that its wide-ranging effects will require new approaches to drug pricing, health plan design, and investment.
- Avalere’s ‘2023 Healthcare Industry Outlook’ examines how community-wide healthcare will be affected by a recent court ruling, and consider data’s role in addressing health disparities.
Key Trends in Healthcare in 2023
The main insights
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Top 10 Health Technology Hazards in 2023 to Watch
What You Should Know:
- ECRI, the nation's largest non-profit patient safety organization, names communications gaps with recalls of home-use medical devices as the nation’s most pressing health technology safety issue for 2023.
- ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023 list identifies the potential sources of danger that will warrant the greatest attention for the coming year and offers practical recommendations for reducing
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Sharecare Launches Virtual Model of its Medicare-Reimbursable Cardiac Rehab Program
What You Should Know:
- Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced Ornish Lifestyle Medicine by Sharecare, the company’s Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR) program, is now available through a virtual delivery model.
- Reimbursable through Medicare and many commercial plans, Ornish Lifestyle Medicine by Sharecare is the first and only ICR program scientifically proven in randomized controlled trials to often reverse the
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