Health plans are on a constant quest to learn what they can do to help their member populations. Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of practical information for health plans to act upon when scanning media coverage and internet sites that purport to provide helpful guidance.
For example, the World Health Organization actually describes social determinants of health, or SDoH, as “non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.” This simple designation complicates matters, as non-medical
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Story Health Secures $22.6M for AI-Driven Virtual Specialty Care Platform Across Cardiology
What You Should Know:
- Story Health, a health technology and services company that extends specialty care into patient’s homes raises $22.6M in Series A funding co-led by Northpond Ventures and B Capital Group. The round also included participation from new investor LRVHealth and existing investors Define Ventures and General Catalyst, bringing the company’s total funding to approximately $27M.
- The Story Health platform empowers specialists through intelligent embedded clinical software
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Leveraging A More Impactful Analytics Strategy to Improve Your Health Plan Member CX
Healthcare organizations are increasingly eager to leverage analytics technologies, including machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), in new ways. One telling sign of this is that the global predictive analytics healthcare market, which was valued at $1.8 billion in 2017, is projected to reach more than $8.5 billion by 2025.
But as technology evolves, it’s clear that the types and use of analytics platforms that can drive change among health plans — as well as the breadth of
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Hurdle Health Expands Mental Health Support into California, Texas and Massachusetts for BIPOC Communities
What You Should Know:
- Hurdle Health, a digital platform revolutionizing mental healthcare by providing services with a focus on culturally intentional mental healthcare for people of color today announced expanded service availability in Texas, Massachusetts and California with plans to add even more states by Q2 2022, including Tennessee, Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia, and New York.
- With these expansions, the mental health service and its specially trained
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ConcertoCare Raises $105M for Value-Based At-Home Care for Seniors
What You Should Know:
- ConcertoCare, a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The round also includes investments from Obvious Ventures, Vast Ventures, The Schusterman Family Foundation, SteelSky Ventures, Pennington Partners, and returning investor Deerfield Management. The funding announcement comes on the heels of ConcertoCare acquiring home-based
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Zing Health Secures $25M to Accelerate SDOH-Driven Medicare Advantage Plans
What You Should Know:
- Medicare Advantage provider Zing Health raises $25M from Town Hall Ventures and Leavitt Equity Partners, two leading investors focused on growing innovative healthcare businesses.
Zing Health Holdings, a Chicago-based physician-led Medicare Advantage insurance company focused on serving vulnerable populations underserved by traditional insurance models, today announced that Town Hall Ventures and Leavitt Equity Partners, two leading investors focused on
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Komodo Health Expands Real-World Evidence Database to Tackle Racial Disparities
What You Should Know:
In an effort to address glaring racial disparities in healthcare, today Komodo Health is expanding its Healthcare Map™ with new demographic characteristics, including patient race and ethnic data.
By incorporating these additional characteristics into its Healthcare Map, Komodo is making it possible to better assess real-world experiences and outcomes for diverse patient populations across the U.S.
Komodo Health today announced the expansion of its Healthcare
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Decentralized Clinical Research Will Be A Paradigm-Shifting Trend
The field of clinical research is on the precipice of change, and for good reason. Traditional clinical trials and processes are primarily confined to sterile, isolated clinical settings that are often narrow in scope and provider-centric. Researchers of tomorrow, however, already are identifying accurate and effective new methods to conduct and draw meaning from their work, after concluding that current models for clinical research are not capturing participants’ real-world, lived experiences
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Search & Referral Platform Aunt Bertha Rebrands as findhelp
What You Should Know:
- Aunt Bertha, an Austin-TX-based search and referral platform for social services in the US, announced it has rebranded as findhelp - a name shift that helps customers, organizations, and those seeking care to instantly understand the company's mission: to connect all people seeking help and the programs that serve them with dignity and ease.
- The location-based network of free and reduced-cost resources for food, housing, goods, transit, health, money,
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Social Determinant of The Healthcare Professional: Why We Cannot Wait
The following list provides examples of the social determinants of health, which influence health equity in positive and negative ways: Income and social protection, Education, Unemployment, and job insecurity, Working life conditions, Food insecurity, Housing, basic amenities and the environment, Early childhood development, social inclusion, and non-discrimination, Structural conflict, Access to affordable health services of decent quality.
Working life conditions refers to the working
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