What You Should Know:
- Wellkin Health appoints former him and hers executive Dr. Adrian Rawlinson as the company’s new Chief Medical Officer.
- In his new role as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Rawlinson will focus on establishing a Clinical Advisory Board and Clinical User Group.
Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company, announced the appointment of Dr. Adrian Rawlinson to the company as Chief Medical Officer. In his role as Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
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b.well Connected Health Raises $16M for Personalized Health Platform
What You Need to Know:
- b.well raises $16 million in Series A funding led by UnityPoint Health Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to over $27 million.
- b.well provides a configurable digital platform to healthcare stakeholders to solve for interoperability and consolidation of point solutions through the lens of a consumer.
b.well Connected
Health, a Baltimore, MD-based platform designed to provide consumers a new
front end to healthcare, announced it has raised $16
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TeraRecon Acquired by SymphonyAI: What is the Impact for Medical Imaging Market?
On the 4th March 2020, TeraRecon announced it had signed an agreement to be acquired by the SymphonyAI Group. Here are the facts of the deal, followed by our take on the potential impact on the medical imaging market:
- The terms of the deal were not disclosed and TeraRecon will continue to operate business as usual. However, it will benefit from greater financial backing and the synergistic technologies from other companies in the Group’s portfolio.
- TeraRecon is an Advanced
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Clarify Health to use LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Socioeconomic Data
What You Need to Know:
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions, that it has partnered with Clarify Health to evaluate the predictive capability of social determinants of health and clinical data.
- The collaboration’s approach will integrate individual-level SDOH data into Clarify Health’s clinical analytical models to evaluate the quality and efficacy of the data at the point of care to help drive care management decision-making.
- Clarify Health’s analytical models help identify population
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Emory Healthcare, Verizon Opens Nation’s First 5G Healthcare Innovation Lab
- The Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network is now live at the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub (EHIH) in Atlanta, becoming the nation’s first 5G healthcare innovation lab.
- The 5G healthcare innovation lab at EHIH will test how 5G could enhance augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide a point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER.
- Verizon joins EHIH’s partner
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Catholic Medical Partners Taps Innovaccer to Deliver Value-Based Care to IPA
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Catholic Medical Partners (CMP), the largest Independent Physician Association (IPA) in Buffalo, New York to empower the IPA to deliver value-based care and help healthcare care as one.
- CMP is the largest network of physicians in the entire region, comprised of nearly 1,000 primary and specialty care providers in Erie and Niagara counties.
- With Innovaccer as their latest partner, CMP will have new access to unique, longitudinal patient 360
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Blue Shield CA, Accolade Partner to Offer Personalized Health for Self-Funded Employers
- Blue Shield of California and Accolade announced a new partnership to deploy Accolade's personalized health technology + human support to Blue Shield's employer customers.
- By adding Accolade's personalized engagement solution, employers can benefit from proven boosts in program utilization, employee satisfaction, and cost savings.
- The Blue Shield and Accolade offering is available for a January 2021 plan effective date.
Blue Shield
of California and Accolade
today
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Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push.
One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as the foundation -- i.e., the platform enabling application development and user access.
But when it comes developing an EHR-based marketplace for
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Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health
- Sharecare acquires Visualize Health, a Franklin, Tenn.-based population health and quality measure platform that enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care to maximize value-based care.
- The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010.
Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced
its acquisition
of
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HealthLynked Acquires Cura Health & ACO Health Partners
- HealthLynked acquires Cura Health Management and its wholly-owned subsidiary ACO Health Partners LLC for $1.75M. - The acquisition is expected to contribute approximately $2.25M of revenue and $500k in EBITDA in year one, increasing HealthLynked's consolidated revenues by 47% and reducing the company's current annual cash burn by over 50%.HealthLynked Corp, a nationwide healthcare network focused on care management of its members and a provider of healthcare technologies that connect doctors,
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