AiCare Reports Encouraging Clinical Trial Results
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AiCare recently shared on LinkedIn that the "result from our discharged patient clinical trial is very encouraging with a specificity of 82%+ in predicting a patient's deteriorating condition after the discharge. With further fine-tuning to our AI/ML engine and algorithm, we're targeting to improve the accuracy of our early prediction warning with the next set of patients." AiCare provides intelligent home care to monitor the physical activities of the patients who are discharged from hospitals, suffer from chronic disease, or those who need special care. (Sean Tan, SV)
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Alegre Home Care Provides Community-Specific Information
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In Why We're Your Neighborhood Home Care Agency, Alegre Home Care shares that it has recently created landing pages for each of the eight Northern California communities it serves (Oakland, San Francisco, San Rafael, Santa Rosa, San Jose, San Mateo, Stockton, and Modesto), which provide information specific to each area along with services Alegre offers. (Charles Symes, OAK)
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Alinea Medical Imaging CEO Discusses Practice-Changing Software
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Monish Laxpati, MD, of Alinea Medical Imaging, a Rezolut partner, is featured in this short video where he talks about how implementing Ikonopedia software has made a difference for him, his mobile and in-office mammography and ultrasound practice, and patients. (Monish Laxpati, MD, OC)
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Alvaka Networks' Recent Marketing Event & Cybersecurity Podcast Available On-Demand
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Anthem Blue Cross Welcomes Providence SoCal & Supports LAUSD's Food-Relief Efforts
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Anthem Blue Cross announced Providence Southern California agreed to join Anthem's Vivity Health Plan as a joint-venture partner. The addition of Providence marks Vivity's first expansion since it launched in 2015, bolstering the plan's provider network offerings and collaboration in Orange and Los Angeles counties. Meanwhile, Anthem Blue Cross Foundation recently donated $100,000 to LA Students Most In Need, to support LAUSD's food-relief efforts, which provides 73+ million meals to students and families. (David Pryor, MD, LA)
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Axene Health Partners Shares ACA Consumer Value State Rankings
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In 2nd Annual ACA Consumer Value State Rankings, an Axene Health Partners actuary has developed a ranking system for analyzing consumer value in ACA markets across all 50 states in order to discover meaningful differences that would highlight success stories that could be emulated. And, in An Actuary's Role in Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Axene explains that an active M&A environment could lead to unidentified risks or opportunities if due diligence is limited to a traditional approach and ignores the complications associated with risk-bearing entities. Actuarial involvement is an effective way to optimize the value of a transaction and effectively mitigate liabilities post-close. (John Price, SF)
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Bayer Deepens Commitments to Self-Care & Digital Health
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Bayer has completed its investment in Care/of, giving it a majority ownership in the privately owned, personalized direct-to-consumer nutrition company, bolstering Bayer's digital capabilities in the key market of personalized supplements. And, Bayer recently launched its first Global Creative Council, bringing together senior leaders from a variety of companies, collaborating on Bayer's goal of making self-care available and accessible to billions of people globally. Meanwhile, Bayer announced it will support five new startup companies as part of its G4A Digital Health Partnerships Program, focused on integrated healthcare solutions in the fields of cardiometabolic and renal diseases, oncology, and women's health. (Rama Penta, SV)
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Behavioral Solutions Spotlighted on Nelson Hardiman's Podcast + NH Among Best Law Firms in America
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Listen to a recent episode of the Nelson Hardiman (NH) podcast - A View from Legal Street, Help Us Help You Get Paid, Episode 8: Documentation & Medical Necessity - featuring Christina Khouie, Founder of Behavioral Solutions, LLC, discussing what is medical necessity and the importance of documenting it. Meanwhile, NH's Harry Nelson was interviewed on Spectrum News 1 about the Supreme Court hearing on the California v. Texas ACA case. And, NH was awarded a Tier 1 ranking in Health Care Law and Administrative/Regulatory Law by the U.S. News & World Report "2021 Best Law Firms in America." (Christina Khouie, LA, & Harry Nelson, JD, LA)
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Biospectal's Breakthrough Blood Pressure Reader Featured in Forbes
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The recent Forbes article - This Startup Wants You to Change How You Measure Blood Pressure - spotlights Biospectal's introduction of its non-invasive cuffless blood pressure solution, Biospectal OptiBP. CEO Eliott Jones says their optical software utilizes the smartphone camera to "see" through the fingertip placed on the lens by optically recording the blood flowing through vessels beneath the skin. Biospectal uses rapid image sequences captured by the camera on the smartphone with their algorithm that generates the patient's "pulse wave" and analyzes this wave's shape to generate systolic and diastolic blood pressure values. (Eliott Jones, SV)
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ChromoLogic & Covisus Earn Industry Honors
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ChromoLogic recently got its groundbreaking research in rapid malaria screening, which is funded by the NIH, accepted as a late-breaking poster at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual conference. And, Covisus has been named a Finalist in the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences 2020 Maintenance Innovation Challenge, for its vTag - Tagless Item Level Traceability. A winner will be chosen on December 7. (Naresh Menon, LA)
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Cigna Tops Rankings for Corporate Sustainability Leadership & Citizenship
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The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices has ranked Cigna first in the Healthcare Providers and Services Industry for the second consecutive year. This also marks the fourth straight year that Cigna has been named to the indices, which includes the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index. And, Cigna is second among healthcare companies in the latest Forbes Just 100, published annually by Forbes and JUST Capital, reflecting the performance of America's largest publicly traded companies on the issues that matter most in defining just business behavior today. (Chris De Rosa, OC)
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El Camino First in State to be Recognized for Excellence with Transcatheter Valve Certification
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El Camino Health has been recognized with the Transcatheter Valve Certification from the American College of Cardiology, acknowledging its exceptional program, physician leadership, quality patient outcomes, and team-based care. El Camino is the first healthcare organization in California to receive this certification, which is an external review that identifies hospitals that are currently implementing best practices and clinical excellence in transcatheter valve procedures. (Cecile Currier, SV)
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Elemeno Health Partners with Alameda County Care Connect to Help Homeless
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Elemeno Health has partnered with Alameda County Care Connect's Whole Person Care program to help community health workers assess the health and housing needs of their homeless clients and help connect those clients with area organizations that provide help. With Elemeno's cloud-based platform (available via mobile and desktop), community workers can instantly deliver information about housing, social, behavioral, and substance abuse services. Information is updated regularly and is accessible to all frontline team members. (Arup Roy-Burman, MD, OAK)
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Kaiser Permanente Develops Tools to Successfully Identify At-Risk Patients
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A sophisticated system that analyzes electronic data about hospital patients, identifies those at risk of deteriorating, and issues an alert to a centralized team of specially trained nurses, resulted in a lower mortality rate, Kaiser Permanente (KP) researchers found. The evaluation of the Advance Alert Monitor, used in 21 KP Northern California hospitals, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. And, another assessment tool developed by KP helps ensure COVID-19 patients get the right care, when they need it, by accurately predicting the probability that these patients will experience severe disease or even death, according to a study published in the November American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The tool, called the COVAS score because it looks at comorbidities, obesity, vital signs, age, and sex, has already been incorporated into the EHR system throughout KP in Southern California. (Marcos Vasconcelos, OAK)
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King & Spalding Earns Top Rankings in U.S. News "Best Law Firms" Guide
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Mazzetti's Walt Vernon Co-Authors "2030: Next Steps to Healthcare Climate Leadership"
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Mazzetti CEO Walt Vernon; Institute for Healthcare Improvement Senior Fellow Don Berwick; and Kaiser Permanente VP, Assistant Treasurer Eric Berzon recently co-authored a paper - 2030: Next Steps to Healthcare Climate Leadership - the result of a grant from the National Academy of Medicine and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. NAM and Burroughs have partnered to provide opportunity grants to interdisciplinary teams across the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to explore promising ideas at the intersection of climate change and human health - recognizing that "climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century." (Walt Vernon, JD, SF)
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OneLegacy & Donate Life Announce Participation in 2021 Tournament of Roses TV Special
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The Donate Life community will participate in the Tournament of Roses 2021 TV special, "The Rose Parade's New Year Celebration," with a floral sculpture that honors donors and donation healthcare professionals. It will also be available to view at the Tournament House in Pasadena on New Year's Day. Tom Mone, CEO of OneLegacy, is chairman of the Donate Life Rose Parade float committee. Meanwhile, the OneLegacy Foundation has joined Ava's Heart in supporting "It's Just ONE" campaign, which is asking people to donate $1 per month to help provide housing, transportation, and other services that are required of patients both pre- and post-transplant. (Tom Mone, LA)
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PreludeDx Partners with America's Choice Provider Network
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Prelude Corporation (PreludeDx) has signed an agreement to become a provider in the America's Choice Provider Network (ACPN), whereby 30+ million ACPN members from across the U.S. will have access and coverage for PreludeDx's DCISionRT, the only DCIS Radio-Genomic test that offers personalized recurrence risk and radiation therapy treatment benefit for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ. PreludeDx CEO Dan Forche said: "DCISionRT combines the latest innovations in molecular biology with artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver the most advanced DCIS test available. For the first time, ACPN patients and their physicians will have personalized information to guide decisions about whether surgery alone or surgery with radiation therapy is appropriate." (Dan Forche, OC)
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Satellite Healthcare Debuts Fun, Inspiring Videos on Mask-Wearing & Dialysis
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Servicon Details How Engaged EVS Can Raise Hospital Throughput
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In How Engaged EVS Can Raise Hospital Throughput, Servicon's Stacey Wong, who recently earned Registered Environmental Services Executive Certification, shares that HCAHPS scores account for 25% of a hospital's total performance score, while hospital revenues rely on discharging patients as soon as health allows. Balancing these drivers requires efficient throughput; however, while it seems scrutiny is given to expediting processes such as admissions, discharges, and even outpatient vs. inpatient surgeries, too often the role of an engaged EVS team is overlooked. Yet, EVS is the first line of defense against healthcare acquired infections, which, studies show, can extend a patient's stay from 15.7 to 23+ days. (Stacey Wong, LA)
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SimpleTherapy Included in Vitality Gateway Flex
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Vitality Group, a global health and wellness company, has unveiled Vitality Gateway Flex, which offers relevant choices to meet specific needs. Vitality Gateway Flex integrates strategic partners - including SimpleTherapy, which offers head-to-toe exercise therapy programs - across the broader health environment to connect employees to the right resources at the right time to improve their health. Employers select a list of partners from a carefully vetted range of industry-leading providers, that will be most impactful in meeting their employees' diverse health needs. Employees then select the services they need based on personalized recommendations and can use employer-allocated and/or opt to pay using their own funds at a preferred rate. (Arpit Khemka, SV)
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VivaLNK Launches Turnkey Service to Capture Ambulatory Continuous Vital Signs for RPM
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VivaLNK has unveiled the newest addition to its medical wearable platform, the Vitals Data Service, designed for clinical trials and healthcare applications in remote or clinical settings. It includes VivaLNK's line of FDA-cleared ambulatory medical wearable sensors, a customizable remote patient monitoring app, and cloud and data concierge services for consolidated data access in customizable data formats. It's designed for continuous data capture in remote locations even in the event of intermittent network disconnections common in ambulatory situations. And, VivaLNK has extended its Ambulatory Medical Wearable Data Platform to include an ambulatory SpO2 oxygen saturation sensor, able to perform continuous data capture even during sleep. Meanwhile, VivaLNK and AMPs, a leader in the production of software tools for electrocardiogram, have partnered to advance remote patient monitoring for clinical trials. They most recently partnered for a 10-year, 3,000-subject UCSF clinical trial aiming to detect biomarkers of early atrial transformation on atrial fibrillation. (Jiang Li, Ph.D., SV)
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Wipfli Webinar to Address Attributes that Help Healthcare Leaders Succeed
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