What You Should Know:
- Caregility, an enterprise telehealth platform company, and Eko, the market leader in stethoscopes for telehealth, today announced an integration partnership.
- Caregility’s cloud platform now seamlessly integrates with Eko’s smart stethoscopes and software, enabling users of Caregility’s iConsult application to perform high-quality auscultation (heart, lung, and other body sounds) on patients during a virtual physical exam.
Addressing Virtual Care Gaps to Improve
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CareHarmony Secures $15M for AI-Powered Care Coordination
What You Should Know:
- CareHarmony, an AI-powered care coordination solutions provider, today announced it has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by Maverick Ventures, with participation from Nashville Capital Network.
- The financing comes as CareHarmony continues to experience exponential growth, serving several of the nation’s leading hospitals and health systems through its care platform.
Developing Proprietary Technology To Meet Increased Demand
Founded in 2015,
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KeyCare Raises $24M for Epic-Integrated Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- KeyCare, Inc., the nation’s only virtual-first care platform built with Epic, announced the closing of $24 million in series A funding.
- The funding was backed by 8VC, LRVHealth, Bold Capital, and Spectrum Health Ventures.
Expanding Horizons in Healthcare Using Virtual Care Platforms
KeyCare offers health systems the ability to easily augment their care teams, optimize capacity, and widen their digital front doors by partnering with a nationwide network of
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Intel Invests $20M in Biofourmis’ Virtual Care Offerings
What You Should Know:
- Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has joined its Series D financing in an extension that brings the total funding raised in the round to $320M.
- The initial Series D funding round was announced in April and was led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic with participation by CVS Health (NYSE:CVS), Trevor
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KLAS Report: State of Virtual Visit Technology in the Middle East
What You Should Know:
- The latest KLAS report examines how non-EMR-affiliated virtual visit solutions in the Middle East differ across key metrics (including product usability, implementation and training, and vendor partnership) and also summarizes common EMR vendors and their approaches to virtual visits.
- KLAS reports high satisfaction with their virtual visit technology (either virtual care or video conferencing platforms), though specifics of the customer experience do vary across
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Can We Reach Health 4.0 in the Next 3-5 Years?
What You Should Know:
- According to a new report from Allison + Partners, 57% of respondents said it will be possible to achieve “Health 4.0” in the next 3-5 years
- The report illustrates that the biggest hurdles include legislative and regulatory policy, lack of tech talent, and little understanding of health technologies and that the opportunities outweigh the challenges
Health 4.0: Barriers and Solutions
During the pandemic, there was a record-breaking infusion of capital into
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Analysis: 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review
Executive Summary
Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation
2022 ushered in Act III of the market’s latest transitionary period: The Post-Inflation Era. Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. As the cost of capital went lower and lower during the decade, valuations steadily rose. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% annual growth rate, with no small share of the growth a result of expanding valuation
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Amazon to Acquire One Medical for $3.9B
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Today Amazon and One Medical announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire One Medical.
Under terms of the agreement, Amazon will acquire One Medical for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion, including One Medical’s net debt.
One Medical Background
One Medical is a human-centered, technology-powered U.S. primary care organization
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Zocdoc Launches its First-Ever Public API Platform: Zocdoc for Developers
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- Zocdoc, the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy for people to find and book in-person or virtual care across +200 specialties and +12k insurance plans, announced the launch of Zocdoc for Developers, Zocdoc’s first-ever public API platform
- The new public API expands Zocdoc’s unique interoperability capabilities beyond its Marketplace, positioning Zocdoc as the default infrastructure for digitizing the nation’s patient flow
Zocdoc Syncs
With a
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Canvas Medical Raises $24M for EMR & Payments Platform
What You Should Know:
- Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24M in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey.
- In addition to this funding, Canvas has achieved federal certification through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
A Full-Stack Ambulatory EMR and
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