Home-focused digital health platform Vesta Healthcare announced Tuesday it has raised an additional $65 million in growth capital. The New York City-based Vesta is a clinical provider and technology services organization that connects caregiver insights to the rest of an individual’s care team. As part… Read More »‘Homecareist’ Vesta Raises $65M to Support Pop Health Programs, Risk-Based Contracts
By KIM BELLARD By the time you read this, Microsoft may have already struck a deal with the messaging service Discord. VentureBeat reported two weeks ago that Discord was in an “exclusive acquisition discussion” with an interested party, for a deal that could reach at… Read More »Some Discord Could Be Good for Health Care
Insurance startup Bright Health is reportedly planning to raise up to $1 billion in an IPO that will be launched in the second quarter of 2021. The company, which provides several insurance products as well as an IT platform, could be valued at more than… Read More »Report: Bright Health eyes $1B IPO
Amazon’s (NYSE: AMZN) in-home care platform — Amazon Care — is currently designed to coordinate care for employees and their family members. In the not-too-distant future, however, it may be more generally used for chronic-disease management. That’s according to Michael Abrams, managing partner of the… Read More »Pivot to Chronic-Disease Management Presents ‘Enormous’ Upside for Amazon Care
A group of inventors at the University of Cincinnati are developing a drone that can be used to conduct virtual visits in patients’ homes. The technology aims to fill the gap in telehealth delivery among those who do not have access to the necessary devices… Read More »Drone in your home? Telehealth makeover underway at Univ of Cincinnati
The partnership between the insurer and EHR giant — announced a year and a half ago — will now focus on streamlining prior authorizations and offering providers enhanced insights about their patients. Ochsner Health will be among the first to implement the new capabilities offered… Read More »Epic-Humana partnership enters new phase focused on prior authorizations
Health care technology company Ro has secured $500 million in Series D funding. The Series D round was led by existing investors General Catalyst, FirstMark Capital and TQ Ventures. Existing investors SignalFire, Torch Capital and BoxGroup also participated in the round. New investors included Altimeter… Read More »Ro Lands $500M to Beef Up Vertically Integrated Primary Care Platform
Care collaboration software platform PatientPing has reportedly been acquired. Boston-based PatientPing provides a wide range of services, including real-time notifications when patients receive care, COVID-19-monitoring tools and other solutions. The software company works with health care organizations across the continuum of care, from hospitals and… Read More »Rumored Appriss Acquisition Values Care Collaboration Company PatientPing at $500M
For years, health care experts have watched Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) steadily wade deeper and deeper into home-based care waters. It appears the Seattle-based technology powerhouse is finally diving in — and making a big splash. On Wednesday, Amazon announced it is expanding Amazon Care —… Read More »Amazon Reveals National Expansion Plans for In-Home Care Platform ‘Amazon Care’
Civil cases lost by other banks only led to financial penalties, but the verdict here may hit its reputation NatWest had “resolved all its major legacy issues”, declared Sir Howard Davies, the chairman, 18 months ago, speaking far too soon. Here comes another potential nasty… Read More »The FCA’s criminal prosecution of NatWest could cause real damage
Civil cases lost by other banks only led to financial penalties, but the verdict here may hit its reputation NatWest had “resolved all its major legacy issues”, declared Sir Howard Davies, the chairman, 18 months ago, speaking far too soon. Here comes another potential nasty… Read More »The FCA’s criminal prosecution of NatWest could cause real damage
Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) — the telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions company that specializes in the home setting — has raised additional capital as part of its Series C round. The Series C was led by LLR Partners, with previous investor Edison Partners… Read More »LLR Partners Backs Health Recovery Solutions in Series C
When it comes to interoperability, 74% of referral sources say they would send more referrals to post-acute care providers — including home-based care agencies — that offer greater electronic data access. In general, referral sources are more likely to switch to a home-based care provider… Read More »74% of Referral Sources Prefer Home-Based Care Providers That Meet Interoperability Standards
Tomorrow Health — a relatively new startup seeking to become an Amazon-like service for home health providers — has partnered with Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). The goal of the partnership: to give patients better access to home durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. Back by… Read More »Tomorrow Health, Geisinger Health Plan Team Up to Improve Home-Based Care
COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: Why Success Hinges on Technology Squelching the pandemic depends on a rapid rollout of vaccines across the world. Technology is one of the lynch pins of success. The Doctor Weighs In
The health technology company’s valuation skyrocketed to $1.3 billion following its latest funding round. It plans to use the new funds to launch Innovaccer Health Cloud, which will aggregate and normalize data from different systems and support the development of interoperable apps.
Telehealth vendors experienced a major business boom last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many believe the increased demand will stick around in 2021, too, driven by a need to constantly monitor vulnerable populations in the home setting. Synzi — a St. Petersburg, Florida-based company… Read More »Thanks to Home Care Providers, Telehealth Is Turning into a $250B Industry
Technology that speeded the development of Covid vaccines has potential to transform the pharmaceutical industry The hunt for new medicines has often been more like a game of roulette than high-end science. But now the pharmaceutical sector is on the cusp of a transformation, as… Read More »Drug companies look to AI to end ‘hit and miss’ research
The public health emergency has resulted in higher demand for home medical equipment (HME). Several factors are contributing to the trend, including the rise of hospital-at-home programs, the diversion of patients away from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and individuals generally voicing a preference for home-based… Read More »HME Companies Grapple with Sudden Supply-Demand Swings of COVID-19
The Amazon founder gains time for other projects, such as space and newspapers, while still making the big decisions Jeff Bezos is stepping aside at Amazon – sort of. In fact, he is merely dropping one of his three job titles at thee online retailer.… Read More »Bezos is handing over fronting Amazon, but not his grip on his creation | Nils Pratley
As the use of technology proliferates during the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns rise about privacy and health data security. Congressional Democrats have proposed new legislation that would protect individuals’ data rights amid the public health crisis.
The company behind the controversial GP at Hand service – which holds England’s largest GP patient list with nearly 90,000 NHS patients – lost more than £95m in 2019, its annual accounts show.
The new startup unicorn’s insurance product enables members to shop for medical services and pay directly for care. The company raised $125 million in a recent funding round, boosting its valuation, which it will use to increase its footprint and launch new products.
Exclusive: ‘pool’ to share Covid-19 information has received no contributions since May 2020 Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A World Health Organization program for pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily share Covid-19 related knowledge, treatments and technology so they can be more widely… Read More »WHO platform for pharmaceutical firms unused since pandemic began
It appears some health care companies are still opting to go public the old-fashioned way. Signify Health — a value-based care platform that uses advanced analytics and other technology to shift health services toward the home — filed an S-1 on Tuesday, indicating its intention… Read More »Home-Based Care Ally Signify Health Files for $100M IPO
The company partners with independent practices, health centers and clinics to establish primary care-focused accountable care organizations.
Despite concerns over broadband access and reimbursement, telehealth still brings many opportunities to care for patients covered by Medicare and Medicaid, panelists said at CES.
Dina — the Chicago-based AI-powered platform that helps bridge the gap between health systems, payers and in-home care providers — is setting its sights on expansion. It now has additional resources to accomplish that goal, too. The company announced Monday that it has raised $7… Read More »‘Care Traffic Control’ Platform Dina Raises $7M
Victoria Krakovna of LessWrong provides some examples where artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms didn’t work out exactly as planned. In fact, she has put together a master list of these AI issues. Below I have listed some of these examples that are more (or less) related… Read More »Artificial intelligence: Not yet ready for prime time
Optum, a subsidiary of insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, agreed to buy healthcare technology company Change Healthcare for $13.5 billion in cash. The acquisition will add data analytics, research and revenue cycle management offerings to Optum’s service roster.
WellSky announced Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of care coordination software company CarePort Health. Under terms of the deal — first announced in October — WellSky purchased CarePort from Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq: MDRX) for a price tag of $1.35 billion. Allscripts is… Read More »WellSky Completes $1.35B Purchase of CarePort Health
The executive team at AbleTo, a technology-enabled provider of behavioral healthcare shares six mental health and teletherapy predictions and trends to watch in 2021. Trip Hofer, CEO at AbleTo 1. Measurement and Outcomes “The healthcare industry has made progress toward increasing access to mental health… Read More »6 Mental Health & Teletherapy Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021
In the new year, payers with an abundance of capital resulting from deferred care amid the pandemic will look to make investments in technology and ramp up acquisition activity in the primary care arena, a PwC expert predicts.
The MedsEngine: Chronic Condition Management Takes a Leap The MedsEngine is one of the first of the new digital tools that facilitates far more effective chronic condition management The Doctor Weighs In
For the home health industry, 2020 was the year agencies unquestionably embraced telehealth. Amid the COVID-19 emergency, virtual visits have become a key tool utilized in the delivery of care. One company, CommonSpirit Health at Home, has long recognized the value of telehealth. Prior to… Read More »How CommonSpirit Health at Home Launched a 27-Market Telehealth Program in 2 Weeks
The health care SPAC boom continues. On Friday, Deerfield Healthcare Technology Acquisitions Corp. (Nasdaq: DFHT) announced it is acquiring CareMax Medical Group and IMC Medical Group Holdings for $364 million and $250 million, respectively. The New York-based Deerfield — a special purpose acquisition company —… Read More »Blank-Check Company Deerfield to Combine CareMax, IMC Medical Group in $614M Play
Shots: Janux to receive up to $500.5M/ target as upfront and milestones along with royalties on sales of product emerges from the collaboration, making a total deal value ~$1B. Merck will fund R&D performed under the agreement Merck to get an exclusive WW license to… Read More »Merck Signs a ~$1B Pact with Janux to Develop Cancer Therapies Using T Cell Engager Technology
Update on Heart Rhythm Detection Devices for Remote Patient Monitoring Advances in the detection of heart rhythms using medical-grade but consumer-facing remote patient monitoring – product reviews The Doctor Weighs In
Update on Heart Rhythm Detection Devices for Remote Patient Monitoring Top Product Reviews: Advances in the detection of heart rhythms using medical-grade but consumer-facing remote patient monitoring. The Doctor Weighs In
The technology provider for independent primary care practices plans to use the new funds to further invest in its core platform and add new solutions, such as billing and patient collections capabilities.
Bayada Home Health Care and CareBridge announced Tuesday that the two companies are teaming up to better manage health care costs. A nonprofit, the Moorestown, New Jersey-based Bayada provides a range of in-home care services to older adults, children and individuals living with disabilities across… Read More »Bayada Teams Up with CareBridge to Better Manage Health Care Costs
Papers relating to Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine reportedly targeted in attack on European Medicines Agency German biotech firm BioNTech said on Wednesday that regulation documents related to the Covid-19 vaccine it has developed with Pfizer were “unlawfully accessed” after a cyber-attack on Europe’s medicines regulator. Earlier, the… Read More »Hackers accessed vaccine documents in cyber-attack on EMA
PointClickCare Technologies has reached an agreement to acquire Collective Medical. The deal is for nearly $650 million, according to Business Insider, which first reported the news on Tuesday. Mississauga, Ontario-based PointClickCare is a cloud-based software vendor for more than 21,000 skilled nursing facilities, senior living… Read More »Looking to Improve Care Coordination, PointClickCare to Buy Collective Medical for Reported $650M
Dan Trigub — the recent head of Uber Health and a former member of Lyft’s health care arm — has always been passionate about home care. Before joining Uber (NYSE: UBER), Trigub owned his own startup focused on the aging population. For the past 15… Read More »Led by Uber Health Veteran Dan Trigub, MedArrive Launches with $4.5M in Funding
The final physician payment rule for next year includes changes to the list of telehealth services covered by Medicare and updated payment policies for remote physiologic monitoring.
Olive AI, a startup automating routine administrative tasks for health systems, raised another $225 million in funding, bringing the total raised this year to $385 million.
In the Face of a Medicaid Tsunami, Telehealth is More Important Than Ever Telehealth utilization under Medicaid surged during the pandemic providing needed services to the vulnerable. Ongoing funding must be ensured The Doctor Weighs In
The 51-hospital system and artificial intelligence company are building on their existing collaboration to deploy technology that will allow physicians to focus solely on their patients during visits.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday issued an emergency use authorization for the first COVID-19 diagnostic at-home test. The move will not have an immediate impact on in-home care providers, but it could give them one more tool in their pandemic toolbox in… Read More »FDA Signs Off on First At-Home Coronavirus Test
Virtual tools have quickly turned into the preferred method of training for in-home caregivers since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency. That trend will likely continue beyond 2020 as well. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Medflyt, a HIPAA-compliant web-based workforce… Read More »In-Home Care Workers Increasingly Prefer Virtual Training
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has taken another step toward taking over the aging-in-place space. Earlier this week, the online retail and technology giant announced it is rolling out a new health care feature through its Alexa device aimed at helping informal caregivers monitor seniors inside the… Read More »Amazon Unveils ‘Care Hub,’ a New Alexa Tool Designed for Aging in Place
Two Chicago-based in-home care companies are teaming up in a move that illustrates bigger home care trends. On Tuesday, BrightStar Care — one of the largest home care franchisers in the nation — announced it’s joining Dina’s digital home care coordination network. In doing so,… Read More »BrightStar Care Targets Health System, Payer Partnerships with Latest Pilot
Promising clinical data from Pfizer and BioNTech help the index to a £28bn one-day gain Optimism that a mass rollout of Covid-19 vaccines will lead to an economic recovery lifted stocks in London again on Tuesday, to their highest closing level in over four months.… Read More »FTSE 100 recovers to highest level since June after vaccine unveiled
A number of major Medicare Advantage (MA) carriers are expanding their supplemental benefit offerings shaped around in-home care next year. UnitedHealthcare, the insurance arm of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), is among them. Overall, UnitedHealthcare partners with more than 1.3 million physicians and care professionals across… Read More »UnitedHealthcare Advances Home Strategy, Expects to Make 1.7M House Calls in 2020
Between mid-March and mid-August, more than 12.1 million Medicare beneficiaries received some sort of telemedicine service for their health and wellness. The numbers don’t lie: The COVID-19 emergency has officially ushered in a new age of telehealth in the U.S. But while in-home care providers… Read More »How Excelin Home Health Used Telehealth to Automate Its COVID-19 Return-to-Work System
The brainchild of Comcast NBCUniversal and Independence Health Group — Quil — has set its sights on solidifying its place in the home. The company recently unveiled plans to launch Quil Assure, a sensor-based technology platform that aims to keep seniors and their informal caregivers… Read More »Comcast NBCUniversal, Independence Health Group Offshoot Quil Launches Aging In Place Platform
Teladoc Health has sued competitor American Well for patent infringement. The company is seeking unspecified damages and a ruling that would prevent AmWell from using the telemedicine cart technology that Teladoc claims to hold the patents for.
Honor — the technology-enabled home care startup that partners with independent agencies through the Honor Care Network — is gearing up for a major expansion. Those expansion plans are built around a substantial infusion of new capital, too. The San Francisco-based Honor announced Tuesday it… Read More »Honor Raises $140M to Fuel National Expansion
Home health providers are one step closer to getting the No. 1 thing they’ve been asking for since the COVID-19 pandemic began: reimbursement for telehealth-driven visits. On Friday, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) introduced the Home Health Emergency Access to Telehealth… Read More »[Updated] Lawmakers Introduce New Bill Paving the Way for Home Health Telehealth Reimbursement
CareLinx is teaming up with virtual primary care provider Doctor On Demand to give high-risk seniors access to services in their homes. Burlingame, California-based CareLinx is a tech-enabled home care platform that connects seniors and their families to its nationwide network of 400,000 caregivers. The… Read More »CareLinx, Doctor On Demand Team Up to Provide Virtual Care at Home
Telehealth adoption has dramatically increased across health care during the COVID-19 crisis, including in the home-based care space. On their end, home health providers have built out their telehealth programs to make more comprehensive and safer care plans for their patients. Unlike other health care… Read More »Home Health Providers Find Telehealth Reimbursement in Palliative Care
The COVID-19 emergency has triggered a rise in the use of telehealth strategies to deliver care, especially virtual visits. In fee-for-service Medicare alone, the number of virtual visits delivered each week in the U.S. skyrocketed from 14,000 pre-coronavirus to more than 1.7 million during the… Read More »ProMedica Home Health Care, Banner Health Home Care Share Best Practices for Virtual Visits
WellSky announced Tuesday it has entered into an agreement to acquire CarePort Health from Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq: MDRX), a health care information technology provider. The deal is for $1.35 billion, according to Allscripts. WellSky is an international software and professional services company with clients… Read More »WellSky to Acquire CarePort from Allscripts in $1.35B Deal
Drugs company says infection controls at some of its sites are so secure the app is not needed Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline has told staff to switch off the contact tracing function that allows the NHS… Read More »GSK tells UK staff: turn off Covid test-and-trace app while at work
GP at Hand is set to become England’s largest practice after the provider currently in top spot announced it will break up next year – but the controversial digital first outfit’s patient list could outgrow its rivals well before then.
Telehealth Update from ATA President Dr. Joe Kvedar Joe Kvedar, MD, President of ATA, joins Pat Salber, MD, CEO and Editor of The Doctor Weighs In, for an in-depth telehealth update. The Doctor Weighs In
Preferred Care Home Health Services found unusual activity within its email services in April. On Monday, it notified individuals that personal information may have been exposed during a data-security incident tied to that email activity. Among the information hacked may have been names, dates of… Read More »Home Health Agencies Keep Getting Hit by Cyberattacks
AI is continuing to prove its value in healthcare as interest and investment in the technology and its offshoots continue to grow during the pandemic. In a virtual presentation at Ai4 2020, Cotiviti’s senior vice president of research and development, Nicole Neumarker, explained how Cotiviti took a deliberate, multi-track approach to AI to deliver new predictive technologies to aid in the pandemic response, such as the COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker.
How to Integrate Teledentistry into Your Dental Practice Teledentistry will remain a viable approach to dental care even after the pandemic due to the many benefits it offers dentists and patients. The Doctor Weighs In
NHS leaders have promised to roll out electronic discharge summaries across England ‘soon’ following a trial in Dorset, saving GPs time by removing the need to enter data manually from discharge letters to practice IT systems.
Carely Inc. — an online referral platform for both caregivers and professional care providers — has announced it has an agreement in place to acquire CareGiving.com, an online community for family caregivers. The acquisition will help Dayton, Ohio-based Carely with its ultimate goal of enhancing… Read More »Online Caregiver Platform Carely Acquires CareGiving.com
Geisinger Health System — known as one of the most innovative and home-focused health systems in the country — is testing out a new way of easing chronic pain. As a means to engage with patients and better manage their pain in the home, Geisinger… Read More »Geisinger Teams Up with AppliedVR to Better Manage Chronic Pain in the Home
The COVID-19 emergency has underscored how valuable technology can be when it comes to caring for seniors in their homes. But while home-based care providers are increasingly upping their use of various technology solutions to aid in their virtual care efforts, there is still a… Read More »Stuck in the Stone Age: 30% of Home-Based Care Providers Aren’t Using Technology Tools
As technology becomes a bigger part of the home-based care universe, more agencies are starting to take cybersecurity seriously. If they don’t, agencies are at risk of losing highly sensitive patient information and leaving their operations vulnerable. If that ends up happening, they could then… Read More »‘If You Are a Target, They Will Hack You’: Cyber-Hygiene Increasingly Important for In-Home Care Agencies
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) is flexing its data science muscles. Over the past few months, VNSNY and its data science team have been building a contact-tracing tool to help home- and community-based care providers limit the spread of the coronavirus. Mapping… Read More »VNSNY Launches Open-Source COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Tool for Home-Based Care Providers
Telehealth usage has flooded into home-based care in an exponential fashion. Across all of health care, telehealth claim lines increased 8,336% from April 2019 to April 2020, according to data from FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. Generally, the concern with telehealth has often been… Read More »MaineHealth Care at Home CEO: When It Comes to Embracing Telehealth, ‘We Don’t Have a Choice Anymore’
Private equity-backed health care software company WellSky has a new investor and a new capital structure, the company announced Monday. TPG Capital — the PE platform that currently owns WellSky — has entered into a definitive agreement to add private equity firm Leonard Green &… Read More »WellSky Nabs New Investment from Leonard Green & Partners
Teledoc (NYSE: TDOC) — the virtual health care powerhouse with operations in more than 100 counties — is building on its in-home capabilities and ability to team up with other providers. Earlier this month, New York-based Teledoc completed a $150 million deal to acquire InTouch… Read More »After Landing InTouch for $150M, Teledoc Looks to Further In-Home Care Capabilities
AccentCare, one of the largest home health providers in the U.S., was among the first in-home care providers to publicly discuss its coronavirus response. In early March, AccentCare CEO Steve Rodgers told Home Health Care News that the health care world had never “quite seen… Read More »AccentCare Readies Itself for COVID-19 Surges, Adds to Leadership Team
What You Should Know: – AristaMD, a digital health company that provides a platform to connect primary care providers with timely and documented specialist insights through eConsults, has secured additional $8M in investments to top off the company’s Series B funding round at $24 million.… Read More »eConsult Platform AristaMD Raises Additional $6M to Close $24M Series B Round
A network of community health centers in northern California quickly built out telehealth tools, mapping services and other technologies to respond to Covid-19. Leaders with two organizations shared how they did it.
Struggling to sell one multi-million dollar home currently on the market won’t stop actress and singer Jennifer Lopez from expanding her property collection. Lopez has reportedly added to her real estate holdings an eight-plus acre estate in Bel-Air anchored by a multi-level mansion. The property,… Read More »Harbour amid a Slowen down in singer city screening
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