What You Should Know: - Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health fund today announced a strategic partnership with Bassett Healthcare Network, an integrated healthcare system in central New York state. - The strategic partnership aims to leverage digital healthcare technologies from a16z’s portfolio companies to address the inequities and systemic challenges of delivering high-quality healthcare to rural patient populations through Bassett Healthcare Network. Leveraging Digital Health to
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The Fast Pace of Cancer Research is Leaving Community Clinicians Behind
We are witnessing an accelerated pace of amazing breakthroughs and advancements in cancer care today, with new treatments emerging almost weekly and unprecedented opportunities to help improve patient outcomes every day. However, if a doctor is not working in an academic setting, reading every new paper, and recruiting patients for new studies, how can they be expected to keep up with the latest treatments and approaches to specific cancers? When
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Homeward Raises $50M, Inks Value-Based Contract with Priority Health
What You Should Know: - Homeward raises $50M Series B funding round co-led by ARCH Venture Partners and Human Capital. - The funding round also includes participation from General Catalyst, which led Homeward’s Series A funding, and Lee Shapiro and Glen Tullman, Co-Founders of 7wireVentures, one of the country’s most successful early-stage healthcare venture funds. Value-Based and Comprehensive Care Americans living in rural communities are experiencing increasing health disparities
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New Hospital-At-Home Study Focuses on Rural Health Deserts
What You Should Know: - Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), based in Lexington, Ky., will use Biofourmis’ virtual care and AI-based predictive analytics technology to support a new Rural Home Hospital program delivering acute hospital-level care inside patients’ homes--including a clinical trial studying this care model in rural areas. - ARH joins Blessing Health System—which is also using Biofourmis’ solution—as one of only two U.S. participants
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Rural Provider Homeward Forms In-Market Partnership with Rite Aid to Support Seniors in Underserved Communities
What You Should Know: - Homeward, the comprehensive rural care provider network launched by former Livongo titan, Dr. Jenny Schneider, has announced a partnership with Rite Aid to deliver onsite care to rural Americans, starting with Medicare. - Homeward’s work with Rite Aid will also support the pharmacy retailer’s recently announced plans to double-down on pharmacy services, with increased focus on expansion in underserved communities. This is also Rite Aid’s first push to bring real
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Powered by Biofourmis, Blessing Health System Partners Launches Home Hospital Services
What You Should Know: - Blessing Health System, an integrated rural health system selects Biofourmis, a virtual care and digital therapeutics provider to launch its own home hospital services. - As part of the selection, Biofourmis is supporting the health system with its turnkey, end-to-end, home hospital solution for participation in the Rural Home Hospital project. Delivering Acute-Level Hospital Care Inside Patients’ Homes This new program allows caregivers to
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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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Marshfield Clinic Health System to Launch Rural Health Equity Initiative
What You Should Know: - Marshfield Clinic Health System, one of the largest rural, integrated health systems in the country, is partnering with NowPow and a broad range of community organizations to connect patients with local resources to improve their health and quality of life. - Marshfield Clinic Health System and NowPow are working together to build a comprehensive network of agencies and programs serving northern, central and western Wisconsin, ensuring that individuals have access
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Cerner Launches Video Visit Platform for CommunityWorks Clients
What You Should Know: - Cerner launches new Video Visit platform for CommunityWorks clients at no cost through 2021 to support rural health organizations. Today in honor of National Rural Health Day, Cerner has announced the launch of their new telehealth offering to support rural health organizations through these tough times. The Video Visit platform will be offered to Cerner CommunityWorks℠ clients at no cost through 2021. The platform, which was announced at a virtual event for
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Intermountain, Sanford Health Signs Intent to Merge
What You Should Know: - Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health sign a letter of intent to merge that will created a combined health system employing more than 89k people at 70 hospitals and 435 clinics across seven states. Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health, one of the nation’s leading systems in rural health care delivery and clinical research, have signed a letter of intent to develop a strategic partnership. The boards of both not-for-profit organizations approved a
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