patient engagement

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By  Mallory Hackett 02:10 pm July 13, 2021
Mytonomy, a video-based patient engagement company, closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Level Equity. Additional investors including Philips and Carilion Clinic also participated in the raise. WHAT THEY DO The company’s customer relationship management platform uses short-form video content and digital communications to engage with patients across the care continuum. The platform...
By  Dave Muoio 12:27 pm March 2, 2021
In December, Highmark Health announced a six-year collaboration with Google Cloud that the companies said would lay down the infrastructure of the integrated delivery network's data-driven Living Health Dynamic Platform. Today, the organizations unveiled plans to get Verily and its Onduo chronic care subsidiary in on the action as well. Through another six-year partnership, the partners will work...
By  Stuart Hanson 02:08 pm February 26, 2021
For decades, investors, startups and a broad host of established players have viewed healthcare as ripe for innovation. However, the industry has been challenged by the momentum of the status quo – the scale, complexity, volume and ingrained practices that all need to change to wring out some much-needed efficiency. As we were taught in physics class, the more momentum something has, the more...
By  Dave Muoio 01:32 pm January 28, 2021
This week Reuters reported that two more major digital health companies are discussing potential merger agreements with special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) that would lead to multibillion dollar valuations. The first, reported late Tuesday, is app-based patient-engagement and benefits-navigation platform Sharecare. Per Reuters' anonymous sources, the proposed deal would see Sharecare...
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By  Dave Muoio 03:33 pm December 2, 2020
Google Health has teamed up with the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to pilot an online tool that helps patients build a visit plan for their upcoming healthcare visit. The project was detailed in a Google blog post published yesterday, but subsequently removed by the tech company until it was republished this afternoon with no substantial changes. So far only available "to...