What You Should Know:
- Collaboration with Adobe and Microsoft creates a unique, scalable, and more secure consumer solution to address rising demand for more transparent and streamlined healthcare experience.
- The Connected Consumer Health™ suite is delivered in a software-as-a-service model, with speedy deployment, no hardware to procure, and minimal IT resources required for customers to access and use the platform.
Today Change Healthcare unveiled the
Connected Consumer Health
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Partners
OurCrowd Launches $100M Pandemic Innovation Fund to Invest in Companies on Front Lines of COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Israeli venture capital platform OurCrowd launches $100M Pandemic Fund to invest in companies on the front lines of COVID-19.
- The fund plans to raise $100M to invest in 15-20 companies focused on prevention & containment, treatment & healing, and community & disruption mitigation technology solutions to combat current and future pandemic.
OurCrowd,
a Jerusalem, Israel-based crowdfunded-venture investment platform, today
announced the launch of
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PE Firm Rubicon Technology Partners Acquires Central Logic – M&A
What You Should Know:
- Private equity firm Rubicon Technology Partners acquires Central Logic, a provider of patient orchestration and tools to accelerate access to care for healthcare organizations.
- Rubicon will be aggressively driving Central Logic’s growth with additional cash investments into the business, with a focus on product innovation, sales expansion, delivery and customer support, and the pursuit of acquisition opportunities.
Rubicon Technology Partners,
a Boulder,
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Picking Up the Pace: Healthcare’s Evolution to Social Media
Take a look at the social media feeds of your favorite store or restaurant. For B2C brands, social media is, undoubtedly, a “where-it’s-at” customer service platform as much for networking or advertising as for engaging consumers with a personality and story that captures new customers and builds affinity. Now, imagine this same social care experience from your healthcare payer or provider. Why is this such an unlikely scenario?
Undoubtedly, healthcare has room to grow in providing
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Syapse Lands $30M to Accelerate Real-World Evidence in Oncology
What You Should Know:
- Syapse raises $30M in new equity funding to enable healthcare providers to deliver the best care to every cancer patient through precision medicine.
- Syapse partners with health systems, life sciences companies, and regulators to deliver clinical, programmatic, and research insights from the world’s largest network of health systems focused on precision medicine.
Syapse, a San
Francisco, CA-based provider of precision oncology
solutions announced $30
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Orbita Lands $9M For Conversational AI-Powered Voice and Chatbot Solutions for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Orbita raises $9M for conversational AI-powered voice and chatbot platform co-led by Philips Health Technology Ventures and HealthX Ventures along with investors Cultivation Capital and Newark Venture Partners.
- Orbita's powerful conversational AI platform enables healthcare organizations to cost-effectively create and manage HIPAA-compliant virtual healthcare assistants for consumer and clinical applications that increase patient engagement, reduce cost of care,
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Why COVID-19 is Prompting Device OEMs to Partner with Software Developers
As COVID-19 continues to sicken thousands across the U.S., hospital staffs deserve every bit of praise they’re receiving for their service. Yet there’s another segment of the medical community on the front lines of the pandemic: medical device manufacturers.
While some forms of medical equipment have been marginalized or sidelined altogether, manufacturers of essential devices are working around the clock. According to an April 2020 Fortune Business Insights report, those with significant
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BHE Partners with Premier for Access to All-Payer Database Including COVID-19 Data
What You Should Know:
Boston Health Economics (BHE) inks partnership Premier Inc.
to streamline data analytics and more quickly uncover strategies to
improve patient care.
Researchers and data scientists will have on-demand
access to the all-payer database, including recent COVID-19 data, and the
capability to complete analyses 85% faster and at higher quality than
traditional custom programming.
Boston Health Economics (BHE),
a healthcare
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Amwell Raises $194M to Expand Telehealth Platform to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Telehealth leader American Well (Amwell) raises $194 million in Series C funding in an effort to expand to better serve patients and healthcare providers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- As COVID-19 swept across the United States, Amwell has seen a significant expansion in the usage of its core Amwell Platform.
American Well® (Amwell), a
national telehealth technology
and services company announced it has raised $194 million in Series C funding
with
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FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Programs Surpasses $50M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 132 healthcare providers across 33 states plus Washington, DC for a total of just over $50M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 43
funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth
Program. The seventh set of healthcare providers in both urban and
rural areas of the
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