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Healthcare provider speaking to a patient while smiling
By  Jessica Hagen 01:26 pm October 3, 2023
Healthcare data analytics company Komodo Health announced new hires just one week after launching a new tool dubbed MapLab, an AI-enabled offering providing information on treatment pathways, disease trends and patient populations for life sciences and healthcare companies. Julia Goebel will join the company as its new senior vice president of marketing and Brad Kelley as general manager of...
Healthcare provider wearing green scrubs and a stethoscope looking at a tablet in front of an emergency room sign
By  Jessica Hagen 12:40 pm October 2, 2023
Tech giant Microsoft announced a long-term partnership with multistate healthcare system Mercy, which will utilize its Azure OpenAI Service to provide generative AI-assisted communication resources to patients and Mercy employees.  Microsoft's generative AI will be used to help patients understand lab results, schedule appointments and get answers to healthcare-related questions.  Mercy's...
A person standing up, holding paperwork watching something while two other people are sitting and one other person has their back turned
By  Jessica Hagen 01:40 pm September 27, 2023
Virgin Pulse, a mobile-first employee wellness and engagement company, announced its intent to merge with HealthComp, a benefits and analytics platform, to create a technology and data-enabled healthcare service for employers.  The reported $3 billion deal, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, will form a combined entity that utilizes technology and an AI-enabled data platform to deliver...
Pregnant person sitting at a desk talking on the phone while looking at a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 01:43 pm September 26, 2023
Healthcare navigation and pharmacy benefits platform Rightway and hybrid fertility and reproductive care company Kindbody are partnering to offer employers family-building and reproductive healthcare benefits.  New York-based Kindbody offers virtual and in-person services, including contraception care, fertility testing, gynecological care, egg freezing, and virtual wellness and coaching services...
Jennifer Mathieu, senior vice president of professional and government affairs at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
By  Jessica Hagen 12:37 pm September 22, 2023
The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act, initially introduced in the U.S. Senate in 2022 and reintroduced in March of this year, aims to amend the Social Security Act to provide Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for prescription digital therapeutics.  Jennifer Mathieu, senior vice president of professional and government affairs at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (...
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...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:38 pm September 5, 2023
London-based multinational digital health firm Babylon has sold almost all of its U.K. assets to digital health company eMed Healthcare U.K., a subsidiary of U,S, company eMed, after announcing in early August that its deal to merge with Swiss tech firm MindMaze was canceled. Babylon Healthcare Services Limited, the piece of Babylon purchased by eMed and the bulk of what remained of Babylon...
Former U.S. Representative Patrick J. Kennedy and Nawal Roy
By  Jessica Hagen 12:24 pm August 25, 2023
Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of the Kennedy Forum, is a leading voice on mental health and addiction. During his 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving Rhode Island's First Congressional District he coauthored and sponsored the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which requires insurers to cover mental health and substance use disorders the...
Healthcare provider standing in a hospital room wearing a pink stethoscope while holding a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 12:42 pm August 24, 2023
Real-world data platform Atropos Health announced it appointed a life science advisory board and moved into the life sciences sector, offering AI innovations, data evaluation, evidence generation and analytics augmentation.  Atropos' app helps physicians access real-world evidence to guide clinical decisions and research.  The California-based company also offers its Green Button for clinical...