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Papa Expands Care Navigation Platform After Limited Rollout

Papa's Social Care Navigation offering provides users with a team of social care navigators, including social workers, registered nurses, case managers and dieticians. This team can help with social issues the patient may be experiencing, including housing, paying for groceries and overdue health screenings. After only offering the program to a select group of health plan clients last year, Social Care Navigation is now available to all of Papa's payer customers.

By Marissa Plescia

Health Tech, Payers

Point32Health Taps Included Health for LGBTQ+ Care

Point32Health will now be able offer members access to LGBTQ+ Health, Included Health’s navigation and advocacy program for LGBTQ+ members. These members will have access to a care team led by LGBTQ+ care coordinators, who can help them find in-network, gender-affirming providers. They can also be connected to support groups and receive education on medical and legal issues.

By Marissa Plescia

Solving Healthcare’s Provider Data Problem Starts with Interoperability

Break down the silos. Take control of your provider data.

By ProviderTrust

Consumer / Employer, Health Tech

New Quantum Health Solution Aims To Provide Employers More Flexibility

The new solution is called Quantum Health Access, which offers healthcare benefits navigation, provider search, claims assistance, point solution referral and member engagement communications.

By Marissa Plescia

Health Tech, Patient Engagement, Physicians

Memora Health brings in $40M to grow its platform, expand partnerships

Transformation Capital led the funding round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Frist Cressey Ventures, Edward Elmhurst Health, AlleyCorp. The new financing enables Memora to meet commercial demand , drive new partnerships and further improve the care delivery experience, said CEO Manav Sevak.

By Michael Schroeder

Health Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer / Employer

Ada Health pulls in another $30M to expand in the U.S., internationally

Ada Health closed its Series B round after a $30 million extension round. International investors Farallon Capital, Red River West and Bertelsmann Investments provided the additional funds. This follows an initial Series B raise of $90 million last May, which was led by Bayer's investment arm.

By Michael Schroeder

News, Health Tech, Retail Health

Why Transcarent is sending self-insured companies to Walmart’s health services

Transcarent, which is works with companies to steer their employees toward higher-quality, lower-cost care, struck a partnership with Walmart. It will offer Walmart’s health services, including its prescription prices, to self-insured companies.

By Elise Reuter - Medcity News

The Human Algorithm: What AI Can’t Replace in Pharma Engagement

At a time when AI is reshaping pharma, Reverba Global CEO Cheryl Lubbert explained in an interview why empathy, context, and ethics still require a human touch.

By Stephanie Baum

Health Tech, Health Services, Employee Benefits

Accolade to acquire telehealth startup PlushCare for $450M

Care navigation company Accolade struck an agreement to buy telehealth startup PlushCare for $450 million. The goal is to support primary care physicians with information about a patient’s health and benefits, CEO Rajeev Singh said.

By Elise Reuter - Medcity News

Employee Benefits, Health Tech

In MedCity Pivot podcast, Glen Tullman says other care navigation firms aren’t really taking risks

Livongo's founder has created a new care navigation venture because he believes that both the experience that people undergo as they look for care and the level of risk that vendors are willing to take when they work with self-insured employers leave much to be desired.

By Arundhati Parmar

Health Tech, Startups

Livongo founder’s newest venture: a health navigation startup

Livongo Founder Glen Tullman is leading a new healthcare venture. Called Transcarent, the patient navigation platform strikes risk-sharing agreements with employers.

By Elise Reuter - Medcity News

Health Tech, Startups, Payers, Health Services

Care navigation company Accolade acquires provider data startup MD Insider

The acquisition enabled the development of Accolade Total Care, a product meant to ease the headache of finding a high-quality physician by making provider quality and cost measures available to both Accolade members and the company's care concierges.

By Kevin Truong

Payers, Startups, Health Tech, Health Services

Anthem partners with startup K Health on symptom checker and telehealth app

The co-branded application will open up access to K Health's AI-driven triage and symptom checker tool to Anthem's more than 40 million members.

By Kevin Truong

Health Services, Startups, Social Determinants

Grand Rounds and Uber Health collaborate to steer members to their appointments

Through the startup's collaboration with the rideshare service, Grand Rounds care coordinators are able to book an Uber to arrange transport for a member to meet their healthcare needs.

By Kevin Truong

Startups, Artificial Intelligence

What does 2019 have in store for healthcare innovation?

Healthcare investing reached record new highs in 2018, hitting more than $30 billion across all sectors, according to numbers from Pitchbook.

By Kevin Truong

Startups, Patient Engagement

Grand Rounds’ new CMO on making the jump to a fast-growing Silicon Valley startup

The appointment of Grand Rounds Chief Medical Officer Ami Parekh fits with the company's broadened mission and ambitions to become a health navigator for the employer market.

By Kevin Truong