What You Should Know:
- FOLX Health, the first digital healthcare service provider designed by and for the medical needs of the LGBTQIA+ community, today announced $30M in new financing led by 7wireVentures, with participation from new investor Foresite Capital and existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Define Ventures, and Polaris Partners.
- Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner of 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health, will join FOLX Health’s Board
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Why It’s Time for Healthcare Organizations to Start Treating Patients Like Consumers
When the pandemic disrupted routine procedures and primary care across healthcare, many care delivery organizations believed patients would eventually return to in-person care as they always have once the pandemic was over and restrictions were lifted. Pent-up patient demand for non-emergency, preventative services–everything from cancer screenings to mental health support to birth control to smoking cessation–would eventually draw patients back into the healthcare system. Patients with common
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The Botched COVID-19 Response and What We Can Learn from It
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely transformed the World Order and exposed striking realities of the global healthcare infrastructure by revealing the tendencies of various countries to deal with public healthcare emergencies. It has further raised the curtain on global hegemons like the U.S.A., which lacked the capacity and finances to counter this disaster. This has intensified the need for reforms and strong legislation to mitigate the pandemic’s devastation on healthcare facilities.
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Brain Health: The Next Frontier in the Fight Against Dementia
There are differing views on the value of cognitive screening of older adults in a primary care setting. Many providers point to the lack of disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s Dementia and related dementias (ADRD) as a reason to not universally screen older adults for cognitive deficits. If I don’t have anything to give my patients to get better, what’s the point in revealing they might be at risk of dementia, or that they have early disease? Is dementia a ‘normal’ or ‘expected’ part
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Galileo Integrates with Elation Health EHR to Maximize Value-Based Contracts
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- Galileo, a tech-enabled primary care provider seeing patients in all 50 states, today announced a partnership to roll out Elation Health's EHR.
- Through the Elation Health application programming interface (API), Galileo clinicians are now seamlessly able to automate and customize alerts at the point of care to maximize their value-based contracts.
- Elation’s clinical-first approach means its API gives customers the ability to build proprietary
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Aetna Taps Emcara Health to Deliver Home-Based Primary Care to 240k Medicaid Patients
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- Emcara Health and Aetna Better Health, which announced that the two companies will be partnering to deliver primary care in the home to more than 240,000 Medicaid patients in the Miami/Dade and Tampa, Florida regions.
- The relationship extends Emcara Heath’s comprehensive primary care model – which includes behavioral health and social determinants of health assessments – to adult Aetna Medicaid members.
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U.S. Health Care Price Index: Telehealth Prices Down; Mental Health Up
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- The latest U.S. Health Care Price Index (USHPI), the first national resource to publicly document the price of cash-pay medical care in America, reveals that national average prices for everyday healthcare services decreased in August and September, in the face of record inflation.
- The USHPI features pricing data for routine medical services in all 50 states – from primary care and mental health to women’s health and more - with additional prices and specialties
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Kahun Secures $8M for Clinical Reasoning Engine
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- Kahun, an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians, raises $8 million in a seed funding round led by LocalGlobe with the participation of European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund as part of the EIC Accelerator program and The Founders Kitchen (TFK).
- Kahun will leverage the funding to continue building the largest ever map of evidence-based medical knowledge powered by AI. The funds will be used to continue adding new sub-specialties beyond primary
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MedStar Health Awarded $2M Telehealth Research Grant
What You Should Know:
- MedStar Health has received a nearly $2 million telehealth research grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to expand its research collaboration with Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare focused on telehealth access, safety, and equity.
- The grant will allow researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period to apply a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems
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Bicycle Health Nabs $5M to Scale Its Virtual Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
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- Bicycle Health, a Boston, MA-based provider of virtual opioid addiction treatment secures $5M from Cobalt Ventures to further accelerate the expansion of its telehealth opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment.
- The additional capital extends Bicycle Health’s Series B venture capital financing, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $83M.
Evidence-based, online suboxone treatment for opioid addiction
Founded in 2017, Bicycle
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