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News 1/31/24
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Cardinal Health will acquire Specialty Networks and its PPS Analytics software for $1.2 billion. In addition to analytics, Specialty Networks offers urology, rheumatology, and gastroenterology practices clinical and business intelligence, population health management, research and registries, and group purchasing.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Valendo Health launches out of startup incubator Redesign Health with $4 million in seed funding. The company specializes in remote diabetes patient monitoring and related services, as well as assistance in moving practices into value-based contracts. It aims to work primarily with independent endocrinology practices, and counts virtual specialty clinic Cecelia Health and Advanced Metabolic Care and Research (CA) among its initial customers.
Pregnancy care platform startup Aster raises $2.4 million in seed funding. Aster’s patient management software offers EHR capabilities, a scheduling tool, remote patient monitoring, virtual consults, and transcription services for in-person appointments.
App-based house call company Dispatch Health lays off 88 corporate employees in its latest round of restructuring. The Denver-based company has raised over $400 million since launching in 2013.
Austin-based patient engagement and retention technology startup Vital Interaction raises $15 million in a Series A funding round.
Accompany Health launches with $56 million in Series A funding. The company offers primary and behavioral healthcare, as well as social care services to low-income patients in the home or virtually, initially serving those in the Detroit area. Founder and CEO Rahul Rajkumar, MD was a former deputy director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and has served in executive roles at health insurance companies.
Announcements and Implementations
Innovaccer announces GA of InScribe, its AI-powered clinical documentation virtual assistant.
Rectangle Health unifies its patient engagement, payments, and office compliance technologies into the single Bridge platform.
The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics will offer its patients in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC digital musculoskeletal care from Genie Health.
Government and Politics
Four healthcare clinics in Nova Scotia have launched a mobile medical records app to 4,000 patients as part of a pilot project that will run through March. Patients throughout the rest of the province will have access to their records via the app by the end of June. News of the pilot project coincides with publication of a report by The Public Policy Forum that calls for modernization of Canada’s healthcare data and digital infrastructure. Report recommendations include the elimination of medical faxes by the end of this year and a commitment to a paperless, interoperable healthcare system by 2028, as well as incentivizing wearables through consumer rebates or tax measures.
Other
The Verily-backed OneFifteen substance use disorder treatment center in Dayton, OH, will resume outpatient care in March after separating from Premier Health subsidiary Samaritan Behavioral Health last year. OneFifteen opened in 2019, partnering with Premier Health and Kettering Health to offer outpatient, inpatient, and crisis unit care on its campus.
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