What You Should Know:
- Assured Allies, an insurtech company for evidence-based successful aging raises $42.5M in Series B funding round co-led by FinTLV Ventures and existing investor Harel Insurance, and was joined by new and existing investors including Lumir Ventures, Funds managed by Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), New Era Capital Partners, MS&AD Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Poalim Equity, EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, Akilia Partners, and Samsung Next. The latest round
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How Home Health Tech Can Solve a Stubborn $290B Healthcare Challenge
The good news on the medical front is that with advances in therapy, people with chronic diseases are able to remain in their homes and even live active lifestyles, which improves their quality of life and can save them, the government (Medicaid/Medicaid), and the insurance industry money. But -- and it’s a big one -- those savings can only be achieved if those patients adhere to their medication schedules.
Non-adherence first came to the forefront of awareness back in 2009, when the New
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Technology’s Role in the Development & Improvement of Drug Diversion Auditing Processes
Drug diversion is an increasingly serious issue that tends to be substantially underestimated. In every instance, a potential threat to patient safety is present. This includes the risk of inadequate pain relief, exposure to infectious diseases through contaminated needles or drugs, and risks associated with unsafe care from impaired healthcare workers. Drug diversion can also pose risks to staff safety and regulatory compliance, as can be seen across all types of healthcare facilities and,
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The Market Demand for Data-Driven Tech Solutions in Healthcare
The market demand for data-driven technology solutions in healthcare is on the rise. Today, one-third of the world's data is generated by the healthcare industry. This data is often complex and is coming from multiple different sources such as personal health information, claims data, clinical trial data, patient surveys, disease registries, population health statistics, wellness apps, and wearable devices. And so, the need for data management technologies continues to grow. In the Future Health
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Aledade and Humana Inks 10-Year Value-Based Primary Care Collaboration
What You Should Know:
- Independent primary care provider Aledade and health insurer Humana announced a ten-year collaboration to connect independent primary care physicians in Humana’s network with the tools they need to thrive in value-based primary care.
- Building on their existing relationship, the two companies plan to phase in the 10-year term for current and new state-wide agreements, which include a pathway to full risk. The collaboration with Humana will continue to grow as
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Advantus Health Partners and GE HealthCare Sign 10-Year, $760M Agreement
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare and Advantus Health Partners announced it has expanded its partnership, an agreement of up to $760M over 10 years to provide GE HealthCare’s Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) services to Advantus Health Partners’ clients.
- Through this expanded relationship between Advantus Health Partners and GE HealthCare, healthcare providers will have access to a scalable, end-to-end solution for managing medical equipment performance and risk.
Healthcare
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Mayo’s Lucem Health Launches AI-Driven Early Disease Detection Platform
What You Should Know:
- Lucem Health™ today announced the availability of its new early AI-driven disease detection solutions, Lucem Health Reveal that leverages existing EHR data to identify patients who may be at a higher risk of serious or chronic disease.
- Reveal solutions surface previously undiscovered insights in readily available clinical data that can help provider organizations deliver greater clinical value for patients and more financial value to the organization.
Early
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Consumers Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visits While Traveling
What You Should Know:
- New KeyCare survey finds nearly 7 in 10 (68%) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their regular physicians or affiliated members of their physicians’ care teams, outpacing all other care-delivery options.
- Results are based on a survey of 400 consumers who have previously scheduled and
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The Rise of Fourth-Party Risk in Healthcare––And How to Combat It
In recent years, a wave of high-profile cyber attacks has shaken the healthcare industry to its core. Sensitive data has been breached; essential services have been forced offline; and healthcare providers have found themselves faced with unhappy customers and unsympathetic regulators.
As a result, many in the healthcare industry are now familiar with third-party vendors and the risks they pose. This is a positive development, but it is also insufficient.
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Healthy.io & Reset Kidney Health Partner on Comprehensive Virtual Kidney Care
What You Should Know:
- Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, and Reset Kidney Health, a hybrid care platform that offers gold-standard multidisciplinary care to patients with kidney disease, have announced a partnership that will give patients the option to utilize at-home, smartphone-powered kidney testing.
- As part of the partnership, Reset will provide eligible patients with Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ test to complete at
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