Quality Care

Healthcare provider in scrubs sitting on a couch in a living room with two people
By  Jessica Hagen 09:33 am September 20, 2023
Inbound Health, a value-based care enablement platform for health systems and plans to provide at-home acute and post-acute care, announced the close of a $30 million Series B funding round led by HealthQuest Capital.  Existing investors McKesson Ventures and Flare Capital Partners participated in the round.  The Minnesota-based company will use the funds to expand into new markets and further...
Healthcare provider talking to a patient while showing them a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 09:07 am September 19, 2023
Employer-focused cancer startup AccessHope announced it is adding Johns Hopkins Medicine's Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Care Center to its network of National Cancer Institute-designated organizational partners.  AccessHope connects employers offering self-funded health plans and employees' treating physicians with cancer-focused expertise from NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers...
Person being rolled into an imaging machine with red lasers scanning their head
By  Jessica Hagen 01:08 pm September 15, 2023
GE HealthCare announced a strategic partnership with Mayo Clinic dubbed the Strategic Collaboration for Innovation in Medical Imaging and Theranostics, through which the pair will collaborate on research and product development focusing on precision care, AI and theranostics. Technology developers, clinicians, scientists and other providers from both companies will work together to advance...
Food and Drug Administration Building
By  Jessica Hagen 11:18 am September 15, 2023
On Thursday, the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health released updated final guidance for its Breakthrough Devices Program, aimed at verifying medical devices on the market are safe and effective, and improve healthcare inequities.  The final guidance defines the FDA's interpretation of "more effective" as encompassing all the information about the device, including the risks and...
Person sitting in a chair while holding a phone and a cane and wearing headphones
By  Jessica Hagen 11:02 am September 14, 2023
Best Buy Health announced it is expanding its partnership with Pennsylvania-based healthcare system Geisinger to improve chronic disease management at home by combining their expertise.  In 2021, Geisinger launched ConnectedCare365, its chronic care management platform, and enrolled patients in remote patient monitoring programs. Patients received devices such as blood pressure cuffs and glucose...
Apple Watch Series 9
By  Jessica Hagen 04:44 pm September 12, 2023
At a virtual event today, Apple unveiled the newest iteration of its wearable, the Apple Watch Series 9, which will allow users to access and log their healthcare data and control the Watch using their index finger and thumb via blood flow sensors.   With new features, users can access their health data through Siri health queries, including asking Siri how much they slept the previous night or...
Three healthcare providers sitting together looking at a tablet together
By  Jessica Hagen 02:14 pm September 12, 2023
Walgreens announced it is partnering with Pearl Health, which offers a technology platform for primary care practices in value-based care arrangements, to expand value-based care options in collaboration with primary care providers.  Pearl Health offers a technology platform for primary care providers participating in Medicare's ACO REACH model. The platform includes data visualizations and...
Dr. Dale Okorodudu
By  Jessica Hagen 12:34 pm September 8, 2023
A diverse workforce is vital to ensuring patient populations in all communities receive an optimal and effective healthcare experience, but much still needs to be done to ensure proper racial representation in the care setting.  Dr. Dale Okorodudu, author of the book Diverse Medicine: Building a Stronger and Healthier Nation, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Dallas VA Medical Center,...
A doctor in a phone call consultation with a patient
By  Adam Ang 03:41 am September 8, 2023
Lissun scores $1.3 million seed funding Lissun, a mental health platform from India, has collected $1.3 million in seed funding from a round led by Inflection Point Ventures and Rainmatter Capital.  The startup aims to tackle the stigma around mental health by offering consumer-facing solutions through healthcare institutions in a B2H2C model. According to a press statement, Lissun plans to use...
Four people standing in front of a window with two people shaking hands while the two others stand and watch
By  Jessica Hagen 02:33 pm September 7, 2023
Taiwanese medical AI startup AESOP Technology announced it is collaborating with conversational and generative AI platform SOAP Health to create a new platform dubbed Precision Patient Profiles, which merges the two organizations' technologies to provide physicians with a more comprehensive view of patient information.  Precision Patient Profiles will combine AESOP's machine learning, AI-enabled...