What You Should Know: - DaVita Inc. and Google Cloud are teaming up to create a new clinical operating system that sets a foundation for streamlined kidney care for more than 200,000 DaVita patients. - Built on Google Cloud infrastructure and utilizing AI and analytics tools co-developed by the two companies, DaVita's Center Without Walls (CWOW) is now live across the organization's 2,700+ dialysis centers nationwide. - With the deployment, DaVita has moved from a
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Kidney Disease
Strive Health Secures $166M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Platform
What You Should Know: Strive Health, a Denver-based provider of value-based kidney care today announced it has raised $166M in Series C funding led by NEA alongside five new investors, including large strategic investor CVS Health Venture.The company will use the new funds to grow and scale the business by expanding into new markets, investing in its existing payor, health system, nephrologist and medical group partnerships and refining its clinical value-based care model. Strive will
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Healthy.io Secures $50M to Expand Smartphone Kidney Test
What You Should Know: Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a clinical-grade device, raises $50M in a Series D funding round led by Schusterman Family Investments and is joined by Aleph and other existing shareholders. This investment, together with a previously unannounced $45 million February 2022 investment, comprises the company’s Series D.The Series D round will support Healthy.io’s expansion across the U.S. market, where Minuteful Kidney™, the
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Uber Health Embeds Same-Day Prescription Delivery Into Its Care Platform
What You Should Know: Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced same-day prescription delivery on its HIPAA-supported, centralized platform.For the first time, those using Uber Health—including healthcare providers and health plans—will be able to manage prescription delivery from any pharmacy in their service area through the same platform they already use to coordinate transportation for patients. This launch enables providers to offer a full suite of care solutions that
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Interoperability: Particle Health Launches Suite of Solutions to Wrangle Data
What You Should Know: - Particle Health, an interoperability platform that aggregates and delivers actionable patient data and insights to healthcare companies, announced today it has launched its Particle FOCUS (Filtered Outputs Curated for Usability + Simplicity) solution suite. - FOCUS data products are designed to streamline data by delivering comprehensive, simplified, and organized patient health information across seven disease states:
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Q/A: Dr. Masturzo Talks Addressing Food Insecurity with Patients
Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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National Kidney Foundation and Healthy.io Partner on Kidney Disease Detection
What You Should Know: - The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), a non-profit health organization and Healthy.io, a global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a clinical-grade medical device, announced a new effort to promote the detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD). - Through their partnership, the NKF and Healthy.io will offer Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ at-home kidney test, free of charge, to people who are at risk for kidney disease. Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney
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Healthy.io & Reset Kidney Health Partner on Comprehensive Virtual Kidney Care
What You Should Know: - Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, and Reset Kidney Health, a hybrid care platform that offers gold-standard multidisciplinary care to patients with kidney disease, have announced a partnership that will give patients the option to utilize at-home, smartphone-powered kidney testing. - As part of the partnership, Reset will provide eligible patients with Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ test to complete at
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BrightInsight Adds ixlayer to BrightInsight Ecosystem to Improve Therapy Matching
What You Should Know: - BrightInsight announced that ixlayer has joined the BrightInsight Ecosystem, a network of more than 20 of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies driving growth and adoption of digital health solutions. - The BrightInsight Ecosystem of partners collaborates to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to drive digital innovation, adoption and engagement. Why It Matters Conditions such as high cholesterol, autoimmune
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Evergreen Nephrology Taps Innovaccer to Transform Kidney Care
What You Should Know: - Evergreen Nephrology, a nephrology-focused value-based care organization, has chosen the Innovaccer® Health Cloud and Innovaccer’s full solution suite to accelerate the transformation of kidney care. - Innovaccer’s cloud-native solutions selected by Evergreen include tools to optimize care management, physician engagement, patient engagement, referral management, advanced analytics, and dashboard-driven insights to optimize delivery of value-based specialty
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