Social determinants of health

Children working in a garden in a rural area
By  Anthony Vecchione 11:38 am December 13, 2024
Wider Circle, a company that works with health plans and providers to deliver community care programs, is joining forces with managed care company Highmark Health Options West Virginia (HHO WV) to help foster better health outcomes for its members. The aim is to have Wider Circle’s peer-to-peer approach included in HHO WV’s benefit offerings and help the organization overcome the healthcare...
Pregnant person conferring remotely with a healthcare professional
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:01 pm December 9, 2024
Ouma Health, a maternity telehealth platform, announced it is entering into a strategic partnership with Marani Health, a digital prenatal and postpartum care company. The aim of the alliance is to offer an integrated solution that joins Ouma's 24/7 telehealth access to expert maternity clinicians with Marani's M•care platform for maternal remote management.  The combination would create an end-...
Family enjoying a meal
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:36 pm December 5, 2024
Medical Home Network (MHN), a company that partners with federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), announced a collaboration with grocery technology company Instacart to embed Instacart's SNAP eligibility screener on MHN's managed care platform, MHNConnect. The capability will give care teams at the 80-plus FQHCs that MHN partners with a tool within their workflows to decide SNAP eligibility,...
Clinicians reviewing data on a laptop
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:33 pm November 21, 2024
ThoroughCare, a digital care coordination company, closed a $5 million Series A funding round led by Empactful Capital.  WHAT IT DOES ThoroughCare’s platform aims to address inefficiencies and fragmentation in patient care, which the company says can result in inconsistent patient engagement, poor outcomes and revenue loss.  The company’s purpose-built solution provides support to a broad range...
Clinicians reviewing patient record
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:14 pm November 21, 2024
CareMessage, a patient activation platform for underserved individuals, launched AI Assistant, a tool aimed at interpreting and analyzing patient responses into structured data and more ably finding responses that address patient needs, including food insecurity or transportation barriers.  Besides removing critical barriers to patient communication, CareMessage's AI may also save customers money...
Dr. Jenna Glover, chief clinical officer at Headspace
By  Jessica Hagen 02:51 pm September 17, 2024
Digital mental health company Headspace announced last month that it was partnering with Spring Fertility, a network of fertility clinics, to create “Support For Your Fertility Journey,” content collection features that provide guided meditations and mindfulness exercises to individuals navigating the fertility journey as well as audio conversations and a docu-style video series.  Dr. Jenna...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:23 pm May 10, 2024
GenAI radiology workflow company Rad AI announced it secured $50 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing the company's total raise to more than $80 million. WiL (World Innovation Lab) participated in the round, alongside existing investors OCV Partners, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused fund), Kickstart Fund and ARTIS Ventures.  Rad AI offers radiologists generative AI...
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By  Trevor Dermody 01:10 pm April 4, 2024
Nonprofit organization Zero Overdose is partnering with digital community health worker navigation platform Pear Suite to provide training for community health workers (CHWs) and other home and community-based service providers across the country.  Zero Overdose gives providers and organizations tools for overdose safety planning and ultimately preventing unintentional overdose deaths, while...
Healthcare provider in a patient's home sitting next to a patient lying in bed
By  Jessica Hagen 07:52 pm January 23, 2024
In-home care provider DispatchHealth and grocery delivery company Instacart announced a partnership to provide Dispatch's in-home care professionals with tools to prescribe food to patients using Instacart Health.  DispatchHealth offers patients in-home urgent care medical visits, which can be scheduled via telephone or the company's app or website. A clinician arrives at the patient's home...
Person answering their front door and getting a delivery from another person
By  Nathan Eddy 12:55 pm January 8, 2024
Healthcare data analytics company Socially Determined and Uber Health, the ride-hailing company's healthcare arm for patients and providers, are partnering to improve access to food and prescription delivery as well as transportation services by leveraging social determinants of health analytics. Socially Determined offers payers, providers, life sciences organizations and others an analytics...