What You Should Know:
- Luma Health, a digital health company streamlining patient-provider communications announced a strategic partnership with Change Healthcare, a healthcare technology company that provides the connection and data transfer between providers, payers, and consumers.
- The two companies will develop solutions to meet health systems' demand for streamlined and unified clinical, operational, and financial journeys.
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Komodo & Datavant Partner to Unlock Real World Data Across Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Today, Komodo Health and Datavant are expanding their partnership to make it even easier for companies to bring together disparate datasets and unlock deeper insights to speed innovation and improve patient outcomes. Together, the companies are helping customers gain more value than ever before from their proprietary or third-party data by linking it with Komodo’s longitudinal patient journey data and advanced analytics platform – all without compromising patient
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4 Keys to Delivering A Retail-Like Patient Experience Journey
When it comes to the quality of their healthcare journey, patients, it seems, are losing patience with their healthcare providers.
In Cedar’s latest Healthcare Consumer Experience Study, for example, the share of consumers who said they won't pay a bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience tripled from 2020 to 2021, to 37%. A vast majority (93%) indicated the quality of the billing and payment experience is important to their decision to return to a healthcare provider in
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athenahealth Improves Care for Transgender & Non-Binary Patients
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth launches new capabilities in athenaOne, the company’s cloud-based suite of electronic health records (EHR), healthcare billing, and patient engagement solutions, to help eliminate barriers that transgender and non-binary patients face when receiving healthcare.
- The new functionality enables more accurate and comprehensive recording and display of patient information – including the name used, pronouns, and gender identity, in addition to legal name
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Rural Health Startup Homeward Emerges with $20M to Support Rural Communities
What You Should Know
- Homeward, a new company focused on improving access to high-quality, affordable primary and specialty care in rural communities launches with an initial $20M investment.
- The organization is rearchitecting care for rural Americans who have a 23% higher mortality rate than those in urban communities.
Homeward – a San Francisco, CA-based mobile, in-person, and telehealth hybrid care model (with specialty and primary care providers) for people
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Sema4, BioSymetrics Partner to Advance Data-Driven Drug Discovery
What You Should Know:
- Today, Sema4, a leader in AI-driven clinical data intelligence, announced that they have partnered with BioSymetrics, to accelerate the advancement of drug discovery and new treatments for patients and pharmaceutical companies.
- Together the two will leverage Sema4’s Centrellis®, one of the largest and fastest-growing integrated health information platforms that includes approximately 12 million de-identified clinical records, and Elion, BioSymetrics’
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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.
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Walmart Expands Partnership with Inovalon for Complete View of Patient Journey
What You Should Know:
- Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare today announces an expansion of their partnership with Walmart Inc.
- This new multi-year agreement will provide the retailer access to Inovalon’s industry-leading Data Insights solution enabling acceleration to a more patient-centric healthcare model through the application of large-scale analyses of aggregated, de-identified data.
- Walmart has been working with Inovalon since
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Luma Health Secures $130M to Optimize Patient Journey
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health, a provider of patient engagement technology raises $130M to unify, automate, and transform patients’ healthcare journey.
Luma Health, a San Francisco, CA-based patient engagement platform, today announced a $130 million Series C funding round led by FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investment firm, with participation from existing investors. This latest round brings Luma Health’s total funding raised to $160
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Komodo Health Launches Next-Gen AI to Accelerate Innovation and Close Gaps in Care
What You Should Know:
- Today, Komodo Health is capping off a month-long flurry of activity by announcing the launch of its Prism and Sentinel solutions — opening up access to its Healthcare Map to drive the next generation of AI innovation.
- Prism and Sentinel allows life sciences teams to tap into detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns based on the real-world patient journeys of more than 325 million patients. The breakthrough software also allows life sciences teams to
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