ORLANDO – With a predicted shortage of nine million nurses worldwide by 2030, healthcare providers are looking to pivot to virtual care and virtual nurses to address staffing shortages and improve patient care, said experts at HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum on Monday.
Dr. Murielle Beene, senior vice president and chief health informatics officer at Trinity Health, and Dr. Gay Landstrom...
Magentus taps Google Cloud for genAI
Magentus has engaged Google Cloud to help it build a "centralised and secure" foundation for customer data in the cloud, leveraging generative AI solutions and large language models.
The health IT provider intends to assist clinicians in easily accessing information and simplifying the way they extract insights from complex, unstructured medical data, which...
Last week, Walgreens announced its tech-enabled value-based care provider VillageMD would close clinics in Florida in a bid to increase profitability, and earlier this week confirmed to Becker's it would close all its Illinois clinics in April.
Chief medical officer at Walgreens, Dr. Sashi Moodley, sat down with MobiHealthNews at ViVE24 to discuss the current state of Walgreens work in...
Digital gastrointestinal care startup Salvo Health announced it has closed a $5 million Seed Prime round led by City Light Capital and Human Ventures.
The company's existing investors also participated in the round, including Torch Capital, Threshold Ventures and Felicis Ventures. Angel investors Anmol Madan, founder of Ginger Health and Teladoc's former chief data scientist also contributed. ...
Direct primary care provider Everside Health and employer health provider Marathon Health are merging to offer primary care with offerings for patients, employees and union-sponsored clients utilizing a value-based care model.
Everside works with employers and unions to offer healthcare directly to their workers without an insurer middleman. It includes health centers and virtual care, and...
Valendo Health, a diabetes-focused, value-based endocrinology company, announced its launch with $4 million in seed funding and two providers.
The company, built out of Redesign Health, aims to increase revenue for endocrinologists while assisting with the transition to a value-based care model.
It offers telehealth and remote patient monitoring services with diabetes care clinicians, an...
Accompany Health, a hybrid care provider for low-income patients with complex needs, announced its launch with $56 million in Series A funding from Venrock, ARCH Venture Partners, IVP, Evidenced and Granite Capital Management.
WHAT IT DOES
The Bethesda-based company offers low-income patients 24/7 in-home and virtual care services, including primary care and urgent care, mental health services,...
Amazon Pharmacy and hybrid primary care provider One Medical have launched a pilot program to expand Amazon's hybrid primary care offerings by giving One Medical providers the ability to request medication consultations for patients with complex medication regimens.
The focus of the pilot, which launched in the fourth quarter of 2023, has been on elderly patients who are managing multiple chronic...
Rural-focused e-clinics chain CureBay scored another Rs 620 million ($7.5 million) in funding as part of a Series A round led by Elevar Equity. This comes on top of the first $6 million it raised in 2022.
According to their press release, the additional funds will be used to invest in their membership programme by hiring over 200 data scientists and experts in pharmacy and diagnostics. It will...
