What You Should Know: - Highmark Health announced a collaboration with Epic and Google Cloud to revolutionize payer-provider collaboration and personalize the patient experience. - The strategic integration leverages Epic's Payer Platform and Google Cloud's data analytics capabilities to empower both health insurers and healthcare providers. Breaking Down Communication Barriers Highmark Health leverages Epic's Payer Platform, which fosters collaboration between payers and
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HLTH22 Day 1 News Summary: Google, Maven, Highmark, LG, Others
Venture Capital, Private Equity Funding Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women’s and family health raises $90 million Series E funding bringing its total funding to $300M. Maven plans to use the latest round of funding to advance its end-to-end family care platform to enable deeper personalization to meet the diverse needs of women and families everywhere. Curavit Raises $5M for Digital Therapeutics
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HLTH22: Highmark Health, Google Cloud, League Launches Digital Health Platform
What You Should Know: At HLTH, Highmark Health, Google Cloud, and League today unveiled their collaboration on an interoperable, digital health platform that makes it simple for individuals to navigate healthcare and connect to the right tools and resources when and where they need them. - The navigation technology can be envisioned as a "digital front door" to a holistic customer experience and will initially be integrated into a new My Highmark health insurance member portal and
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Cedar Launches Payer Intelligence Layer to Integrate Payer-Provider Data
What You Should Know: - To address the systemic challenges consumers face when paying for healthcare, Cedar, an enterprise healthcare engagement platform that improves the end-to-end consumer financial journey, has developed the Payer Intelligence Layer. - With the Payer Intelligence Layer, Cedar can now integrate data from health insurers and healthcare providers to help create a single source of information for consumers managing medical bills. A game-changer for the healthcare industry,
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Free Market Health Secures $13.5M for Advance Specialty Pharmacy Ecosystem
What You Should Know: Free Market Health, a Pittsburgh-based healthcare technology company transforming the specialty pharmacy ecosystem with a care-driven marketplace platform, today announced its $13.5M in Series A financing led by Alta Partners and with participation from existing investors Highmark Ventures and 653 Investment Partners. - The capital will enable the company’s team of specialty pharmacy industry experts to scale beyond the hundreds of millions of dollars in specialty
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Highmark Health Taps Verily to Build Digital Health Tools for Living Health Model
What You Should Know: - Highmark Health has engaged Verily to build out digital health tools for patients and analytics solutions for Highmark’s clinicians as part of its Living Health model. This marks the first collaboration of its kind for Verily, Google Cloud and a partner. - Highmark Health is a Blue Cross Blue Shield health plan based in Western PA with 4.5 million members and an integrated delivery system (Allegheny) with 9
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Highmark BCBS Expands Access to Freespira’s Digital Therapeutic to Help Treat PTSD, Panic Attacks
What You Should Know: - Health insurer Highmark expands access to FDA-cleared digital therapeutic Freespira proven to reduce the symptoms of panic disorder and PTSD for members in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia. - The announcement follows a pilot study finding that nearly 9 out of 10 patients using the solution were symptom-free after treatment. Highmark Inc., the fourth-largest Blue Cross Blue Shield-affiliated organization announced it is expanding access to Freespira’s
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Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model
What You Should Know: - Highmark Health signs six-year strategic partnership agreement with Google Cloud to transform the health experience for patients and caregivers through the development of Highmark Health's new Living Health Model - The Living Health model is designed to eliminate the fragmentation in health care by re-engineering the healthcare delivery model with a more coordinated, personalized, technology-enabled experience. Highmark Health and Google Cloud today announced
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Freespira Secures $10M for FDA-Cleared Digital Therapeutic to Eliminate Panic Attacks, PTSD Symptoms
What You Should Know: - Lightspeed Venture Partners, the VC behind Nest and GrubHub, is leading a $10 million round for Freespira, an FDA-cleared digital therapeutic proven to significantly reduce or eliminate panic attacks and PTSD symptoms by training users to normalize respiratory irregularities. - In 28 days, Freespira can reduce or eliminate panic attacks and PTSD symptoms from home with just a tablet, sensor, and custom app. There’s no medicine with possible side effects and no need
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Highmark Taps Lark Health for AI-Driven Chronic Disease Management/Prevention
What You Should Know: - Highmark, one of the largest Blues plans, has chosen Lark Health for its chronic disease prevention and management platform. - Members will have access to Lark’s 24/7 AI-based coaching and programs to manage diabetes, hypertension, and prevent chronic conditions. Highmark Inc., America's fourth-largest overall Blue Cross Blue Shield-affiliated organization, announced a growing collaboration with Lark Health, virtual chronic disease prevention and management
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