This week, Wheel rolled out a new AI-powered platform designed to provide patients with more holistic and seamless virtual care journeys. The platform, called Horizon, aims to help the startup’s customers rapidly scale virtual care programs to meet growing patient demand.

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Better Health’s $14 million in funding included investments from Healthworx, the University of Miami Health System and Mosaic General Partnership.

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Cutting-edge technology empowers developers to proactively detect and mitigate issues before they cause problems, reducing recalls and fostering trust in the industry.

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Payers face numerous challenges when it comes to AI, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t use the technology, according to Neil Gomes, senior vice president and chief digital officer of AmeriHealth Caritas.

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South Florida-based Mount Sinai Medical Center announced a new remote patient monitoring and chronic care management partnership with HealthSnap, a Miami-based virtual care management platform. The partnership is aimed at improving outcomes among the health system’s Medicare population.

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Getting would-be investors—and the right kind of investors—to notice and care about your company requires a robust strategy.

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America should be a global leader in healthcare. Instead, we rank last among our peers, and outmoded regulations are holding us back. 

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Pelago’s new Inpatient Centers of Excellence network offers Pelago members access to a nationwide network of inpatient substance use disorder treatment centers. The network includes organizations like the Recovery Centers of America and Banyan Treatment Centers.

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Stitch PEO — a startup built at Redesign Health — officially launched and announced that it has raised $8.75 million in seed funding. The company is a professional employer organization for independent medical practices, designed to improve recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and other human resources processes.

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Hospitals need to start thinking about ways to build patients’ trust in generative AI in order for the healthcare industry to fully harness the technology’s potential. They can do this through methods like having transparent conversations, asking for patients’ consent to use the tools and training models on internal data, experts said.

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The biggest generation America has ever seen is officially aging and consuming more MSK care as they do so.

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Samaritan provides financial and social support to those without a home. The company was recently crowned winner of the payer/provider track of MedCity News’ INVEST Pitch Perfect contest.

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Medical device company Zeto received clearance for its EEG brain monitoring system. The system includes a user-friendly, comfortable EEG headset designed to be easily operated by any medical professional with minimal training.

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The Peterson Health Technology Institute recently released a report that evaluated eight musculoskeletal solutions: DarioHealth, Hinge Health, Kaia Health, Limber Health, Omada Health, RecoveryOne, Sword Health and Vori Health.

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When talking about increasing access, it’s essential to remember that there is a difference between making healthcare more accessible and simply increasing patients’ access to appointments, pointed out Lee Schwamm, chief digital health officer at Yale New Haven Health System. In this article, he explains three steps hospitals can take to actually boost accessibility.

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Mother’s Milk Is Best has a medical device that increases the ability to use a mother’s milk or a donor’s milk versus other fortification processes. Last month, judges selected the company as the winner of the consumer/employer track of MedCity News’ INVEST Pitch Perfect contest.

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Executives at the ViVE Payer Insights event earlier this year discussed prior authorization, AI, value-based care and the role of tech to help achieve their goals.

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With its financing round of $130 million, Sword Health is now valued at $3 billion. The company also unveiled Phoenix, an AI care specialist that guides users through sessions.

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Abarca executives see plenty of potential for new technologies but note the need to strike the right balance between tech and human intervention.

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Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds in the payer/employer space that were announced in May.

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As majorly disruptive cyberattacks continue to make headlines in the healthcare world, hospitals are prioritizing cybersecurity more than ever before. This piece explores reactions from five different health system executives about the recent attack on Ascension — as well as what they’re doing to prevent a similar fate at their own organization and how they want things to change going forward.

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Gameto’s $33 million Series B funding round was led by Two Sigma Ventures and RA Capital. The funding will help with the clinical development of its in vitro maturation product called Fertilo.

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Talkspace and Ovia Health by Labcorp introduced the Women’s Health Coalition for Digital Solutions. Other founding member companies of the coalition include Conceive, Evernow, FitOn, Nurx, Cove and Nutrium.

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In this month’s episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams explored some executive moves and layoffs that recently occurred in the healthcare world. She also interviewed Courtney Fortner, who stepped into the CEO role at population health company Navvis this month.

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Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions, retirements and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

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Plenful has completed a $17 million Series A funding round, bringing its total fundraising amount to date to more than $25 million. The startup offers a software platform that automates the manual and administrative tasks that burden pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

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Deb Muro, CIO of El Camino Health, explained some of the ways her health system is using technology to make nurses’ jobs easier — including software that flags patients who are at risk of adverse outcomes and a tool that helps frontline nurse managers better engage with their staff.

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The funding landscape for women’s health companies is getting better, partially due to more women getting promoted at VC firms and social media, execs said during a recent panel.

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Micky Tripathi, head of The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), thinks his office’s recent rule on AI transparency will spur greater adoption of AI tools in healthcare, as well as potentially drive higher quality AI-based products.

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Three tips to succeed in a highly regulated environment

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