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By  Jessica Hagen 12:49 pm October 6, 2023
Maternity-focused digital health company Diana Health secured $34 million in Series B funding led by Norwest Ventures Partners, bringing its total raise to $46 million.  Existing investors LRVHealth and .406 Ventures participated in the round, as did AlleyCorp.  WHAT IT DOES The New York-based company partners with hospitals and health systems to offer tech-enabled OB-GYN and women's health...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:58 pm October 4, 2023
Grocery delivery company Instacart announced the launch of a new benefit in partnership with Mount Sinai Solutions, a division of Mount Sinai Health System offering health plans to employers and unions, to provide postpartum and postoperative patients access to grocery deliveries and Mount Sinai's Virtual Storefront.  Patients insured by a Mount Sinai Solutions' employer or union health plan in...
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By  Jessica Hagen 04:32 pm October 3, 2023
India-based Doceree, a programmatic marketing platform for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies to reach healthcare professionals, announced it scored $35 million in Series B funding led by Creaegis. Existing investors F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures also participated in the round. The company, founded in 2019, will use the funds to expand its workforce, speed up product...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:26 pm October 3, 2023
Healthcare data analytics company Komodo Health announced new hires just one week after launching a new tool dubbed MapLab, an AI-enabled offering providing information on treatment pathways, disease trends and patient populations for life sciences and healthcare companies. Julia Goebel will join the company as its new senior vice president of marketing and Brad Kelley as general manager of...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:40 pm October 2, 2023
Tech giant Microsoft announced a long-term partnership with multistate healthcare system Mercy, which will utilize its Azure OpenAI Service to provide generative AI-assisted communication resources to patients and Mercy employees.  Microsoft's generative AI will be used to help patients understand lab results, schedule appointments and get answers to healthcare-related questions.  Mercy's...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:40 pm September 27, 2023
Virgin Pulse, a mobile-first employee wellness and engagement company, announced its intent to merge with HealthComp, a benefits and analytics platform, to create a technology and data-enabled healthcare service for employers.  The reported $3 billion deal, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, will form a combined entity that utilizes technology and an AI-enabled data platform to deliver...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:43 pm September 26, 2023
Healthcare navigation and pharmacy benefits platform Rightway and hybrid fertility and reproductive care company Kindbody are partnering to offer employers family-building and reproductive healthcare benefits.  New York-based Kindbody offers virtual and in-person services, including contraception care, fertility testing, gynecological care, egg freezing, and virtual wellness and coaching services...
Jennifer Mathieu, senior vice president of professional and government affairs at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
By  Jessica Hagen 12:37 pm September 22, 2023
The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act, initially introduced in the U.S. Senate in 2022 and reintroduced in March of this year, aims to amend the Social Security Act to provide Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for prescription digital therapeutics.  Jennifer Mathieu, senior vice president of professional and government affairs at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (...
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By  Jessica Hagen 09:07 am September 19, 2023
Employer-focused cancer startup AccessHope announced it is adding Johns Hopkins Medicine's Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Care Center to its network of National Cancer Institute-designated organizational partners.  AccessHope connects employers offering self-funded health plans and employees' treating physicians with cancer-focused expertise from NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers...