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Our CEO Jordan Taradash sat down with Impact Health Care Podcast host Lester J. Morales to discuss the transformative potential of our healthcare model that puts people before profit to improve care and significantly reduce costs. Here’s what they covered: ✔️The Power of Strong Patient-Provider Relationships ✔️Why The Time is Now to Challenge the Health Insurance Status Quo ✔️Why Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits are Key to Employee Satisfaction & Retention ✔️Real-Life Success Stories of New Care Models ✔️Why Community-based Health Centers Funded by Providers & Shared by Employers Hold the Key to Success For more about how PeopleOne Health is making a real difference in healthcare, one patient at a time, listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/3WNqgBR #HealthcareTransformation #InnovativeHealthcare #EmployeeSatisfaction #HealthcareBenefits

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✍ 🧠 Ian Chiang (Partner, Flare Capital Partners) and Alexa Morse (Flare Scholar, Class of 2022) teamed up to share their thoughts with Slice of Healthcare in a recent article, "The Next Phase Of Behavioral Health Evolution: Rise Of Behavioral Health-Focused Infrastructure-As-A-Service Innovators" It's no mystery the behavioral health space is rampant with unmet care needs across many underserved populations. Whether you know that from a first-hand experience as a patient finding it difficult to access care or by following the abundance of research & data that's been shared on the space, we have collectively seen the challenges this sector continues to face. Speaking of the data, let's look at a few stats pulled from the report: 1️⃣ Nearly 20% of US adults reported experiencing a mental illness in 2022, with over half of those adults not receiving treatment. Even among youth in the US, about 15% have reported at least one major depressive episode in the past year, with 60% not receiving any treatment. 2️⃣ According to HRSA, there are over 6,400 designated mental healthcare professional shortage areas across the United States, and nearly 8,000 mental health practitioners are needed to remove these designations. 3️⃣ Mental and behavioral health has ranked as the #1 clinical indication by venture funding between 2018 and Q1 – Q3 2023, according to Rock Health. In this article, Ian and Alexa unpack the landscape of emerging innovators tackling these issues across the Behavioral Health-Focused Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market — from provider staffing platforms to novel biomarkers & monitoring tools to patient engagement & outreach startups. Check out the full article below to read Ian and Alexa's thoughts on how they expect these categories to evolve in the future. Thank you, Slice of Healthcare, for the publication! P.S. A special shoutout to our Flare Capital colleagues, Ben Hall (SVP of Product & Technology, Author Health), Danish M. (Founding Partner, GreyMatter), Katherine Hobbs, MD MPH (CEO, Author Health), Nicoletta “Nicki” Tessler, Psy.D., M.B.A. (CEO & Co-Founder, BeMe Health) for their contributions to the article! 🌟 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gKtw_JcD

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Shifting the financial model alone is not sufficient for the transition - the care delivery, workforce, and many other pieces of the ecosystem with which PCPs interact also need to adjust accordingly. Funding to allow for the startup costs of transformation must be made available. A comprehensive analysis from The Commonwealth Fund: To encourage participation, practitioners say upfront payments, investment in the primary care workforce, and less emphasis on simplistic quality measures are needed, as well as more support for practices to provide accessible, comprehensive care. #primarycare #integratedcare #teambasedcare #healthcare #healthcareonlinkedin

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Cohere Health's Medical Director of Primary Care, Dr. Mary Krebs, wrote a recent piece for Healthcare Business Today on driving more equitable healthcare with AI-powered prior authorization. "Innovation and equity are now at the forefront of healthcare. By harnessing the power of SDOH data and building a system that incentivizes addressing social factors, we can move closer to a future where healthcare is equitable. Health plans can play a critical role in reaching this goal." 💡 Learn more from Dr. Krebs 👉 https://lnkd.in/efEryU7g

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I’m excited to share what we've been obsessing over for the last six months! Introducing Threshold Health, a unique patient engagement platform that puts healthcare operators in the driver's seat of modern care gap closure campaigns. Shockingly, only 1 in 20 US adults is up to date on their recommended preventive care, such as cancer screenings or blood pressure testing. This statistic is paradoxically low, especially given the increasingly direct financial incentives tied to increasing population-level care quality. When my longtime friend and now cofounder, Dr. Doug Murad, and I started exploring why patient engagement is so low, we quickly discovered a recurring pattern. Time and again, we heard from passionate operators across diverse healthcare organizations who struggled to mount effective patient engagement campaigns, often waiting until the last few months of the contract year to close important care gaps in their patient populations. In almost every case, these operators seemed to be building campaigns from scratch, deploying blunt tools like bulk SMS, physical gift cards, and manual call centers, and relying on lagging indicators of success. Unsurprisingly, these efforts were operationally expensive and often fell short of their targets. Dr. Doug and I aim to empower healthcare operators level up their patient engagement with campaigns that are cheaper, better, and faster than building something themselves. To do this, we’re building a self-serve platform that makes it easy for operators to rapidly launch and iterate on modern campaigns that integrate well with their existing care coordination workflows. If we’re successful in this first step, we will have a vehicle to deliver an increasingly sophisticated library of campaign templates and next-generation patient engagement technology. So far, we’ve developed a prototype that allows operators to go from zero integration to a modern deployed campaign in fewer than 10 clicks. We’re excited to run our first pilot in mid-July and continue developing the product with 2-3 launch partners through the rest of this year. There's a lot left to learn -- I plan to post regular updates and lessons here. Reaching this level of conviction took a lot of time—not just from me and Dr. Doug, but from numerous experts across various fields who have been extremely generous in sharing their expertise and feedback. I especially want to thank our network of advisors: Daniel Croymans, MD, MBA, Benjamin (Benny) Axt, Indira Gowda, Ivo Vlaev, Suruchi Kothari, MD, Melissa G., Christian Spier and many others; our investors Jane Wang and Saumitra Thakur at MedMountain Ventures; and our first full-time employee Joe Bonneau. Also, shout-out to Shirley Mao and rvnway for designing and building our new website: https://threshold.health With all that said, we’re open for business! Let’s chat :)

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#Transforming Healthcare Coordination: Watershed Health's Strategic Leap with $13.6M Funding Watershed Health's recent $13.6 million funding round, led by First Trust Capital Partners, marks a pivotal moment in healthcare technology. This investment underscores the critical need for real-time care coordination to address the $340 billion annual cost of uncoordinated care in the US. With plans to expand its platform and teams, Watershed Health is poised to revolutionize patient care and set new industry standards. Strategic Impact and Market Dynamics: 🩺 Addressing a Critical Need: Watershed Health's SaaS platform directly tackles the pervasive issue of fragmented care, which costs the US healthcare system approximately $340 billion annually. By facilitating seamless communication among healthcare providers, the platform aims to significantly reduce these costs while enhancing the quality of care and patient outcomes. 🩺 Market Expansion: The infusion of $13.6 million will enable Watershed Health to scale its operations across the United States. 🩺 Competitive Landscape: As Watershed Health strengthens its market position, competitors will likely respond by enhancing their own care coordination technologies. Innovation and Technological Advances: 🩹 Real-Time Care Coordination: Watershed Health's platform stands out for its real-time capabilities, allowing healthcare providers to access and share patient information instantaneously. 🩹 Comprehensive Connectivity: The platform offers a holistic view of a patient's health by connecting clinical and non-clinical providers. 🩹 Scalability and Integration: With the new funding, Watershed Health plans to enhance its platform's scalability and integration capabilities. This will allow for smoother adoption by various healthcare systems and providers, further solidifying its position as a leader in care coordination technology. Investor Insights and Recommendations: 💉 High Growth Potential: Investors should recognize the significant growth potential in Watershed Health's market. The company's focus on solving a costly and widespread problem positions it for substantial market penetration and revenue growth. 💉 Strategic Partnerships: The involvement of prominent investors such as First Trust Capital Partners, FCA Venture Partners, and others highlights the strategic importance of Watershed Health's mission. As Watershed Health embarks on this transformative journey, it exemplifies how innovative technology can address some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare. Read More: https://lnkd.in/gZTVzneF #WatershedHealth #HealthcareInnovation #CareCoordination #SaaS #InvestmentTrends #MarketUnwinded #PatientOutcomes #HealthcareTechnology

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Healthcare in the U.S. is in crisis but value-based care estimated to add $1 Trillion in value. You nailed it. Irem Rami, Sam Lesser, Suraj Shah, Unmesh Srivastava #healthcare #medicare #healthequity

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Here’s your recap of last week’s health IT news 🗞️ Notable partnerships 🤝 • Kaiser Permanente is partnering with Innovaccer to incorporate their population health and AI platform        • MUSC Health adopted Andor Health’s ThinkAndor in its ED to reduce wait times and “leaving without being seen” rates.      • Upperline Health is partnering with Navina to improve clinical workflows and improve the accuracy of patient histories.      • Intermountain Health deployed Nuance Communications DAX Copilot, an AI ambient scribe solution.      • PA Clinical Network is partnering with Guidehealth  to improve outcomes and care quality while improving physician efficiency. Product updates 👩🏼‍💻 • Klara released a new patient intake product for athenahealth users.    • Baton Health released Universal Primary Source, giving users access to hundreds of primary source databases for credentialing.    • InsightRX released InsightRX Apollo, an analytics platform that provides insights on clinical performance.    • Trovo Health launched with a $15 million seed round, offering specialty-specific AI combined with clinical experts to help practices add to their capabilities.    • Quest Diagnostics acquired PathAI’s diagnostic laboratory business (PathAI Diagnostics) to improve Quest’s oncology services.    • GenHealth.ai launched its Automated Prior Authorization platform.    • Veradigm® is partnering with MedEvolve, Inc. to make its suite of products available to Veradigm users.    • CLEW announced availability of a newly FDA-approved patient surveillance platform. Posts we enjoyed 👏 • Eric Topol, MD shared a compelling piece reviewing the state of research on AI in medicine. In short, we’re seeing our first early evidence that AI can reduce mortality as a research endpoint, but large language models are not yet the panacea we’ve been promised. (https://lnkd.in/e6hK-4mr)    • Nikhil Krishnan of Out-Of-Pocket shared a deep dive on Stedi, which converts X12 EDI into JSON-based APIs for healthcare tech developers. (https://lnkd.in/eqS9V5zW) --- Want to stay in the loop? Sign up for the Elion Briefing to get all of the latest healthcare tech news delivered to your inbox 📬 👉 https://bit.ly/49z6AUW

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Monique Shaw, PhD, MPH, CHES from RWJF wants to reimagine the healthcare system so we listen to patients and their needs. "We do need to restructure the care model. We need to reimagine the entire system. What we don't often do is understand and take a really deep look at systems that are created outside of the current system in response to the current system not meeting people's needs.” Read the whole interview at Acumen America. https://lnkd.in/eRhDNt5a

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Discover key takeaways from our 2024 ambulatory surgery center (ASC) Insights Study on market diversity, growth projections and strategic priorities for health systems. Gain valuable insights for navigating the evolving ASC landscape. https://bit.ly/3yIejmI #medtech #medicaldevices #medicaldevice #hospitals

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Private-Equity in Healthcare As reported by the Wall Street Journal, many state legislatures across the country are enacting laws to limit healthcare acquisitions by PE firms. On the surface this sounds like a much-needed step to slow consolidation and the price gouging that usually follows. What’s the problem? First, these laws are directed almost exclusively at PE firms. There is little attention being paid to the significant healthcare acquisitions of large health insurance carriers. If I was a cynical person, I’d bet that the health insurance lobby was behind the push for more restrictive acquisition rules for PE firms.  Once PE firms are banned from acquisitions in a state, healthcare entities will be less expensive for insurance carriers to buy. A big win for insurance. The second problem with prohibitions on PE acquisitions is that it’s an attempt at solving a problem without addressing the root cause. This is typical with government solutions. Most elected officials are well intentioned, but they frequently address the symptoms without considering the underlying causes. What’s the core problem? Our healthcare system is antagonistic to independent doctors. Need examples: ·      Prohibition on physician owned hospitals ·      Certificate of Need laws across many states ·      Absence of site-neutral reimbursements ·      HSA rules that prohibit direct subscription payments to DPC/DSCs ·      Unchecked consolidation of health insurance carriers, many becoming competitors to independent doctors To be clear, I believe PE acquisitions of healthcare providers deserves more scrutiny. But let’s not give a free pass to large health insurance carriers. Their continued acquisitions of healthcare providers is a significant threat to our healthcare system as well. And if we really want to address the underlying problem of consolidation in healthcare, let’s establish policies that make it easier for independent doctors to remain independent and to thrive. If we don't fix the underlying issues, these well-intended state laws directed only at PE acquisitions are likely to leave us even worse off than before.

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At Medium, public health isn’t just another vertical. It is something all of us are really passionate about. And we think of an engagement in public health as an opportunity to address some of the extremely difficult, but crucial, challenges in healthcare across the world. We are driven by a deep desire to make an impact at scale to help create healthier families, more efficient healthcare eco-systems, and communities empowered to manage their own health. That’s the future we strive to build with our clients: be it foundations, donor agencies, impact funds, governments or CSR initiatives of large business houses. We have proven capabilities in Identification of Impact Opportunities, Public Health Data & Analytics, Research & Insights, Programme Design, Impact Assessment, Strategic Planning, Health Communication, Digital Health Innovation and Emerging Technologies. Here is a glimpse of some of our most exciting work in public health: >>  Helped a global not-for-profit organization focusing on innovation in diagnostics with insights to develop diagnostic solutions aimed at febrile illness. We conducted in-depth interviews with a diverse range of stakeholders across the country to arrive at some rare and high-impact insights >>  Conducted a comprehensive assessment of digital initiatives addressing maternal malnutrition aimed at lower-income households and applied strategic framework to help our clients identify the ones with high scaling potential >>  Helped develop public health information strategy for a group of countries by leveraging international benchmarks for disease surveillance and data management and conducting comprehensive assessment of current policies and capabilities. >>  Based on available data and insights from on-ground research, we conceptualised a service delivery model to improve healthcare outcome at community level in two specific regions in Eastern and North India for the CSR initiative for a large corporate house >>  Backed with insights and our core expertise in healthcare delivery, we conceptualized a chain of primary care clinics specifically focused on the urban poor as a hybrid model leveraging brick-and-mortar physical outlets and AI-backed technology. Interested in learning more about how we can support your public health initiatives? Contact us today! Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation PATH FIND World Health Organization UNICEF IFC - International Finance Corporation Clinton Foundation USAID Jhpiego Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) NITI Aayog Official Sight and Life AVPN India Health Action Trust AVPN Tata Trusts Piramal Swasthya Cipla Foundation Acumen Omidyar Network Villgro Aavishkaar Capital #PublicHealth #HealthcareConsulting #PopulationHealth #SocialImpact

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Value-Based Care is better care, period! I have never been more optimistic about the prospects of #ValueBasedCare than I am today. Rick Goddard (Lumeris ) and I recently sat down to share our thoughts in this HLTH article on how #healthcare's adoption of value-based thinking is being greatly accelerated by #AI and #GenAI. The full article is here: https://lnkd.in/eEx-8gqS

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Here are 5️⃣ critical evaluation points to include in your next Maternal Health Equity solution RFP to ensure you select the right partner for your organization: 1. Integrates seamlessly with existing systems, EHRs, and workflows 🔄 2. Captures actionable Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) information 📊 3. Augments staff through patient navigation support to Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to support food insecurity, transportation needs, and more 🤝 4. Addresses “whole person” health needs 🌟 5. Promotes high patient or member engagement rates with relevant education to empower their health 💪 Download our full Maternal Health Equity RFP template and let's improve maternal health outcomes, reduce complications, and build a healthier community together! 💜 Download now: https://lnkd.in/eUx5_38G #MaternalHealthEquity #HealthcareInnovation #RFPTemplate

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The Marketplace Affordability Project Report (MAP-Report) is out! CHLPI Director of Health Care Access Elizabeth Kaplan participated in the Working Group that helped create the report! Here are some key findings: 1. #ACA reforms expanded coverage, especially for marginalized communities. Now we can build on that success by making sure enrollees can afford premiums and needed care. 2. Expensive cost-sharing can make it hard to afford services that prevent and manage chronic conditions. This disproportionately impacts marginalized communities and should be a priority for policymakers looking to build on the success of the ACA. 3. High deductibles can cause financial burdens for marketplace enrollees without large emergency savings, meaning that unanticipated medical expenses limit wealth building in marginalized communities. 4. Enhanced #PremiumTaxCredits have made more generous plans accessible to low-income enrollees, addressing barriers to care. Policymakers should make them permanent. Policymakers can build on the success of the ACA by supporting consumer assistance programs. Doing so is crucial for improving healthcare access and empowering individuals to make informed and cost-effective decisions. Thank you to everyone who worked to get this report out! Check out the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities blog on the report here: https://lnkd.in/eADkvzze #MAPReport Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/e-pgAzmd

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