Digital Health Wire

Epic’s “Storytime” User Group Meeting is officially a wrap, and the number of updates shared at the event would be hard pressed to keep with the theme and fit in a children’s book. https://lnkd.in/e-gibpMe

⚡️Digital Health Wire 298 is now live! -Storytime at Epic UGM 2024 -Clarium Closes $10.5M -Health System Lightning Round  + digital health news from: Clarium Epic Itay Manes Naama Ronn, MD Ran Ilan Ber Zehavi Horowitz-Kugler, MD Betsy Medina-Inojosa Virend Somers Kyla Lara-Breitinger, MD, MS Jose R. Medina-Inojosa MD MSc Francisco Lopez-Jimenez Nuvance Health Levels Cadence https://lnkd.in/eRn4ATBt

⚡Get caught up on the biggest digital health stories from last week, with news from Trilliant Health Waystar Wellinks Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies (U.S.) Click Therapeutics, Inc. Lisa Goldstein Abridge

When a new drug class bursts onto the scene as fast and furious as GLP-1s, hospitals start wondering whether a single medication can force them to rethink their entire model. Norman Regional Health System in Oklahoma is blaming the diabetes management and weight loss drugs for prompting it to shutter its bariatric surgery center after patient volumes plummeted 30% within just the last year. https://lnkd.in/eV6kBMMe

⚡️Digital Health Wire 297 is now live! -How Much Will GLP-1s Change Hospitals? -Medicare Drug Negotiations -Epic Endorses TEFCA  + digital health news from: Lisa Goldstein Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) Mosaic Health Trilliant Health Waystar Elion Nikhil Sahni Crosbie Marine David Cutler Laura Medford-Davis, MD, MS Melvin Mezue Ed Levine Karen Joynt Maddox https://lnkd.in/e9rBzcsc

⚡️Digital Health Wire 296 is now live! -Astrana Joins Forces With Awell to Bring CareOps to VBC -Abridge Lands Kaiser Permanente -Stryker Acquires care.ai  + digital health news from: Thomas Vande Casteele Click Therapeutics, Inc. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies (U.S.) PayZen Caregility Wellinks Michael Pencina Jonathan McCall https://lnkd.in/eapmMbNF

⚡ Astrana Health ranks among the rare breed of publicly traded digital health players that can actually turn a profit, so it’s worth paying attention to when they join forces with a company like Awell to push their advantage even further. The VBC-enabler will be scaling Awell's CareOps platform across its network to enhance patient care and its provider experience, while also laying an agile foundation to accelerate future innovations. https://lnkd.in/eXJ8bUWy

⚡Get caught up on the biggest digital health stories from last week, with news from HealthSnap Geisinger Risant Health Devoted Health Sonde Health, Inc.

⚡️Digital Health Wire 295 is live! -We roundup last week’s Medicare Advantage news and Q2 insurer earnings. -CMS finalized its long-awaited Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies pathway. -Kaiser’s Risant Health is rolling out its new value-based care platform at Geisinger.  + more #digitalhealth news from: HealthSnap KFF Big Health https://lnkd.in/g-UXCDeR

If 2024 wasn’t already the Year of Mental Healthcare, Spring Health’s $100 million Series E just cemented it. The funding vaulted Spring’s valuation to $3.3B and made April Koh the youngest woman to helm a multibillion-dollar company in the process. Not bad for 31 years old! https://lnkd.in/eVecMZ7n