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REPAY, Credit Management Company Team On Healthcare AR Management
July 08, 2021

REPAY will be working alongside Credit Management Company in order to offer frictionless healthcare payments, a press release says. The partnership will be happening in connection with REPAY company BillingTree, which works with omnichannel and integrated payments for the healthcare, credit union, ARM and energy...

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BioPharma, On-Demand And D2C Treatments Lead Healthcare Investment Boom 
July 07, 2021

Digital healthcare companies have had a big year in investing — carried out in about six months’ time.  All in all, digital health firms have raised $14.7 billion in the first half of this year, surpassing the entirety of the segment’s 2020 total. The first...

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Digital Health Companies Snag $14.7B In Funding In First Half 2021
July 06, 2021

Digital health companies are big recipients of investments lately with money raised totaling $14.7 billion and rising, Bloomberg reported. That is more raised than in all of 2020. Rock Health reported that the first two quarters of 2021 were bigger than any other time reported...

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US Agency Taps APIs To Drive Digital Medical Records Transformation
July 02, 2021

The U.S. is launching rules to drive digital transformation through open application programming interfaces (APIs), a move that could fuel new digital medical services and applications, Venture Beat reported on Thursday (July 1). Using APIs, the healthcare community could make medical records available to medical...

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Olive Completes $400M Funding Round For AI-Based Health Tech
July 01, 2021

Healthcare automation company Olive has closed a funding round for $400 million, a press release said Thursday (July 1). Olive’s services bridges patients, providers and payers. Per the release, this can help automate workflows and support staff. With the new funding, Olive plans to spend...

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Ro Acquires Kit To Expand At-Home Medical Testing
June 30, 2021

Healthcare tech firm Ro has acquired at-home testing company Kit to expand its platform’s lab and diagnostics capabilities, the company announced on Wednesday (June 30). The value of the deal was not disclosed. Kit offers doctor-ordered, customizable tests for home delivery. Patients administer the tests...

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Rectangle Health, DoctorLogic Partner For Digital Medical Payments
June 29, 2021

Rectangle Health is partnering with DoctorLogic to provide payments products to more healthcare providers. Rectangle, based in Valhalla, New York, will offer its “Practice Management Bridge” to DoctorLogic’s clients. According to a press release, that particular product “interfaces with any EHR system to drive revenue...

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GlaxoSmithKline Plans Spinoff Of Consumer Healthcare Unit
June 27, 2021

Goldman Sachs and Citi are working with GlaxoSmithKline on a new listing for a spinoff of its consumer unit, Bloomberg writes. The companies will also help with Glaxo’s defense against the possibility of an activist campaign from Elliot Investment Management, which is helmed by billionaire...

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Synchrony: Flexible Financing Options Align Patient, Provider Interests
June 25, 2021

Consumers are picking up more of the costs of their healthcare than ever. Once upon a time, consumers could count on their insurance provider to pick up 99 percent of their healthcare costs. Alberto Casellas, Synchrony’s Health & Wellness executive vice president and CEO, told Karen...