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Healthcare Dealmakers—Ginger, Headspace’s $3 merger; UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare’s DOJ deal
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, health tech companies, payers and other industry players look…
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AI startup Kintsugi secures $8M from investors to build out voice biomarker-based mental health tech
Berkeley, California-based startup Kintsugi is helping clinicians detect depression and anxiety in patients quicker from just their voices. Founded in…
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Adam Boehler’s Rubicon Founders is taking aim at kidney care. Here’s why
Adam Boehler’s entrepreneurial firm Rubicon Founders has named one of its first targets: kidney care. The company is partnering with…
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Blue Cross NC’s value-based care program saved $197M last year
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina’s value-based care program, Blue Premier, saved $197 million last year, new data…
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Foundation Medicine to integrate with Epic to streamline clinical insights
Foundation Medicine announced a partnership with Epic Thursday, meant to integrate its services like comprehensive genomic profiling with the electronic medical record (EMR) system. Providers will be…
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WebMD moving from online health information to ‘digital front door’ for patients
WebMD is making moves to shift from an information website to a health information platform that helps consumers search and…
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Industry Voices—Hospital staff unprepared for information blocking rules. It’s time to invest in education, training
Healthcare administrators are dramatically underestimating the awareness people within their organizations have about recent information blocking rules and the consequences…
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Google says health projects will continue even as it unwinds dedicated health division
Google says it is ramping up its investments in health-focused initiatives even as it dissolves its single unified health division.…
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Carrot banks $75M to expand fertility benefits to more employers, health plans
Carrot Fertility, a fertility benefits provider, has raised $75 million in series C funding led by investment firm Tiger Global…
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Biden administration hopes to roll out COVID-19 boosters on Sept. 20 after new data
The Biden administration plans to roll out a booster shot for COVID-19 vaccinations starting on Sept. 20, directing Americans to…
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Biden administration to invest $19M to expand telehealth in rural, underserved areas
The Biden administration is investing $19 million to expand telehealth in rural and underserved communities to help increase access to care…
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DOJ accuses former nursing school operators of selling fraudulent transcripts, diplomas
Five Maryland, Virginia and Florida residents have been hit with federal charges related to the production and sale of fraudulent…
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Medical equipment supplier Medline exploring potential $30B sale: media report
Medical equipment and supply manufacturer Medline Industries is exploring a potential sale valued as high as $30 billion, The Wall…
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Health tech funding snapshot—AppliedVR banks $29M; Khosla Ventures backs Rightway’s $100M round
Virtual reality (VR) technology is emerging as one of the more promising, and nonaddictive, pain management tools. Los Angeles-based AppliedVR…
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Why 2021 could be the year of healthcare SPAC deals and the unicorns ripe to go public
Healthcare unicorn exit activity including IPOs and mergers and acquisitions reached record levels in 2020. Last year, there were seven healthcare…
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Cedar lands $200M Series D to help modernize how patients pay for medical services
Cedar was launched in 2016 to modernize the medical billing process. Patients often struggle with incomprehensible medical bills while they also…
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In a competitive digital health market, startups move to add new medication delivery services
In an increasingly competitive digital health market, many virtual care startups are moving into prescription drug delivery as a key…
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Tyto Care banks additional $50M in series D funding to expand telehealth
Modular device and telehealth company Tyto Care has scored an additional $50 million in series D funding in a development…
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Industry Voices—Harnessing a watershed moment for real-world data
Across every facet of life, 2020 tested our resolve and resilience. COVID-19 stretched our systems to the breaking point, exposing…
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Innovaccer jumps to unicorn status on heels of latest funding round
Big data healthcare startup Innovaccer has now joined the ranks of digital health unicorns. The San Francisco-based company secured $105…
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