I met Mark Cuban once. Our conversation didn’t last very long.
It was at a medical conference a few years ago. Cuban felt like a great guy to approach with an idea for a healthcare startup. We were both investors in an automation software startup called Zoba, and I of course knew him from his role on the popular entrepreneurial reality TV series Shark Tank.
A few seconds into our conversation, Cuban paused. “Healthcare is hard,” he sighed. That was his way of politely telling me: for that
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ChristianaCare Partners with Hims & Hers to Expand In-Person Healthcare Access in 4 States
What You Should Know:
Health system ChristianaCare is partnering with Hims & Hers Health, a consumer-first platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers to expand access to healthcare services.
- The partnership will help ChristianaCare create a more seamless patient journey for patients in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and expands the Hims & Hers’ partnership network with providers to now include 10 states and
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Sprinter Health Partners with Firefly Health to Close Care Gap
What You Should Know:
- Sprinter Health, an on-demand mobile health and diagnostics company bringing personalized and affordable healthcare services to the home, today announced a partnership with Firefly Health, a health plan and virtual-first care innovator with a mission of delivering half-priced health care that’s twice as good, clinically and emotionally.
- The partnership aims to improve access to care while saving downstream costs by integrating Sprinter Health’s in-home clinical
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Cultivating an Early Warning System in Healthcare Quality Through Bi-Directional Patient-Physician Engagement
Patient advocacy organizations and medical specialty societies can serve as a liaison between patients and providers in bi-directional engagement, closing gaps in the patient journey and ultimately driving innovation for higher quality care.
Patients are the keyholders to an enormous trove of data that is critical to taking the next step in improving the quality of their care. However, patient data collection has been a historically difficult process due to disparate data sources,
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EngagedMD Raises $11MM for Modern Fertility Treatment
What You Should Know:
- EngagedMD, Inc., a global technology company serving both clinics and patients in the fertility space raises $11M led by MonCap.
- As part of the investment, EngagedMD welcomes Jonathan Sockol, Managing Partner of MonCap, to the Company's Board.
Modern Fertility Treatment
EngagedMD offers the leading eLearn and eSign solutions for the fast-growing fertility sector, supporting the journeys of more than half of all fertility patients in the
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Quality vs. Quantity: The Case for Clinician-Centric Technology
Care providers continue to face mounting pressures – from increasing staffing shortages to balancing patient needs across in-person and virtual settings and managing pent-up patient demand. Rather than navigating through fragmented digital solutions that feed care providers disparate data, more and more clinicians now rely on connected technology to access the care context, i.e. the right patient data translated into reliable actionable insights at the right point in their workflow.
To truly
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Beyond DocuSign: How to Upgrade Specialty Drug Patients to a First-Class Experience
Imagine booking a luxury international vacation. A dedicated concierge arranges your hotels, your travel arrangements, and your daily itinerary. You barely lift a finger. From the outset, however, you realize something unusual. You have been booked on a discount airline with seats in the back of the coach section. You must wait at the airport to be picked up by a cramped, dilapidated taxi. Your “luxury” hotel is actually a two-star property in a bad part of town. Why pay for a luxury concierge
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SEQSTER and PatientsLikeMe Launch National Rare Disease Study
What You Should Know:
- PatientsLikeMe and SEQSTER announced a collaboration to launch one of the first rare-disease studies focused on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD) - a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people.
- AATD is a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people. It is characterized by low levels of the alpha-1 antitrypsin protein, leading AATD patients to be very susceptible to lung and/or
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Report: 2022 KLAS Emerging Solutions Top 20
What You Should Know:
- KLAS asked 16 prominent members of the healthcare community with broad HIT expertise to read 42 KLAS reports on emerging technology and rate their perception of the solutions based on their potential to impact the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare: to improve outcomes, reduce the cost of care, improve the patient experience, and improve the clinician experience.
- The new report by KLAS (1) ranks these emerging solutions by their ability to disrupt the
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Infermedica Partners with Conversational AI Platform Hyro to Support Patient Triage
What You Should Know:
- Infermedica – a leading digital health company specializing in AI-powered solutions for symptom analysis and patient triage – today announced a partnership with Hyro, a leader in plug-and-play conversational AI.
- The partnership will enable healthcare organizations to support patients at the digital front door by utilizing Infermedica’s Medical Guidance Platform and early symptom assessment technology and Hyro’s industry-leading natural language
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