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New Accolade Total Care Guides People to the Best Providers and Supports Them at Every Stage of Care to Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce Employer Health Care Costs
Accolade, a provider of personalized advocacy solutions for employers, today announced a new solution that guides employees and their dependents (“members”) to the highest-performing doctors and other health care providers. Enabled by the company’s acquisition of MD Insider, Accolade Total Care combines data-driven...
Infusion Express Announces $22.5 Million Capital Raise, Rebrands as IVX Health
Ambulatory infusion center operator Infusion Express today announced completion of a $22.5 million funding round, which will enable the company to accelerate its nationwide expansion. Infusion Express also announced that it will rebrand as IVX Health. McKesson Ventures and Health Velocity Capital co-led the funding...
Driving Patient Loyalty in a Consumerized, Value-Based Industry
Patient loyalty and outreach have been, and continue to be, key priorities for health care organizations. However, as the industry shifts from fee-for-service to value-based payment models, and patients become more like consumers, the path for achieving those goals has changed. John Ward, the senior vice president...
OHSU to Become First Health System in Oregon to Implement Kyruus ProviderMatch®
Kyruus, a leader in providing search and scheduling solutions for health systems, announced that OHSU in Portland, Oregon, a nationally distinguished research organization, will use the Kyruus ProviderMatch® platform to enhance patient access to providers and services across the OHSU health system. OHSU is building a...
Do you forget your passwords? Imagine what it’s like being me, says BONNIE ESTRIDGE in her latest despatch on life with Alzheimer’s
Health and lifestyle journalist Bonnie Estridge has been a reporter all of her adult life, and that hasn’t stopped since she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In a recent article she wrote for London’s Daily Mail, she lamented that tasks like remembering passwords have gone from difficult to impossible since...
Walgreens offers new tool for chronic care management
Walgreens is expanding the services available on its Walgreens Find Care digital platform to include chronic care management. The company is now offering connected devices and digital therapeutic solutions for asthma and COPD management from Propeller Health, and diabetes management from Dexcom on the platform. Since...
5 hospital marketing trends to watch: data personalization, chatbots & more
Health systems are transitioning toward a value-based model of care, and so too must their marketing. Rather than just highlighting available services, health system marketers must also promote improved patient outcomes. Here, according to Evariant, are five data-driven, digitally minded trends that will help...
How digital health apps are leading the fight against diabetes
Chronic conditions like diabetes require constant monitoring between regularly scheduled doctor visits. Livongo, the first digital health company to go public after a years-long drought, is hoping to prove that technology can help better manage costly chronic illnesses. The platform analyzes data to build a picture...
How artificial intelligence can detect hidden diseases
As the field of medicine advances, new connections leading to the diagnosis of rare illnesses are being made. Komodo Health’s artificial intelligence algorithms are sifting through a decade of data about health conditions across several hundred million Americans, many scenarios that once were the stuff of imagination...
9 Digital Health Startups that Could Join the IPO Wave
Large companies like Lyft, Pinterest, and Uber have made big-splash IPOs in 2019, and Slack and Airbnb are expected to join them. But behind the headline-making companies is a wave of digital health startups that have been transforming the health industry for close to a decade or more—and they are either announcing...
Press Releases
GRAIL Closes Over $900 Million Initial Investment in Series B Financing to Develop Blood Test to Detect Cancer Early
GRAIL, Inc., a life sciences company located in Menlo Park, California, has raised over $900 million in funding after the initial close of its Series B financing, led by ARCH Venture Partners. Goldman, Sachs & Co. has been selected as the placement agent for the...
Envera Health and Evariant Team Up to Create End-to-End Engagement Services Offering for Healthcare
Envera Health and Evariant are joining forces to create a leading-edge medical system that will improve patient experience, increase outcomes, and drive growth. The two companies will team up to build a 360-degree profile of the patient, which will revolutionize the...
INTEGRIS to Present at HIMSS 2017 on Engaging Patients, Promoting Virtual Clinics
Oklahoma-based not-for-profit health system INTEGRIS will present at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2017, a conference on healthcare and IT, on how it has leveraged virtual care to boost patient engagement in both rural and urban areas,...
SHYFT Analytics Appoints Joseph Tyers to Chief Revenue Officer
Leading cloud analytics company SHYFT announced today that Joseph Tyers will be its new Chief Revenue Officer. Tyers’ previous experience as Senior Vice President of Sales, Value Management and Commercial Operations at Medidata will provide SHYFT with a wealth of...
Piedmont Healthcare Selects Kyruus’ Suite of Patient-Provider Matching Solutions
Piedmont Healthcare, a nonprofit healthcare organization located in Georgia that serves nearly two million people, has selected Kyruus’ ProviderMatch™ Product Suite to make its system more user-friendly and accessible to patients. Piedmont Healthcare, which operates a...