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Healthcare & Life Science M&A Activity Plummets 1H’22

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The index of Healthcare & Life Science equities tracked by Stout was down 16.8% – Healthcare & Life Science M&A activity plummeted to 338 deals in Q2 2022 versus 535 in Q2 2021 and a record 565 deals in Q4 2021. Medical Device equities were down 18.5%

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Membership Medicine: The Future of Primary Care?

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VP, Strategic Solutions at Definitive Healthcare Primary care is at a tipping point. However, in the past, primary care delivery has been dictated by changes in payor-led reimbursement models. Amazon is also making moves to dominate physician markets, buying out primary care practice One Medical.

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Roundup: Princess Alexandra Hospital joins medication harm research and more briefs

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The portal provides knowledge and tools that primary care teams need to improve outcomes for whānau Māori and Pacific peoples, who are disproportionately affected by gout. It features gout education, a guide on medicines and prescribing, point-of-care testing, and care pathways, among others.

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UpDoc to develop conversational, assistant-directed AI providers

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Dr. Sharif Vakili, UpDoc CEO, a practicing primary care physician at Stanford Medicine and entrepreneur advisor at Polaris Partners, and Ashwin Nayak, the company's income chief technical officer, a clinical informatician at Standford, AI researcher and software developer invented the technology. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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AI roundup: HEALWELL AI buys LLMs, Forward to roll out staffless health kiosks

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AI can play a key role in turning unstructured data into actionable patient care insights , according to healthcare leaders at HIMSS22. HEALWELL AI said it is acquiring majority ownership of Pentavere on a non-diluted basis in a combined primary and secondary transaction with an option to buy the remaining stake over the next three years.

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Wheel Launches Next-Gen Virtual Care Platform

HIT Consultant

In just three years, the company has delivered care to over four million people, built a customer portfolio of leading digital health brands such as GoodRx, and is powering large enterprises and Fortune 50 companies in retail, health plan, and pharmaceutical and life science industries, including as a third-party provider for Amazon Clinic.

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Real-World Data Startup Crescendo Health Launches with $3.2M

HIT Consultant

This leaves out critical data from participants’ other encounters with the healthcare system, including information from primary care or emergency department visits, lab tests, prescription fills and more.